Visiting Student Semester Undergraduate Research Assistantship and Art Apprenticeships

Students from NYU in New York and NYU Shanghai who wish to build their research experience during a semester abroad may apply for competitive Undergraduate Research Assistantships for fall, spring, or both semesters.

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The assistantship creates a platform for visiting students to contribute to an ongoing research project under the supervision of an NYUAD faculty member, who will serve as a mentor, collaborator, and role model. Additionally, students will have access to state-of-the-art research facilities on campus. Previous student assistantship work has been varied and included laboratory sample preparation and field experiments, experimental data analysis, collecting original data, analyzing quantitative data, writing literature reviews or research reports, and filming videos to assist with research outreach and communication.

Eligibility Criteria

To be eligible for the research assistantship students must:

be currently enrolled in full-time, undergraduate study at NYU New York or NYU Shanghai
have completed a minimum of 40 credit hours of study before coming to NYU Abu Dhabi
have applied to study at NYU Abu Dhabi for semester study. Only students who are admitted to study abroad at NYUAD will be considered.
be physically present on campus in Abu Dhabi for the relevant semester of the assistantship
have a cumulative GPA of 3.5 or above with a good overall academic and disciplinary record
have a demonstrated interest in and preparation for the research or its equivalent in the arts

Apply Now for Fall 2023

Deadline: March 30, 2023, 5pm GST

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Assistantship Package

An assistantship award of up to USD 3,000. USD 1,000 will be applied towards the required meal plan on campus. The remaining funding of up to USD 2,000 for the semester will be paid on a monthly basis as assistantship payments (based on hours worked) for the student’s contribution to the assigned research project.
Assistantship recipients are expected to take part in the allocated research project for no fewer than 10 hours and up to 15 hours per week. If students commit to the full 15 hours per week, they will not have access to any further paid on-campus jobs.
Assistantship recipients are expected to work on their research project for the duration of the semester.
Assistantship recipients may have the opportunity of continuing the research project full-time in the subsequent summer by applying to the Summer Visiting Undergraduate Research Program.

Positions

The research assistantship positions span a number of disciplines within the Arts and Humanities, Engineering, Science, and Social Sciences. Please see below for available positions. Students may apply for up to three positions but must submit a separate form for each application.

Arts and Humanities
Engineering
Science
Social Science

Arts and Humanities and Art Apprenticeship Positions

Research Assistantship duties and responsibilities:
Division, Research Center, Lab:	Arts and Humanities
Faculty Supervisor's Name:	Michael Ang
The student will prototype interactive devices and research background material for the professor’s artistic research and forthcoming “media art outside” Interactive Media course. The interactive devices will involve sensors, lights, and motors and will be deployed in the local desert environment as research into the interaction between humans, technology, and the environment. The assistant will also help prepare tutorials and other documentation.
Skills the Student Will Gain:
The student will gain hands-on experience creating media artworks that can be deployed outside, including the possibility of conducting field work in the desert. The skills include rapid prototyping, interaction design, electronics, media art theory, writing, and documentation.
Skills Needed:
Candidates should have some experience with physical computing (Arduino, LEDs, soldering, etc.). Experience with interaction design is also desirable. Candidates with less technical experience but a strong interest in the conceptual interaction between humans/technology/nature also encouraged to apply.
Class Level:	Junior, senior
Major:	Interactive media arts, design, computer science, or related major
Other Requirements:

Research Assistantship duties and responsibilities:
Division, Research Center, Lab:	Arts and Humanities
Faculty Supervisor's Name:	Domna Banakou
Participate in the design and development of experimental models; engage in the development of experimental scenarios using immersive technology tools; develop hypotheses (on cognitive science) and propose adequate methodological solutions that take into account the measurement of behavior and brain functions involved in the processes; conduct experimental studies with human participants; maintain quality standards to preserve the integrity of data and findings; analyze data using various statistical methods; write reports to summarize data and the implications of the results; be able to take initiative in contexts that require participation, proposing ideas based on a scientific research and the population to be analyzed. Register and save the documentation (consent forms, questionnaires, etc.) according to the legal regulations of the institution.
Skills the Student Will Gain:
Experimental techniques of cognitive research that allow students to connect the studies in a largely autonomous way within the research framework of Cognitive Science and the study of the brain. Research problem solving by means of experimental methodology in the various areas of Cognitive Science and ability to critically evaluate the main contemporary contributions of these areas. Correct evaluation and interpretation of the hypotheses, results, conclusions and referenced sources. Use of new immersive technologies adapted to experimental research in order to understand the brain functions responsible for the analyzed behaviors. Involvement in research using the latest immersive technologies to study human behavior.
Skills Needed:
Technical ability in immersive technologies (Unity C#, Mocap, 3D Modeling, HMDs), learning ability, work management, oral and written communication skills, sense of responsibility, ease of adaptation, creativity and initiative, personal involvement, punctuality, relationship with the work environment, ability to teamwork, receptivity to criticism.
Class Level:	Junior, senior
Major:	Digital arts, interactive media, game design, computer science
Other Requirements:

Research Assistantship duties and responsibilities:
Division, Research Center, Lab:	Arts and Humanities
Faculty Supervisor's Name:	Alexis Gambis
Website Designer and UX/UI Developer for a science film streaming platform
Skills the Student Will Gain:
Students will learn how to work for an initiative that bridges science and arts, developing and enhancing tools and interfaces for science communication in film.
Skills Needed:
Front-end development, UI/UX, interest in film and interactive media
Class Level:	Junior, senior
Major:	Interactive media, computer science
Other Requirements:	We will select one student that will work closely with the PI (Alexis Gambis), film programming team, and back-end developers.

Research Assistantship duties and responsibilities:
Division, Research Center, Lab:	Arts and Humanities
Faculty Supervisor's Name:	Marsha Ginsberg
The assistant will work with the professor on preparing photographs for a website/future book project. They could also possibly work on archival photographic work and general digital archive organizing. There is also a possibility of assisting with a film shooting and video in Khorfakan/Kalb.
Skills the Student Will Gain:
Interfacing with a professional designer working for live performance; learning about digital archives, being part of a video installation project in the development
Skills Needed:
High level digital visual skills--including strong knowledge of photo adjustments on Photoshop. Organization abilities; possible experience shooting or editing video.
Class Level:	Junior, Senior, mature Sophomore possible.
Major:	Visual Arts/Digital Media/Film-Video
Other Requirements:

Research Assistantship duties and responsibilities:
Division, Research Center, Lab:	Music and Sound Cultures Research Group
Faculty Supervisor's Name:	Carlos Guedes
Assist the group with computational analysis of non-Eurogenetic music, involving artificial intelligence and deep learning and develop computational algorithms that generate the analyzed styles in order to develop data augmentation techniques for the deep learning algorithms.
Skills the Student Will Gain:
Experience with state-of-the-art algorithms in computational analysis of music, learning the latest trends and algorithms in computational analysis and generation of music.
Skills Needed:
Experience in Python programming and/or C/C++, experience in use of computer programming languages.
Class Level:	Junior or senior
Major:	Computer science, computer/electrical engineering, interactive media
Other Requirements:	Team player, and curious about this field

Research Assistantship duties and responsibilities:
Division, Research Center, Lab:	Music and Sound Cultures Research Group
Faculty Supervisor's Name:	Carlos Guedes
Assist the research group with field recordings, editing and denoising recordings of traditional music, prepare the recordings for perpetual archiving according to the best practices.
Skills the Student Will Gain:
Hands-on experience with state-of-the-art recording techniques in ambisonics, 3D audio; expertise in Pro Tools and software for audio decoding and denoising; best practices in sonic archiving and metadata tagging of recordings.
Skills Needed:
Curiosity, drive, and previous experience with recording (preferable)
Class Level:	Sophomore and above
Major:	Music, music technology, interactive media
Other Requirements:	This will be to do recordings of Emirati traditional music.

Research Assistantship duties and responsibilities:
Division, Research Center, Lab:	Arts and Humanities
Faculty Supervisor's Name:	Fiona Kidd
Orthorectify in ArcGIS Corona satellite imagery. Systematically survey the Corona images for anthropogenic sites. Sart to catalogue previously identified sites in the Qyzylkum using Google Earth. Help compile maps of roads and tracks through the desert.
Skills the Student Will Gain:
By the end of the project students will have a strong working knowledge of aspects of ArcGIS, and will have an understanding of how to identify and classify anthropogenic sites.
Skills Needed:
Must have experience working with ArcGIS.
Class Level:	All levels
Major:	Any
Other Requirements:

Research Assistantship duties and responsibilities:
Division, Research Center, Lab:	Arts and Humanities
Faculty Supervisor's Name:	Fiona Kidd
The aim of the assistantship is to provide insights into how steppe/desert locations in Central Asia have been inhabited over time. The student will be required to search for, read and summarise Russian language historical and ethnographic literature about how the steppe/desert was inhabited. You will be required to write up a short summary of the literature, noting the relevant page numbers and/or quotes. This work is part of a larger project to understand how the Qizilqum (straddling Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan) was inhabited, and moved through, over time.
Skills the Student Will Gain:
Close reading, reading for detail; Time management; Summarising and writing skills; Strong communication skills
Skills Needed:
Russian language skills are a must. The summaries will be written in English. Attention to detail, and good written skills are critical.
Class Level:	Upper class levels
Major:	Any
Other Requirements:

Research Assistantship duties and responsibilities:
Division, Research Center, Lab:	Arts and Humanities
Faculty Supervisor's Name:	Abhishek Majumdar
a. To research on updating course material for 'Fundamentals of Playwriting' b. To research reading and viewing material towards a new course by Professor Majumdar. (Yet to be decided.) c. To assist in dramaturgy and workshop on'9 kinds of silence — a new play that opens in 2023 in New York City
Skills the Student Will Gain:
a. Research b. curriculum development c. Dramaturgy d. Direction e. Playwriting / Screenwriting
Skills Needed:
a. Working knowledge of English since a lot of the material is in English b. Working knowledge of Ms Word c. Deep interest in reading d. Deep interest in theater e. Deep interest in political philosophy and aesthetics
Class Level:	Studying as a sophomore OR senior student
Major:	Theater/ Film / Literature
Other Requirements:

Research Assistantship duties and responsibilities:
Division, Research Center, Lab:	Arts and Humanities
Faculty Supervisor's Name:	Matteo Marciano
Perform literature reviews conduct research and summarize findings, prepare progress reports, edit music pieces, attend project meetings. This research aims to unveil the level of noise pollution impacting natural life in Abu Dhabi. The goal of this research is to demonstrate the impacts of large-scale urban development on both human and wildlife populations through acoustic surveys recording biophonic and anthropogenic sounds. The focus is to minimize the detrimental effect of noise on humans and animals in Abu Dhabi.
Skills the Student Will Gain:
Mixing audio and its relation with cognition and neuroscience, music technology
Skills Needed:
A degree in a field related to the study Excellent administration skills Knowledge of research methods. Ability to multitask. Ability to work under pressure. Excellent time management skills
Class Level:	Studying as a sophomore OR senior student
Major:	Music, Psychology, Computer Science
Other Requirements:

Research Assistantship duties and responsibilities:
Division, Research Center, Lab:	Arts and Humanities, Al Mawrid
Faculty Supervisor's Name:	Salwa Mikdadi
Research related to the study and preservation of modern and contemporary Arab art and artists. Work includes library research on this and related topics as well as digitizing and/or transcribing interviews with artists.
Skills the Student Will Gain:
In-depth archival research skill, involvement in rigorous interdisciplinary research
Skills Needed:
Able to use all data source types in the Humanities. Ability to multi-task, prioritize, strong project management, and past research experience.
Class Level:	Junior
Major:	Art history, Middle Eastern studies
Other Requirements:	Arabic reading and writing would be a very strong asset.

Research Assistantship duties and responsibilities:
Division, Research Center, Lab:	Arts and Humanities, the "Anthropocene: Urbanism, the Environment, and Sustainability" Arts and Humanities Research Kitchen
Faculty Supervisor's Name:	Sarah Paul
Duties include but are not limited to: - Assists with carrying out a variety of research activities (activities will be interdisciplinary by nature and will involve artistic endeavors). - Assists in the design, management and reporting of multiple interdisciplinary projects to internal and external stakeholders - Assists in building relationships with existing and potential funders, research partners, research sites, etc. - Assists with delivering programming for each kitchen such as seminars, working groups, workshops, etc. - Assists in proposal/grant-writing, drafting progress reports, etc. - Assists the research team with disseminating research results, helping to prepare manuscripts and presentations.
Skills the Student Will Gain:
- Experience with research in the arts and humanities, including creative artistic research - Excellent written and verbal skills. - Ability to work collegially with a wide range of faculty, staff, and external stakeholders. - Knowledge of/interest in working with creative artistic research - Experience with fundraising and grant writing
Skills Needed:
Experience with research in Arts and Humanities is desirable.
Class Level:	Junior, senior
Major:	A major in an area of Arts and Humanities is preferred
Other Requirements:

Research Assistantship duties and responsibilities:
Division, Research Center, Lab:	Arts and Humanities, the "Heritage, Memory, and Mobility" Arts and Humanities Research Kitchen
Faculty Supervisor's Name:	Sarah Paul
Duties include but are not limited to: - Assists with carrying out a variety of research activities (activities will be interdisciplinary by nature and will involve artistic endeavors). - Assists in the design, management, and reporting of multiple interdisciplinary projects to internal and external stakeholders - Assists in building relationships with existing and potential funders, research partners, research sites, etc. - Assists with delivering programming for each kitchen such as seminars, working groups, workshops, etc. - Assists in proposal/grant-writing, drafting progress reports, etc. - Assists the research team with disseminating research results, helping to prepare manuscripts and presentations.
Skills the Student Will Gain:
- Experience with research in the arts and humanities, including creative artistic research - Excellent written and verbal skills. - Ability to work collegially with a wide range of faculty, staff, and external stakeholders. - Experience with fundraising and grant writing
Skills Needed:
Some experience with research in Arts and Humanities is desirable.
Class Level:	Junior, senior
Major:	A major in an area of Arts and Humanities is preferred
Other Requirements:

Research Assistantship duties and responsibilities:
Division, Research Center, Lab:	Arts and Humanities, the "Human Rights in and for the 21st Century" Arts and Humanities Research Kitchen
Faculty Supervisor's Name:	Sarah Paul
Duties include but are not limited to: - Assists with carrying out a variety of research activities (activities will be interdisciplinary by nature and will involve artistic endeavors). - Assists in the design, management and reporting of multiple interdisciplinary projects to internal and external stakeholders - Assists in building relationships with existing and potential funders, research partners, research sites, etc. - Assists with delivering programming for each kitchen such as seminars, working groups, workshops, etc. - Assists in proposal/grant-writing, drafting progress reports, etc. - Assists the research team with disseminating research results, helping to prepare manuscripts and presentations.
Skills the Student Will Gain:
- Experience with research in the arts and humanities, including creative artistic research - Excellent written and verbal skills. - Ability to work collegially with a wide range of faculty, staff, and external stakeholders. - Knowledge of/interest in working with creative artistic research - Experience with fundraising and grant writing
Skills Needed:
Experience with research in Arts and Humanities is desirable.
Semester:	Fall 2023, spring 2024, or both semesters
Class Level:	Junior, senior
Major:	A major in an area of Arts and Humanities is preferred
Other Requirements:

Research Assistantship duties and responsibilities:
Division, Research Center, Lab:	Arts and Humanities, the "Writing, Languages, and Pedagogy" Arts and Humanities Research Kitchen
Faculty Supervisor's Name:	Sarah Paul
Duties include but are not limited to: - Assists carrying out a variety of research activities (activities will be interdisciplinary by nature and will involve artistic endeavors). - Assists in the design, management and reporting of multiple interdisciplinary projects to internal and external stakeholders - Assists in building relationships with existing and potential funders, research partners, research sites, etc. - Assists with delivering programming for each kitchen such as seminars, working groups, workshops, etc. - Assists in proposal/grant-writing, drafting progress reports, etc. - Assists the research team with disseminating research results, helping to prepare manuscripts and presentations.
Skills the Student Will Gain:
- Experience with research in the arts and humanities, including creative artistic research - Excellent written and verbal skills. - Ability to work collegially with a wide range of faculty, staff, and external stakeholders. - Knowledge of/interest in working with creative artistic research - Experience with fundraising and grant writing
Skills Needed:
Experience with research in Arts and Humanities is desirable.
Class Level:	Junior, senior
Major:	A major in an area of Arts and Humanities is preferred
Other Requirements:

Research Assistantship duties and responsibilities:
Division, Research Center, Lab:	Arts and Humanities
Faculty Supervisor's Name:	Alexandra Sandu
Assist with current research projects that the Humanities Research Fellowship currently hosts. Two projects the appointed students could work on are as follows: Recognizing Religions The Cultural Dynamics of Religious Encounters is a joint initiative between NYU Abu Dhabi, Australian Catholic University, and ‘The European Qur’an. Islamic Scripture in European Culture and Religion 1150-1850 (EuQu)’ (University of Copenhagen). The project aims to study and discuss the impact that encounters, interaction, and mutual recognition of Jews, Christians, and Muslims, as well as non-Abrahamic religions, had on their historical development and their understanding of themselves and others. Project Directors: Taneli Kukkonen (NYUAD), Jan Loop (University of Copenhagen) and Christopher Ocker (Australian Catholic University) Learn more Beyond the Oasis: The Ancient Cultural Landscape of Bat and the Sharsah Valley The Bat Archaeological Project (BAP) is conducting a new series of archaeological surveys and excavations targeting human-environment interaction at the UNESCO World Heritage Site of Bat, Oman. This project is a multi-year investigation into the Umm an-Nar period (UaN; ca. 2800-2000 BCE) cultural landscape of the Bat and its surroundings in the Sharsah Valley of northwestern Oman. Employing the tools of the environmental humanities, the project studies the cultural processes and socio-ecological strategies practiced by the UaN in the Sharsah Valley, ad-Dhahirah Region, northwestern Oman. Grant Project Director: Eli Dollarhide (Humanities Research Fellow) Learn more See video & press release
Skills the Student Will Gain:
Students will be exposed to new research methodologies as well as able to build research networks
Skills Needed:
Desk Research, Excel Skils
Semester:	Fall 2023, spring 2024, or both semesters
Class Level:	Sophomore, junior, or senior
Major:
Other Requirements:

Research Assistantship duties and responsibilities:
Division, Research Center, Lab:	Arts and Humanities
Faculty Supervisor's Name:	Joanna Settle
Support and organize Professor Settle’s research on projects she will be directing (theater, opera, and performance art) and potentially support research into social impact strategies for the division.
Skills the Student Will Gain:

Skills Needed:
Excel and word experience, detail oriented
Class Level:	All Years
Major:	Theater, Music, Performance Studies, Art,
Other Requirements:

Research Assistantship duties and responsibilities:
Division, Research Center, Lab:	Arts and Humanities
Faculty Supervisor's Name:	Aaron Sherwood
Working with Interactive Media Prof. Aaron Sherwood (https://www.aaron-sherwood.com/works.html), students will help build large-scale interactive art installation projects that use technology to be exhibited around the world. Students will work on a team to help construct and assemble several large projects already in progress. Students will also have opportunities to explore creative coding and physical computing patterns in the context of interactive art. The work will be varied.
Skills the Student Will Gain:
Students will learn, experientially, what is necessary to bring a large interactive art/technology project to life. They will also deepen their understanding of coding and software development for embedded systems as well as in online formats. They will have the chance to learn (or further their understanding) in several of the following: computer graphics, computer vision techniques, large-scale networked motorized systems, microcontrollers, installation design processes, and front and back end web development.
Skills Needed:
Prior experience with microcontrollers, soldering, simple construction/assembly, design, & coding is helpful.
Class Level:	All Years
Major:	Any Major
Other Requirements:

Research Assistantship duties and responsibilities:
Division, Research Center, Lab:	Arts and Humanities
Faculty Supervisor's Name:	Madeleine Wolf
I am looking for a student to assist with the creation of a historical sonic archive of Paris, France. The student will help collect sound-related data from a variety of sources (mainly literature, historical documents, first-hand accounts, and even visual and artistic representations). Duties include: - Populating and managing sound-related data from literary, historical, and other works - Conducting background research and literary reviews on scholarly work related to the project (sound studies, sonic archives, sound mapping, data visualization) - Researching platforms and tools to convey research and organize information. The ideal candidate could assist in building or contributing to an online platform for our sonic archive or could assist in visualizing data - Some scholarly editing
Skills the Student Will Gain:
The Research Assistant will gain skills in conducting literary, historical, and digital humanities research. As an important part of this project’s development, the student to will learn first-hand how to execute research tasks. They will refine their ability to think across disciplines as they engage with French history, literature, and culture, sound studies and blend data science approaches (text as data, data visualization, mapping, etc.). Through this cross-disciplinary work, the RA will become more adept at posing and responding to complex research questions and communicating this research through creative means that appeal to a wide audience. The student will also gain familiarity in working with foreign-language and international databases.
Skills Needed:
Candidate requirements: - Experience with data analysis and desire to learn more (ideally some experience with text as data, mapping, data visualization, digital resource management, and/or web development) - Experience with or a strong desire to learn about literary and/or historical studies - Familiarity with digital humanities - Attention to detail - Student should be able to work both collaboratively and independently depending on the task Preferred: experience with the French language, French studies, European history
Class Level:	Sophomore or junior but open to other class years
Major:	Preferred majors: related to media, digital arts, literature, history, or other humanities, technology, computer engineering
Other Requirements:

Research Assistantship duties and responsibilities:
Division, Research Center, Lab:	Interdisciplinary, Digital Humanities
Faculty Supervisor's Name:	David Wrisley
In consultation with the faculty supervisor, the student researcher will define a research question and workflow, related to one of the ongoing research projects at NYU Abu Dhabi in digital humanities, for up to 15 hours of research per week. They will carry out this research through a combination of independent research and collaboration with affiliate research groups. The research we are interested in focuses on the intersection of digital methods and the historical humanities, including textual, visual or spatial data from historical, archival collections in different time periods and languages. Of particular interest to us are pre-modern Europe and the Mediterranean, the historical and contemporary Arab world and the Gulf/Indian Ocean rim region. Typically, the languages in which we work are Arabic, Latin, the Romance and Germanic languages and English, but for certain projects Turkish, Russian, Persian or other languages with right-to-left scripts would also be desirable. The student researcher should expect the work to be a balance of data creation, preparation, normalization, human tasking, and analysis. They should also expect that data, code and research outputs of the project will be shared and made open, even published as datasets with attribution, when appropriate. Co-presentation and co-publication of notable results will be encouraged, both during and after the assistantship. The specific tasks of the student research assistant will vary according to the skills they already possess and/or can reasonably acquire in the span of a semester, their interests and fields of study. Methods of particular interest to us in working with data from the historical humanities include semantic annotation, information extraction, corpus/dataset creation via OCR/automatic text transcription systems, spatial analysis/digital mapping, computational analysis of textual or visual data, linking open data, and visualization.
Skills Needed:
Students will receive training and guidance on platforms, methods and workflows, deepening their data literacy and knowledge of contemporary research trends in digital humanities. They will have an opportunity to work collectively with a multicultural and multilingual research team, many of whom, but not all, are based in Abu Dhabi. Students will also be encouraged to develop their own research projects related to the materials and methods used. There may be co-presentations and co-publications that result from the work.
Class Level:	This assistantship is open to all majors and years of study.
Major:	No preference
Other Requirements:	In your application letter please indicate (1) experience with digital humanities projects that you may have, including a description of your role and any links to materials available about them (2) skills / experiences working with data (3) skills / experiences working in the historical humanities (4) languages that you can read sufficiently well to research in them (5) any technical skills that you possess (programming language, GIS, etc.). Please include a short CV and an unofficial transcript. Essential traits: the ability to be precise in one’s work, to document one's work, and to work both independently and in a team. In addition, given that academic research has virtualized in recent times, the ability to work both in person and remotely on platforms with ease — depending to the exigencies of the moment — is also essential.

Research Assistantship duties and responsibilities:
Division, Research Center, Lab:	Arts and Humanities
Faculty Supervisor's Name:	William Gerard Zimmerle
One research assistant will become a member of an interdisciplinary team of NYUAD scholars under the direction of Dr. William Zimmerle (PI), Senior Lecture in Arts and Humanities, whose project investigates Arabian perfumes, scents, fragrances and color dyes in the United Arab Emirates. The assistant will learn how to test organic residue samples by operating Liquid Chromatography/Mass Spectroscopy-Mass Spectroscopy (LC-MS-MS), conduct ethnographic interviews with fragrance artists and perfumers in Abu Dhabi, study/mine/prepare bibliographies of historical-Islamic texts on perfumery, as well as help to analyze complex data and work to build a database of digital signatures for scents and perfumes from on campus experiments for an online project website and book manuscript. The assistant will master both perfumery skills and the ability to write and edit scientific scholarship about Arabian scents effectively.
Skills the Student Will Gain:
Laboratory skills in Chemistry; Heritage studies and ethnographic interviews; data analysis; historical text mining; knowledge of Abu Dhabi's fragrance markets; editing manuscripts
Skills Needed:
Willingness to learn new skills
Class Level:	Sophomore and above
Major:	Chemistry; Biology; History/Art History; Anthropology/Archaeology; Interdisciplinary Studies
Other Requirements:

Engineering Positions

Research Assistantship duties and responsibilities:
Division, Research Center, Lab:	Engineering
Faculty Supervisor's Name:	Mohamad Eid
The Research Assistant will work on research projects in the area of neurohaptics — the neuroscience of touch. Projects involve developing experimental protocols to understand how touch information (such as vibration or thermal stimulation) are encoded in the brain using EEG systems. Key responsibilities include: EEG data collection, EEG data analysis, machine learning, and project documentation (including publication).
Skills the Student Will Gain:
The student will gain skills in designing experimental protocols and conducting human subject research using EEG systems. Students will also learn about how to apply machine learning algorithms.
Skills Needed:
The candidate should be able to develop simple computer programs (Python or C++). Having a background in machine learning is definitely a bonus. The candidate should be self-driven and interested in haptics, neuroscience, or machine learning.
Class Level:	All levels
Major:	Electrical engineering, computer engineering, computer science, psychology, or neuroscience
Other Requirements:

Research Assistantship duties and responsibilities:
Division, Research Center, Lab:	Engineering
Faculty Supervisor's Name:	Yi Fang
Research assistant is expected to work closely with Professor and/or other senior researchers in my lab to design and implement deep learning-based computer vision algorithms, carry out scientific experiments to validate the research development, write scientific papers and reports.
Skills the Student Will Gain:
Programming skills in python for machine learning and computer vision development, scientific presentation and writing skills
Skills Needed:
Intermediate level in python programming and machine learning
Class Level:	All levels
Major:	Computer science, computer engineering, and applied math
Other Requirements:

Research Assistantship duties and responsibilities:
Division, Research Center, Lab:	startAD
Faculty Supervisor's Name:	Ramesh Jagannathan
Assist in planning and executing startAD programs under the startAD banner, including scouting for startups. Gathering, analyzing, and summarizing data that supports in building and designing startAD’s upcoming programs Coordinate data collected from the programs and maintain documentation from programs’ activities. Building PowerPoint presentations of key findings and takeaways from reports, research, and related events. Attend events when appropriate and assigned. Assist the Marketing and Communications’ team in their programs communications strategy. Support Operations’ team in showcase day design and implementation.
Skills the Student Will Gain:

Skills Needed:
Strong verbal and written skills Strong research analytics skills Strong problem solving skills Strong organizational skills with the ability to manage and prioritize multiple tasks while sticking to deadlines Candidate should be creative and expert in finding data, identifying the sources of information, and acquiring the information when assigned research tasks Knowledge in offline and online marketing Proficiency in Microsoft Office and cloud based word processing applications.
Class Level:	All levels
Major:	Computer science, computer engineering, and applied math
Other Requirements:

Research Assistantship duties and responsibilities:
Division, Research Center, Lab:	Engineering
Faculty Supervisor's Name:	Nikolaos Karathanasopoulos
Three dimensional printing of architected materials. Computer aided design specimen preparation, 3D printing, specimen post-processing, quality assessment (defect identification)
Skills the Student Will Gain:
The student will become acquainted with computer aided design methodologies for the creation of 3D printed metamaterial samples. He/She will gain experience in the use of different 3D printing machines, learn ways to post-process (such as CT scanning) the samples and qualify their quality.
Skills Needed:
Fundamental Computer knowledge, engineering interest
Class Level:	Sophomore
Major:	Engineer
Other Requirements:

Research Assistantship duties and responsibilities:
Division, Research Center, Lab:	Engineering
Faculty Supervisor's Name:	Samer Madanat
1. Run simulations of Hydrodynamic models developed by my team for the coastline of Dubai. 2. Run simulations of traffic movements using the Dubai transportation model.
Skills the Student Will Gain:
1. Using High Performance Computers to run complex simulators 2. Some learning of the fundamentals of coastal hydrodynamics and traffic engineering
Skills Needed:
Knowledge of Computer programming using Python, Matlab or C++
Class Level:	Senior, junior
Major:	Engineering or computer science
Other Requirements:

Research Assistantship duties and responsibilities:
Division, Research Center, Lab:	Engineering, Center for Cyber Security
Faculty Supervisor's Name:	Michail Maniatakos
Assist in research towards acceleration of homomorphic encryption. See information about topic.
Skills the Student Will Gain:
Exposure to state-of-the-art cybersecurity research
Skills Needed:
Good programming skills
Class Level:	Junior, senior
Major:	Computer engineering, electrical engineering, computer science
Other Requirements:

Research Assistantship duties and responsibilities:
Division, Research Center, Lab:	Interdisciplinary
Faculty Supervisor's Name:	Monica Menendez
Duties and responsibilities will depend on the specific interest of the applicant within the broad field of urban science and would likely include literature review, data analysis, and writing a final report. Interested students should first identify a match with one of CITIES faculty. In this respect, we encourage interested students to reach out to CITIES to discuss their interests and identify a possible supervisor.
Skills the Student Will Gain:
Students will get more familiar with how research is done in the field of urban science. They will be part of an extremely interdisciplinary environment with faculty and researcher from the 4 NYUAD division.
Skills Needed:
Previous experience in research in a lab or in supporting a faculty
Class Level:	Second, Third, or Fourth Year
Major:	Any major that is in line with the CITIES clusters.
Other Requirements:

Research Assistantship duties and responsibilities:
Division, Research Center, Lab:	Engineering
Faculty Supervisor's Name:	Khalil Ramadi
Conduct research related to Neuroengineering. Our lab uses mechanical, electrical, and chemical techniques to attempt to interface with the brain and peripheral nervous system in a minimally invasive way. These technologies could potentially lead to therapies of neurological, metabolic, and gastrointestinal disorders. Responsibilities will include literature review, preparation, and characterization of nanomaterials, device design and fabrication, presenting data/results in the weekly group meetings.
Skills the Student Will Gain:
Students will learn about the entire pipeline of translational medicine projects, from device/material design and fabrication through to in vitro or in vivo testing in disease models. Students interested in applying engineering tools to solve clinical problems will benefit from this experience.
Skills Needed:
No experience is required. Training will be provided in all areas. Familiarity with CAD, electrical circuits, manufacturing, or chemical synthesis would be beneficial, although not essential.
Class Level:	Sophomore or junior
Major:	Mechanical, electrical, chemical, biomedical engineering
Other Requirements:

Research Assistantship duties and responsibilities:
Division, Research Center, Lab:	Engineering
Faculty Supervisor's Name:	Vijayavenkataraman Sanjairaj
3D Printing and Bioprinting is increasingly being considered as an ideal tool for engineered tissues and organs. Students can choose to work on one of the focus areas (i) New bioink isolation and formulation from plant / animal sources (ii) Bioink optimization and bioprinting (iii) bioprinting of specific tissue structures such as bone, nerve, or skin and (iv) Computational studies on various tissue engineering scaffold designs and computational bioprinting.
Skills the Student Will Gain:
Students will gain a deeper understanding on 3D printing and bioprinting. Depending on the focus areas, technical hands on skills such as biomaterial extraction, bioink formulation, bioprinting, cell culture techniques, and computational Skills such as CAD, FEM, CFD — a wealth of discussions on the progress of bioprinting during the group meetings and potential involvement with other researchers in the lab.
Skills Needed:
For Bioprinting projects, no prior experience is required. For Computational projects, prefer candidates with a knowledge of 3D modeling software such as AutoCAD and SolidWorks, CFD software such as COMSOL, Abaqus or ANSYS.
Class Level:	All levels
Major:	Mechanical engineering, bioengineering
Other Requirements:	A lot of passion for research and learning a must!

Research Assistantship duties and responsibilities:
Division, Research Center, Lab:	Engineering
Faculty Supervisor's Name:	Muhammad Shafique
The Research Assistant will work closely with the Professor and other senior researcher of my lab to develop performance and energy-efficient embedded machine learning systems (e.g., TinyML, and EdgeAI use cases). The goal will be developing, testing and validating an automated framework that can optimize a given machine learning model for an embedded computing platform. The developed techniques will be deployed in autonomous systems like UAVs and autonomous vehicles under energy-constrained scenarios, and scientific experiments will be performed to benchmark performance and energy efficiency against the state-of-the-art. Expected outcome will be a running prototype and a scientific publication in a top-tier conference and/or journal. Note: This project can be partitioned into multiple sub-project that can be given to different students, if multiple candidates apply, and based on their interests, i.e., whether they would like to do more hardware- or software-related work.
Skills the Student Will Gain:
Advanced ML/AI techniques, optimization for autonomous systems like mobile robots, development for embedded computing platforms, practical expertise in Python programming, profiling, benchmarking, scientific writing and presentation.
Skills Needed:
Good Programming Knowledge (preferably in Python; otherwise at least C++ and Python can be learnt on the fly by putting an extra effort), knowledge of basic machine learning algorithms is important, (preferably) ML development frameworks like Pytorch and GPU programming, otherwise will be learnt quickly in the first two weeks
Class Level:	All levels
Major:	Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Applied Math,
Other Requirements:	If multiple candidates are interested in this project, we can partition the work into different sub-topics based on the expertise of the candidates.

Research Assistantship duties and responsibilities:
Division, Research Center, Lab:	CITIES and CCS
Faculty Supervisor's Name:	Muhammad Shafique
Developing Machine Learning Security Attacks and Defenses for Connected Autonomous Vehicles: The Research Assistant will work closely with the Professor and other senior researcher of my lab to develop different types of security attacks and defenses in connected autonomous vehicles in the smart cities settings. First task will be Implementing backdoor attacks and defenses for autonomous vehicles and evaluate them in the CARLA full-system simulator demonstrating a smart mobility use case, where a complete environmental model is available. The work would analyze the pros and cons of existing defense mechanisms, their robustness in full-system setting, and potentially devise a more powerful defense considering the ADAS stack. The second task will be evaluating the robustness of traffic sign recognition and/or object detection DNNs against adversarial attacks, while considering the complete pipeline including traffic sign detection and other preprocessing stages, in CARLA simulator. Expected outcome will be a demo in CARLA, library of attacks and defenses, and scientific publications in a top-tier conference and/or journal Note: This project can be partitioned into multiple sub-project that can be given to different students, if multiple candidates apply, and based on their interests, i.e., whether they would like to do more training-time or inference-time attacks.
Skills the Student Will Gain:
Advanced ML/AI security techniques, autonomous vehicle simulation frameworks like CARLA, practical expertise in Python programming, profiling, benchmarking, scientific writing and presentation. Opportunities for students to gain experience in a world-leading lab, and gaining knowledge on advanced embedded machine learning/AI, EdgeAI, tinyML, smart cyber physical systems like mobile robots (e.g., rovers)
Skills Needed:
Good Programming Knowledge (preferably in Python; otherwise at least C++ and Python can be learnt on the fly by putting an extra effort), knowledge of basic machine learning algorithms is important, (preferably) ML development frameworks like Pytorch and GPU programming, otherwise will be learnt quickly in the first two weeks
Class Level:	All levels
Major:	Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Applied Math,
Other Requirements:	If multiple candidates are interested in this project, we can partition the work into different sub-topics based on the expertise of the candidates.

Research Assistantship duties and responsibilities:
Division, Research Center, Lab:	Engineering
Faculty Supervisor's Name:	Rafael Song
The duties involve designing and building microfluidic devices out of a biocompatible polymer material for rapid detection of various pathogens using CRISPR-Cas technology.
Skills the Student Will Gain:
The student will acquire 3D CAD design skill and fabrication skill using a laser cutter as well as basic assay-development skills.
Skills Needed:
Some experience in CAD design and 3D printing would be good.
Class Level:	Sophomore or Junior
Major:	All majors of Engineering or Biology
Other Requirements:

Research Assistantship duties and responsibilities:
Division, Research Center, Lab:	Interdisciplinary
Faculty Supervisor's Name:	Jeremy Teo
Perform research pertaining to the field of immunomechanobiology focusing on either of the following sub-topics (i) 3D hydrogel biomaterial for immunomodulation (ii) space immunobiology, (iii) tissue engineering of immune systems, (iv) mechanisms of immunomechanobiology.
Skills the Student Will Gain:
Skills will depend on the subtopic focus, however, students will generally be trained in hydrogel biomaterial preparation, gain skillsets in basic immunology, acquire microscopy know-how: from practical image acquisition to image-based quantitative biology, and data analyses.
Skills Needed:
1. Willingness to be cross trained in various fields engineering to biology. 2. Prior experience in wetlab environment and/or matlab and/or mechanical design will be an added advantage.
Class Level:	Junior or senior
Major:	Biomedical, bioengineering, mechanical, biology
Other Requirements:	Able to cope in a fast-paced research environment, have the do-what-it-takes attitude, and detail-oriented.

Research Assistantship duties and responsibilities:
Division, Research Center, Lab:	Center for AI and Robotics
Faculty Supervisor's Name:	Antonios Tzes
Simulate hybrid drone/vessel
Skills the Student Will Gain:
Learn simulation in a Physics Engine
Skills Needed:
Ubuntu
Class Level:	Feedback Control (Senior Level)
Major:	Electrical and Computer Engineering
Other Requirements:	C or C++ knowledge

Science Positions

Research Assistantship duties and responsibilities:
Division, Research Center, Lab:	Science
Faculty Supervisor's Name:	Mohamad Ali-Dib

Skills the Student Will Gain:
applying machine learning tools in planetary sciences
Skills Needed:
python programing language is a must, some understanding of what is machine learning
Class Level:	Sophmore, Junior, Senior
Major:	Physics or Computer science
Other Requirements:

Research Assistantship duties and responsibilities:
Division, Research Center, Lab:	Science
Faculty Supervisor's Name:	Shady Amin
Conduct basic growth experiments, isolate RNA, analyze transcriptomes, plot/graph data. The project consists of figuring out how bacteria respond to rosmarinic acid, an infochemical produced by plants and microalgae to manipulate their microbiome.
Skills the Student Will Gain:
Analyzing large bioinformatic data and condensing it down to a publishable story
Skills Needed:
Basic microbiological experience to grow bacteria, DNA or RNA isolation experience
Class Level:	Junior, Senior
Major:	Biology
Other Requirements:

Research Assistantship duties and responsibilities:
Division, Research Center, Lab:	Science
Faculty Supervisor's Name:	Francesco Arneodo
Participation in hardware activities in the laboratory, concerning experiments with cryogenic detectors, gamma ray spectroscopy, x-ray fluorescence.
Skills the Student Will Gain:
The student will learn how to operate in a particle physics laboratory.
Skills Needed:
Ability and desire to do hands on work, and to operate in a team.
Class Level:	Junior, senior
Major:	Engineering or science (but others may be considered)
Other Requirements:

Research Assistantship duties and responsibilities:
Division, Research Center, Lab:	Science
Faculty Supervisor's Name:	John A. Burt
We currently have a project investigating the effects of temperature on the physiology and behavior of predatory coral reef fish. As part of this project, we are assessing the performance of predators to capture prey at different temperatures by using high-speed cameras to record fish during bouts of high-speed swimming. The student will be responsible for editing the videos to isolate the high-speed swimming events and for measuring kinematic variables associated with high-speed swimming of fishes. Additionally, we have ongoing laboratory experiments investigating the effect of extreme environmental variables (high temperature and salinity, low dissolved oxygen, etc.) on the physiology of fish, corals, and seagrasses. The student will be responsible for assisting with the rearing of marine organisms in controlled aquaria settings, assisting with physiological measurement, and processing of samples in the lab.
Skills the Student Will Gain:
- Theoretical understanding of predator-prey ecology, behavioral ecology, and fish biomechanics. -Training in the use of ImageJ for the analysis of fish swimming performance. - Video editing - Animal rearing in controlled experimental design - Laboratory techniques for ecophysiology (i.e., respirometry, PAM fluorometry, etc.) - Fish dissection - Project management - Data management
Skills Needed:
No experience is required, but a background in biology or environmental sciences is considered advantageous
Class Level:	Sophomore or Higher
Major:	No specific major is required, but a background in biology or environmental sciences is considered advantageous.
Other Requirements:	Some of this effort will involve working on a boat, working outside during inclement or cold/hot weather, and may involve occasional requirements for evening or weekend work.

Research Assistantship duties and responsibilities:
Division, Research Center, Lab:	Science
Faculty Supervisor's Name:	Djellel Difallah
The student will help with data scrapping from Web resources, learn how to use and discover API from Open Data repositories. Build simple machine learning models to extract information from semistructured data (particularly from Wikipedia and Wikidata), and insert it into a database.
Skills the Student Will Gain:
Python Development Machine Learning Basics Web Scrapping Database development Open Data Graph-based databases SPARQL language API development Applied Data Science
Skills Needed:
Python and Web Scrapping
Class Level:	Junior or Senior
Major:	Computer Science / Data Science
Other Requirements:

Research Assistantship duties and responsibilities:
Division, Research Center, Lab:	Science
Faculty Supervisor's Name:	Fida Dankar
The student will design and implement algorithms in Python, and analyze results.
Skills the Student Will Gain:
Research skills, analysis skills, how research is used to solve real problems
Skills Needed:
Python, analysis skills, statistical skills
Class Level:	Senior
Major:	Computer Science
Other Requirements:

Research Assistantship duties and responsibilities:
Division, Research Center, Lab:	Science
Faculty Supervisor's Name:	Kirsten Edepli
Part-time support is needed to carry out routine tasks related to zebrafish husbandry and genotyping by working in the zebrafish facility at NYU Abu Dhabi. This position requires students to have a basic knowledge of molecular biology and genetics, a strong work ethic, attention to detail and the ability to work in a fast-paced environment. Supervision will be carried out by the manager of the zebrafish facility and work will be overseen by professor Edepli. All the work is in person on location in Abu Dhabi and requires on the job training in animal care protocols.
Skills the Student Will Gain:
Hands-on lab based experience, introduction to bioinformatics to analyze genomics data and will get lots of experience presenting data and engaging in critical scientific discussion. The students will learn to use zebrafish embryos as a model organism, will learn basic microscopy and cutting edge cellular and molecular techniques.
Skills Needed:
Essential: - Strong work ethic and ability to be highly consistent and detail oriented - Reliable, responsible, communicative - Comfortable working in a lab environment - Maintaining a regular schedule with fixed hours every week - Ability to work some weekend/evening hours. Desirable: - Able to work on campus for fall and spring semester - Molecular biology lab experience - Background knowledge of genetics, molecular biology - Experience with DNA isolation, PCR and gel electrophoresis - Preference for students who will be studying at NYUAD for two semesters.
Class Level:	Sophomore, junior, senior
Major:	Biology
Other Requirements:	Able to work on campus for fall and spring semester Molecular biology lab experience Background knowledge of genetics, molecular biology Experience with DNA isolation, PCR and gel electrophoresis

Research Assistantship duties and responsibilities:
Division, Research Center, Lab:	Science
Faculty Supervisor's Name:	Youssef Idaghdour
The student will participate in managing and analyzing large human genetic datasets.
Skills the Student Will Gain:
The student will learn how to handle large genomic datasets and how to use bioinformatic and human population genetic tools.
Skills Needed:
Basic knowledge of genetics and HPC environment
Class Level:	Junior
Major:	Biology / computer science
Other Requirements:	The position suits better students interested in data analysis but it offers also the possibility of participating in genetic laboratory experiments.

Research Assistantship duties and responsibilities:
Division, Research Center, Lab:	Science
Faculty Supervisor's Name:	Aashish Jha
The successful applicant will assist in the wet lab and/or bioinformatics analyses, depending on the student's interest. For those inclined towards bench work, the primary responsibility will be to optimize protocols in collecting, processing, and extracting DNA from diverse types of biological samples (feces, saliva, fermented foods). Students seeking analytical experience will be trained to analyze Next Generation Sequencing data using various types of statistical approaches in R-programming language. The successful candidate will work in a collaborative and multidisciplinary environment consisting of PhD-level scientists as well as undergraduate students. Applicants must have a strong interest in genomics. Previous experience in DNA extractions and laboratory etiquette desired. For those interested in bioinformatics analyses, basic knowledge of a programming language and experience in working in Linux environment is preferred.
Skills the Student Will Gain:
Experimental research, study design, data analysis, critical thinking
Skills Needed:
Pipetting (needed), DNA extractions (preferred), data analysis (preferred)
Class Level:	Any
Major:	Biology, Computer Science, Anthropology
Other Requirements:

Research Assistantship duties and responsibilities:
Division, Research Center, Lab:	Science
Faculty Supervisor's Name:	Serdal Kirmizialtin
Conduct research, analyze simulation data, attend meetings, present the work in meetings.
Skills the Student Will Gain:
i) Learn to model problems related to biophysics and/or material science using computer simulations. ii) Learn to do scripting, Linux, using High Performance computing. iii) Learn Machine Learning methods used in Natural Science.
Skills Needed:
General knowledge of chemistry or biology
Class Level:	Sophomore, junior, senior
Major:	Science or engineering
Other Requirements:	Interest in interdisciplinary sciences, willing to learn basic Python and Linux.

Research Assistantship duties and responsibilities:
Division, Research Center, Lab:	Science
Faculty Supervisor's Name:	David Melcher
Attending lab meetings, assisting in the recruitment of participants, and helping in running experiments. Any other data collection and analysis methods are needed in line with the technical expertise and potential of the research assistant.
Skills the Student Will Gain:
Increased understanding of how research is conducted in psychology and cognitive neuroscience; experience working in a research group context; experience in scientific communication.
Skills Needed:
Strong interest and some background in Experimental Psychology, such as in Cognition, Cognitive Neuroscience, or similar. Good computational or programming skills are a plus.
Class Level:	Sophomore, Junior,
Major:	Psychology, Biology, and other sciences
Other Requirements:

Research Assistantship duties and responsibilities:
Division, Research Center, Lab:	Science
Faculty Supervisor's Name:	Panche Naumov
The student will work closely with some of the senior members of the Naumov's Smart Materials Lab (SML) to prepare, characterize and implement new smart materials for applications to organic electronics and soft robotics. The student will be trained on some of the most common equipment for materials characterization of the optical, mechanical and electrical properties of materials. The student will perform literature search, data collection and processing, interpretation of the results, and preparing of the results for publication. The student will be asked to participate in the SML's weekly group meetings and to present at least two articles from the literature, in addition to their own research results.
Skills the Student Will Gain:
Technical skills related to materials characterization, methods for literature search, presentation skills, various software for processing of primary experimental data
Skills Needed:
Basic laboratory skills for work in a chemistry or analytical laboratory. Prior research skills are not required, although they are valuable for a quick start
Class Level:	Sophomore, Junior, Senior
Major:	Chemistry, Physics, Computer Science or Engineering
Other Requirements:

Research Assistantship duties and responsibilities:
Division, Research Center, Lab:	Arabian Center for Climate and Environmental Sciences (ACCESS)
Faculty Supervisor's Name:	Francesco Paparella
During the Summer of 2022, ACCESS has prototyped an IoT (internet of things) network of sensor devices for environmental monitoring at the city scale. The research assistant will be integrated into this team, and assist in expanding the network capabilities. Depending on her/his skills and personal preferences the activities may be one of the following: calibrating off-the-shelf sensors against professional meteorological instruments; integrate additional sensors in the existing IoT hardware and/or software infrastructure; programming a web application for presenting the data in a graphical way.
Skills the Student Will Gain:
The student will cooperate with an existing research team and will gain hands-on experience on designing, deploying, validating an IoT sensor network for environmental monitoring. The student will gain practical knowledge on the topics of client-server programming, data analysis, data storage and data presentation.
Skills Needed:
Candidates must have a provable knowledge of the Python programming language. Experience with client-server programming and with web application programming (Flask, MongoDB) is particularly desirable. Previous laboratory experience working with sensors and/or with single board computers (Raspberry PI); basic knowledge of environmental physics; previous experiences in data analysis are valuable, albeit not strictly necessary.
Class Level:	All Levels
Major:	Physics, computer science, engineering, applied mathematics.
Other Requirements:

Research Assistantship duties and responsibilities:
Division, Research Center, Lab:	Science / Interdisciplinary
Faculty Supervisor's Name:	Hanan Salam
The research assistant will work in the Social Machines and Robotics Lab in the area of affective computing for enabling the development of social intelligence capabilities in robots. Duties and responsibilities: - Design and implementation of deep learning architectures for multimodal affect recognition. - Experimentation and validation of the implemented approaches on different datasets. - Comparison with state of the art models.
Skills the Student Will Gain:
Machine Learning application; running and managing experiments using GPUs; data pre-processing and preparation for machine learning models; processing and fusion of multi-modal data
Skills Needed:
- Proficient Python programming experience; Familiarity and previous experience with Machine Learning;
Class Level:	Senior
Major:	Computer Science
Other Requirements:

Research Assistantship duties and responsibilities:
Division, Research Center, Lab:	Science
Faculty Supervisor's Name:	Kartik Sreenivasan
Among other administrative responsibilities, student assistants are responsible for recruiting and communicating with participants, collecting and analyzing data, carrying out literature searches, and helping with the design and coding up of experimental tasks.
Skills the Student Will Gain:
- Practical, analytical, and organizational skills needed for conducting research - Knowledge of existing literature - Hands-on research experience - Better understanding of workplace culture
Skills Needed:
- Can manage time efficiently and meet deadlines - Can work independently with little supervision - Punctual and well-organized - Detail-oriented - Conscientious - Willing to learn new information and adapt quickly - Preferred but not required: has prior MATLAB/coding experience
Class Level:	All Levels
Major:	Psychology, Biology, Computer Science, Engineering, Math
Other Requirements:	Applicant should be a full-time student in good academic standing, studying on the NYUAD campus, and hold a 3.0 GPA or up

Research Assistantship duties and responsibilities:
Division, Research Center, Lab:	Science
Faculty Supervisor's Name:	Antje von Suchodoletz
The student will be working on project focused on developing and evaluating a parenting program for mothers of children ages 0-4 years and will have the following responsibilities: - Assistance with the data collection (Monitoring an online survey; collection of social validity measures before and after a session of the program) - Data entry and cleaning - Creating tables and figures for descriptive results - Literature search Brief Project Description The project aims to develop, design, implement, and measure the effectiveness of a context specific parenting program and pilot study to promote mothers’ and their young (0-4 years) children’s wellbeing and development in Abu Dhabi. The program will consist of six modules with sessions designed to increase mothers’ general knowledge about early childhood development and about supportive and nurturing parenting practices, as well as topics relating to the specific challenges faced by families in Abu Dhabi such as childhood obesity; excessive "screen time;" and child protection challenges including a high under-5 mortality rate and child abuse.
Skills the Student Will Gain:
- Learn how to conduct a quasi-experimental field study - Expertise in data entry and management - Expertise in descriptive data analysis
Skills Needed:
- Attention to detail and to work well in teams - Great time and task management skills - Knowledge about and commitment to research ethics - Knowledge in descriptive statistics preferred (means, standard deviation) - Knowledge in data visualization preferred (tables, graphs, figures)
Class Level:	Sophomore, Junior, Senior
Major:	Psychology, Education, Human Development, or related field
Other Requirements:

Research Assistantship duties and responsibilities:
Division, Research Center, Lab:	Science
Faculty Supervisor's Name:	Antje von Suchodoletz
This research assistantship role will work closely with Dr. Antje von Suchodoletz to assist with preparing data from the below project for analysis. Project Description The proposed study tests the effectiveness of the We Love Reading (WLR) intervention for children’s emerging school readiness skills, focusing on direct and indirect pathways. The specific research aims are: (1) For whom does the WLR intervention work? — direct pathways; primary outcome: improved children’s school readiness (primary outcome); secondary outcome: improved parents’ parenting behaviors and practices during book-reading interactions; individual differences in the effect of the intervention on school readiness/parenting behavior (2) What aspects of the WLR intervention work? — Comparison of control group: books and treatment group: Books plus instruction in using dialogic reading strategies (3) How does the WLR intervention work? — indirect pathways: identify mediators (parents’ socialization goals and beliefs related to reading, parent-child relationship quality, parents’ parenting behavior, stress) and moderators (home learning environment)
Skills the Student Will Gain:
- Standardized procedures for coding interview and/or physiological data - Expertise in the use of MAXQDA and Mangold Interact, commonly used software in the social sciences - Basic statistical analysis
Skills Needed:
- Attention to detail - Great time and task management skills - Knowledge about and commitment to research ethics - Must be able to follow standardized procedures - Ability to work well in teams
Class Level:	Sophomore, junior, senior
Major:	Psychology
Other Requirements:

Research Assistantship duties and responsibilities:
Division, Research Center, Lab:	Science
Faculty Supervisor's Name:	Andrea Vial
Provide support on a variety of tasks related to psychological research on gender stereotyping and bias and their cascading effects. Tasks will include proofreading and bibliography work, library cleaning and maintenance, performing literature searches, programming Qualtrics surveys, developing training materials, summarizing research articles, gathering data from open sources, and other miscellaneous administrative and research tasks.
Skills the Student Will Gain:
Students will learn how a social psychology research laboratory operates. In addition to learning about the topics that are the focus of our lab (psychological research on gender stereotyping and bias and their cascading effects), students can expect to learn how to conduct systematic, annotated literature reviews, how to program complex surveys and experiments on Qualtrics, and how to manage and clean data. More advanced students may also be given the opportunity to analyze data and represent it visually.
Skills Needed:
• Excellent communication skills, both written and oral • An interest in the psychology of gender segregation • Past coursework on research methods is a definite plus
Class Level:	Sophomore, junior, senior
Major:	Psychology
Other Requirements:	Preferred background and qualifications: • Past work experience in a research environment, • Past involvement with psychological research, • Academic exposure to social psychology (i.e., courses in social psychology, stereotyping and prejudice, gender, sexuality, etc.). • Knowledge of MS Excel, • Knowledge of SPSS, R, or Stata for data analysis

Research Assistantship duties and responsibilities:
Division, Research Center, Lab:	Science
Faculty Supervisor's Name:	Wael Rabeh
Expression and purification of proteins important in the discovery and design of therapeutics against COVID-19 and cancer.
Skills the Student Will Gain:
Students will learn how to express and purify proteins and characterize them using different biochemical and biophysical tools.
Skills Needed:
Completed FoS 1-4 courses, which are equivalent to a year of first year chemistry and biology courses.
Class Level:	Sophomore or higher
Major:	Science (Chemistry, Biology, or Biophysics) and bioengineering
Other Requirements:

Social Science Positions

Introduction
Division, Research Center, Lab:	Science
Faculty Supervisor's Name:	Raghib Ali
The UAE healthy future study (UAEHFS) is a prospective cohort study designed to identify associations between risk factors and disease outcomes amongst Emiratis. The study will enroll 20000 UAE nationals, aged ≥18 years. Environmental and genetic risk factors will be characterized and participants will be followed for future disease events. As this was the first time a prospective cohort study was being planned in the UAE. Statistical data science is becoming a central part of modern data analysis, transforming information intelligence to make decisions and solve challenging problems. The research assistantships will apply statistical data science methods and approaches to make decisions and solve challenging problems based on data and issues sourced from the UAEHFS.
Research Assistantship duties and responsibilities:
Analysis and visualization of complex datasets • Preparation of the relevant data. • Selection, optimization and evaluation of ML models, such as binary classification, multiclass classification, and regression. • Implementation of models • Support with other activities, e.g. research and preparation of presentations.
Skills the Student Will Gain:
The internship offers research assistantships a forum for interdisciplinary cooperation, with opportunities to • Comprehensive statistical data science advice on more complex applied issues • Expansion to research collaborations, bachelor, master and PhD theses • Professional preparation by learning presentation techniques, programming skills, practical statistical data science, interdisciplinary communication.
Skills Needed:
This research assistantship is aimed at students who are familiar with a statistical programming language (ideally R) and have background linear algebra (vectors and matrices: transpose, inverse and determinants quadratic forms) as well as probability theory (discrete and continuous univariate random variables, expectation, variance, and normal distribution).
Class Level:	Junior, Senior
Major:	Data analysis, Statistical Programming, Statistical Data Science, Statistical Modelling, Data Mining
Other Requirements:	You would like to constantly develop yourself, learn and apply new methods and technologies.

Research Assistantship duties and responsibilities:
Division, Research Center, Lab:	Social Science
Faculty Supervisor's Name:	Andrzej Baranski
Experimental methods in the social sciences are now more popular than ever to study human behavior. We are currently looking to hire undergraduate research assistants that are interested in learning about experimental methods. The project in which RAs will be working is about bargaining and negotiations around the world. A growing literature has been documenting how cultural differences, gender, ideological postures, and cognitive abilities affect strategic behavior. However, quantifying and qualifying the role that such variables play in bargaining is largely unknown and much work needs to be done, which is the scope of this project. Tasks include: 1. Reviewing academic literature and providing quantitative and qualitative summaries of findings on several topics including: Majoritarian Bargaining, cultural measures, gender differences, 2. Analyzing data (descriptive statistics and regression analyses) 3. Providing feedback on experimental materials and methods Preferred qualifications 1. Deep interest in experimental research and data analysis 2. Creative, independent, and reliable worker 3. Knowledge of statistics and econometrics 4. Ability to read academic papers 5. Attention to details Students in the social sciences are particularly encouraged to apply.
Skills the Student Will Gain:
Students will learn about: (1) Experimental Methods Design and Analysis (2) Experimental evidence on Bargaining Behavior (3) The role of culture and gender in Economics. Students will develop the following skills (1) Learning how to read and analyze peer-reviewed journal articles (2) best practices in experimental economics (3) how to formulate a research question and a social experiment to answer it.
Skills Needed:
Knowledge of statistics, econometrics (basic). Previous courses in behavioral economics, experimental economics, or economic psychology are a plus.
Class Level:	Junior, senior
Major:	Economics, political science,
Other Requirements:

Research Assistantship duties and responsibilities:
Division, Research Center, Lab:	Social Science
Faculty Supervisor's Name:	Joan Barceló
The student will engage in research on the consequences of wartime exposure on social, economic, and political attitudes and behaviors. The duties associated with this position are: - Identifying relevant literature - Searching for recent papers - Data management/curation - Data analysis under the supervision of the Professor
Skills the Student Will Gain:
- Learn about the literature on the social, economic, and political consequences of political violence - Writing skills - Data management skills - Engagement in a data project
Skills Needed:
Some experience with Stata/R is desired
Class Level:	All levels
Major:	Political science, economics
Other Requirements:

Research Assistantship duties and responsibilities:
Division, Research Center, Lab:	Interdisciplinary
Faculty Supervisor's Name:	Muhammet Bas
Statistical and mathematical analysis of interstate relationships (cooperation and conflict); reviewing relevant literature; writing summaries/memos
Skills the Student Will Gain:
Improve their analytical skills, gain academic writing experience, exposure to international relations literature.
Skills Needed:
Recommended prior coursework in statistics, calculus, game theory, or similar topics
Class Level:	All classes welcome, but juniors and seniors preferred
Major:	Political science, economics, mathematics
Other Requirements:

Research Assistantship duties and responsibilities:
Division, Research Center, Lab:	Social Science
Faculty Supervisor's Name:	Christopher Dawes
Work on projects using experimental methods and sports data to test social science theories of social identity. The research involves evaluating the effect of social identity on various outcomes related to politics. Duties and responsibilities will include: - Data collection, management, and analysis - Conducting literature reviews
Skills the Student Will Gain:
Students will gain practical experience with project evaluation, research design, and data analysis. Ability to work independently and meet deadlines. Some experience with Stata or R is helpful but not required.
Skills Needed:
Recommended (but not required) prior coursework in statistics.
Class Level:	Any
Major:	Any
Other Requirements:

Research Assistantship duties and responsibilities:
Division, Research Center, Lab:	Social Science
Faculty Supervisor's Name:	Jemima A. Frimpong
Participate in research on information processing and decision-making. The RA will have the opportunity to work on a number of projects, including studies that examine: 1) processes leading to stereotyping, prejudice, and discrimination in hiring decisions, performance evaluation, and promotion; 2) managerial decision making and availability of health services to underserved populations; and 3) patient decision-making regarding engagement in health care. Duties and responsibilities will include: • Data collection (preparation of study instruments, coding for surveys) • Data management (data cleaning, data transformation) • Data analyses (descriptive and regression analyses) • Manuscript preparation (literature reviews, reference management, copy editing)
Skills the Student Will Gain:
Gain valuable research experience, including formulating research questions, developing hypotheses, study design, data collection, data analysis, and manuscript development.
Skills Needed:
• Strong quantitative and programming skills • Experience using a statistical package(s) such as Stata, SAS, R, or equivalent
Class Level:	All levels
Major:	Any
Other Requirements:	• Good time management and prioritization skills, strong attention to detail • Ability to work independently, as well as in a team, take initiative, and manage multiple tasks

Research Assistantship duties and responsibilities:
Division, Research Center, Lab:	Social Science
Faculty Supervisor's Name:	J. Andrew Harris
Research positions in the Professor Harris' research group are an opportunity to work on ongoing research projects and build practical skills. Each student works independently or in a team with another student on one project at a time, and attend weekly research group meetings. Currently, we are working on a number of projects on electoral access in Africa, participation in constitutional referenda in Kenya, the causes and consequences of ballot errors in Kenya, and gendered voting behavior in Pakistan. Project assignment will be done as a function of project needs, student skills, and student interests. Common tasks include writing computer code (R, Python) to clean, manage, analyze, and visualize data; conduct systematic literature reviews; copy edit existing text; and build online surveys.
Skills the Student Will Gain:
Use R or other languages to clean, build, and analyze datasets. Conduct systematic literature reviews. Copy edit article and book text. Learn about the process of producing social science research. Gain experience working in teams.
Skills Needed:
Experience or interest in social science research. Quantitative skills: R, Python, LaTeX, and similar. Ability to work independently and meet deadlines.
Class Level:	All levels
Major:	Any, though students in quantitative disciplines or with interest in data-science are particularly encouraged to apply.
Other Requirements:

Research Assistantship duties and responsibilities:
Division, Research Center, Lab:	Social Science
Faculty Supervisor's Name:	Christian Haefke
Support research by researching and summarizing literature, analyzing data
Skills the Student Will Gain:
Data cleaning, data analysis, literature research, summarizing research
Skills Needed:
Some computer programming, statistics
Class Level:	Sophomore or higher
Major:	Computer Science, Economics, Math, Statistics
Other Requirements:

Research Assistantship duties and responsibilities:
Division, Research Center, Lab:	Social Science
Faculty Supervisor's Name:	Jean Imbs
The project explores the geographic determinants of market access: Some regions, or cities, are inherently landlocked, or situated in locations that make local trade difficult. Sometimes these locations were imposed by a colonial power. Other regions and cities on the other hand are inherently integrated with their hinterland. This project proposes to bring satellite data to bear on the consequences of such geographic determinants: Are prosperous regions characterized by specific geographic characteristics, especially in terms of their physical predisposition to local trade? The project uses satellite data and surveys, for which solid knowledge of manipulation of large datasets is required. The project also uses network theory, for which solid knowledge of linear algebra is required.
Skills the Student Will Gain:
Data manipulation, coding, data collection, clarity of expression
Skills Needed:
Precision, meticulousness, willingness to learn, creativity in seeking data sources, experience manipulating very large datasets, and preferably with some knowledge of Python or other statistical software.
Class Level:	Junior, senior
Major:	Economics
Other Requirements:

Research Assistantship duties and responsibilities:
Division, Research Center, Lab:	Interdisciplinary
Faculty Supervisor's Name:	Aaron Kaufman
Social network analysis, machine learning, data visualization
Skills the Student Will Gain:
The student will take an active, collaborative role in an exciting new project about how information spreads on social media, with a special focus on financial information and the stock market. They will get experience with the full research process: conceptualization, data collection, data analysis, and interpretation.
Skills Needed:

Class Level:	All levels
Major:	Computer Science, Data Science
Other Requirements:

Research Assistantship duties and responsibilities:
Division, Research Center, Lab:	Social Science
Faculty Supervisor's Name:	Korhan Kocak
We require a research assistant who has some knowledge of Natural Language Processing and can help us troubleshoot our code. Additionally, the assistant will help to clean internet access data and get this ready for statistical analysis.
Skills the Student Will Gain:
Hands-on experience with text analysis using Twitter data
Skills Needed:
R or Python
Class Level:	Juniors or Seniors preferred
Major:	Computer Science majors preferred
Other Requirements:	Being able to read Spanish or Turkish would be advantageous but is not a requirement.

Research Assistantship duties and responsibilities:
Division, Research Center, Lab:	Social Science
Faculty Supervisor's Name:	Melina Platas
Data management, data analysis, literature review for a set of ongoing projects on the a) political economy of development in Africa and b) migration and attitudes toward migrants in the United States. Find more detail on past and current projects.
Skills the Student Will Gain:
Research design, data analysis, public and policy engagement
Skills Needed:
Strong data management and analysis skills in R or Stata required, experience with ArcGIS/QGIS or equivalent is ideal.
Class Level:	All levels
Major:	Any
Other Requirements:

Research Assistantship duties and responsibilities:
Division, Research Center, Lab:	Social Science
Faculty Supervisor's Name:	Nikos Nikiforakis
- surveying and summarizing the literature on different projects related to the C-BID center - assist in preparing presentations/reports.
Skills the Student Will Gain:
Students will become familiar with concepts and methods in behavioral economics and institutional design, and will benefit from the interaction with faculty, postdocs, and researchers working in the center.
Skills Needed:
Some experience in research in the field of economics
Class Level:	Sophomore, Junior, and Senior
Major:	Economics
Other Requirements:	Applicants could work with any of the faculty and postdocs associated with the center directed by Prof. Nikiforakis and Prof. Wooders

Research Assistantship duties and responsibilities:
Division, Research Center, Lab:	Social Science
Faculty Supervisor's Name:	Jordan J. Norris
There are a number of different projects that the assistant may be put on, with topics spanning Applied Microeconomics, Macroeconomics, Spatial Economics, and International Trade. Some example projects include (these may be different at the time of the assistantship) • Ethical good preference and sustainable production • Structural change: the composition of industry and long-run growth • Tourism and economic growth Regardless of the topic, the duties of the assistant will broadly be the same. The tasks will primarily be computational and be a subset of the following: 1. Data collection and cleaning. Collecting the data from the relevant sources (these will all be available online, either in public or academic databases) and cleaning the data. 2. Regression analysis. The specification (e.g., OLS, panel) will be given. Expect the assistant to take the initiative in exploring the results and in investigating robustness. 3. Simulation analysis. Explore theoretical results numerically by simulating data. 4. Documentation. Provide well-commented code, write up results in reports and create tables and figures communicating the findings. These must be sufficiently clear such that I or someone else can continue from where the assistant left off, if necessary. 5. Literature review. Review prior work to help inform directions we will take in the project Cleaning and regressions will be primarily conducted in Stata. Simulations will be primarily conducted in Matlab. Throughout, the assistant will be in direct contact with me. They will be provided with instructions for the tasks, guidance on how to complete them, and regular feedback. Outside of this, they will be expected to work mostly independently and be able to apply their own problem-solving ability to make progress on the tasks. As part of the duties, the assistant should 1. Communicate frequently with me by email and, as required, by Zoom. 2. Share with me a spreadsheet log of the hours spent on different tasks.
Skills the Student Will Gain:
Academic research experience in Economics. The student will experience firsthand how an academic research project develops, witnessing the thought process and important steps involved. The student will build on their own data analysis skills and ability to work independently. The student will receive direct mentorship from Professor Norris throughout. My hope is that an engaged and motivated student will meaningfully grow as an Economist.
Skills Needed:
Required: Proficiency in Stata. Recommended: proficiency in Matlab; understanding of Econometrics and basic Economic Theory.
Class Level:	Junior
Major:	Economics
Other Requirements:

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