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: PhD United Arab Emirates University (UAEU)

Research Interests: World Wide Web; Vehicular Networks; Information and Communication Technologies for Development (ICTD...

Alex Delis, Visiting Professor of Computer Science Affiliation: Visiting
Email: alex.delis@nyu.edu
Education: PhD University of Maryland, College Park

Research Interests: Distributed/Virtualized Data Systems, Management of Big Data and Software Systems

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 Thilikos 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