NYU Around the World
Schools
- Arts and Science College of Arts and Science College of Dentistry College of Global Public Health Rory Meyers College of Nursing Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences Gallatin School of Individualized Study Graduate School of Arts and Science Institute of Fine Arts Institute for the Study of the Ancient World Leonard N. Stern School of Business Liberal Studies Program Robert F. Wagner Graduate School School of Law School of Medicine School of Professional Studies Silver School of Social Work Steinhardt School Tandon School of Engineering Tisch School of the Arts
Serendipity 2025
Overview
The 2025 edition of the Serendipity Research Program brought together faculty members from multiple campuses for an intensive interdisciplinary research retreat. The program focused on fostering new intellectual connections and generating collaborative research initiatives with long-term impact.
Date: January 16-17, 2026
Location: NYU Abu Dhabi
Research Projects
- The Good, the Bad, and the Undecided: Governance of Adversarial Abusive Agents in Multi-Agent Systems
- An alternative LLM architecture: Diffusion Large Language Models
- Characterizing the Values and Norms in Multi-Agent Human-AI Collaboration to Resolve Social Dilemma
- Optimizing Retail Ecosystems under Dynamic Adaptation
- Physics-informed machine learning for estimating climate impacts on hydrological systems
Participants
New York Campus
Assistant professor at the Department of Computer Science & Engineering at NYU Tandon
Assistant Professor, Technology Management and Innovation, NYU Tandon
Assistant Professor, Civil, Urban and Environmental Engineering, NYU Tandon
Associate Professor, Technology Management and Innovation, NYU Tandon
Assistant Professor, Technology Management and Innovation, NYU Tandon
Abu Dhabi Campus
Assistant Professor of Computer Science, NYU Abu Dhabi
Visiting Assistant Professor of Interactive Media, NYU Abu Dhabi
Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering (Affiliated), NYU Abu Dhabi
Associate Professor, Civil and Urban and Environmental Engineering, NYU Abu Dhabi
Program Head of Computer Engineering; Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, NYU Abu Dhabi
Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering, NYU Abu Dhabi
Assistant Professor of Social Research and Public Policy, NYU Abu Dhabi
Program Head of the Masters of Interdisciplinary Data Science and Artificial Intelligence; Associate Professor of Mathematics, NYU Abu Dhabi
Assistant Professor of Social Research and Public Policy and of Computational Social Science, NYU Abu Dhabi
Assistant Professor of Computer Science, NYU Abu Dhabi
Professor of Computer Engineering, NYU Abu Dhabi
Assistant Professor of Computer Engineering, NYU Abu Dhabi
Assistant Professor of Computer Engineering, NYU Abu Dhabi
Shanghai Campus
Area Head of Data Science, Associate Professor of Practice in Data Science, NYU Shanghai
Assistant Arts Professor of Interactive Media Arts (IMA), NYU Shanghai
Assistant Professor of Operations and Business Analytics, NYU Shanghai
Assistant Professor of Computer Science, NYU Shanghai
Assistant Professor of Interactive Media and Business (IMB), NYU Shanghai
Assistant Professor of Computer Science, NYU Shanghai
Assistant Professor of Urban Studies and Computer Science, NYU Shanghai
Senior Research Scientist, NYU Shanghai
Assistant Professor of Computer Science, NYU Shanghai