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Masdar Institute Faculty

Since December of 2005, MIT has vetted nearly 5,000 faculty applications, resulting in the hiring of Masdar Institute faculty members listed below. Masdar Institute faculty have diverse backgrounds and received their PhDs from schools including: Rice University, University of Pittsburgh, Harvard University, Purdue University, University of Cambridge, UK, University of Waterloo, Canada, University of Porto, Portugal, and MIT.

Chemical Engineering

  1. Mohammad Abu Zahra
  2. Robert M. Baldwin
  3. Steve Griffiths
  4. Hector H. Hernandez
  5. Nidal Hilal
  6. Simo Pehkonen
  7. Mette Hedegaard Thomsen

Computing and Information Science

  1. Zeyar Aung
  2. Sid Chi-Kin Chau
  3. Jacob Crandall
  4. Khaled Elbassioni
  5. Andreas Henschel
  6. Iyad Rahwan
  7. Davor Svetinovic
  8. Wei Lee Woon

Electrical Power Engineering

  1. Mohamed El Moursi
  2. Vinod Khadkikar
  3. Jimmy Chih-Hsien Peng
  4. Weidong Michael Xiao
  5. Hatem Zeineldin

Engineering Systems and Management

  1. Afshin Afshari
  2. Yousef Al Hammadi
  3. Ali Diabat
  4. Samir Elhedhli
  5. Amro Farid
  6. Lamya Fawwaz
  7. Bruce Ferguson
  8. Abdulla Ibrahim Galadari
  9. Alejandro Rios Galvan
  10. Scott Kennedy
  11. Inas Khayal
  12. Toufic Mezher
  13. Mohammad A. Omar
  14. Sgouris Sgouridis
  15. I-Tsung Tsai
  16. Georgetta Vidican

Materials Science and Engineering

  1. Amal Al Ghaferi
  2. Ahmed Al Jaberi
  3. Matteo Chiesa
  4. Daniel Choi
  5. Mahieddine Emziane
  6. Adel Gougam
  7. Raed Hashaikeh
  8. Marwan Khraisheh
  9. Marco Stefancich

Mechanical Engineering

  1. Rashid K. Abu Al-Rub
  2. Peter Armstrong
  3. Isam Janajreh
  4. Mohamed Sassi
  5. Tariq Shamim
  6. Kumar Shanmugam
  7. Youssef Shatilla
  8. TieJun (TJ) Zhang

Microsystems Engineering

  1. Marcus Dahlem
  2. Clara Dimas
  3. Ibrahim Elfadel
  4. Anatoly Khilo
  5. Ammar Nayfeh
  6. Mahmoud Rasras
  7. Irfan Saadat
  8. Firas Sammoura
  9. Ayman Shabra
  10. Jaime Viegas
  11. Jerald Yoo

Water and Environmental Engineering

  1. Farrukh Ahmad
  2. Hassan Arafat
  3. Hassan E. S. Fath
  4. Hosni Ghedira
  5. Shadi Hasan
  6. Nidal Hilal
  7. Annalisa Molini
  8. Taha B.M.J. Ouarda
  9. Jorge Rodriguez
  10. Lina F. Yousef

Masdar Institute Students

Total enrollment spring 2012: 231 students
Number of Emirati students: 87
Percentage of women: 34
Percentage of men: 66
Forty-four different countries of origin

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