Faculty and Staff Directory

Maurizio Porfiri
Maurizio Porfiri
Civil and Urban Engineering Department Interim Chair; Institute Professor; Director of Center for Urban Science + Progress (CUSP); Director of the Urban Institute
  • Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
  • Biomedical Engineering
  • Civil and Urban Engineering
  • Center for Urban Science + Progress
mporfiri@nyu.edu
646.997.3681
Research Interests
Collective Behavior Complex Systems Network Science Theoretical Mechanics Urban Science
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Rafail Portnoy
Adjunct Faculty @TandonOnline; Chief Technology Officer @State of New York Metropolitan Transportaton Authority
  • Computer Science and Engineering
rp1912@nyu.edu
MS in Distributed Information Systems Engineering, 1998
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Elena Prassas
Associate Professor
  • Civil and Urban Engineering
eprassas@nyu.edu
646.997.3788
Research Interests
Pedestrian Safety Pedestrian Safety for individuals with disabilities Capacity Analysis Signalized Intersections Arterial Analysis and Planning Transportation Economics
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Mohammad Qasaimeh
Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Bioengineering; Global Network Associate Professor
  • Biomedical Engineering
  • Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
maq4@nyu.edu
Research Interests
Microfluidic and MEMS devices for biomedical applications, point of care diagnostics
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Hamed Rahmani
Assistant Professor
  • Electrical and Computer Engineering
  • NYU WIRELESS
  • Center for Advanced Technology in Telecommunications (CATT)
hamedrahmani@nyu.edu
646-997-3854
Research Interests
Integrated Circuits and Systems for Intelligent Sensing and Communication for emerging applications:

- RF/mm-Wave and THz circuits and applied Electromagnetics
- Low-Power Integrated Sensors and Systems for Biomedical and IoT Applications