Faculty
NYU Abu Dhabi has a superb faculty based full-time in Abu Dhabi as well as affiliated faculty from across NYU’s campuses and visiting faculty from other outstanding universities. NYU Abu Dhabi’s 320+ faculty members from 45+ countries are scholars, scientists, and artists who are proven and innovative teachers as well as leaders of international standing in their fields.
Faculty Spotlight
Arts and Humanities
Aaron Sherwood
Courses taught: Introduction to IM, Decoding Nature, Live Coding, Sensors, Body and Motion, A.rt I.ntel
Maya Kesrouany
Courses taught: Introduction to Modern Arab Literature, Imagination, Inspiration, and Prophecy, The Hero, State of the Nation, Foundations of Literature II: Lyric Poetry and the Novel
Social Sciences
Aaron Kaufman
Courses Taught: Business and Technology, Data Analysis
May Al-Dabbagh
Courses Taught: Introduction to Public Policy, Women and Work in the Gulf, Making Women Matter: Case Studies from the GCC
Engineering
Hoda Al Khzaimi
Courses Taught: Research Seminar in Computer Science, Computer Security
Ozgur Sinanoglu
Courses Taught: Digital Logic, Advanced Digital Logic, Fundamentals of Discrete Math, Selected Topics in Information and Computational Systems
Sciences
Joseph Gelfand
Courses Taught: Life in the Universe, Electromagnetism and Special Relativity, Mechanics, General Relativity, X-Ray Astronomy Lab, Foundations of Science
Talal Rahwan
Courses Taught: Data Science, Computational Social Science