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Selected Faculty Honors and Achievements
Hady Salloum, STAR Center (SES), was awarded a $3.3 million contract by iModal Ground, LLC, to develop an underwater acoustic security system that will protect ports, waterways and waterfront properties from surface and underwater intruders.
Elaine Henry (SB) was appointed to the editorial board of the Journal of International Accounting, Auditing and Taxation.
Antonia Zaferiou, Biomedical Engineering (SES), is one of four researchers to be awarded The Interdisciplinary Rehabilitation Engineering Research Career Development Program (IRE-K12) grant in movement and rehabilitation sciences this year.
Yi Guo, Electrical & Computer Engineering (SES), was appointed editor-in-chief of IEEE Robotics and Automation magazine, beginning in 2021.
Chang-Hwan Choi, Mechanical Engineering (SES), was recently appointed to the advisory board of the Journal of Colloid and Interface Science.
David A. Vaccari, Civil, Environmental and Ocean Engineering (SES), was elected vice president of the American Academy of Environmental Engineers and Scientists.
Ye Yang (SSE) was awarded the ACM Distinguished Paper Award at the 42nd International Conference on Software Engineering, which took place virtually.
Philippos Mordohai, Computer Science (SES), along with colleagues from three other institutions, was awarded a $1.3 million grant by the National Science Foundation (NSF) for a project that will develop a system of co-robots collaborating with a human operator to map underwater structures.
"Untitled (Monument)" by Nancy Nowacek (CAL) is now on view at the Mana Contemporary Sculpture Garden in Jersey City, part of an exhibit featuring New Jersey artists who explore urgent issues.
Largest New Research Awards, September-November 2020
- October 9: Thomas McDermott (SERC) – Department of Defense, Office of the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Systems Engineering, $368,130 – WRT-1033: Transitioning Mission-Aware Concepts and Methods to Evaluate Cost/Risk Decisions for Security Assurance Design
- October 5: Kishore Pochiraju, Mechanical Engineering (SES) – Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, $1,439,276 – AIMED: Artificial Intelligence Managed Exploration of Designs
- October 1: Hady Salloum, STAR Center (SES) – iModal Ground LLC, $3,300,000 – Research for the Commercialization of the Passive Acoustic Underwater Intruder Detection System
- October 1: Jun Xu, Computer Science (SES) – National Science Foundation, $596,034 – (Collaborative Research) SaTC: CORE: Medium: Rethinking Fuzzing for Security
- October 1: Philippos Mordohai, Computer Science (SES) – National Science Foundation, $331,777 – (Collaborative Research) NRI: INT: Cooperative Underwater Structure Inspection and Mapping
- September 30: Dinesh Verma (SERC) – Department of Defense, Office of the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Systems Engineering, $644,045 – WRT-1032: Critical Program Information (CPI) Protection Through Software Anti-Tamper
- September 30: William Shepherd (SERC) – Department of Defense, Office of the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Systems Engineering, $415,841 – WRT-1035: SE Capstone Marketplace 2020-21
- September 30: Dinesh Verma (SERC) – Department of Defense, Office of the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Systems Engineering, $2,206,301 – Center for Acquisition Excellence (CAE) Program Management
- September 21: Dinesh Verma (SERC) – Department of Defense, Army Combat Capabilities Development Command, $447,233 – ART 018: Characterization of Potting Materials in Military Environments
- September 15: Abhishek Sharma, Chemistry and Chemical Biology (SES) – National Institutes of Health, $462,600 – R15: Modular Approaches to Unusual Borylated Heterocycles Using Novel Acylborons and Alpha-Hydroxyborons as Enabling Tools
- September 15: Dinesh Verma (SERC) – Department of Defense, Office of the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Systems Engineering, $690,099 – WRT-1022: Developmental Test and Evaluation (DT&E) and Cyberattack Resilient Systems
- September 15: Junfeng Liang, Chemistry and Chemical Biology (SES) – National Institutes of Health, $462,600 – Membrane-Acting Peptides
- September 2: Knut Stamnes, Physics (SES) – NASA, $450,057 – Laser Beam (Lidar) Propagation in the Atmosphere-Ocean System in Support of Active Remote Sensing from Space
- September 1: Paul Grogan (SSE) – National Science Foundation, $500,000 – CAREER: Understanding Strategic Dynamics in the Engineering of Decentralized Systems
- September 1: Antonia Zaferiou, Biomedical Engineering (SES) – National Science Foundation, $822,200 – CAREER: Adaptive Sonification to Improve Balance During Everyday Mobility
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