Study Away Research Opportunities - Fall 2025
Research Across NYU’s Global Network – New York | Abu Dhabi | Shanghai
Are you studying away at NYU New York, Abu Dhabi, or Shanghai in Fall 2025? Elevate your academic experience with the Serendipity Undergraduate Research Fellowship! Work on cutting-edge research projects alongside leading faculty from NYU’s global campuses.
Eligibility
- Open to undergraduate students studying away at NYU New York, Abu Dhabi, or Shanghai in Fall 2025
- A background in related fields is preferred but not required.
How to Apply
- To apply, please email your CV and a statement of interest to serendipity.fellows@nyu.edu. Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis, so early submission is encouraged.
Research Projects & Faculty Mentors
Learning the Hughes Model Using Neural Operators
NYU Abu Dhabi & NYU Shanghai
Saif Eddin Jabari, Mathieu Laurière
Exploring neural operators to improve pedestrian crowd modeling.
Optimal Clean Transportation Networks for Cities
- NYU New York, Abu Dhabi & Shanghai
- Zhibin Chen, Dharik Mallapragada, Miguel Modestino, Muhammad Shafique, Zhaonan Wang
AI-powered solutions for sustainable urban transportation.
Adaptive AI for Predicting Urban Dynamics under Climate Change
- NYU New York, Abu Dhabi & Shanghai
- Zhibin Chen, ChengHe Guan, Saif Eddin Jabari, Zhaonan Wang, Takahiro Yabe
Developing AI models to analyze urban dynamics & improve city resilience.
Mechanism Design for Climate Finance: Machine Learning & Game-Theoretic Approach
- NYU New York & Shanghai
- Mathieu Laurière, Yuki Miura, Eugene Vinitsky, Renyuan Xu
Applying AI & game theory to support global climate finance initiatives.
LoVURe: Long Video Understanding & Reasoning for Robot-Assisted Industries
- NYU New York, Abu Dhabi & Shanghai
- Yi Fang, Chen Feng, Li Guo, Saif Eddin Jabari, Hanan Salam, Muhammad Shafique, Farah Shamout, Qi Sun, Qiaoyu Tan, Shengjie Wang, Gene Wen, Hongyi Wen, Jing Zhang, Sai Qian Zhang
Advancing AI for video analysis in manufacturing, healthcare & education.
LLMs for Coding
- NYU New York, Abu Dhabi & Shanghai
- Siddharth Garg, Ramesh Karri, Riyadh Baghdadi, Hanan Salam, Muhammad Shafique, Yasir Zaki, Wilson Tam, Gene Wen, Chen Zhao
Unified Trustworthy Multimodal Foundation Model for Radiology
- NYU New York, Abu Dhabi & Shanghai
- Chinmay Hegde, Farah Shamout, Chen Zhao
About Serendipity
Launched in December 2024, the Serendipity Research Confluence is an interdisciplinary initiative that connects faculty across NYU’s global campuses in New York, Abu Dhabi and Shanghai to explore emerging topics in artificial intelligence and machine learning. The inaugural event took place at NYU Abu Dhabi and brought together more than 40 professors for two days of focused discussions on subjects such as large language models, code generation, climate change, computational sociology and urban health.
To learn more about the inaugural event, read the full news story here.