People

Azza Abouzied, Associate Professor of Computer Science; Global Network Associate Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, Tandon School of Engineering Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: Azza@nyu.edu
Education: BSc, MSc Dalhousie University; MPhil, PhD, Yale University

Research Interests: Designing Intuitive Data Querying Tools

Riyadh Baghdadi, Assistant Professor of Computer Science; Global Network Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, Tandon School of Engineering Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: baghdadi@nyu.edu
Education: BA Ecole Superieure d’Informatique; MA Sorbonne University; PhD Sorbonne University; Postdoc MIT

Research Interests: Compilers, Programming Languages, Deep Learning, Artificial Intelligence, High Performance Computing

Djellel Difallah, Assistant Professor of Computer Science; Global Network Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: djellel@nyu.edu
Education: Dip. Eng. USTHB, Algeria; MS University of Louisiana Lafayette, USA; PhD University of Fribourg, CH

Research Interests: Crowdsourcing, Machine Learning, Knowledge Management & Discovery

Nizar Habash, Professor of Computer Science; Global Network Professor of Computer Science, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: nizar.habash@nyu.edu
Education: BS (Computer Engineering); BA (Linguistics and Languages) Old Dominion University; MS and PhD (Compu...

Research Interests: Artificial Intelligence, Natural Language Processing, Computational Linguistics, Arabic Language Pro...

Sarah Nadi, Associate Professor of Computer Science Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: sarah.nadi@nyu.edu
Education: BSc The American University in Cairo; MMath University of Waterloo; PhD University of Waterloo

Research Interests: Software engineering; empirical software engineering; mining software repositories

Christina Pöpper, Program Head of Computer Science; Associate Professor of Computer Science; Global Network Associate Professor of Computer Science, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: cp105@nyu.edu
Education: PhD and MSc (Diploma) ETH Zurich

Research Interests: Information and Communication Security

Talal Rahwan, Associate Professor of Computer Science; Global Network Associate Professor of Computer Science, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: talal.rahwan@nyu.edu
Education: BEng University of Aleppo; PhD Southampton University

Research Interests: Artificial Intelligence, Multi-Agent Systems, Cooperative Game Theory, Computational Social Science

Saurabh Ray, Associate Professor of Computer Science; Global Network Associate Professor of Computer Science, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: sr194@nyu.edu
Education: BTech Institute of Technology Guwahati; MCS, PhD Universität des Saarlandes

Research Interests: Algorithms, Computational Geometry, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning

Hanan Salam, Assistant Professor of Computer Science Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: hanan.salam@nyu.edu
Education: PhD CentraleSupélec

Research Interests: Human-Machine Interaction; Human-Robot Interaction; Artificial Intelligence for Mental Health; Bias ...

Yasir Zaki, Assistant Professor of Computer Science; Global Network Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: yz48@nyu.edu
Education: MSc University of Bremen; PhD University of Bremen

Research Interests: Communication Networks, Wireless Networks, Cellular Communication, Congestion Control Protocols

Mohamad Eid, Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: mae8@nyu.edu
Education: PhD University of Ottawa

Research Interests: haptics, multi-modal human computer interaction, gaming, biofeedback technologies

Yi Fang, Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering; Associate Professor of Computer Science (Affiliated) Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: yf23@nyu.edu
Education: PhD Purdue University

Research Interests: 3D Computer Vision, Multimedia Processing, Machine Learning, and Deep Learning

Sohmyung Ha, Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering and Bioengineering Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: sohmyung@nyu.edu
Education: PhD University of California San Diego

Research Interests: Biomedical circuits and sensors for implantable and wearable applications

Michail Maniatakos, Program Head of Computer Engineering; Associate Professor of Computer Engineering Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: mm6446@nyu.edu
Education: PhD Yale University

Research Interests: computer architecture, systems security

Mahmoud Rasras, Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: mr5098@nyu.edu
Education: PhD Catholic University of Leuven

Research Interests: Photonic components for next-generation optical and microwave photonic networks

Muhammad Shafique, Professor of Computer Engineering Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: muhammad.shafique@nyu.edu
Education: PhD Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany

Research Interests: Brain-inspired Computing, Embedded Machine Learning and AI, Energy-Efficient Computing, Robust Compu...

Ozgur Sinanoglu, Associate Dean for Faculty Development; Director, Center for Cyber Security; Professor of Computer Engineering Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: ozgursin@nyu.edu
Education: PhD University of California, San Diego

Research Interests: Hardware Security

Anthony Tzes, Program Head of Electrical Engineering; Professor of Electrical Engineering Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Email: anthony.tzes@nyu.edu
Education: PhD Ohio State University

Research Interests: Unmanned aerial vehicles, surgical robots, mechatronics, control engineering