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

Award/Recognition: Co-chair of the Committee on Intelligent Transport – World Conference on Transport Research Society (WCTRS)
Date Received: Spring 2020

Award/Recognition: Best article in Volume 43- Social Science History Association
Date Received: November 2020

Award/Recognition: Senior member of IEEE
Date received: November 2020

Award/Recognition: UAE Golden Visa for his academic excellence
Date Received: Sept 23, 2020

Awarding organization: ReThink Brine Challenge by Sandooq al Watan
Date Received: Nov 15, 2020

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

Award/Recognition: Faculty Honors list, New York University
Date received: 2021

Award/Recognition: ASPIRE Award for Research Excellence (AARE) by the ASPIRE under Advanced Technology Research Council (ATRC), Abu Dhabi, UAE
Date received: 2021

Award/Recognition: Selected to the science committee of the Emirates Lunar Mission
Date received: 2021

Award/Recognition: ReThink Brine Challenge Milestone 1 Prize with CalMag team
Date received: 2021

Award/Recognition: Promotion to Associate Professor and Academic Tenure
Date received: Spring, 2021

Award/Recognition: Members of the Mohammed Bin Rashed Academy of Scientists (MBRAS)
Date received: May 2021

Award/Recognition: Members of the Mohammed Bin Rashed Academy of Scientists (MBRAS)
Date received: May 2021

Award/Recognition: Members of the Mohammed Bin Rashed Academy of Scientists (MBRAS)
Date received: May 2021

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

Award/Recognition: Promotion to Associate Professor and Academic Tenure
Date received: August 2021

Award/Recognition: Promotion to Full Professor
Date received: August 2021

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

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

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

Award/Recognition: Promotion to Full Professor
Date received: September 2022

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

Award/Recognition: IEEE ITSC 2nd Best Student Paper Award
Date Received: September 2020

Award/Recognition: IEEE ITSC 2nd Best Student Paper Award
Date Received: September 2020

Award/Recognition: IEEE ITSC 2nd Best Student Paper Award
Date Received: September 2020

Award/Recognition: Academic Tenure
Date received: August 2021

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

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

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

Award/Recognition: IEEE ITSC 2nd Best Student Paper Award
Date Received: September 2020

Award/Recognition: Meritorious Service Award – Transportation Science at INFORMS
Date received: October 2021

Award/Recognition: Global Undergraduate Awards, Africa & Middle East Regional Winner for Engineering
Date received: September 2021

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

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

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

Award/recognition: Golden Visa
Date Received: October 2021

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

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

Award/recognition Promotion to Associate Professor of Practice of Film and New Media
Date received: February 2022

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

Award/Recognition: NYUAD Award for Teaching ExcellenceDate received: May 2022

Award/Recognition: NYUAD Transformative Research Award
Date received: May 2022

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