Research Staff

Mohamad Abbas, Research Associate; Public Outreach Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: moe.abbas@nyu.edu
Education: PhD Max Planck Research School for Astronomy, University of Heidelberg; MS Bowling Green State Unive...

Research Interests: Galaxy Evolution; Milky Way; RR Lyrae Stars; Globular Clusters; Variable Stars; Galactic Cannibalism

Nour Abdelmoneim, Research Assistant Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: nour.abdelmoneim@nyu.edu
Education: BSc New York University Abu Dhabi

Research Interests: Mars, Climate, Machine Learning

Osama Abdullah, Research Instrumentation Scientist II Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: osama.abdullah@nyu.edu
Education: BSc University of Jordan, MS University of Illinois at Chicago, PhD University of Utah

Research Interests: MRI, Neuroimaging, 3D Printing, Cardiac, Brain,

Fayrouz Abou Ibrahim, Global PhD Student Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: fa2110@nyu.edu
Education: MA American University of Beirut

Research Interests: Covalent organic frameworks, Covalent organic polymers, pollutant removal, catalysis

Muhammed AbuOdeh, Research Assistant Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: mra9407@nyu.edu
Education: MSc University of Georgia, Athens

Research Interests: Syntax; Dependency Parsing; Arabic treebank development

Salma Abdulrazak Abubakar, Global PhD Student Affiliation: NYU New York
Email: saa722@nyu.edu
Education: BA United Arab Emirates

Research Interests: Materials science; porous materials; water purification; environmental sustainability

Amar Ahmad, Research Scientist / Biostatistician Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: amar.ahmad@nyu.edu
Education: German Diplom University of Munich (LMU); PhD University of Munich (LMU)

Research Interests: Application of statistics in medical research; Multivariate statistical strategies for data mining; ...

Ejaz Ahmed, Research Scientist Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: ea79@nyu.edu
Education: MS, Quaid-i-Azam University Islamabad; Phd Technische Universität Dresden, Germany

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

Khalid Nabigh Elmadani Ahmed, Research Assistant Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: kna4278@nyu.edu
Education: BSc University of Khartoum; MSc University of Cape Town

Research Interests: Natural language processing

Amal Al Gergawi, Research Assistant Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: aag569@nyu.edu
Education: BA NYU Abu Dhabi; MSc University of Oxford

Research Interests: Marine science and conservation; coastal urbanization; political ecology; Arabian Gulf

Maryam Al Memari, Research Assistant Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: maa9587@nyu.edu
Education: BA Zayed University; MS Johns Hopkins University

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

Neveen AlQasas, Research Associate Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: na3150@nyu.edu
Education: BA UAEU, MSC University of Western Ontario, PhD Ottawa University

Research Interests: antifouling membranes, transport in membranes, water treatment, biofouling, membrane characterizatio...

Ameer Alakkal, Research Assistant Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: aa6272@nyu.edu
Education: BSc, University of Calicut; MSc, Aligarh Muslim University

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...

Bashar Alhafni, Research Assistant Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: ba63@nyu.edu
Education: BS University of Bridgeport; MS University of Southern California

Research Interests: Computational Linguistics; Machine Translation; Machine Learning; Information Extraction; Reinforcem...

Mohamed Ali, Research Scientist Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: ma8281@nyu.edu
Education: PhD Aix-Marseille University, France

Research Interests: Computational fluid dynamics, turbulent flow, fluid-structure interaction

Dana Ali, Research Assistant Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: dja9439@nyu.edu
Education: BSc in Cell and Molecular Biology, Khalifa University

Research Interests: Cancer, Molecular Biology

Amnah Alzahmi, Research Assistant Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: amnah.alzahmi@nyu.edu
Education: Bachelor in Cellular and Molecular Biology from United Arab Emirates University

Research Interests: Algae; biofuel; alternative oil production; food security

Muhammad Arshad, Research Scientist Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: ma5877@nyu.edu
Education: PhD Simon Fraser University Canada

Research Interests: Bioinformatics; Data Analysis; Public Health Research

Dimitra Atri, Investigator, Center for Astrophysics and Space Science Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: atri@nyu.edu
Education: PhD University of Kansas

Research Interests: Planetary science, ISRU, human spaceflight, astrobiology

Zaynoun Attieh, Research Scientist Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: za2061@nyu.edu
Education: BSc Lebanese University; MSc Saint Joseph University (Lebanon); PhD AgroParisTech (France) and Saint...

Research Interests: Host-pathogen Interaction; Biological pest control; Red palm weevil; Bacillus thuringiensis.

Wegood Awad, Global PhD Fellow Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: wma243@nyu.edu
Education: BA Abu Dhabi University

Research Interests: Material Science and Biological Applications

Vladimir Babushkin, Data Scientist Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: vb2474@nyu.edu
Education: BA Plekhanov Russian University of Economics, MA State University of Moldova

Research Interests: Data science, machine learning, artificial intelligence

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

Khaled Ben El Kadhi, Research Scientist Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: kb146@nyu.edu
Education: MSc University of Montreal ; PhD University of Montreal

Research Interests: Neurogenesis; Stem Cells

Othman Benomar, Affiliate Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: othman.benomar@nyu.edu

Rita Bento, Research Associate Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: rcc8949@nyu.edu
Education: PhD Porto University

Research Interests: Coral reefs; extreme environments; benthic communities

Farah Benyettou, Research Scientist Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: fb51@nyu.edu
Education: PhD in Chemistry, Honors, University Paris 13

Rawan Bondok, Research Assistant Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: reb9482@nyu.edu
Education: Mcs, Arizona State

Research Interests: Dialectal Arabic Natural language processing, Morphology, Arabic Machine Diacritization

Louie Buccella, Research Assistant Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: louie.buccella@nyu.edu
Education: MS University at Buffalo

Research Interests: Marine ecology

Geórgenes Cavalcante, Research Scientist Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: ghc2441@nyu.edu
Education: BA in Meteorology - Federal University of Alagoas, Brazil; MSc in Meteorology - Federal University o...

Research Interests: Physical oceanography

Janja Ceh, Research Associate Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: j.ceh@nyu.edu
Education: MSc University of Vienna, PhD Murdoch University, Perth

Research Interests: Coral reef ecosystems, marine symbioses, marine microbial ecology

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

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, ...

Christopher Adrian Clough, Postdoctoral Associate Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: cac10156@nyu.edu
Education: BA ETH Zürich; MA ETH Zürich; PhD University of Texas at Austin

Research Interests: Topos theory; Homotopy Theory; Higher Categories; Derived Geometry

Julie Connelly, Research Associate Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: jmc49@nyu.edu
Education: MSc University of Edinburgh

Research Interests: Natural Products; Drug Discovery

Ala' Faisal Darabseh, Research Engineer Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: ala.darabseh@nyu.edu
Education: MA Jordan University of Science and Technology (JUST)

Research Interests: Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN); Security; Privacy; Aviation; IoT ; Software-Defined Systems (SDS)

Gobinda Das, Research Associate Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: gd57@nyu.edu

Benjamin Davis, Research Associate Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: ben.davis@nyu.edu
Education: BS Pittsburg State University; PhD University of Arkansas

Research Interests: Structure and Dynamics of Galaxies; Black Hole Mass Scaling Relations; Galaxy Evolution

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...

Massar Dieng, Research Associate Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: mmd14@nyu.edu
Education: BSc, MSC University of Tours

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)

Rana El Danaf, Senior Research Scientist Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: rne1@nyu.edu
Education: PhD Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia

Research Interests: Neuroscience, Drosophila Melanogaster, Visual system, Development

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

Lasha Ephremidze, Research Associate Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: le23@nyu.edu
Education: PhD Razmadze Mathematical Institute

Research Interests: Harmonic Analysis, Complex Analysis, Ergodic Theory

Amin Mohamed, Research Associate Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: amin.mohamed@nyu.edu
Education: PhD (Marine Science) James Cook University (JCU) and Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS), ...

Gennaro Esposito, Research Professor Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: ge22@nyu.edu
Education: MSc in Chemistry (Laurea in Chimica) Naples University

Research Interests: Nuclear Magnetic Resonance, Biomolecular NMR, Protein Biophysics, Structure and Function of Biopolym...

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...

Tatiana Ezubova, Research Assistant Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: te598@nyu.edu
Education: BA New York University; MSc University of Bonn

Research Interests: Algebraic Topology; Homotopy theory

Valentina Fambri, Graduate Research Assistant Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: vf2105@nyu.edu
Education: MSc University of Innsbruck (Austria), BSc University of Innsbruck (Austria)

Research Interests: Molecular Biology, Cell Biology, Neurodevelopmental Biology, Neuroscience

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...

Jonathan Flowers, Research Assistant Professor Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: jmf11@nyu.edu
Education: BS Walla Walla College; MS Louisiana State University; PhD University of California, San Diego

Research Interests: Population Genetics; Evolutionary Biology

Lior Galanti, Associate Research Scientist Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: lior.galanti@nyu.edu
Education: BSc Information Systems, Technion Israel Institute of Technology; MSc Computer Science, New York Uni...

Research Interests: high throughput sequence analysis and classification. VDJ antibody sequence classification. Machine ...

Mohamed Ghattassi, Research Associate Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: mohamed.ghattassi@nyu.edu
Education: PhD Université de Lorraine

Research Interests: Partial differential equations (PDEs)

Iraj Gholami, Research Scientist Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: iraj.gholami@nyu.edu
Education: PhD Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute), Potsdam, Germany

Research Interests: Data Science; Machine Learning; AI (Artificial Intelligence); MRI imaging

Grigorios Giotopoulos, Postdoctoral Associate Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: grigorios.giotopoulos@nyu.edu
Education: BSc University of Edinburgh; MASt University of Cambridge; PhD Heriot-Watt University

Research Interests: Mathematical Physics; Geometrical and Topological Aspects of Physics; Homotopy Theory; Category Theo...

Laurent Gizon, Research Professor Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: laurent.gizon@nyu.edu

Suma Gopinadhan, Research Associate Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: sg5495@nyu.edu
Education: MSc Mahatma Gandhi University

Research Interests: Discovery of new anthelmintic compounds, Genome-wide high throughput Genetic Interaction Screens in ...

Thomas Grevesse, Research Associate Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: tag9888@nyu.edu
Education: PhD Concordia University and University of Mons

Research Interests: Ecology and role of microbiome in world oceans

Raman Gurusamy, Research Associate Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: rg5184@nyu.edu
Education: PhD Pondicherry University

Research Interests: Plant Comparative Genomics, Transcriptomics, Population and Evolutionary Genomics

Shravan Hanasoge, Assistant Research Professor Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: sh2539@nyu.edu

Christopher Hanson, Research Scientist Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: hanson@nyu.edu
Education: BSc with Hon. Monash University. PhD Monash University

Research Interests: Helioseismology; Computational Methods; Solar Physics

Zineb Hassainia, Research Scientist Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: zineb.hassainia@nyu.edu
Education: PhD Université de Rennes

Research Interests: Partial Differential Equations, Fluid Dynamics

Zyad Yasser, Research Assistant Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: zyad.yasser@nyu.edu
Education: BS NYU Abu Dhabi

Research Interests: Homotopy type theory; formalization

Woonkee Sungwoon Jo, Graduate Research Assistant Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: wsj226@nyu.edu
Education: BS American University of Beirut

Research Interests: Natural products; polyketide synthesis

Samira Khalaji, Research Associate Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: sk10887@nyu.edu
Education: PhD Ulm University

Research Interests: Stem cell biology, Stem cells differentiation and fate, Adipogenesis, Neurogenesis, Molecular biosen...

Nouf Khan, Research Assistant Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: nak397@nyu.edu
Education: BS, New York University Abu Dhabi

Research Interests: Unfolded Protein Response, Liver, Activating transcription factor 6, Toxicology, Development

Basit Khan, Research Scientist Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: basit.khan@nyu.edu
Education: PhD, Env. Sci., University of Canterbury, New Zealand; Masters, Env. Sci., University of Auckland, N...

Research Interests: Climate change, air pollution, atmospheric chemistry, urban climate change, urban heat island, extre...

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

Sreejith Kottuparambil, Research Associate Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: sk11452@nyu.edu
Education: MSc Calicut University; PhD Incheon National University

Research Interests: Marine monitoring, phytoplankton ecology, ecotoxicology, oil spill impacts

Vigneshwaran Krishnamoorthi, Research Assistant Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: vk2346@nyu.edu
Education: MSc Government Arts College in Salem Tamilnadu;

Research Interests: Mars simulation experiments, Mars-analog sites, Planetary Geology, Meteorites, Meteorite craters

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...

Zouhair Lachkar, Senior Research Scientist Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: zouhair.lachkar@nyu.edu
Education: PhD, Environmental Sciences, Pierre and Marie Curie University, Paris, France, 2007; Master of Scien...

Research Interests: Oceanography, climate, and marine biogeochemistry

Philip Lah, Research Associate Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: pkl9469@nyu.edu
Education: BSc(Hons) Australian National University; PhD Australian National University

Research Interests: Galaxy evolution

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

Yu Liang, Postdoctoral Associate Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: yu.liang@nyu.edu
Education: BA Shandong University; PhD University of Science and Technology of China

Research Interests: Experimental Fluid Mechanics; Nonlinear Instability; Turbulence

Elena Magnani, Research Scientist Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: em188@nyu.edu
Education: BA in Biotechnology at University of Bologna (IT); MSc in Pharmaceutical Biotechnology at University...

Israa Mahgoub, Research Associate Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: iam4@nyu.edu
Education: MA Sorbonne University

Research Interests: Economic History, Corporate History, Family Business

Sanjit Manohar Majhi, Research Associate Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: smm10137@nyu.edu
Education: PhD Jeonbuk National University, South Korea

Research Interests: Sensors, organic crystals, MXenes, 2D materials, semiconductors, soft robotics, nanomaterials

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

Georgina Matthews, Research Assistant Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: ghm9657@nyu.edu
Education: MRes University of Newcastle; BSc Bangor University

Research Interests: Coral biology, molecular biology, CBASS, thermal stress

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

Mohammed Ateeq Ur Rahman Mohammed, Research Assistant Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: mam44@nyu.edu
Education: BS Osmania University, India: MS Umea University, Sweden.

Research Interests: Single cell RNA sequencing studies

David Myers, Postdoctoral Associate Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: djm10080@nyu.edu
Education: BA Oberlin College, PhD Johns Hopkins University

Research Interests: Homotopy Type Theory, Category Theory, Modal Logic

Alexandra Mystikou, Research Associate Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: am8406@nyu.edu
Education: PhD, University of Aberdeen;

Research Interests: Synthetic Biology, Algal Synthetic Genomics, Algal Genomics, Biotechnology

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.

Priyam Narain, Research Associate Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: pn33@nyu.edu
Education: PhD, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (IIT Delhi), India

Research Interests: Circadian rhythms, Molecular neurobiology, Stress and mood disorders

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

David Nelson, Senior Research Scientist Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: drn2@nyu.edu
Education: BA Colorado College; PhD University of Minnesota

Research Interests: Genomics; Molecular Biology; Bioinformatics

Ahmad Nemer, Research Associate Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: abn275@nyu.edu
Education: BA American University of Sharjah; MA and PhD Auburn University

Research Interests: Spectroscopy, radiative transfer, astrophysical plasma modelling

Vinh Thanh Nguyen, Research Assistant Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: vince.nguyen@nyu.edu
Education: BA NYU Abu Dhabi; MSc Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam; MSc LUT University

Research Interests: Air Quality; Human-Computer Interaction; Ubiquitous Computing

Liang Niu, Graduate Student Affiliation: NYU New York
Email: liang.niu@nyu.edu
Education: MS, New York University; BE, Nankai University

Ossama Obeid, Research Associate Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: oo11@nyu.edu
Education: BSc, Carnegie Mellon University

Mayada Oudah, Research Associate Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: mayada@nyu.edu
Education: BSc Al Ain University; MSc The British University in Dubai in Association with The University of Edi...

Research Interests: Artificial Intelligence; Human-Machine Interaction; Behavioral Economics; Machine Behavior and Ethic...

Siraj Pallichankandy, Research Scientist Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: sp191@nyu.edu
Education: MSc in Biotechnology, Kannur University

Ambrish Pandey, Research Associate Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: ambrish.pandey@nyu.edu
Education: BSc Banaras Hindu University; MSc-PhD Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur

Research Interests: Turbulent thermal convection; Astrophysical convection

Mario Pasquato, Research Associate (CAP3) Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: mario.pasquato@nyu.edu
Education: MSc. Scuola Normale Superiore (Pisa, Italy); Ph.D. Università di Pisa (Italy)

Research Interests: Machine Learning for Astronomy

Yanthe Pearson, Research Scientist Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: pearsy02@nyu.edu
Education: BSc, MSc, MEng and PhD Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Research Interests: Data science; Biostatistics; Machine learning; Phenotypic profiling

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...

Thirumurugan Prakasam, Research Scientist Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: tp42@nyu.edu
Education: PhD in Organic Chemistry, CSIR-CLRI, MPhil, MSc Chemistry and BSc Chemistry, University of Madras

Shashi Ranjan, Research Technician Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: sr5141@nyu.edu
Education: BTech Biotechnology; IASE University,India

Research Interests: zebrafish husbandry, zebrafish development study

Ajaya Ravindran, Senior Research Scientist Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: ajaya.mohan@nyu.edu
Education: PhD Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore; MTech Atmospheric Scie...

Research Interests: Climate variability, modeling, and data analysis

Venkata SubbaRao Redrouthu, Research Associate Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: vr2444@nyu.edu
Education: BSc Acharya Nagarjuna University; MSc Andhra University; PhD IISER Mohali

Research Interests: Solid-state NMR; DNP; Quantum Sensing; Time-Dependent Quantum Mechanics;`Spin Dynamics

Mohammad Rehan, Research Associate Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: mr6829@nyu.edu
Education: BSc and MSc, Jamia Millia Islamia New Delhi, India; PhD IISER Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India

Research Interests: Design and synthesis of Covalent Organic framework

Mitchell Riley, Postdoctoral Associate Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: mitchell.v.riley@nyu.edu
Education: BA University of Queensland; MA Western University; PhD Wesleyan University

Research Interests: Homotopy Theory; Type Theory; Modal Logic

Pearl Rwauya, Scientific Data Analyst Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: pearl.rwauya@nyu.edu
Education: BS New York University, MS Computer Science University of York (Completing in 2025)

Research Interests: Environmental monitoring systems, IoT integration for climate research, data visualization and dashb...

Mostafa Saeed, Research Assistant Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: mms10094@nyu.edu
Education: BA University of Greenwich, UK / BA MSA University, Egypt

Research Interests: Arabic Natural Language Processing; Data Science; AI; Machine Learning; Deep Learning

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

Benedek Sarnyai, Research Assistant Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: bms9146@nyu.edu
Education: MSc Eötvös Loránd University

Research Interests: Survey Methodology; Mixed-Mode Survey Design; Causal Inference

Urs Schreiber, Research Scientist Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: us13@nyu.edu
Education: PhD from University Essen, Habilitation from Hamburg University, Germany

Research Interests: Theoretical Physics and Algebraic Topology

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

Tina Skorjanc, Global PhD Student Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: tina.skorjanc@nyu.edu
Education: BSc New York University

Research Interests: covalent organic polymers, covalent organic frameworks, pollutant removal, water purification

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)

Soja Soman, Research Scientist Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: soja.saghar@nyu.edu
Education: BV Sc and AH Kerala Agricultural University; MV Sc Indian Veterinary Research Institute; PhD Rajiv G...

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

Katepalli Sreenivasan, Principal Investigator Affiliation: NYU New York
Email: katepalli.sreenivasan@nyu.edu

Research Interests: Primary expertise: Fluid mechanics and turbulence. Other interests: complex fluids, nonlinear dynami...

Karthikeyan Subburayan, Research Scientist Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: ks188@nyu.edu
Education: MSc and PhD in Biochemistry, Annamalai University

Mehar Sultana, Research Associate Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: ms8783@nyu.edu
Education: BSc Osmania University India; MSc Kakatiya University India

Research Interests: Molecular Biology, Clinical Pathology and Microbiology

Ibrahim Tahir, Global PhD Fellow in Chemistry Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: imt243@nyu.edu
Education: BA, United Arab Emirates University (UAEU)

Research Interests: Material Science & Chemistry

Dima Taji, Research Assistant Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: dima.taji@nyu.edu
Education: BA, MA Birzeit University

Faisal T Thayyullathil , Senior Research Scientist Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: ftt1@nyu.edu
Education: MSc in Biotechnology, Periyar University; PhD, Acharya Nagarjuna

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

Sachin Valera, Postdoctoral Associate Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: sachin.valera@nyu.edu
Education: Math University of Durham; PhD University of Bergen

Research Interests: Quantum Information; Anyons; Category Theory; Quantum Topology

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

Manikandan Vinu, Research Associate Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: mv83@nyu.edu
Education: MSc Amrita University

Nian Xue, Research Assistant Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: nian.xue@nyu.edu
Education: BE Xi'an Jiaotong University; MRes University of Liverpool

Research Interests: Security; GPS; IoT; Machine Learning; Blockchain

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