Saif Jabari is a Global Network Associate Professor of Civil and Urban Engineering at New York University.  His research interests center on theoretical aspects of traffic flow, specifically topics related to modeling uncertainty and emergent phenomena. The applications focus on traffic operations problems, including traffic state estimation and prediction, distributed traffic control, and cybersecurity.

Prior to joining NYUAD, Jabari was a Post-Doctoral Researcher in the Mathematical Sciences and Analytics Department at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, NY.  Jabari received his Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities in 2012 and his B.Sc. degree in Civil Engineering from in the University of Jordan in 2001.