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
Muhammad Shafique, Professor of Computer Engineering, NYU Abu Dhabi; Global Network Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, NYU Tandon
Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: muhammad.shafique@nyu.edu
Education: PhD Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
Programs: Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering
Research Interests: Brain-inspired Computing, Embedded Machine Learning and AI, Energy-Efficient Computing, Robust Compu...
Anthony Tzes, Alan Howard Distinguished Professor in Artificial Intelligence; Professor of Electrical Engineering, NYU Abu Dhabi; Global Network Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, NYU Tandon
Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: anthony.tzes@nyu.edu
Education: PhD Ohio State University
Program: Electrical Engineering
Research Interests: Unmanned aerial vehicles, surgical robots, mechatronics, control engineering
Azhar Zam, Associate Professor of Bioengineering, NYU Abu Dhabi; Associated Faculty with the Biomedical Engineering and Electrical and Computer Engineering Departments, NYU Tandon
Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: azhar.zam@nyu.edu
Education: PhD Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany
Program: Bioengineering
Research Interests: Medical Imaging; Biomedical Optics, Biomedical Spectroscopy; Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT); Pho...
Pauline Zélia Eugénie Corblet, Assistant Professor of Economics
Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: pauline.corblet@nyu.edu
Education: BA Sorbonne Université - Sciences Po; MA Sorbonne Université - Sciences Po; PhD Sciences Po
Program: Economics
Research Interests: Labor economics; education; matching theory
Christian Haefke, Professor of Economics
Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: ch109@nyu.edu
Education: Mag.rer.soc.oec, Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration; Diploma, Institute for ...
Program: Economics
Research Interests: Labor markets; Applied econometrics
Morgan Hardy, Associate Professor of Economics
Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: morgan.hardy@nyu.edu
Education: BA Columbia University; PhD Brown University
Program: Economics
Research Interests: Development economics; Firms; Labor markets; Social networks
Bekhzod Khoshimov, Assistant Professor of Business, Organizations and Society
Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: b.khoshimov@nyu.edu
Education: BS Nanyang Technological University; MS University of Wisconsin - Madison; PhD University of Wiscons...
Program: Business, Organizations and Society
Research Interests: Entrepreneurship; venture capital, emotions
Benjamin Laughlin, Assistant Professor of Political Science
Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: benjamin.laughlin@nyu.edu
Education: BA University of Washington; PhD University of Rochester
Program: Political Science
Research Interests: Comparative politics; Political economy; Conflict; Ethnic and national identity
Kinga Makovi, Assistant Professor of Social Research and Public Policy, NYU Abu Dhabi; Global Network Assistant Professor of Sociology, Faculty of Arts and Science, NYU
Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: km2537@nyu.edu
Education: PhD Columbia University
Program: Social Research and Public Policy
Research Interests: Social networks; Political sociology; Health; Online experiments; Computational methods
Mario Molina, Assistant Professor, Social Research and Public Policy
Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: mdmolina@nyu.edu
Education: BA Universidad de los Andes (Chile); MA Universidad Católica de Chile; PhD Cornell University
Program: Social Research and Public Policy
Research Interests: Economic Sociology; Organizations; Social Networks; Computational Social Science
Jordan Norris, Assistant Professor of Economics
Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: jjnorris@nyu.edu
Education: BA/MSci University of Cambridge; MA/PhD Northwestern University
Program: Economics
Research Interests: Spatial Economics; International Trade; Macroeconomics; Networks
Giuliana Pardelli, 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: giuliana.pardelli@nyu.edu
Education: BA Universidade de São Paulo; MA Paris School of Economics; MA Hertie School of Governance; PhD Prin...
Program: Political Science
Research Interests: Political Economy; Taxation; State Capacity; Public Goods Provision; Inequality
Melina Platas, Associate Professor of Political Science, NYU Abu Dhabi; Global Network Associate Professor of Political Science, Faculty of Arts and Science, NYU
Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: mrp335@nyu.edu
Education: PhD Political Science, Stanford University; BA in Human Biology, Stanford University
Program: Political Science
Research Interests: Comparative political and human development in sub-Saharan Africa
Rahul Sagar, Associate Professor of Political Science, NYU Abu Dhabi; Global Network Associate Professor of Political Science, Faculty of Arts and Science, NYU
Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: rahul.sagar@nyu.edu
Program: Political Science
Research Interests: Political theory; Political ethics; Public policy
Raul Santaeulalia-Llopis, Associate Professor of Economics
Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: rs8561@nyu.edu
Education: BA Valencia; MSc University College London; PhD University of Pennsylvania
Program: Economics
Research Interests: Inequality, Intellectual Property Products and the Macroeconomy; Social Insurance, Resource Misalloc...
Carlos Guedes, Associate Professor of Music
Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: cag204@nyu.edu
Education: BM Polytechnic of Porto, School of Music and Performing Arts; MA, PhD New York University
Research Interests: Analysis and preservation of music, automatic music generation, interactive music systems
David Wrisley, Professor of Digital Humanities
Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: djw12@nyu.edu
Education: AB University of Chicago; MA/PhD Princeton University
Research Interests: Late medieval court culture, multilingual corpora analysis, European and Mediterranean Middle Ages, ...
Cynthia Zeng, Assistant Professor of Technology, Operations, and Statistics
Affiliation: Stern at NYUAD
Email: cz938@nyu.edu
Education: PhD, Operations Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; BA, Mathematics, Imperial College London
Research Interests: Multimodal machine learning; weather forecasting; climate finance