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.
Lissi Athanasiou-Krikelis
College of Arts and SciencesLissi Athanasiou-Krikelis, Ph.D., assistant professor of English, discussed autofiction in relation to Amanda Michalopoulou's Baroque on May 2, 2019, at a salon at the home of the Consul General of the Federal Republic of Germany in New York City. The event, which included a reading by the author, was a collaboration between the German and Greek consulates in New York.
Edward Guiliano
College of Arts and SciencesEdward Guiliano, Ph.D., professor of English, had his book, Lewis Carroll: Worlds of His Alices (Writers and Their Contexts), published by Edward Everett Root on April 30, 2019. The book is a comprehensive analysis of the creative works of Lewis Carroll.
Jonathan Goldman
College of Arts & Sciences EnglishJonathan Goldman, Ph.D., associate professor of English, published an essay, on the Modernism/modernity Print+ page on April 29, 2019. The essay analyzes recent invocations of James Joyce's Ulysses by US presidential hopefuls.
Rajendram Rajnarayanan
College of Osteopathic Medicine-JonesboroRajendram Rajnarayanan, assistant dean of research and publications at NYITCOM-Arkansas, was selected for the Society for Science & the Public's on April 26, 2019. SSP advocates work to mentor underrepresented and low-income students and guide them in entering science research competitions.
Kevin LaGrandeur
College of Arts & Sciences EnglishKevin LaGrandeur, Ph.D., professor of English, recently had two video interviews posted on the Vlog on April 26, 2019. One interview (Episode 10: "Robots in Ancient Times") is based on his book Artificial Slaves, while the second (Episode 11: "Technological Unemployment") is based on his book, Surviving the Machine Age. The Vlog is run by Dr. Francesca Ferrando, a philosopher working at NYU, and features interviews with different philosophers, scholars, artists, and scientists whose works revolve around the topic of the posthuman—the convergence of humans and AI. The interviews are recorded at the Digital Studio, New York University (NYU), New York City.
\nDong-Sei Kim
School of Architecture & Design ArchitectureDongsei Kim, M.Des., assistant professor of architecture, organized and participated in New York Institute of Technology’s Institutional Support for Research and Creativity (ISRC)-funded international symposium “” at the renowned Storefront for Art and Architecture in New York City, April 20, 2019.
\n\n\nElizabeth Donaldson
College of Arts & Sciences EnglishElizabeth J. Donaldson, Ph.D., associate professor of English, presented her talk, 鈥淧sychographics: Graphic Memoirs and Psychiatric Disability,鈥� at Hofstra University in the Guthart Cultural Center Theater on April 18, 2019. The event was hosted by Hofstra鈥檚 cultural center in collaboration with their disability studies program.
Marcus Carter
ArchitectureMarcus Carter, assistant adjunct professor of architecture, received a 2019 Honor Award for Urban Design from AIA New York on April 15, 2019, for his work as a partner of OBJECT TERRITORIES and a member of the team that created an urban design project which proposed a greenway and open space design for St. Louis, MO.
\n\nAmin Milani Fard
College of Engineering & Computing Sciences Computer ScienceAmin Milani Fard, Ph.D., assistant professor of computer science at NYIT-Vancouver, presented a research paper entitled "Relationship Prediction in Dynamic Heterogeneous Information Networks," which won the best full paper award at the 41st European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR), in Cologne, Germany, April 14-18, 2019. ECIR is the prime European forum for the presentation of original research in information retrieval and, similar to ACM SIGIR, is one of the top tier conferences in the field. The acceptance rate for ECIR 2019 was 23% (39/165 for the full papers).
Pablo Lorenzo-Eiroa
School of Architecture & Design ArchitecturePablo Lorenzo-Eiroa, M.Arch., associate professor of architecture, published an essay “” in the Notas CPAU Magazine on April 12, 2019.