Research Centers

Driving solutions to global challenges

Center for Behavioral Institutional Design (C-BID)

A globally recognized research hub that explores in depth the origins of human behavioral diversity, undertakes the development of empirically informed theories of human behavior, leads their application to public policy, and builds capacity in behavioral social science in the public and private sectors, locally and internationally.

Center for Interdisciplinary Data Science and Artificial Intelligence

A cross‑disciplinary hub where mathematicians, computer scientists, engineers, and social scientists join forces to push the boundaries of data‑driven discovery.  CIDSAI’s work spans the full research spectrum, from theoretical and algorithmic considerations, through enabling technologies such as Arabic natural‑language processing, computer vision, and multimodal technology, to transformative applications in healthcare, digital culture, personalized education, economics, and computational social science. 

Center for Cyber Security

A world-class cyber security center partnering with key local universities, industry, and government agencies to facilitate cyber security research, education, and practice in the UAE and GCC region.

Fubon Center for Technology, Business, and Innovation

The Fubon Center’s mission is to foster relationships between scholars and changemakers in academia, industry, and government and enhance our constituents’ access to the resources they need to contribute meaningfully to scholarship and practice.

Center for Sustainable Business

The NYU Stern Center for Sustainable Business (CSB) was founded with the vision of a better world through better business. Through practical research, innovation in education, and corporate engagement, CSB aims to unleash the transformative potential of business to solve societal challenges at speed and scale. CSB's unique applied research into the Return on Sustainability Investment™ is helping companies identify and invest in sustainability-linked value creation.

Center for the Future of Management

Fosters cutting-edge research on major shifts in the global business landscape, and the challenges and opportunities they present for business leaders, strategists, and managers. Given the complexity and variety of these trends and issues, the center is comprised of a set of initiatives, each focused on understanding a distinct shift in the business environment and the associated dynamics, challenges, and opportunities related to that shift. 

Volatility and Risk Institute

An interdisciplinary center for research and analysis of financial and nonfinancial risks. It serves as a designated hub to support risk-related research and collaboration among scholars, practitioners, and policymakers. It supports, promotes, and facilitates risk analysis, assessment, and measurement, and creates a bridge between faculty research and a specialized group of practitioners and market participants on the cutting-edge of real-world risk issues.