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Faculty Affiliates and Mentors

  • Marwa Banna, Assistant Professor of Mathematics
    Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
    Email: marwa.banna@nyu.edu
    Education: BA Lebanese University; MA Université Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée; PhD Université Paris-Est Marne-le-Vallée
    Program: Mathematics

    Research Interests: High-dimensional probability theory

    Federico Camia, Professor of Mathematics; Global Network Professor of Mathematics, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
    Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
    Email: fc276@nyu.edu
    Education: BA with honors, Universitá di Bologna, Italy; MS and PhD, New York University;
    Program: Mathematics

    Research Interests: Statistical Physics, Probability Theory

    Amandine Cornille, Associate Professor of Biology
    Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
    Email: amandine.cornille@nyu.edu
    Education: PhD Université Paris Sud
    Program: Biology

    Research Interests: Global changes, climate change, parasite outbreak, ecology, domestication, population genomics, epig...

    Kirsten Sadler Edepli, Professor of Biology; Global Network Professor of Biology
    Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
    Email: kirsten.edepli@nyu.edu
    Education: BA Mount Holyoke College (Biology and Anthropology); M Med Sci Harvard Medical School; PhD Harvard U...
    Program: Biology

    Research Interests: Liver Regeneration, Epigenetics, ER Stress, Cancer, Fatty Liver, Zebrafish, Mice

    Alberto Gandolfi, Associate Director of Faculty Teaching Development, NYUAD Center for Faculty Advancement (CFA); Professor of Practice in Mathematics
    Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
    Email: ag189@nyu.edu
    Education: Laurea in Mathematics, Università di Modena; PhD in Mathematics, Delft University of Technology
    Program: Mathematics

    Research Interests: Statistical Mechanics, Models for Epidemics, Bioinformatics, Statistics of Unobserved Species

    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...
    Program: Computer Science

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

    Aashish Jha, Assistant Professor of Biology; Global Network Assistant Professor of Biology
    Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
    Email: jhaar@nyu.edu
    Education: BA University of California Berkeley, PhD The University of Chicago
    Program: Biology

    Research Interests: Population Genetics, Microbiome, Metagenomics, ELSI, Heritage, Genomics

    Dan Ohtan Wang, Professor of Biology; Global Network Professor of Biology, Faculty of Arts and Science, NYU
    Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
    Email: ok2108@nyu.edu
    Education: BA Tokyo Institute of Technology; PhD University of Southern California
    Program: Biology

    Research Interests: Synaptic organization; RNA biology; Post-transcriptional regulation

    Aaron Kaufman, Assistant Professor of Political Science, NYU Abu Dhabi; Global Network Assistant Professor of Political Science, Faculty of Arts and Science, NYU
    Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
    Email: aaronkaufman@nyu.edu
    Education: BA University of California, Berkeley; AM Harvard University; PhD Harvard University
    Programs: Business, Organizations and Society, Political Science

    Research Interests: Computational Social Science; Data Science; American Politics

    Michele Pavon, Professor of Practice in Mathematics
    Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
    Email: michele.pavon@nyu.edu
    Education: PhD University of Kentucky
    Program: Mathematics

    Research Interests: Optimal Transport, Steering of Probability Distributions, Stochastic Mechanics, Harmonic Analysis an...

    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
    Program: Computer Science

    Research Interests: Information and Communication Security

    Bas Rokers, Professor of Psychology; Global Network Professor of Psychology; Director, Center for Brain and Health
    Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
    Email: rokers@nyu.edu
    Education: BA Utrecht University; MA Rutgers University; PhD University of California - Los Angeles
    Program: Psychology

    Research Interests: Visual Perception; Motion Processing; Depth Perception; Neuroimaging; Virtual Reality

    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
    Program: Computer Science

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

    Mostafa Sabri, Assistant Professor, Mathematics
    Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
    Email: mostafa.sabri@nyu.edu
    Education: BA Cairo University; MA Université Paris 7 Denis-Diderot; PhD Université Paris 7 Denis-Diderot
    Program: Mathematics

    Research Interests: Mathematical physics; spectral theory; quantum chaos; randomness

    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
    Program: Computer Science

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