Muslim Faculty
Magued Iskander, Ph.D., PE, F.ASCE is a Professor and Chair of the Civil & Urban Engineering Department at the NYU Tandon School of Engineering. He was awarded a B.S. in Civil Engineering from Alexandria University and he earned his doctorate in Geotechnical Engineering from the University of Texas. He is a geotechnical engineering professor with more than 25 years of expertise in foundation analysis, design, and construction, as well as teaching, research, and consulting. He has been recognized as a pioneer in two geotechnical fields: modeling of soil-structure interaction and flow using transparent soil surrogates, and behavior of recycled polymer piling. He also did noteworthy work on pipe pile filling, non-destructive testing of drilled shafts, seismic earth pressure, and rigidly framed structure soil-structure interaction. In addition, he has written four books, edited 10 books, and published over 150 papers and reports, including over 80 peer-reviewed academic publications. Also, over $12 million in supported grants and contracts have been awarded to him as the Principal Investigator (PI) and Co-PI. He has also been the recipient of the National Science Foundation CAREER Award and five highly-regarded teaching awards (“Magued Iskander | NYU Tandon School of Engineering”). Dr. Iskander’s great accolades along with his passion for his work perfectly encapsulates the excellence with which the Muslim Faculty at Tandon operate.
Nasir Memon is a Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the New York University Tandon School of Engineering and Vice Dean for Academics and Student Affairs. He is an affiliate faculty member in the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences' Computer Science department and the department chair of NYU Tandon Online. Dr. Memon received his Bachelor’s in Engineering in Chemical Engineering and a Master’s in Engineering in Mathematics from the Birla Institute of Technology and Science in Pilani, India. He received his doctorate in computer science from the University of Nebraska. In 1999, he established cyber security studies at NYU Tandon, making it one of the first schools to do so at the undergraduate level. He is a co-founder of both NYU New York and NYU Abu Dhabi's Center for Cyber Security (CCS). He established the OSIRIS Lab, CSAW, the NYU Tandon Bridge program, and the NYU Cyber Fellows program. He has gotten several honors for excellent research and instructional excellence. He was the Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Information Security and Forensics and served on the editorial boards of other publications. For his contributions to image compression, media security, and forensics, he has been named an IEEE Fellow and an SPIE Fellow. Digital forensics, biometrics, data compression, network security, and human behavior are among his many research interests (“Nasir Memon | NYU Tandon School of Engineering”). Dr. Memon’s academic journey is intriguing because he is a pioneer in his field and has reached a position which he very much deserves considering his qualifications.
Masoud Ghandehari is a member of the NYU Tandon School of Engineering's Faculty of Civil and Urban Engineering and an associate professor at the NYU Center for Urban Science and Progress. He got his Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering and Applied Mechanics from Columbia University and he earned his Master of Science in Civil Engineering from McGill University. Finally, he earned his doctorate in Civil and Environmental Engineering from Northwestern University. His research interests are in urban systems engineering and the use of modern instrumentation and data analysis to target infrastructure systems' aging, health, and performance. He focuses on approaches that create data on the interplay of physical, natural, and human systems in cities using sensing and modeling. His work in optical spectroscopy, sensing, imaging, and data analytics has resulted in the creation of applications and technology that may be used in a variety of settings and sizes, from the molecular to the metropolitan landscape. Professor Ghandehari is the author of Optical Phenomenology and Applications: Health Monitoring for Infrastructure Materials and the Environment, published in 2018, as well as the creator of Chromosense LLC, which is funded by the National Institutes of Health for environmental sensing innovation (“Masoud Ghandehari | NYU Tandon School of Engineering”). Professor Gandehari not only is an innovator in academia but he is turning his research into real-world applications by founding his own ventures. The Muslim community in America is filled with this type of entrepreneurial spirit.
The Xenel Distinguished Professor of Engineering, former Chair of the Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, and former Director of the Institute of Transportation Studies at the University of California at Berkeley, Samer Madanat serves as the Dean of Engineering at NYU Abu Dhabi. He earned his Bachelor of Science from the University of Jordan and he earned his Master of Science and doctorate in transportation systems from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Madanat's research and teaching interests are in Transportation Infrastructure Management, with a focus on facility performance modeling, designing optimum management policies under uncertainty, and finding solutions for increasing transportation system sustainability. Transportation Science, Transportation Research (parts A, B, C, and E), the Journal of Transportation Engineering, the Journal of Infrastructure Systems, Computer-Aided Civil and Infrastructure Systems, and Environmental Research Letters are among his peer-reviewed publications. He has given keynote talks at academic conferences and has been asked to lecture at over 30 colleges and research institutions. Madanat was the Editor-in-Chief of the ASCE Journal of Infrastructure Systems from 2001 to 2010. He now serves on the editorial boards of Transportation Research C, Transportation Research D, Journal of Transport Policy, and Computer-Aided Civil and Infrastructure Systems. He has served on a number of advisory bodies, including the National Research Council, and as an external reviewer for the Civil Engineering departments at MIT and Tongji University. Several of his previous students and post-doctoral researchers are now professors at colleges around the United States and the world (“Samer Madanat | NYU Tandon School of Engineering”). Dr. Madanat has not only achieved academic and professional excellence in his career thus far, but he has also taken people under his wing and helped to launch them to excellence as well.