Selected Faculty Honors and Achievements

Bradley Fidler (CAL), is the recipient of the David and GG Farber Junior Faculty Fellowship in Science and Technology Studies. Established by Stevens Trustee Emeritus Dr. David Farber and his late wife, Gloria, the fellowship recognizes and supports CAL faculty who study and raise public awareness about the social impacts of scientific and technological development.

Negar Tavassolian, Electrical and Computer Engineering (SES), and Technology Commercialization Director David Zimmerman were selected to participate in the National Science Foundation’s Innovation Corps, (I-Corps) program for the New York region. They will receive $250,000 per year over five years.

Carlo Lipizzi (SSE) has been named director of the Center for Complex Systems & Enterprises (CCSE).

Yue Ning, Computer Science (SES), has received a National Science Foundation CAREER award for her project project, "Towards Deep Interpretable Predictions for Multi-Scope Temporal Events," which explores improved artificial intelligence-powered methods for predicting events such as hospital visits, flu outbreaks and mass protests. This is the fifth CAREER award granted to Stevens researchers this year. The prestigious CAREER award is given to promising early-career investigators, typically for five years of ongoing research.

Kishore Pochiraju, Mechanical Engineering (SES), was elected by American Society for Composites as one of its 2021 Fellows.

Alexander De Rosa, Mechanical Engineering (SES), was appointed the Chair of the Middle-Atlantic Section of the American Society for Engineering Education.

Lindsey Cormack (CAL) and student Kirsten Midelinger, a computer science major, are the authors of research published in the prominent political journal Congress & the Presidency. They investigated how differently situated legislators discussed the coronavirus outbreak in their official communications.

Paul Grogan (SSE) has been named one of two recipients of the International Council on Systems Engineering’s (INCOSE’s) 2020 Systems Engineering Journal Reviewer of the Year Award.

Hady Salloum, Electrical and Computer Engineering (SES) and director of the Maritime Security Center and the STAR Center, received a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) basic ordering agreement of $6 million for his continued projects related to sensors and maritime security. He was also appointed by the secretary of DHS to the National Maritime Security Advisory Committee.

Abhishek Sharma, Chemistry and Chemical Biology (SES), received a $1.55 million Maximize Investigator’s Research Award (MIRA) from the National Institutes of Health for his project, “Novel Acylborons and Alpha-hydroxy Borons to Enable Modular, Regio- and Stereocontrolled Synthesis of Bioactive Molecules and Protein Conjugates.” Shang Wang, Biomedical Engineering (SES), also received a MIRA award, totaling $1,910,915, for his research program, “Multi-Contrast Dynamic Optical Imaging to Advance Live Developmental Biology.”

Marouane Temimi, Davidson Lab (SES), appeared in a report on the French television network Television Francaise 1 about issues related to flooding in the New York area.

Largest New Research Awards, May-June 2021

• June 30: Rupak Chatterjee (SERC) – Army Combat Capabilities Development Command (CCDC), $224,738 – ART-020: Quantum Technologies for Armament Systems
• June 30: Jason Corso (SERC) – Army Combat Capabilities Development Command (CCDC), $467,824 – ART-020: Quantum Technologies for Armament Systems
• June 30: Yuping Huang (SERC) – Army Combat Capabilities Development Command (CCDC), $3,904,805 – ART-020: Quantum Technologies for Armament Systems
• June 30: Victor Lawrence (SERC) – Army Combat Capabilities Development Command (CCDC), $499,262 – ART-020: Quantum Technologies for Armament Systems
• June 30: Souran Manoochehri (SERC) – Army Combat Capabilities Development Command (CCDC), $219,203 – ART-020: Quantum Technologies for Armament Systems
• June 30: Chunlei Qu – Army Combat Capabilities Development Command (CCDC), $252,118 – ART-020: Quantum Technologies for Armament Systems
• June 30: EH Yang (SERC) – Army Combat Capabilities Development Command (CCDC), $444,757 – ART-020: Quantum Technologies for Armament Systems
• June 30: Ting Yu (SERC) – Army Combat Capabilities Development Command (CCDC), $393,955 – ART-020: Quantum Technologies for Armament Systems
• June 18: Philip Anton (SERC) – Office of the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Systems Engineering, $1,851,991 – WRT-1047: Digital Data Management and Analytics Strategy
• June 15: Yue Ning Computer Science (SES) – National Science Foundation, $571,930 – CAREER: Towards Deep Interpretable Predictions for Multi-Scope Temporal Events
• June 1: Yong Zhang, Chemistry and Chemical Biology (SES) – National Science Foundation, $360,000 – Mechanistic Investigation of Heme-Based Catalysts for Sustainable Carbene Transfer Reactions
• May 28: Dinesh Verma (SERC) – Office of the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Systems Engineering, $2,342,931 – WRT-1043: DAU-Digital Engineering Simulation
• May 15: Junjian Qi, Electrical and Computer Engineering (SES) – National Science Foundation, $219,370 – Collaborative Research: Advanced and Highly Integrated Power Conversion Systems for Grid Stability and Resiliency
• May 1: Jason Rabinovitch, Mechanical Engineering (SES) – NASA, $189,768 – Verification and Validation of High-Fidelity Plume Surface Interaction Simulations

May 12-October 11, 2021

NEW HIRES AND JOB CHANGES

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

• Zumrut Akcam-Kibis, Teaching Assistant Professor, Computer Science
• Mahmoud Al-Quzwini, Senior Lecturer, Electrical and Computer Engineering
• Cheng Chen, Associate Professor and Nariman Farvardin Professor, Civil, Environmental and Ocean Engineering
• Xiaojiang Du, Professor and Anson Wood Burchard Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
• Diane Forte, Administrative Assistant, Mathematical Sciences
• Michael Greenberg, Assistant Professor, Computer Science
• Shudong Hao, Teaching Assistant Professor, Computer Science
• Alyssa Hensley, Assistant Professor, Chemical Engineering and Materials Science
• Karim Karam, Lecturer, Civil, Environmental and Ocean Engineering
• Hadi Safari Katesari, Teaching Assistant Professor, Mathematical Sciences
• Jongkwan Kim, Post-Doctoral Fellow, Davidson Laboratory
• Samuel Kim, Teaching Professor and Associate Chair for Undergraduate Studies, Computer Science
• Pin-Kuang Lai, Assistant Professor, Chemical Engineering and Materials Science
• Rahul Khade, Lecturer, Chemistry and Chemical Biology
• Ellyn Lester, Coordinator, Civil, Environmental and Ocean Engineering
• Dean Livingston, Academic Advisor, Mathematical Sciences and Physics
• Philippe Meunier, Teaching Associate Professor, Computer Science
• Peter Popolo, Lecturer, Biomedical Engineering
• Nafiseh Ghorbani Renani, Post-Doctoral Research Associate, Power Systems with Future DERs
• Novonil Sen, Post-Doctoral Researcher, Mechanical Engineering
• Erisa Terolli, Teaching Assistant Professor, Computer Science
• An Wang, Assistant Professor, Civil, Environmental and Ocean Engineering
• Ping Wang, Assistant Professor, Computer Science
• Sihang Xu, Post-Doctoral Researcher, Civil, Environmental and Ocean

School of Business

• Josa Balisi, Manager of Academic Operations
• Sequoia Canada, Program Coordinator
• Michael Frank, Teaching Associate Professor and Director of the Master's Program in Information Systems
• Balbinder Singh Gill, Assistant Professor
• Syed Khadir, Data Science Engineer, Hanlon Financial Systems Laboratory
• Foad Mahdavi Pajouh, Associate Professor
• Sveinn Olafsson, Teaching Assistant Professor
• Ananya Sheth, Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, Center for Corporate Entrepreneurship
• Jingyi Sun, Assistant Professor

School of Systems & Enterprises

• Eman Alomar, Assistant Professor
• Anthony Barrese, Interim Dean
• Matthew LeVine, Post-Doctoral Researcher, SERC
• Hao Chen, Assistant Professor
• Karan Vijaykumar Shah, Full Stack Developer, SERC
• Payuna Uday, Research Scientist, SERC
• Ying Wang, Associate Professor
• Zhongyuan Yu, Teaching Associate Professor

College of Arts and Letters

• Nicholas Byrd, Assistant Professor
• Virginia Conn, Lecturer
• Mel Ferrara, Lecturer

Office of Undergraduate Academics

• James Ihn, Assistant Dean for Student Retention and Success

Office of Graduate Academics and Student Success

• Ellen Farris, Manager of Operations and Planning
• Kayla Lauricella, Assistant Director of Graduate Academics and Student Success
• Paula Some, Manager of Marketing and Communications

Office of Institutional Research

• Haoran Du, Business Intelligence and Reporting Analyst

Office of Sponsored Programs

• Maria Slump, Senior Contracts and Grants Specialist
• Adrien-James Crete, Director of Research Security (Export Control) and Facility Security Officer
• James Walsh, Research Compliance Specialist
• Tamara Saydalimova, Contract & Grant Specialist

PROMOTIONS

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

• Amy Wolf, Assistant Director of the Center for Student Success
• Shujuan Zhang, Research Scientist, CEED Project

School of Business

• Michelle Crilly, Assistant Dean for Student Success
• Kimberly Ding, Manager of Graduate Programs
• Lindsay Hartelius, Assistant Director of Undergraduate Outreach and Reputation

College of Arts and Letters

• Kaitlin Osborne, Associate Director of Student Success

Office of Academic Innovation and Faculty Affairs

• Natalie Lebert, Office Manager of Undergraduate and Special Programs

October 20

Memorial for Dr. Sophia Hassiotis

October 28-29

CRAFT Launch Meeting

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