Mayar Ariss

Born in Ohio, USA, to a Lebanese father and a Syrian mother, Mayar completed his secondary education in Paris, France. In 2018, he enrolled at École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) as an Environmental Sciences and Engineering student. In 2023, Mayar joined the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) as a visiting student and was appointed as a Research Fellow at the Dubai Future Labs . Later that year, he earned his MEng in Civil and Environmental Engineering from Imperial College London .

Mayar is currently a Research Fellow at MIT's Senseable City Lab , where he works on interdisciplinary projects at the intersection of urban informatics, environmental monitoring, and AI for infrastructure resilience.

Mayar is also part of the ICE , IET , Ri , and a permanent CEM YPN member of IUCN , where he is involved in the Urban and Mediterranean-type Ecosystems task forces.