People
The faculty members of the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering are helping the world move. Learn more about what moves them.
Core Faculty
Richard Thorsen
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department Chair; Vice President Emeritus
Dora Angelaki
Professor
S. Farokh Atashzar
Assistant Professor
Kurt Becker
Vice Dean, Research, Innovation and Entrepreneurship
Rakesh Behera
Industry Assistant Professor
Joseph Borowiec
Industry Professor
Weiqiang Chen
Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering; Associate Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Nicholas DiZinno
Industry Associate Professor
Chen Feng
Assistant Professor
Nikhil Gupta
Professor
Vikram Kapila
Director for Ph.D. Student Development; Professor
Joo H. Kim
Associate Professor
Sunil Kumar
Professor
Sanghoon Lee
Industry Associate Professor; Undergraduate Acamedic Advisor
Giuseppe Loianno
Assistant Professor
Dũng (Dzung) Luong
Industry Assistant Professor
Said Nourbakhsh
Professor
Maurizio Porfiri
Institute Professor
Ludovic Righetti
Associate Professor
Iskender Sahin
Industry Professor, Associate Chair
Katepalli Sreenivasan
Dean Emeritus of NYU Tandon School of Engineering; The Eugene Kleiner Professor for Innovation in Mechanical Engineering; Professor of Physics (Faculty of Arts and Science); Mathematics (Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences)
George Vradis
Associate Professor
Global Network Faculty
Mohammed Daqaq
Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at NYU Abu Dhabi and Global Network Associate Professor
Mohammad Qasaimeh
Assistant Professor of Mechanical and Biomedical Engineering at NYU Abu Dhabi and Global Network Assistant Professor
Jeremy Teo
Assistant Professor of Biomedical and Mechanical Engineering
Research Faculty
Vittoria Flamini
Visiting Research Professor
Prabodh Panindre
Senior Research Scientist & Faculty
Affiliated Faculty
Paulo Coelho
Professor of Mechanical Engineering; Leonard I. Linkow Professor Biomaterials, NYU College of Dentistry Hansjörg Wyss Department of Plastic Surgery, NYU School of Medicine
Salvatore Grimaldi
Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Associate Professor at Universita degli Studi della Tuscia, Italy
John-Ross Rizzo
Assistant Professor of Rehabilitation Medicine, Neurology, Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, and Biomedical Engineering
Michael J. Shelley
Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Professor at the Courant Institute
Yong-Ak (Rafael) Song
Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering at NYU Abu Dhabi
Peter Walker
Research Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Research Professor at New York University Hospital for Joint Diseases
Emeritus Faculty
Philip Abrami
Professor Emeritus
Vito D. Agosta
Professor Emeritus
William B. Blesser
Professor Emeritus
Irving B. Cadoff
Professor Emeritus
Louis Castleman
Professor Emeritus
Carmine D’Antonio
Professor Emeritus
Jerome M. Klosner
Professor Emeritus
Harold Margolin
Professor Emeritus
William R. McShane
Professor Emeritus
Gino Moretti
Professor Emeritus
William P. Vafakos
Professor Emeritus
Sung Whang
Professor Emeritus
