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Selected Faculty Honors and Achievements
Lu Xiao (SSE) has been awarded a National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER grant of $486,183 for a project on an "AI-Empowered Architecture-Centric Framework for Systematic Software Performance Optimization" that will address three key gaps in the current research and practice of software performance engineering.
Steven Hoffenson (SSE) has been awarded an NSF CAREER grant of $553,523 for a project on Multidisciplinary and Life Cycle Holistic Sustainable Design that will support the development of a holistic approach to sustainable product design that accounts for all life cycle phases, stakeholders and sustainability outcomes using tools and techniques from the systems engineering and engineering design research communities.
Pinar Akcora, Chemical Engineering and Materials Science (SES), and co-investigator Patricia Muisener, Chemistry and Chemical Biology (SES), received an NSF grant of $374,971 for their project “REU/RET Site: Interdisciplinary Research Experience in Sustainable Energy and Bioengineering.” Akcora also received an NSF grant of $424,000 for her project “Directed Ionic Transport in Poly(Ionic Liquid)-Grafted Nanoparticles in Polarizable Media.”
Darinka Dentcheva, Mathematical Sciences (SES), and co-investigator Brendan Englot, Mechanical Engineering (SES), were awarded $900,055 for their project “Risk-Averse Learning and Control for Distributed Dynamical Systems with Partial Information” by the Office of Naval Research.
Shima Hajimirza, Mechanical Engineering (SES), has been awarded two grants by the NSF for her research in radiation heat transfer in materials.
Onur Asan (SSE) was awarded $430,000 by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to study how electronic health records impact communication, trust and cognitive workload during initial oncology visits.
Kelland Thomas was reappointed as Dean of the College of Arts and Letters for a five-year term, from June 1, 2021 through August 31, 2026.
Yeganeh Hayeri (SSE) was named Educator of the Year for 2020 by the Central Jersey Branch of ASCE (the American Society of Civil Engineers). She was also interviewed on CNN recently about vehicle-to-infrastructure technology.
Yong Zhang, Chemistry and Chemical Biology (SES), received an NSF grant of $360,000 for his project “CAS: Mechanistic Investigation of Heme-based Catalysts for Sustainable Carbene Transfer Reactions.”
Carlos Alomar (CAL), director of the College of Arts and Letters’ Sound Synthesis Research Center, was a panelist at the Latin Alternative Music Conference. The online event in early May spotlighted Latin music and culture.
Largest New Research Awards, February-April 2021
- April 30: Dinesh Verma (SERC) – Office of the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Systems Engineering, $2,483,287 – WRT-1041 SMC Production Corps – Mission Engineering and Integration of Emerging Technologies
- April 21: Dinesh Verma (SERC) – Office of the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Systems Engineering, $514,629 – WRT-1042: Policy Innovations to Enhance the STEM Talent Pipeline
- April 8: Raju Datla, Davidson Laboratory (SES) – Naval Surface Warfare Center, $191,404 – Hydrodynamics of Ship Operability in Post-Damage Condition
- March 16: Hady Salloum, STAR Center (SES) – Air Force Research Laboratory, $950,000 – Unmanned Aircraft System Acoustic Detection, Tracking and Classification System
- March 5: Raju Datla, Davidson Laboratory (SES) – Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, $272,263 – Experimental Evaluation of Resistance Reduction by Fleet Configuration of Trimaran Hullforms
- March 1: Hang Liu, Electrical and Computer Engineering (SES) – National Science Foundation, $584,001 – CAREER: An Algorithm and System Co-Designed Framework for Graph Sampling and Random Walk on GPUs
- March 1: Pinar Akcora, Chemical Engineering and Materials Science (SES) – National Science Foundation, $374,971 – REU/RET Site: Interdisciplinary Research Experience in Sustainable Energy and Bioengineering
- March 1: Raju Datla, Davidson Laboratory (SES) – Wigetworks Private Ltd., $101,973 – Model Tests of a Wing-in-Ground Craft Design AirFish-X
- February 16: Darinka Dentcheva, Mathematical Sciences (SES) – Office of Naval Research, $900,055 – Risk-Averse Learning and Control for Distributed Dynamical Systems with Partial Information
- February 1: Weina Meng, Civil, Environmental and Ocean Engineering (SES) – $500,000, National Science Foundation – CAREER: Consecutive Assembly-and-Mineralization Processed C-S-H Nacre with High Specific Flexural Strength and Fracture Toughness
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