NYUAD graduates pen letter of thanks to Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed
Three graduating seniors from NYUAD have crafted an open letter of thanks to Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed, the Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces.
Full Circle with Farah Shamout
Edition 1, Yallah Abu Dhabi (p.34) | November, 2020
From NYUAD where she graduated in Computer Engineering cum laude in 2016 to being awarded a Rhodes scholarship to pursue a PhD at the University of Oxford, Farah Shamout is back in the UAE capital lecturing alongside the very professors who taught her.
Read the article on p.34.
Three graduating seniors from NYUAD have crafted an open letter of thanks to Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed, the Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces.
Director of NYUAD Water Research Center and Professor of Engineering Nidal Hilal, has won the Learned Society of Wales’ Menelaus Medal 2020, awarded to celebrate excellence in engineering and technology.
To help tackle the rapid spread of COVID-19, Program Head and Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at NYUAD Anthony Tzes has developed an eco-friendly 3D printed face mask based on the N95 specifications.
NYUAD has partnered with the Inception Institute of Artificial Intelligence (IIAI). As part of the partnership, IIAI will fund up to five NYUAD researchers as part of its Global PhD Fellows programme in AI to be supervised by our faculty, including Yi Fang.
Mohammad Qasaimeh and his research team have developed a new tool for performing Cancer Liquid Biopsy
Our students learned about the use of plastic for maintaining sustainability through a course titled Plastic Fantastic, taught by Felix Hardmood Beck.
- The Sustainabilist | February 2020
Mohammad Qasaimeh and his research team have developed a new technique to cryopreserve human cells.
Rafael Song wins ADEK award to design an artificial brain component on a chip
The invention tells its user the carbon emissions they have saved and can identify the materials dropped in it
Chandan Mishra, Civil Engineering Alumnus, wins a Zayed Sustainability Prize. Get the story here.
Munib Mesinovic, Senior in Electrical Engineering is one of two NYU Abu Dhabi students selected as one of two 2020 UAE Rhodes Scholars.
Two NYUAD students win first place in the Hack3D competition as part of CSAW.
Mohamad Eid, Assistant Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering, has built a hand-guiding device to make writing Arabic easier for children. Learn more.
Top Picks HES '20
Congratulations to Mihalis Maniatakos, whose paper has been nominated and selected as one of the most influential in Hardware and Embedded Security in 2015-2020.
"ConFirm: Detecting Firmware Modifications in Embedded Systems using Hardware Performance Counters" has been selected as a Top Picks in Hardware and Embedded Security’20. This year they have selected only 7/41 (17%) submissions as Top Picks.
November 2020
Al Jalila Foundation Research Grant Award
Congratulations to Al Jalila Foundation research grant recipient Yong-Ak (Rafael) Song, Associate Professor of Mechanical and Biomedical Engineering, whose diabetes research study ‘Quantitative fluorescence imaging of mitochondria in body wall muscles of Caenorhabditis elegans under hyperglycemic conditions using a microfluidic chip’ was published by Oxford University Press.
July 2020
2020 Commencement & Doctoral Research Award
Congratulations to PhD student Jing Zhu who is the recipient of the 2020 Pearl Brownstein Doctoral Research Award, a prestigious honor bestowed on graduating students from the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Tandon. The award was established in 1987 and given in loving memory of Pearl's son, Joseph, to PhD students whose doctoral research shows the greatest promise.
Jing is one of Yi Fang's PhD students who will graduate this month. Following this she plans to join Apple's FaceID team to continue her research and development of 3D face image processing.
May 2020
Book Release
Ecosystem Arabia featuring a chapter by Ramesh Jagannathan, Research Professor of Engineering - a must read for the stakeholders in the UAE and MENA.
March 2020
NYUAD Faculty Summer Scholar Award
Congratulations to Farah Shamout, Margaret Julias and Yong-Ak (Rafael) Song; NYUAD Faculty Summer Scholars recipients for 2019-2020. This award, first granted in 2018, aims to enhance NYUAD faculty excellence in scholarship, teaching, and service which is vital to the innovative and vibrant culture of NYUAD.
March 2020
Congratulations
Borja Garcia de Soto, Assistant Professor of Civil and Urban Engineering has been elected to the IAARC BOD.
January 2020
Congratulations
Mohammed Daqaq, Program Head and Professor of Mechanical Engineering, on becoming an ASME Fellow.
October 2019
Construction industry’s long-overdue shift to digital raises threat of cyber attacks
Borja Garcia de Soto, Assistant Professor, Civil and Urban Engineering at NYU Abu Dhabi, talks about how the construction industry is preparing for the impact the digital world will have on the industry.
- June 25, 2019
Mechanical Engineering Senior, Alexander MacKay humbled to be welcomed into the 2020 cohort of Schwarzman Scholars
NYU Abu Dhabi (NYUAD) senior Alexander MacKay has been selected to the 2020 cohort of Schwarzman Scholars, one of the world’s most prestigious graduate fellowships, which welcomes young leaders from around the world to Tsinghua University in Beijing for a Masters in Global Affairs, with concentrations in one of the following disciplines: public policy, economics and business, and international studies.
- December 4, 2018