People

Director and Lead Principal Investigator

Monica Menendez

Associate Dean of Engineering for Graduate Affairs

Professor of Civil and Urban Engineering
📍 A1 – 1107

Principal Investigators

Azza Abouzied

Associate Professor of Computer Science
📍 A1 – 1103

Kinga Reka Makovi

Assistant Professor of Social Research and Public Policy
📍 A5 – 1189

Saif Eddin Jabari

Associate Professor of Civil and Urban Engineering
📍 A11105

Staff

Adela Kovarova

Center coordinator
📍 A1-1102e

Investigators

Ali Diabat

Professor of Civil and Urban Engineering
📍 C1 166

Borja García de Soto

Assistant Professor of civil and urban engineering
📍 C1S-167

Djellel Difallah

Assistant Professor of Computer Science
📍 a1-185

Etienne Wasmer

Professor of Economics
📍 A5-159

Farah Emad Shamout

Assistant Professor of Computer Engineering
📍 A1-197

Jean Imbs

Professor of ECONOMICS
📍 A5 – 177

John Burt

Associate Professor of Biology
📍 C1 – 174

Kemal Celik

Assistant Professor of Civil and Urban Engineering
📍 C1 – 036

Michail Maniatakos

Associate Professor of Computer Engineering; Program Head of Computer Engineering
📍 A1147

Mohamad Eid

Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering
📍 A1 -189

Muhammad Shafique

Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
📍 A1 -173

Rana Khalid AlMutawa

Assistant Professor Emerging Scholar of Social Research and Public Policy

Sanjeev Goyal

Professor of Economics
📍 A5163

NYU Global Network Professors and Researchers

NameSchool/ProgramGlobal Network
Bruno Abrahao, Co-InvestigatorInformation Systems and Business AnalyticsNYUSH
Kaan Ozbay, Co-InvestigatorTandon School of EngineeringNYUNY

Center Researchers

  • Abdullah Kaya, Post-Doctoral Associate
  • Alejandro Guerra Manzanares, Post-Doctoral Associate
  • Basam Dahy, Post-Doctoral Associate
  • Cole Robert Beasley, Research Assistant
  • Hilina Bayew, Research Fellow
  • Inderjeet Singh, Research Associate
  • Jose Balsa-Barreiro, Research Associate 
  • Khiangte Chawngte Lalropuia, Post-Doctoral Associate
  • Maryam Al Memari, Research Assistant
  • Minda Belete, Research Assistant
  • Shahid Rabbani, Post-Doctoral Associate
  • Thomas Marlow, Post-Doctoral Associate
  • Vince Nguyen, Research Assistant
  • Yaman Garg, Post-graduation Research Fellow
  • Yue Wang, Post-Doctoral Associate
  • Wesam BaniHani, Post-Doctoral Associate

Student Assistantship positions

  • Aaron Marcus-Willers, Post-graduation Research Fellow
  • 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
  • Wenqing Li, Post-Doctoral Associate
  • William Wang, Student Assistant
  • Zain Tariq, Research Assistant