Director and Lead Principal Investigator

Monica Menendez
Associate Dean of Engineering for Graduate Affairs
Professor of Civil and Urban Engineering
📍 A1 – 1107
Principal Investigators
Staff

Adela Kovarova
Center coordinator
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Investigators

Borja García de Soto
Assistant Professor of civil and urban engineering
Assistant Professor of Civil and Urban Engineering
📍 C1S-167

Farah Emad Shamout
Assistant Professor/Emerging Scholar of Electrical and Computer Engineering
📍 A1-197

Michail Maniatakos
Associate Professor of Computer Engineering; Program Head of Computer Engineering
📍 A1 – 147

Surabhi Sharma
Program Head of Film and New Media
Associate Professor of Practice of Film and New Media
📍 A6- 163
NYU Global Network Professors and Researchers
Name | School/Program | Global Network |
Arvind Rajagopal, Co-Investigator | Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development | NYUNY |
Bruno Abrahao, Co-Investigator | Information Systems, and Business Analytics | NYUSH |
Dennis Shasha, Co-Investigator | Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences | NYUNY |
ChengHe Guan, Co-Investigator | Urban Science and Policy | NYUSH |
Joseph Chow, Co-Investigator | Tandon School of Engineering | NYUNY |
Kaan Ozbay, Co-Investigator | Tandon School of Engineering | NYUNY |
Masoud Ghandehari, Co-Investigator | Tandon School of Engineering | NYUNY |
Research Collaborators
- Felix Hardmood Beck, Prof. of Design, Münster School of Design
- Paul Wright, Senior Advisor, Accuracy, Dubai
Center Researchers
- Ghadeer Ghosheh, Research assistant
- Inderjeet Singh, Post-Doctoral Associate
- Jose Balsa-Barreiro, Research Associate
- Maryam Al Memari, Research Assistant
- Sarah Pardo, Research Assistant
- Simpreet Singh, Project Assistant
- Sungmin Sohn, Post-graduation Research Fellow
- Thomas Marlow, Post-Doctoral Associate
- Vince Nguyen, Post-graduation Research Fellow
- Wenqing Li, Post-Doctoral Associate
Student Assistantship positions
- Alejandro Mateo Castillo, Student Assistant
CITIES Alumni
- Aaqib Niaz, Student Assistant
- Aytek Jane, Engineer Designer
- Hashim Hayat, Research Assistant
- Joseph Hong, Student Assistant
- Ke Shi, Research Assistant
- Labeeba Begum, Research Assistant
- Marcela Godoy, Assistant Arts Professor of IMA, NYUSH
- Michael Bazot, Research 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
- Sara Alanis, Post-graduation Research Fellow
- Shan Muhammad Randhawa, Research Assistant
- William Wang, Student Assistant
- Zain Tariq, Research Assistant