Selected Faculty Honors and Achievements

Muhammad Hajj, Civil, Environmental & Ocean Engineering (SES) and director of Davidson Lab, was awarded a grant of $4.94 million by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey for high-resolution, cloud-based flood prediction. He shares the award with co-principal investigators Raju Datla, Jon Miller, Philip Orton, Reza Marsooli and David Runnels.

Adeniyi Lawal has been appointed chair of the Department of Chemical Engineering & Materials Science (SES).

Brendan Englot and Nick Parziale, Mechanical Engineering (SES), are both recipients of 2020 Young Investigator Awards from the Office of Naval Research.

Antonia Zaferiou, Biomedical Engineering (SES), received an $822,200 NSF CAREER Award for her project, Adaptive Sonification to Improve Balance During Everyday Mobility.

Damiano Zanotto, Mechanical Engineering (SES), received a $597,471 NSF CAREER Award to fund research on Reinforcement-Learning Assist-As-Needed Control for Robot-Assisted Gait Training.

Paul Grogan (SSE), won a $500,000 NSF CAREER Award for his project, Understanding Strategic Dynamics in the Engineering of Decentralized Systems.

Yi Bao, Civil Engineering (SES), was awarded the Structural and Bridge Engineering International Research Fellowship from AP&P Alessio Pipinato & Partners.

Dibyendu Sarkar, Civil, Environmental & Ocean Engineering (SES), was appointed to the Advisory Council of the Association for Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education (AASHE) for a two-year term.

Theresa MacPhail (CAL), was interviewed about the U.S. coronavirus response by a number of news outlets, including Anderson Cooper's CNN program.

Largest New Research Awards, November 2019 - March 2020

• March 18: Koduvayur Subbalakshmi (SERC) – Department of Defense, Office of the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Systems Engineering, $249,957 – WRT-1017: Keyphrase Extraction Using Language Embeddings - Phase I & Phase II
• March 11: Thomas McDermott (SERC) – Department of Defense, Army Combat Capabilities Development Command, $1,753,730 – ART 016: Integrated Mission Equipment (IME) Architecture Process for Vertical Lift Systems
• March 6: Hady Salloum (SERC) – Department of Defense, Office of the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Systems Engineering, $259,293 – WRT-1024: Improved Test Data Analysis Methods to Characterize Counter-Unmanned Aerial System (CUAS) Performance
• March 1: Svetlana Malinovskaya, Physics (SES) – Department of Defense, Office of Naval Research, $375,000 – Quantum-Enhanced FAST CARS for Remote Detection Using a Multistatic Platform
• February 14: Dinesh Verma (SERC) – Department of Defense, Office of the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Systems Engineering, $422,750 – WRT-1019: Adaptive Cyber-Physical-Human Systems Testbed
• January 29: Zhuo Feng, Electrical and Computer Engineering (SES) – National Science Foundation, $181,823 – Sparsification of Graph Laplacians and Integrated Circuits
• January 27: Raju Datla, Davidson Laboratory (SES) – U.S. Coast Guard, $226,254 – Experimental Hydrodynamic Investigation of Hull Flow, Resistance and Powering of a USCG Waterways Commerce Cutter (WCC) Concept Design
• January 10: Shang Wang, Biomedical Engineering (SES) – National Institutes of Health, $602,027 – In-Vivo Imaging Platform for Ectopic Pregnancy Research in Mouse Models
• January 6: Hady Salloum, STAR Center (SES) – Department of Homeland Security, $54,730 – Subject Matter Expertise in Maritime Surveillance
• January 2: Philippos Mordohai, Computer Science (SES) – Department of Energy, $163,354 – SBIR Phase II: Hypertunnel – A MR/VR Remote Collaboration System
• December 30: Steve Yang (SB) – Securities and Exchange Commission, $275,898 – IPA Application
• November 26: Lei Wu, Electrical and Computer Engineering (SES) – Midcontinent Independent System Operator, Inc. (MISO), $90,000 – Future Resources
• November 16: Hang Liu, Electrical and Computer Engineering (SES) – Department of Energy, $80,000 – Graphic Processing Unit (GPU) Based Parallel Symbolic Factorization for SuperLUDIST
• November 14: Yuping Huang, Physics (SES) – Department of Defense, Army Combat Capabilities Command, $1,184,946 – ART 014: Quantum Photonics Tasks for Research

Tenure-Stream Faculty

• Jeffrey Thompson, Assistant Professor (CAL) – promotion to Associate Professor and award of tenure
• Theodoros Lappas, Assistant Professor (SB) – promotion to Associate Professor and award of tenure
• Chihoon Lee, Associate Professor (SB) – award of tenure
• Brendan Englot, Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering (SES) – promotion to Associate Professor and award of tenure
• Stephanie Lee, Assistant Professor, Chemical Engineering and Materials Science (SES) – promotion to Associate Professor and award of tenure
• Philippos Mordohai, Associate Professor, Computer Science (SES) – promotion to Professor
• Nicholaus Parziale, Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering (SES) – promotion to Associate Professor and award of tenure
• Xiaojun Yu, Associate Professor, Biomedical Engineering (SES) – promotion to Professor

Non-Tenure-Stream Faculty

• Aysegul Durakoglu, Teaching Associate Professor (CAL) – promotion to Teaching Professor
• Robert Harari, Teaching Associate Professor (CAL) – promotion to Teaching Professor
• Christopher Asakiewicz, Teaching Associate Professor (SB) – promotion to Teaching Professor
• Peter Dominick, Teaching Associate Professor (SB) – promotion to Teaching Professor
• Donald Lombardi, Teaching Associate Professor (SB) – promotion to Teaching Professor
• Richard Anderson, Teaching Assistant Professor (SB) – promotion to Teaching Associate Professor
• El-Sayed Aziz, Teaching Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering (SES) – promotion to Teaching Associate Professor
• Kevin Connington, Teaching Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering (SES) – promotion to Teaching Associate Professor
• Alexander De Rosa, Teaching Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering (SES) – promotion to Teaching Associate Professor

December 2, 2019 through April 13, 2020

NEW HIRES AND JOB CHANGES

Charles V. Schaefer Jr., School of Engineering & Science

• Rupak Chatterjee, Lecturer, Physics
• Jiayang Chen, Post-Doctoral Researcher, Physics
• Robert Gonzales, Jr., Director of Operations and Administration
• Amy Gulyas, Academic Advisor, Biomedical Engineering
• Abdul Rafae Khan, Post-Doctoral Fellow, Computer Science
• Xueqing Liu, Assistant Professor, Computer Science
• Sarah Mira, Contracts and Grants Specialist, Civil, Environmental & Ocean Engineering
• Elizabeth O’Connell, Academic Advisor, Civil, Environmental & Ocean Engineering
• Louis Oh, Engineering Laboratory Manager, SES Core Education
• Aymeric Philippe Andre Pionteck, Post-Doctoral Fellow, Mechanical Engineering
• Chunlei Qu, Assistant Professor, Physics
• Lisa Quigley, Communications Coordinator
• David Runnels, Information Technology Manager, Davidson Laboratory
• Amalia Terracciano, Staff Research Scientist, CEED Project
• Shujuan Zhang, Post-Doctoral Fellow, Physics
• Xiaoquing Zhou, Post-Doctoral Fellow, Biomedical Engineering

School of Business

• Soraina Baez, Senior Research Grant Budget Coordinator
• Antonella Bove, Senior Administrative Assistant
• Kimberly Rodriguez, Program Coordinator, Stevens Alliance for Innovation
  and Leadership
• Beatrice Wilson, Executive Assistant and Project Manager

Office of the Registrar

• Jamie Holmes-Krieger, Student Records Consultant
• David Johnson, Student Records Consultant

Office of International Student and Scholar Services

• Nilyufer Namazova, International Student and Scholar Advisor
• Tina Song, Administrative Coordinator

PROMOTIONS

Charles V. Schaefer Jr., School of Engineering & Science

• Andrew Gonzalez, Senior Financial Analyst

School of Business

• Jesse Melchor, Senior Coordinator of Doctoral Programs

Office of the Provost

• Nina DeMarco, Director of Strategic Initiatives and Planning

Office of Sponsored Programs

• Debbie Del Valle, Senior Contract and Grant Specialist
• Jessica Grady, Senior Contract and Grant Specialist

Office of International Student and Scholar Services

• Lauren Berlamino, Assistant Director
• Karine Nanagoulian, Senior Incoming International Student Advisor
• Brittany Then, Advisor