VIP Advisors
Meet the faculty who lead the teams!
Each VIP team is led by a faculty member in an area of their expertise. The VIP Advisors span across NYU Tandon and several other NYU schools, connecting students across disciplines as well.
NYU Tandon
Amine Mohamed Aboussalah
Industry Assistant Professor
S. Farokh Atashzar
Assistant Professor
Rakesh Behera
Industry Associate Professor
Barry Blecherman
Finance and Risk Engineering Deputy Department Chair; Industry Professor
Joseph Borowiec
Industry Professor; Undergraduate Academic Advisor
Justin Cappos
Associate Professor
Weiqiang Chen
Associate Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and Biomedical Engineering
Lawrence Chiarelli
Industry Professor
Ratan Dey
Industry Associate Professor
Chris DiMauro
Systems Administrator
Nicholas DiZinno
Industry Professor
Semiha Ergan
Associate Professor
Chen Feng
Assistant Professor
Siddharth Garg
Institute Associate Professor
Regine Gilbert
Industry Assistant Professor
Danya Glabau
Industry Assistant Professor; Director of Science and Technology Studies
Sven Haverkamp
Visiting Associate Professor
Danny Yuxing Huang
Assistant Professor
Amy Hurst
Associate Professor, Director of Ability Project
Weihua Jin
Industry Professor
Jin Ryoun Kim
Associate Professor
Debra Laefer
Full Professor
Rastislav Levicky
Speaker of the Faculty; Professor
Rui Li
Industry Assistant Professor
Giuseppe Loianno
Assistant Professor
Dũng (Dzung) Luong
Industry Associate Professor
Ingrid Paredes
Industry Assistant Professor, Director of General Engineering
Benedetta Piantella
Industry Associate Professor
Christopher Policastro
Industry Assistant Professor
Maurizio Porfiri
Institute Professor; Director of CUSP
Lauren Ptak
Chief Marketing Officer
Iskender Sahin
Industry Professor, Associate Chair, Director of MS Program
Jennifer Shin
Adjunct Professor
Andrea Silverman
Institute Associate Professor
Fred Strauss
Industry Professor
Julian Togelius
Associate Professor
James Um
Program Administrator, VIP/GE
Xin Wang
Industry Associate Professor
Tandon (Not Pictured)
- Rebecca Leopold, Adjunct Professor IDM
- Mark Milkis, Adjunct Professor of Civil and Urban Engineering
- Ron Pennella, Adjunct Professor of Civil and Urban Engineering
- Fabiana Ricci, Ph.D. student with Dynamical Systems Lab
- Hebah Emara, Librarian for Open Innovation at Bern Dibner Library
Connecting beyond Tandon
The VIP Program continues to expand its faculty from representation across NYU.
- NYU College of Arts and Sciences
- Ethan Youngerman, Senior Lecturer of Expository Writing Program
- NYU Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
- Ken Perlin, Professor of Computer Science
- NYU IT Research Technology
- Robert Pahle, Senior Research Scientist
- Sergey Samsonau, Artificial Intelligence Technical Lead
- Stratos Efstathiadis, Director, Research Technology Services / Co-Coordinator, Data Services
- NYU School of Global Public Health
- Chris Dickey, Clinical Associate Professor of Global Health
- NYU Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development
- Kayla DesPortes, Assistant Professor of Human-Computer Interactions
- Marygrace Berberian, Clinical Assistant Professor of Art Therapy
- NYU Shanghai
- Noel Joyce, Clinical Instructor of IMB
- NYU Langone
- JohnRoss Rizzo, MD, Associate Professor, Department of Neurology
- NYU Tisch
- Phil Caridi, Manager, MakerSpace Lab
Contact the VIP Manager, Maria DiKun (maria.dikun@nyu.edu), to connect with the VIP Program.