Faculty & Staff Accomplishments
We are excited to share recent accomplishments from faculty and staff members at our campuses around the world.
Accomplishments are listed by date of achievement in reverse chronological order, with the most recent first.
Marcelle Hicks
Enrollment ManagementMarcelle Hicks, M.A., senior director of undergraduate admissions, was selected on September 8, 2021, to join the 15-member Applications Advisory Committee of the Common Application, a central application system used by more than 900 member colleges and universities around the U.S. and the world. Hicks will serve a three-year term and will assist the Common Application to expand its commitment to access equity and integrity in the college admissions process, and address issues impacting students, school counselors, and member institutions.
Amy Bravo
Career Success and Experiential EducationAmy Bravo, M.A., senior director of career success and experiential education, was awarded the for Building Resilient Communities between New York Institute of Technology and Let's Talk Safety, Inc. in Harlem, on September 8, 2021.
Chinmoy Bhattacharjee
PhysicsChinmoy Bhattacharjee, Ph.D., assistant professor of physics, published his paper, , to Oxford Academic's Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, on September 4, 2021.\nBhattacharjee's paper proposes a new source of magnetic field and flow generation near a Black hole accretion disk. This new source is a consequence of a general relativistic effect called frame dragging which churns the background space and time near a Black hole. Bhattacharjee's result provides a mathematical basis to a phenomena predicted back in 1992 by the astronomers.
Batu Chalise
College of Engineering and Computing SciencesBatu K. Chalise, Ph.D., assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering, was awarded $100,180 from the Naval Research Laboratory for a two-year period on September 3, 2021. This fund will support his research entitled "Distributed Detection, Estimation, and Resource Allocations in Cognitive Radar Systems with Deep Learning and SDR."
Ahmadreza Baghaie
Electrical and Computer EngineeringAhmadreza Baghaie, Ph.D., assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering, had his article, published in the prestigious journal, Cement and Concrete Research, on September 1, 2021. This research was done in collaboration with researchers from Princeton University and Purdue University on developing novel image processing-based methodology for quantitative investigation of 3-D printed and cast cement pastes by means of micro-computed tomography.
Sophia Domokos
College of Arts and Sciences/PhysicsSophia Domokos, Ph.D., assistant professor of physics, had her paper published in the European Journal of Physics on August 23, 2021. The paper, co-written by Robert Bell, Ph.D., visiting assistant professor of mathematics, and two 色界吧 undergrads, Trinh La, and Patrick Mazza, describes how to translate aspects of string theory's mathematically and conceptually complex "holographic duality" into the simpler language of quantum mechanics.
.Amanda Golden
College of Arts and SciencesAmanda Golden, Ph.D., associate professor of English, Department of Humanities, was Interviewed for two episodes of the podcast Ear Read This on August 13, 2021. One episode focused on the poem (1959) by Sylvia Plath, and the second episode focused on Golden's monograph, Annotating Modernism: Marginalia and Pedagogy from Virginia Woolf to the Confessional Poets (2020):
Babak D. Beheshti
College of Engineering and Computing SciencesBabak D. Beheshti, Ph.D., dean of the NYIT College of Engineering and Computing Sciences, was featured as an Impact Creator in on August 10, 2021. IEEE Impact Creators are a curated collection of IEEE members from around the globe that work to inspire a global community of engineers to innovate for a better tomorrow by sharing insights on engineering, computing, and technology.
Marta Panero
SCEAMarta Panero, Ph.D., executive director of external affairs, SCEA, was invited to join the Steering Committee of the on August 10, 2021. During her two-year tenure, she will help strengthen the Network's cross-sector collaborations between city agencies, youth development and education-focused organizations, higher education institutions, museums, cultural institutions, and long-term private funders. Marta's work will effectively make the city鈥檚 rich array of STEM learning opportunities more accessible to young people, and help build the capacity of after-school programs to deliver STEM. The Network also creates links to other sub-components of the city鈥檚 STEM ecosystem, such as NYC Urban Advantage, the NYC Hive Network, Queens 2020, and the STEM Educators Academy.
Venugopal Prabhakar Gantasala
School of ManagementVenugopal Prabhakar Gantasala, Ph.D., associate professor and M.B.A. program director, Tareq Na鈥檈l Al-Tawil, and Hassan Younies, Ph.D., adjunct associate professor of management & marketing studies, published "The Potential Impact of the new UAE Foreign Direct Investment Law and Side Agreements", in the ICSID Review - Foreign Investment Law Journal on August 8, 2021.