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
Rakesh Behera
Industry Associate Professor
Barry Blecherman
Vice Department Chair, Finance and Risk Engineering; Industry Professor
Joseph Borowiec
Industry Professor; MAE Undergraduate Curriculum Director; Undergraduate Academic Advisor
Justin Cappos
Professor
Weiqiang Chen
Professor of Mechanical and Biomedical Engineering; Director of Research and PhD Programs
Lawrence Chiarelli
Director of Construction Management Programs, Industry Professor; Director of the IDC Innovation Hub
Ratan Dey
Industry Associate Professor
Chris DiMauro
Systems Administrator
Nicholas DiZinno
Industry Professor
Semiha Ergan
Associate Professor
Chen Feng
Institute Associate Professor
Siddharth Garg
Institute Associate Professor
Regine Gilbert
Industry Assistant Professor; James Weldon Johnson Professor
Danya Glabau
Industry Assistant Professor; Director, Science and Technology Studies minor; Director, Feminism and STEM minor; Director, Ethics and Technology curriculum; Affiliated Faculty, Department of Anthropology
Sven Haverkamp
Industry 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
Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Interim Chair; Speaker of the Faculty; Professor
Rui Li
Industry Assistant Professor
Giuseppe Loianno
Associate Professor
Dũng (Dzung) Luong
Industry Associate Professor
Ingrid Paredes
Industry Assistant Professor, Director of General Engineering
Christopher Policastro
Industry Assistant Professor
Maurizio Porfiri
Institute Professor; Director of Center for Urban Science + Progress (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
Julian Togelius
Associate Professor
Xin Wang
Industry Associate Professor
Tandon (Not Pictured)
- Rebecca Leopold, Adjunct Professor IDM
- Mark Milkis, 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
- 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.