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HONORS & AWARDS

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.
    Date 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
    Date received: March 2022
  • Awardee: Prof. Surabhi Sharma
    Award/recognition Promotion to Associate Professor of Practice of Film and New Media
    Date 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
    Date 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
    Date 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
    Date 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
    Date 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 
    Date received: August 2021
  • Awardee: Prof. Monica Menendez
    Award/Recognition: Promotion to Full Professor
    Date received: August 2021
  • Awardee: Prof. Saif Jabari
    Award/Recognition: Promotion to Associate Professor and Academic Tenure
    Date 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 
    Date received: May 2021
  • Awardee: Prof. Ali Diabat
    Award/Recognition: Members of the Mohammed Bin Rashed Academy of Scientists (MBRAS)
    Date received: May 2021
  • Awardee: Prof. Monica Menendez
    Award/Recognition: Members of the Mohammed Bin Rashed Academy of Scientists (MBRAS)
    Date received: May 2021
  • Awardee: Prof. John Burt
    Award/Recognition: Members of the Mohammed Bin Rashed Academy of Scientists (MBRAS)
    Date received: May 2021
  • Awardee: Prof. Azza Abouzied
    Award/Recognition: Promotion to Associate Professor and Academic Tenure
    Date received: Spring, 2021
  • Awardee: Prof. Kemal Celik & His Team
    Award/Recognition: ReThink Brine Challenge Milestone 1 Prize with CalMag team
    Date received: 2021
  • Awardee: Prof. Kemal Celik 
    Award/Recognition: Selected to the science committee of the Emirates Lunar Mission
    Date 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
    Date 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