Conference Presentations

NYUAD offers competitive grants to NYU Abu Dhabi students whose posters, papers, and creative works have been accepted for presentation at academic conferences.

Presentations vary across disciplines; from research papers presented at scientific conferences, to exhibitions in museums, and film screenings at film festivals.

Not only was I honored to be selected to share my research, I was humbled by the feedback that I received, which was both critical and complimentary. Because I am still developing this research paper for my Capstone, I am able to incorporate the suggestions that I received into it.

Nada Ammagui attended the Undergraduate Middle East Studies Association Annual Meeting in New Orleans, USA.

Nada Ammagui, Class of 2020

Past Presentations

Academic Year 2020-2021

In spring 2021, Ariya Chaloemtoem presented her research virtually at the American College of Cardiology's 70th Annual Scientific Session.
In spring 2021, a number of undergraduate students presented their research virtually at the National Conference of Undergraduate Research, hosted by the Council of Undergraduate Research.
Tom Abi Samra presented his research virtually in fall 2020, at the panel 'Communication Mediation in the Digital Age' as part of the 54th Annual Meeting of the Middle East Studies Association (MESA).

- Mark Xu presented his research at the The Third International Conference on Economic Research in Tukey, in fall 2019.
- Catherine Palmer presented at the American Society of Cell Biology | European Molecular Biology Organization in the USA, in fall 2019.
- Christos Plachouras presented a paper he co-authored at the International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference in the Netherlands, in fall 2019.
- Hamza Haider was invited to present his NYUAD Precious Plastic research at Dutch Design Week 2019, in fall of 2019.
- Jessica Abdala and Nada Ammagui presented their individual projects at the annual meeting of MESA (Middle East Studies Association) 2019, in the USA, in fall 2019.
- Shawaiz Tabassum and Edison Murairi each presented their research at the 235th Meeting of the American Astronomical Society, in the USA, in January 2020.
- Diego Kleiman was invited to present his research at the 64th Annual Meeting of the Biophysical Society, in the USA, in spring 2020.
- Alice Huang presented her research at the Consciousness Research Conference 2019 in Japan.
- Ethan David Lee directed Red is the Blood of the People, which was presented at Short+Sweet Dubai in spring 2019.
- Carl Alexander Burlin presented at the 8th Annual Undergraduate Research Conference, in Qatar, in spring 2019.
- Maria Paula Calderon was invited to present her project Extinction at the Sehsüchte International Student Film Festival, Interaction and Immersion Showcase, in Germany, in spring 2019.
- Saad Sultan presented his research at the Sixth International Conference on Water, Energy and Environment in the UAE, in spring 2019.
- Gjorgji Shemov presented his research in China, at the 2019 IEEE International Conference on Power, Intelligent Computing and Systems.
- Daniel Watson was invited to present his research in fall 2018 at the Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, in Belgium.
- Students Araz Aslanian and Seoyoung Lee each presented their Capstone research at the Asia-Pacific Conference on Vision, in Japan, in summer 2019.
- Miraflor Santos’ abstract was accepted for presentation at the Association of Limnology and Oceanography’s 2019 Aquatic Sciences Meeting in Puerto Rico.
- Michael Rosenthal presented his research at the 233rd Meeting of the American Astronomical Society, in spring 2019, in USA.
- As part of a team, Tamara Gjorgjieva presented at the biotech leadership summit GapSummit 2019 at The Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT.
- Will Held presented his Capstone research at the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, in Italy in summer 2019.
- Amber Nomani presented her research at the Society for Neuroscience in fall 2017, in the US.
- Anna Balysheva presented at the XVI International Mikhail Bakhtin Conference “Bakhtin in the Post-Revolutionary Era" in fall 2017, in China.
- Keerthana Prakash presented at the Material Science and Technology 2017 Conference, in fall 2017.
- Khairunnisa Semesta presented her research at the Chromatin, Epigenetics & Transcription Conference, in China.
- Raunak Shrestha presented at the WasteEng 18 — 7th International Conference on Engineering for Waste and Biomass Valorisation, in Czech Republic, summer 2018.
- Students Gloria Jansen and Merima Sabonovic presented their research poster at the Forum of Neuroscience, in July 2018, in Germany.
- Luis Felipe Morales Navarro presented his research at the Forward/Story 2016, an advanced storytelling and technology residential lab and conference in Costa Rica.
- Sarah Batbold gave an oral presentation at the Tuskegee University Bioethics Center's 5th annual Public Health Ethics Intensive Course Conference in the US.
- Shien Yang Lee was funded to present at the IMPACT2 Conference in France. She was part of the NYUAD research and development team for the UAE Drones for Good Award.
- Louis Plottel presented his Capstone research at the 6th International Symposium of Indonesia Journal of Anthropology in Indonesia.
- Students Arianna Gayle Stucki and Isabella Peraltaeach presented their research at the 2015 Arthur Miller Symposium in the US.
- Shien Yang Lee took part in an oral presentation of his research at the 2015 Annual Meeting of the American Society of Agronomy, Crop Science Society of America, and Soil Science Society of America.
- A number of Emirati students presented their pieces at an art exhibition curated by Tarek Al Ghoussein. This was organized by the UAE Embassy in Baju, Azerbaijan, in celebration of UAE National Day.
- Zahida Rahemtulla presented her research, Tracing the Small Things: The Way We Feel History in the God of Small Things, at the 8th Annual South Asian Studies Conference in Salt Lake City, US.

It is difficult to express in words how rewarding the feeling is, of talking to some of the most important people in the field, like professors who founded sub-fields of music information retrieval or head researchers at Google, Spotify, or Sony. It is an amazing feeling for an undergraduate like me to be asked for my business card in order to be asked further questions about my work, or to be emailed about opportunities post-graduation.

Christos Plachouras is a computer science and music major. He attended the International Society for Music Information Retrieval and Digital Libraries for Musicology conferences.

Christos Plachouras, Class of 2021

Undergraduate Research Report 2019 (PDF)

NYU Abu Dhabi Undergraduate Research Report 2019 (PDF)