Summary of scientific and cultural recognitions received by the PI(s), Co-PIs, and center researchers.
2023
- Awardee: Dr. Basam Dahy
Award/Recognition: First place in the Best Ph.D. Dissertation category for basic and applied sciences in the subject of climate change and its impact on the Arab World by the Association of Arab Universities (AArU) for 2022.
Date received: February 2023
2022
- Awardee: Prof. Muhammad Shafique
Award/Recognition: Recognition of a member of the ACM TODEAS Distinguished Review Board
Date received: December 2022 - Awardee: Prof. Azza Abouzied
Award/Recognition: Award for the ongoing support and commitment to the Epidemiology Sub-Committee “Abu Dhabi Research Committee of Covid-19” by Abu Dhabi Public Health Centre
Date received: October 2022 - Awardee: Prof. Muhammad Shafique
Award/recognition: IEEE/ACM DAC 2022 paper “SoftSNN: Low-Cost Fault Tolerance for Spiking Neural Network Accelerators under Soft Errors” has been selected for Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Showcase on Kudos
Date received: September 2022 - Awardee: Prof. Muhammad Shafique
Award/Recognition: Promotion to Full Professor
Date received: September 2022 - Awardee: Prof. John Burt
Award/Recognition: NYUAD Transformative Research Award
Date received: May 2022 - Awardee: Prof. Kinga R. Makovi
Award/Recognition: NYUAD Award for Teaching ExcellenceDate received: May 2022 - Awardee: Prof. Muhammad Shafique
Award/Recognition: Recognition of the 2022 AI 2000 Most Influential Scholar Award for outstanding and vibrant contributions to the field of Chip Technology
Date received: April 2022 - Awardee: SaadiyaTech (Formally Green Arabia Team of Students – Sponsored by CITIES)
Award/Recognition: Best Environmental Impact prize at the Shell-INJAZ Youth for Sustainability competition hosted by the Expo Dubai Dutch Pavilion.
Data received: March 2022 - Awardee: Prof. Farah Shamout & NYUAD Student Phillip Wang (CITIES & Cranmore Partners Project)
Award/recognition: The research on the “Development and evaluation of a prediction model to predict positive urine cultures in the outpatient setting and minimize the use of antibiotics” was selected as one of the best abstracts and offered a podium presentation at the Faculty of Clinical Informatics Conference
Data received: March 2022 - Awardee: Prof. Surabhi Sharma
Award/recognition Promotion to Associate Professor of Practice of Film and New Media
Data received: February 2022 - Awardee: Prof. Muhammad Shafique
Award/Recognition: Future Internet Journal 2022 Best Paper Award for the paper “An Updated Survey of Efficient Architectures for Accelerating Deep Neural Networks,” in Future Internet, vol. 12, issue 7, 2020.
Date received: 2022
2021
- Awardee: Prof. Monica Menendez
Award/Recognition: Featured as one of the UAE “20 Dreamers of Today” at the “Land of Dreamers Who Do” theme, Expo 2020, UAE Pavillion
Date received: November 2021
- Awardee: Prof. Kemal Celik
Award/Recognition: Featured as one of the UAE “20 Dreamers of Today” at the “Land of Dreamers Who Do” theme, Expo 2020, UAE Pavillion
Date received: November 2021
- Awardee: Post-Doc. Nabil Kenan
Award/recognition: Golden Visa
Date Received: October 2021
- Awardee: Prof. Saif Jabari
Award/Recognition: Meritorious Service Award – Transportation Science at INFORMS
Data received: October 2021
- Awardee: Anel Orazgaliyeva with advisors Profs. Andras Gyorgy & Monica Menendez
Award/Recognition: Global Undergraduate Awards, Africa & Middle East Regional Winner for Engineering
Data received: September 2021
- Awardee: Prof. Jabari’s Mobility Team at NYUAD: Bilal Thonnam Thodi & Chuhan Yang
Award/Recognition: Regional Award for Engineering
Description: The team developed a series of analytics for taxi data in Dubai. Bilal Thonnam Thodi also won an internship opportunity with Accord Business Group through the competition
Data received: September 2021
- Awardee: Architects Wael Al Awar, Kenichi Teramoto & NYUAD Engineers Prof. Kemal Celik (CITIES Investigator), Rotana Hay, and Inderjeet Singh (CITIES Postdoctoral Associate)
Award/Recognition: UAE Pavilion Wins Prestigious Golden Lion Award at Venice Architecture Biennale
Description: Prof. Kemal Celik’s team developed a sustainable, waste-using, durable, and energy-saving alternative to cement used in the installation
Data received: September 2021
- Awardee: Prof. John Burt
Award/Recognition: Chair of the ‘Science in the Media’ committee, with the goal of enhancing the visibility of research in the Emirates
Date Received: September 2021 - Awardee: Prof. Ali Diabat
Award/Recognition: Academic Tenure
Data received: August 2021
- Awardee: Prof. Monica Menendez
Award/Recognition: Promotion to Full Professor
Data received: August 2021
- Awardee: Prof. Saif Jabari
Award/Recognition: Promotion to Associate Professor and Academic Tenure
Data received: August 2021
- Awardee: Prof. Monica Menendez
Award/Recognition: NYUAD Distinguished Research Award
Description: This distinguished research award is in recognition of prof. Menendez’s transformative and highly prolific research, creative accomplishments, and profound and dedicated excellence in embodying the values and mission of NYUAD
Data received: May 2021
- Awardee: Prof. Ali Diabat
Award/Recognition: Members of the Mohammed Bin Rashed Academy of Scientists (MBRAS)
Data received: May 2021
- Awardee: Prof. Monica Menendez
Award/Recognition: Members of the Mohammed Bin Rashed Academy of Scientists (MBRAS)
Data received: May 2021
- Awardee: Prof. John Burt
Award/Recognition: Members of the Mohammed Bin Rashed Academy of Scientists (MBRAS)
Data received: May 2021
- Awardee: Prof. Azza Abouzied
Award/Recognition: Promotion to Associate Professor and Academic Tenure
Data received: Spring, 2021
- Awardee: Prof. Kemal Celik & His Team
Award/Recognition: ReThink Brine Challenge Milestone 1 Prize with CalMag team
Data received: 2021
- Awardee: Prof. Kemal Celik
Award/Recognition: Selected to the science committee of the Emirates Lunar Mission
Data received: 2021
- Awardee: Prof. Muhammad Shafique
Award/Recognition: ASPIRE Award for Research Excellence (AARE) by the ASPIRE under Advanced Technology Research Council (ATRC), Abu Dhabi, UAE
Date received: 2021
- Awardee: Prof. Muhammad Shafique
Award/Recognition: Faculty Honors list, New York University
Date received: 2021
- Awardee: Prof. Muhammad Shafique
Award/Recognition: DATE 2021 Best Paper Award Nomination in the T-Track for the paper “DNN-Life: An Energy-Efficient Aging Mitigation Framework for Improving the Lifetime of On-Chip Weight Memories in Deep Neural Network Hardware Architectures.”
Date received: 2021
2020
- Awardee: CalMag Team (Celik, K.)
Awarding organization: ReThink Brine Challenge by Sandooq al Watan
Date Received: Nov 15, 2020
- Awardee: Prof. Ali Diabat
Award/Recognition: UAE Golden Visa for his academic excellence
Date Received: Sept 23, 2020
- Awardee: Prof. Monica Menendez, Alexander Genser, Lukas Ambühl, Kaidi Yang, Anastasios Kouvelas
Award/Recognition: IEEE ITSC 2nd Best Student Paper Award
Date Received: September 2020
- Awardee: Prof. Saif Jabari
Award/Recognition: Senior member of IEEE
Data received: November 2020
- Awardee: Prof. Kinga Makovi
Award/Recognition: Best article in Volume 43- Social Science History Association
Date Received: November 2020
- Awardee: Prof. Monica Menendez
Award/Recognition: Co-chair of the Committee on Intelligent Transport – World Conference on Transport Research Society (WCTRS)
Date Received: Spring 2020