Faculty

  • Azza Abouzied, Vice Provost for Faculty Advancement and Engagement; Associate Professor of Computer Science; Global Network Associate Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, Tandon School of Engineering Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
    Email: Azza@nyu.edu
    Education: BSc, MSc Dalhousie University; MPhil, PhD, Yale University

    Research Interests: Designing Intuitive Data Querying Tools

  • Karim Ali, Associate Professor of Computer Science Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
    Email: karim.ali@nyu.edu
    Education: BSc The American University in Cairo; MMath University of Waterloo; PhD University of Waterloo

    Research Interests: Programming languages; static analysis; security; compilers

  • Riyadh Baghdadi, Assistant Professor of Computer Science; Global Network Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, Tandon School of Engineering Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
    Email: baghdadi@nyu.edu
    Education: BA Ecole Superieure d’Informatique; MA Sorbonne University; PhD Sorbonne University; Postdoc MIT

    Research Interests: Compilers, Programming Languages, Deep Learning, Artificial Intelligence, High Performance Computing

  • Moumena Chaqfeh, Lecturer of Computer Science Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
    Email: moumena@nyu.edu
    Education: BSc, PhD UAE University; MSc The British University in Dubai; Postdoc NYU Abu Dhabi

    Research Interests: Intelligent Transportation Systems, Mobile Web, and Human-Computer Interaction

  • Djellel Difallah, Assistant Professor of Computer Science; Global Network Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
    Email: djellel@nyu.edu
    Education: Dip. Eng. USTHB, Algeria; MS University of Louisiana Lafayette, USA; PhD University of Fribourg, CH

    Research Interests: Crowdsourcing, Machine Learning, Knowledge Management & Discovery

  • João Paulo Fernandes, Visiting Associate Professor Affiliation: Visiting
    Email: jpf9731@nyu.edu
    Education: BA University of Minho, Portugal; PhD University of Minho, Portugal

    Research Interests: Environmental Sustainability, Software, Quantum Computing

  • Eliseo Ferrante, Visiting Professor Affiliation: Visiting
    Email: ef2698@nyu.edu
    Education: MSc, in Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence, Politecnico di Milano and University of Illino...

    Research Interests: Swarm robotics, complex systems, machine learning, artificial intelligence, non-equilibrium statisti...

  • Nizar Habash, Professor of Computer Science; Global Network Professor of Computer Science, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
    Email: nizar.habash@nyu.edu
    Education: BS (Computer Engineering); BA (Linguistics and Languages) Old Dominion University; MS and PhD (Compu...

    Research Interests: Artificial Intelligence, Natural Language Processing, Computational Linguistics, Arabic Language Pro...

  • Mohamad Kassab, Visiting Associate Professor of Computer Science Affiliation: Visiting
    Email: m.kassab@nyu.edu
    Education: BEng Lebanese American University; BS Computer Science University of Windsor; MS Computer Science Co...

    Research Interests: Software engineering and disruptive technologies; software architecture; blockchain; Internet of Thi...

  • Reem Mahmoud, Visiting Assistant Professor of Computer Science Affiliation: Visiting
    Email: rm7230@nyu.edu
    Education: BS in Mathematics, American University of Sharjah; MS in Mathematics, Virginia Commonwealth Universi...

    Research Interests: Graph theory, graph coloring, discrete math, algorithms

  • Arslan Munir, Visiting Associate Professor of Computer Science Affiliation: Visiting
    Email: arslan.munir@nyu.edu
    Education: PhD, University of Florida, USA

    Research Interests: Embedded and cyber-physical systems; secure and trustworthy systems; artificial intelligence; comput...

  • Sarah Nadi, Associate Program Head for Undergraduate Studies of Computer Science; Associate Professor of Computer Science Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
    Email: sarah.nadi@nyu.edu
    Education: BSc The American University in Cairo; MMath University of Waterloo; PhD University of Waterloo

    Research Interests: Software engineering; empirical software engineering; mining software repositories

  • Mai Oudah, Assistant Lecturer of Computer Science Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
    Email: mai.oudah@nyu.edu
    Education: BSc Al Ain University; MSc The British University in Dubai; PhD Masdar Institute

    Research Interests: Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Bioinformatics, Metagenomics, Meta/Transcriptomics, Natur...

  • Christina Pöpper, Program Head of Computer Science; Associate Professor of Computer Science; Global Network Associate Professor of Computer Science, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
    Email: cp105@nyu.edu
    Education: PhD and MSc (Diploma) ETH Zurich

    Research Interests: Information and Communication Security

  • Thomas Pötsch, Assistant Lecturer of Computer Science Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
    Email: thomas.poetsch@nyu.edu
    Education: BSc University of Applied Science, Bremen; MSc University of Bremen, PhD University of Bremen

    Research Interests: Computer networks, congestion control protocols

  • Talal Rahwan, Associate Professor of Computer Science; Global Network Associate Professor of Computer Science, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
    Email: talal.rahwan@nyu.edu
    Education: BEng University of Aleppo; PhD Southampton University

    Research Interests: Artificial Intelligence, Multi-Agent Systems, Cooperative Game Theory, Computational Social Science

  • Saurabh Ray, Associate Professor of Computer Science; Global Network Associate Professor of Computer Science, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
    Email: sr194@nyu.edu
    Education: BTech Institute of Technology Guwahati; MCS, PhD Universität des Saarlandes

    Research Interests: Algorithms, Computational Geometry, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning

  • Keith W. Ross, Professor of Computer Science Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
    Email: keithwross@nyu.edu
    Education: BS Tufts University; MS Columbia University; PhD University of Michigan

    Research Interests: Deep Reinforcement Learning; Deep Learning; Artificial Intelligence

  • Hanan Salam, Assistant Professor of Computer Science Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
    Email: hanan.salam@nyu.edu
    Education: PhD CentraleSupélec

    Research Interests: Human-Machine Interaction; Human-Robot Interaction; Artificial Intelligence for Mental Health; Bias ...

  • Dimitrios Touloupas, Professor of Computer Science Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
    Email: dt2803@nyu.edu
    Education: PhD, University of Patras

    Research Interests: Algorithms, discrete mathematics

  • Yasir Zaki, Assistant Professor of Computer Science; Global Network Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
    Email: yz48@nyu.edu
    Education: MSc University of Bremen; PhD University of Bremen

    Research Interests: Communication Networks, Wireless Networks, Cellular Communication, Congestion Control Protocols