More Leadership Updates

Senior Vice Dean, NYU Tandon

Eray Aydil, formerly the Chair of the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, has been named the Senior Vice Dean for NYU Tandon going forward. As Senior Vice Dean, he will oversee, together with the other Vice Deans and the Tandon leadership team, the daily operations in the school.

Aydil, who joined NYU Tandon in 2018 as Alstadt Lord Mark Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, is an expert in electronic, optoelectronic, magnetic, and catalytic materials synthesis, and applies his work to sustainable solar-to-electric energy conversion using solar cells. His lab uses both vapor phase deposition and synthesis techniques, as well as colloidal synthesis to produce nanostructured materials, coatings, and thin films.

Chair, Department of Computer Science and Engineering

Martín Farach-Colton was appointed to chair the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, the largest department at NYU Tandon. Farach-Colton brings expertise in big data algorithmics, storage systems, data structures, and streaming algorithms. He held a distinguished professorship at Rutgers University before coming to Tandon. He was also a senior research scientist at Google from 2000 to 2002, and founded the data-storage company TokuTek in 2006, which was acquired in 2015.

His many honors include fellowships from the ACM, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, IEEE, and Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, and he has the distinction of being an elected member of Argentina’s Academia Nacional de Ciencias Exactas, Físicas y Naturales (National Academy of Exact, Physical and Natural Sciences). He was also the winner of the inaugural Simon Imre Test of Time Award at the 2012 Latin American Symposium on Theoretical Informatics, and won a distinguished paper award at the ACM International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS).

In his role as chair, Farach-Colton also holds the title of Leonard J. Shustek Professor of Computer Science.

Chair, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Ramesh Karri has been appointed to chair the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Karri became a faculty member here in 1998. With a focus on hardware cybersecurity, his research and educational endeavors encompass trustworthy ICs, processors, and cyber-physical systems; security-aware computer-aided design, test, verification, validation, and reliability; nano meets security; hardware security competitions, benchmarks, and metrics; biochip security; and additive manufacturing security.

Karri — widely considered a founding figure in hardware security — recently stepped down from his role leading the NYU Center for Cybersecurity after serving in that capacity since co-founding the center in 2009.

Interim Chair, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering

Rastislav Levicky has been named the interim Chair of the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering with Aydil’s promotion. A member of the faculty for nearly 20 years, Levicky helms the Biointerfacial and Diagnostics Lab, where his research focuses on biomolecules, how they
organize and function at interfaces, and how their behavior impacts biodiagnostics and other practical applications. In addition to his teaching and research, he also serves as the Speaker of the Faculty.

Co-Director, NYU Center for Cybersecurity

Professor of Computer Science and Engineering Damon McCoy has been appointed the new co-director of NYU Center for Cybersecurity (alongside Randy Milch, who is continuing his tenure), an interdisciplinary research institute that works across NYU. McCoy specializes in empirically measuring the security and privacy of technology systems and their societal impacts.