Mohamed Zahran is a faculty member at the Computer Science Department at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at NYU. His research expertise spans several areas of computer architecture, including the architecture of heterogeneous systems, hardware/software interaction, and biologically inspired architectures. In addition to publishing many refereed papers with graduate and undergraduate students, Zahran introduced the first GPGPU course at NYU and his teaching materials are widely used beyond NYU.

Zahran received his PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Maryland at College Park. He is a senior member of the IEEE, a senior member of the ACM, and a member of the Sigma Xi scientific honor society.