Engineering Researchers

Jamaliah Aburabie, Postdoctoral Associate Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: Jamaliah.aburabie@nyu.edu
Education: PhD KAUST University

Research Interests: Nanofiltration, Electrically Conductive, Direct Methanol Fuel Cell, Desalination

Farah Ahmed, Research Scientist Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: farah.ahmed@nyu.edu
Education: BSc University of California, San Diego; PhD, Khalifa University

Research Interests: Water purification, Desalination, Membrane technology, Nanomaterials

Raed Al-Juboori, Research Associate Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: raa9914@nyu.edu
Education: BSc. University of Baghdad; MSc. University of Southern Queensland; PhD University of Southern Queen...

Research Interests: Membrane Technologies; Adsorption; Advanced Oxidation Process; Resources Recovery

Aktham Alchaar, Graduate Research Assistant Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: asa7916@nyu.edu
Education: BSc Civil Engineering American University of Ras Al Khaimah; MSc Civil Engineering American Universi...

Research Interests: Sustainable Construction Materials; Smart Engineering Materials; Cement; Alternative Binders; 3D Con...

Abdullah Mohamed Ali, Research Engineer Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: abdullah.ali@nyu.edu
Education: BA Zewail University MA Khalifa University

Research Interests: Robotics; control; drones; CubeSats

Konpal Ali, Postdoctoral Associate Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: konpal.ali@nyu.edu
Education: PhD King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST)

Research Interests: Wireless communication, stochastic geometry, performance analysis, optimization

Lilas Mhd Salem Alrahis, Postdoctoral Associate Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: lilas.alrahis@nyu.edu
Education: PhD Khalifa University

Research Interests: Design-for-Trust; Applied Machine Learning; Graph Neural Networks; Hardware Security

Haneen Alsuradi, Postdoctoral Associate Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: haneen@nyu.edu
Education: BSc University of Sharjah; MSc Masdar Institute of Science and Technology; PhD New York University

Research Interests: Neurohaptics; BCI; EEG data analysis; machine learning

Sandra Aristizabal, Postdoctoral Associate Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: SLA9202@nyu.edu
Education: PhD, Kaust

Research Interests: Polymer chemistry, membrane technology, sustainability

Costanza Armanini, Research Associate Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: costanza.armanini@nyu.edu
Education: BA, MA, and PhD, University of Trento

Research Interests: Soft robotics modeling and control; continuum mechanics; biomimetics and bioinspiration; biomedical ...

Jose Balsa-Barreiro, Research Scientist Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: jb7882@nyu.edu
Education: Leading Enginneer Technical University of Valencia, Spain; PhD University of Coruna, Spain and Polit...

Research Interests: spatial analysis; mapping; urban systems; cities; human dynamics

Julian Barreiro-Gomez, Postdoctoral Associate Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: jbarreiro@nyu.edu
Education: PhD, Technical University of Catalonia BarcelonaTech; PhD, Universidad de los Andes; MA, Universidad...

Research Interests: Mean-Field Type Games, Game Theory, Optimal Control, Engineering Applications

Ahmad Bazzi, Research Scientist Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: ahmad.bazzi@nyu.edu
Education: PhD, EURECOM, France

Research Interests: Wireless communications; integrated sensing and communication; signal processing

Dimitrios Chaikalis, Graduate Research Assistant Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: dimitris.chaikalis@nyu.edu
Education: MS University of Patras

Research Interests: Robotics; Control; Autonomous Vehicles

Xuejian Chen, Postdoctoral Associate Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: xuejian.chen@nyu.edu
Education: PhD Wuhan University

Research Interests: Geotechnical engineering; centrifuge modelling; large-deformation finite-element analyses; random fi...

Alberto Maria Chierici, Doctoral Student Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: alberto.chierici@nyu.edu
Education: BSc Università degli Studi di Milano; MSc Università degli Studi di Milano Bicocca

Research Interests: Dialogue Systems, Natural Language Processing, Human-Computer Interaction, Artificial Intelligence, ...

Rafael Sanchez Crespo, Postdoctoral Associate Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: rafael.sanchezcrespo@nyu.edu
Education: PhD, The University of Northampton; MSc, Silesian University of Technology; Lic, Civil Engineering, ...

Zoltan Derzsi, Research Associate Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: zd8@nyu.edu
Education: BEng, MRes, PhD, Newcastle University

Research Interests: Reaching and grasping, collaborative robotics, machine vision, neural networks, human-machine interf...

Roberto Bomfin, Postdoctoral Associate Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: roberto.bomfin@nyu.edu
Education: PhD Technische Universität Dresden

Research Interests: Integrated sensing and communication, waveform design, receiver design

Ghada Dushaq, Research Scientist Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: ghd1@nyu.edu
Education: BA BirZeit University; MA University of Jordan; PhD Khalifa University (MI& MIT program)

Nouran ElMesalami, PhD Student Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: nze2002@nyu.edu
Education: BSc Eng American University of Sharjah; MSc Eng American University of Sharjah

Research Interests: Construction Materials; Structural Engineering; Sustainable Construction and Structural Materials

Shabin Eriyadan Vellangara Mohammed, Postdoctoral Associate Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: shabin.mohammed@nyu.edu
Education: PhD Monash University

Research Interests: Nanocomposite Membranes, Thin-Film Membranes, Graphene Oxide, Nanofiltration, Water Treatment, Organ...

Joan Esteba, Postdoctoral Associate Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: joan.esteba@nyu.edu
Education: Bachelor Degree in Industrial Engineering, Master's in Industrail Engineering, and PhD Summa Cum Lau...

Research Interests: Marine robotics, underwter robotics, autonomous underwater vehicles, long-term deployment, docking s...

Nikolaos Evangeliou, Research Scientist Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: nikolaos.evangeliou@nyu.edu
Education: PhD University of Patras, Greece

Research Interests: Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, Surgical Robotics, Unmanned Ground Vehicles, Networked Systems, Control Ap...

Matthias Fitzky, Research Assistant Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: mxf4167@nyu.edu
Education: MSc, University of Applied Sciences, Stuttgart

Research Interests: 3D GIS, 3D City Models, Thermal Energy Simulations, Geographic Data Science, Building Efficiency and...

Anna Garcia Sabat, Postdoctoral Associate Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: anna.sabate@nyu.edu
Education: BSc, MSc and PhD BarcelonaTech

Research Interests: Bioengineering, Microgravity, Aerospace Applications, Immunology, Computational Analysis

Vinicius Goncalves, Postdoctoral Associate Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: vmg6973@nyu.edu
Education: PhD Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG), Brazil

Research Interests: Control, robotics, optimization, discrete event systems, Max-Plus/tropical algebra

Mahmoud Mohamad Ali Hamandi, Postdoctoral Associate Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: mh7281@nyu.edu
Education: BE American University of Beirut, ME American University of Beirut, PhD Universite de Toulouse

Research Interests: Unmanned aerial vehicles, swarm robotics, control applications

Yazan Ibrahim, Postdoctoral Associate Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: ymi212@nyu.edu
Education: BSc An-Najah National University; MSc Khalifa University; PhD New York University, Tandon School of ...

Research Interests: Membrane Fabrication; Membrane Surface-patterning; 3D Printing; Phase separation micromolding (PSμM)...

Nouhaila Innan, Postdoctoral Associate Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: nouhaila.innan@nyu.edu
Education: BS, MS, and PhD Hassan II University of Casablanca, Morocco

Research Interests: Quantum machine learning, quantum algorithms, quantum applications

Muhammad Kashif, Postdoctoral Associate Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: muhammadkashif@nyu.edu
Education: BS Comsats Institute of Information Technology, Pakistan; MS Istanbul Sehir University Turkey; PhD H...

Research Interests: Quantum computing; quantum machine learning; quantum algorithms

Nabil Kenan, Postdoctoral Associate Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: nkenan@nyu.edu
Education: BSc American University of Sharjah, MSc Masdar Institute, PhD Masdar Institute

Research Interests: Supply Chain, Logistics, Optimization

Muhammad Hassan Khan, Research Assistant Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: muhammadkhan@nyu.edu
Education: BS New York University Abu Dhabi

Research Interests: Numerical modeling; biogeochemical models; ecosystem dynamics

Noman Khalid Khanzada, Postdoctoral Associate Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: noman.khanzada@nyu.edu
Education: BE (Chemical Engineering) NED University of Engineering and Technology; MS (Environmental Engineerin...

Research Interests: Thin-film composite/nanocomposite reverse osmosis (RO) membrane fabrication/modification; Desalinati...

Mohammad Khasawneh, Postdoctoral Associate Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: mak1011@nyu.edu
Education: BSc, MSc Mechanical Engineering , Jordan University of Science and Technology (JUST)

Muzamil Khatri, Postdoctoral Associate Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: mk8936@nyu.edu
Education: PhD Shinshu University, Japan

Research Interests: Electrospinning, Nanofabrication, Membranes, Advanced Water Treatment, Surface and Interfaces

Akhil Krishna, Research Engineer Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: abk9306@nyu.edu
Education: PhD Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur

Research Interests: Geometric control theory, control on Lie groups, consensus on Lie groups, consensus on smooth manifo...

Padmaja Krishnan, Research Associate Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: padmaja.krishnan@nyu.edu
Education: BTech (Civil Engineering) National Institute of Technology, Warangal, India; MSc (Civil Engineering ...

Research Interests: Photocatalytic building materials; Energy-efficient buildings; High-performance concrete; Lightweigh...

Vaibhav Kumar, Postdoctoral Associate Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: vaibhav.kumar@nyu.edu
Education: PhD University College Dublin

Research Interests: Wireless communications; signal processing; integrated sensing and communications; physical Layer se...

L. Julián Lechuga López, Graduate Research Assistant Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: leopoldo.lechuga@nyu.edu
Education: MSc Université Paris Cité, France

Research Interests: Multi-modal learning, uncertainty quantification, deep learning in healthcare

Wenqing Li, Postdoctoral Associate Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: wl54@nyu.edu
Education: PhD Zhejiang University

Research Interests: Machine learning; Data analytics; Cyber-physical security

Alberto Marchisio, Postdoctoral Associate Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: alberto.marchisio@nyu.edu
Education: BSc and MSc Politecnico di Torino, Italy; PhD Vienna University of Technology, Austria

Research Interests: Hardware and software optimizations for machine learning; brain-inspired computing; VLSI architectur...

Ravindra Masana, Research Associate Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: ravindra.masana@nyu.edu
Education: PhD and MSc, Clemson University; BA, Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University

Lotfi Mecharbat, Research Assistant Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: lam9297@nyu.edu
Education: MA Ecole Supérieure d’Informatique ESI

Research Interests: Deep learning; AutoML; computer vision; quantum computing

Muhammed Nabeel, Research Engineer Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: nabeel.m@nyu.edu
Education: Bachelor's Degree in Mechanical Engineering, Visvesvaraya Technological University; Master's Degree ...

Research Interests: Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs), mechatronics, control systems.

Haya Nassrullah, Research Associate Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: hfn2004@nyu.edu
Education: BSc. American University of Sharjah; MSc. Khalifa University

Research Interests: Nanofiltration; Desalination; Nanomaterials; Membrane distillation; Membrane fabrication

Wael Othman, Postdoctoral Associate Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: wael.othman@nyu.edu
Education: BSc United Arab Emirates University; MSc Khalifa University; PhD New York University

Research Interests: Microfluidics; Soft Tactile Sensors; Biomedical Devices; Manipulation of Bacterial Biofilm

Fotios Panetsos, Postdoctoral Associate Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: f.panetsos@nyu.edu
Education: Diploma National Technical University of Athens; PhD National Technical University of Athens

Research Interests: Robotics; motion control; unmanned aerial vehicles; model predictive control

Leticia Pereira, Lab Manager and Research Associate Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: lp2570@nyu.edu
Education: MSc University of Barcelona

Research Interests: Neuroscience and Stem Cells

Dmitrii Igorevich Petukhov, Research Associate Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: dp3916@nyu.edu
Education: BA, MA, PhD Lomonosov Moscow State University

Research Interests: Two-dimensional materials, membrane transport, in situ membrane characterization, surface modificati...

Samuel Prieto Ayllon, Postdoctoral Associate Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: samuel.prieto@nyu.edu
Education: PhD University of Castilla-La Mancha

Research Interests: Robotics; Autonomous Robots; 3D Scanning; Automation in Construction; BIM; Artificial Intelligence; ...

Muhammad Nouman Amjad Raja, Postdoctoral Associate Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: mr6839@nyu.edu
Education: BSc University of Engineering and Technology, Lahore; MSc Technische Universität München; PhD Edith ...

Research Interests: Geotechnical Engineering; Machine Learning; Geosynthetics; Centrifuge Modeling; Reinforced Soil

Pankaj Rajput, Postdoctoral Associate Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: prajput@nyu.edu
Education: B.Tech (Mechanical Engineering) IIT BHU, MS (Mechanical Engineering) New York University

Research Interests: Jet Propulsion, Jet noise reduction, Fluid Injection Systems, Thermal & Fluid Sciences, Aerodynamics...

Bisan Samara, Research Assistant Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: bisan.samara@nyu.edu
Education: BSc in Biomedical Engineering, Khalifa University

Farah Shahbaz, Research Fellow Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: fs1399@nyu.edu
Education: BS New York University Abu Dhabi

Research Interests: Sustainable Materials; Construction Materials; Materials Characterization; Life Cycle Assessment

Inderjeet Singh, Postdoctoral Associate Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: inderjeet.singh@nyu.edu
Education: MSc Physics University of Rajasthan, Jaipur; MTech. Solid State Technology and PhD Physics, Indian I...

Research Interests: Materials Chemistry, Nanomaterials, Synthesis, Construction Materials

Sungmin Sohn, Research Fellow, Center for Interacting Urban Networks Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: ss10826@nyu.edu
Education: Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering (NYUAD)

Research Interests: Inventory Routing Problem with Drone (Optimization)

Semih Sonkor, Research Assistant Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: semih.sonkor@nyu.edu
Education: BSc Bogazici University; MSc University of Ljubljana and University of Minho

Research Interests: Cybersecurity in the Construction Industry; Cybersecurity Frameworks; BIM

Muhammad Faizan Tahir, Postdoctoral Associate Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: faizan.tahir@nyu.edu
Education: PhD South China University of Technology

Research Interests: Renewable energy integration, demand response, load management, power system optimization, integrate...

Spyridon Tarantos, Postdoctoral Associate Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: spyridon.tarantos@nyu.edu
Education: Diploma National Technical University of Athens; PhD Sapienza University of Rome

Research Interests: Robotics; real-time motion generation; mobile robot navigation; mobile manipulation

Prabu Thannasi, Postdoctoral Associate Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: pt2479@nyu.edu
Education: BE Kongu Engineering College; ME College of Engineering Guindy; PhD National Institute of Technology...

Research Interests: Lunar Soil and Simulants, Lunar In-situ Materials, Geotechnical Engineering, Ground Improvement

Athanasios Tsoukalas, Research Engineer Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: athanasios.tsoukalas@nyu.edu
Education: PhD Patras University, Post Doctoral Student 3 years in University of California Davis, Researcher 4...

Research Interests: Tracking of UAVs

Halil Utku Unlu, Graduate Research Assistant Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: utku@nyu.edu
Education: BS New York University Abu Dhabi

Research Interests: Robot perception, autonomous vehicles, collaborative robotics

Christoforos Vasilatos, Research Engineer Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: christoforos.vasilatos@nyu.edu
Education: BSc Electrical and Computer Engineering; MEng Software Engineering and Telecommunications from Natio...

Research Interests: Large Language Models; Natural Language Processing

Junjie Wang, Postdoctoral Associate Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: junjie.wang@nyu.edu
Education: PhD, Queen's University Belfast; MEng, Zhejiang University; BEng, Hunan University

Xiangyu Wang, Postdoctoral Associate Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: xw1742@nyu.edu
Education: BSc in Civil Engineering Xiamen University; MSc in Civil Engineering Wuhan University; PhD in Civil ...

Research Interests: Sustainable Construction Materials; 3D Concrete Printing; FEM modeling; Low carbon cements

Xinghui Xu, Postdoctoral Associate Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: xx927@nyu.edu
Education: BA Tsinghua University MA University of Michigan

Research Interests: Construction Automation and Robotics Artificial Intelligence

Daniel Yao, Postdoctoral Associate Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: dongchi.yao@nyu.edu
Education: BE Southwest Petroleum University; ME Southwest Petroleum University

Research Interests: Risk Analysis; Cybersecurity; Construction Management; Machine Learning; Deep Learning

Shuaihang Yuan, Postdoctoral Associate Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: sy2366@nyu.edu
Education: BA StonyBrook University, Computer Science; MA New York University, Computer Science; PhD New York U...

Research Interests: Computer vision, machine learning, multi-robot cooperation

Jingfeng Zhang, Research Associate Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: jz7323@nyu.edu
Education: PhD National University of Singapore

Research Interests: Machine learning; robust multimodal models; adversarial robustness

Zihao Zheng, Postdoctoral Associate Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: zihao.zheng@nyu.edu
Education: PhD, Tongji University

Research Interests: Digital twin; BIM; building industrilization; waste optimisation