Director and Lead Principal Investigator
Monica Menendez
Associate Dean of Engineering for Graduate Affairs
Professor of Civil and Urban Engineering
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Principal Investigators
Staff
Adela Kovarova
Center coordinator
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Investigators
Michail Maniatakos
Associate Professor of Computer Engineering; Program Head of Computer Engineering
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Rana Khalid AlMutawa
Assistant Professor Emerging Scholar of Social Research and Public Policy
NYU Global Network Professors and Researchers
| Name | School/Program | Global Network |
| Bruno Abrahao, Co-Investigator | Information Systems and Business Analytics | NYUSH |
| Kaan Ozbay, Co-Investigator | Tandon School of Engineering | NYUNY |
Center Researchers
- Aaron Marcus-Willers, Post-graduation Research Fellow
- Alejandro Guerra Manzanares, Post-Doctoral Associate
- Areg Karapetyan, Post-Doctoral Associate
- Basam Dahy, Post-Doctoral Associate
- Inderjeet Singh, Research Associate
- Jose Balsa-Barreiro, Research Associate
- Khiangte Chawngte Lalropuia, Post-Doctoral Associate
- Maryam Al Memari, Research Assistant
- Thomas Marlow, Post-Doctoral Associate
- Vince Nguyen, Research Assistant
- Yaman Garg, Post-graduation Research Fellow
- Wenqing Li, Post-Doctoral Associate
- Wesam BaniHani, Post-Doctoral Associate
Student Assistantship positions
- Avani Tiwari, Student Assistant
- Abdul Rafay, Student Assistant
- Jennifer Zheng, Student Assistant
- Kian Andrew S. Busico, Student Assistant
- Min Jie Kim, Student Assistant
- Prince Ampofo, Student Assistant
- Rania Sakhi, Student Assistant
- Sarhana Adhikari, Student Assistant
CITIES Alumni
- Aaqib Niaz, Student Assistant
- Alejandro Mateo Castillo, Student Assistant
- Arvind Rajagopal, Co-Investigator
- Aytek Jane, Engineer Designer
- ChengHe Guan, Co-Investigator
- Christina Popper, Co-Investigator
- Dennis Shasha, Co-Investigator, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences NYUNY
- Felix Hardmood Beck, Prof. of Design, Münster School of Design
- Ghadeer Ghosheh, Research assistant
- Hashim Hayat, Research Assistant
- Joseph Chow, Co-Investigator
- Joseph Hong, Student Assistant
- Ke Shi, Research Assistant
- Labeeba Begum, Research Assistant
- Masoud Ghandehari, Prof. of Urban Systems Engineering, NYUNY
- Marcela Godoy, Assistant Arts Professor of IMA, NYUSH
- Michael Bazot, Research Associate
- Nabil Kenan, Post-Doctoral Associate
- Pablo Ignacio Hernandez-Lagos, Associate Professor of Economics
- Prajna Soni, Post-graduation Research Fellow
- Qipeng Zheng, Research Scientist
- Robert Seamans, Co-Investigator, Stern School of Business
- Sai Venkata Ramana Ambadipudi, Post-Doctoral Associate
- Sara Alanis, Post-graduation Research Fellow
- Sarah Pardo, Research Assistant
- Shan Muhammad Randhawa, Research Assistant
- Simpreet Singh, Project Assistant
- Sungmin Sohn, Post-graduation Research Fellow
- Surabhi Sharma, Co-Investigator
- William Wang, Student Assistant
- Zain Tariq, Research Assistant