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Suspicious packages, medical procedures, body cells, players in a basketball game, the paths of motorized wheelchairs — all can be tracked with cameras and artificial intelligence in order to derive both insights and societal benefit. Supported by partners including Google, Stevens research clusters are performing innovative research in the exploding field of "computer vision."
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Stevens researcher Negar Tavassolian uses artificial intelligence and wearable sensors to safely image infants' heartbeats before they are born.
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The nation's power grid is aging, spurring a Stevens researcher to battle blackouts via data, modeling and intelligent power management.
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Stevens researchers work with MIT in an effort to teach machines to make better maps, on the fly, in places they've never been — informing the autonomous transportation of the future.
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A Stevens student-faculty project harnesses the strangeness of quantum properties for super-security.
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As climate warms, the world's oceans and lakes become more frequently oxygen starved, deadly to fisheries and susceptible to algal blooms. Stevens teams are testing new solutions.
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- Materials expert EH Yang was chosen as a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) in June, one of just 3,500 selected from among 88,000 U.S. members.
- Environmental engineering professor Dibyendu Sarkar was selected as a Fellow of the Soil Science Society of America, the highest recognition bestowed by the SSSA.
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RECENT AWARDS & PUBLICATIONS
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- Lei Wu received two awards, totaling $1.75 million, from the U.S. Department of Energy for research projects to model and optimize operations of pumped storage hydro units and cascading hydropower systems.
- Philip Orton received a shared $1.2 million award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to examine the influence of geomorphology and climate change on coastal flood risks. Researchers from the City University of New York, the University of Central Florida and Portland State University will collaborate.
- Sergul Aydore received an AWS Machine Learning Research Award from Amazon. The award will support the development of efficient machine learning algorithms to update forecasting models when observing new data sets.
- The NSF awarded Hongbin Li and Shucheng Yu $750,000 in August to investigate radar signals and wireless communications conducted on shared spectra.
- Igor Pikovski co-authored an article in Nature Communications with researchers from the University of Vienna and the University of Queensland on the superposition of massive objects in August, concluding that cause and effect may move bidirectionally.
- The university hosted the fifth annual Stevens Conference on Bacteria-Material Interactions in June. Participants included the FDA, Stanford University and the Hospital for Special Surgery.
- Stevens researcher Samantha Kleinberg secured an additional $2.3 million from NSF and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in a series of three awards. The support brings Kleinberg’s total funding on projects to leverage big data and enhance healthcare to $5.4 million to date.
- Susanne Wetzel received two awards totaling more than $220,000 from the Department of Defense in August to explore cybersecurity ethics and renew cybersecurity scholarships.
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