Academic News – December 2019

DECEMBER 2019

Message from the Provost

A Milestone Semester – With More on the Horizon

This week, we mark a major milestone – the completion of the Gateway Academic Center. Gateway provides much-needed state-of-the-art academic space, but in some ways, it is more than just an academic building. It is also emblematic of the many positive changes taking place at Stevens. Our university remains on an upward trajectory, and the addition of Gateway reflects the growth in our student body and our faculty. Continue Reading>

Faculty and Staff Spotlight

Stephanie Lee, Assistant Professor, Chemical Engineering and Materials Science

Linda Beninghove, Director, Samuel C. Williams Library

Faculty Awards | Research | Grants

Selected Faculty Honors and Achievements

Samantha Kleinberg, Computer Science (SES), has received three grants totaling $2.3 million to develop artificial intelligence that improves doctor-patient collaborations.

Wired magazine interviewed Mehmet Kurt, Mechanical Engineering (SES), in an article about technology and the concussion crisis in football.

The Economist highlighted research by Robert Chang, Mechanical Engineering (SES), on fusing two 3D printing techniques to create scaffolds that can grow highly uniform cells.

Yi Guo, Electrical and Computer Engineering (SES), delivered a keynote address at the 2019 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) in Macau.

Largest New Research Awards, September-October 2019

October 1: Dinesh Verma (SERC) – Department of Defense, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Systems, $3,934,601 – WRT-1020: Systems Engineering Research Center (SERC) Program Management
October 1: Dinesh Verma (SERC) – Department of Defense, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Systems, $509,345 – WRT-1003: Data Assimilation, Analysis and Fusion Across Modalities and Varying Latencies: Earth Orientation Parameters' Estimation and Prediction
October 1: Jeffrey Nickerson (SB) – National Science Foundation, $499,932 – CHS: Small: Exploring Design and Evaluation Space Through Crowds and Communities
October 1: Lu Xiao (SSE) – National Science Foundation, $260,464 – SHF: Small Collaborative Research: Test-Centric Architecture Modeling
September 30: Yi Bao, Civil, Environmental & Ocean Engineering (SES) – Department of Transportation, $250,000 – Distributed Fiber Optic Sensor Network for Real-time Monitoring of Pipeline Interactive Anomalies
September 27: Ralph Giffin III (SERC) – Department of Defense, Office of the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Systems Engineering, $691,307 – WRT-1018: DAU Credential Development
September 19: Hongbin Li, Electrical and Computer Engineering (SES) – National Science Foundation, $750,000 – SpecEES: Cooperative Green RF Sensing over Shared Spectrum
September 19: Philip Orton, Davidson Laboratory (SES) – Department of Commerce, NOAA, $299,683 – Compound Fluvial-Coastal Flood and Climate Adaptation: A Transferable Framework of Engagement, Modeling and Cost-Benefit Analysis
September 19: Samantha Kleinberg, Computer Science (SES) – National Science Foundation, $499,454 – III: SMALL: Moving Beyond Knowledge to Action: Evaluating and Improving the Utility of Causal Inference
September 19: Nick Parziale, Mechanical Engineering (SES) – Department of Defense, Office of Naval Research, $301,575 – DURIP: Indraft Tunnel for High-Speed Aerodynamics Research
September 19: Dinesh Verma (SERC) – Department of Defense, Office of the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Systems Engineering, $230,033 – WRT-1016: Reducing Total Ownership Cost (TOC) and Schedule
September 15: Muhammad Hajj, Civil, Environmental & Ocean Engineering (SES) – National Science Foundation, $200,000 – Collaborative Research: GOALI: Bioinspired Bistable Energy Harvesting for Fish Telemetry Tags
September 3: Dinesh Verma (SERC) – Department of Defense, Army Combat Capabilities Development Command, $286,919 – Command ART 010: Managing System-of-Systems Complexity for Distributed Command and Control (C2)