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RESEARCH MINI-SYMPOSIUM
Featuring New NJIT Faculty
Thursday, March 6, 2014
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Sustaining NJIT’s leadership in research requires action, and in 2012 we
took the step of initiating a three-year strategic hiring plan to energize
breakthrough work in science and technology by inviting 30 new faculty
members to contribute their expertise in multiple disciplines. Our intent
has been to encourage interdisciplinary cooperation in three areas vital for
improving life in the 21st century — convergent life science and engineering, ubiquitous computing, and sustainable systems.
Many from the university community have observed how quickly this
strategy has produced results such as those highlighted by the oral and
poster presentations prepared for this symposium. The very talented individuals sharing their work have been part of the NJIT community for only
a short time, most since the second year of our hiring plan. But as
researchers, and equally as educators, they have demonstrated outstanding capability in fields that include
architecture, biology and biomedical engineering, chemistry, environmental sciences, industrial design,
mathematics, physics, and chemical, civil, electrical and mechanical engineering.
Today’s program also clearly validates the potential of interdisciplinary collaboration across diverse academic
areas. Speakers whose expertise is in architecture, biomedical engineering and the biological sciences will offer
insights into the significance of their work at the interface between technology and human health.
The research pursued by those presenting at this event, as well as by their NJIT colleagues, will increase
our fund of scientific knowledge and have important real-world implications for economic and social
progress in the near future. The recently announced changes in the organizational structure of our university will do much to encourage even greater achievement with respect to basic academic research under the
guidance of the Provost’s Office and commercially-oriented work through our newly established New Jersey
Innovation Institute. These changes are imperative in light of the accelerating decline in leading-edge
research conducted directly by industry, research that in the past increased basic knowledge and was a
foundation of commercial prosperity.
In 2014, NJIT has reached the stage where we are ranked fifth among all polytechnic universities in the
United States for research expenditures. This ranking communicates the success that has been achieved by
a community of researchers which now includes the faculty members participating in this symposium. It is
indicative of our work to enhance economic growth and scientific expansion.
Joel S. Bloom
President of NJIT
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The pursuit of multidisciplinary research is a hallmark of cutting-edge
work in sustainable systems, digital infrastructure, and healthcare
technologies. The new faculty members joining NJIT are exerting key
leadership roles in these fields, and it is our pleasure to host their
research in this symposium. While the particular focus of this symposium
is on technology and human health, the call for collaboration through
integrated initiatives is common to all research at the university.
In the second decade of the 21st century, the intersection of technology
and health is everywhere apparent. Whether the focus is on sustainable
environmental systems to improve the quality of life, on information
flow to inform the decisions we make with medical records, or on mapping the brain’s activity to identify task-based neurological patterns, contemporary researchers hold as their focus a singular aim: to improve the individual human life.
To advance this aim, the university has brought together a remarkable team of researchers dedicated to
using scientific and technological innovation to solve complex health problems. With very specific areas
of expertise, the NJIT team is focused on key challenges confronting global well-being. Indeed, a list of
the research specializations of our newest colleagues provides a framework by which we can understand
the research paths we must take to advance health in the coming decades: biostatistics, computational
neuroscience, environmental toxicology, neural networking, tissue engineering, and social housing. From
the creation of computer-based models to the design of built environments, NJIT researchers are
collaborating on health issues central to our time.
As they pursue the application of technology to improve human life, NJIT research teams will continue
to integrate the campus through focused approaches to education, economic development, and service.
Seen in this way, the research presented in this symposium provides a vision of the future of NJIT — a
future where everyone will have a part to play in a university dedicated to solving enduring human
problems at the intersection of society and technology.
It is exciting to have with us those researchers whose work we will feature in this symposium, and it is
our priority to ensure that their work is leveraged to create a comprehensive vision for the future.
Fadi P. Deek
Provost and Senior Executive Vice President
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S TRATEGIC D IRECTIONS AT
J ERSEY I NSTITUTE OF T ECHNOLOGY
Advanced Manufacturing Processes encompasses nano-electronics including nano-electronic
fabrication systems with applications in computing electronics, wireless communications, sensing
and biomedical devices; nano-circuit design tools, and nano-optoelectronics; and industrial ecology including environmentally sustainable advanced manufacturing processes and systems –
including innovative energy technologies and energy storage systems, source reduction and material substitution studies, waste stream utilization, and material and energy flow analysis.
Architecture Design and Construction focuses on sustainable building design including
architecture design, sustainable design and materials selection, energy efficient design and
construction, green building design and operation, simulation technologies that model societal
interaction with infrastructure systems, linkage of material/structural state data with life-cycle
models and inclusion of social science and economic models in infrastructure design and
construction processes, innovative construction, environmental control systems, parametric
design and systems integration.
Big Data encompasses large data set analytics including pattern recognition, natural language
processing, web analytics, or information mining, cloud computing architecture, storage networks
and systems, network and server virtualization, networking support, self-monitoring, autonomic computing, data center management, reliability, security and privacy, high performance
computing, large scale storage, cyber security, and healthcare analytics including biostatistics,
genomics and the analysis of data from health and medical disciplines, electronic medical
records (EMRs) and their applications.
Biochemistry emphasizes genomics, including genomics and proteonics, molecular biology,
and cellular biology genomics, as well as work at the interface of molecular biology and computer
science in bioinformatics and computational biology, and cellular neuroengineering including
tissue engineering and regenerative medicine.
Business Systems and Processes includes business systems reengineering, entrepreneurship,
technology management, supply chain management, international business, marketing,
accounting, and finance as relates to digital media business systems, healthcare business systems,
and energy industry business systems.
Materials Science and Engineering encompasses biomaterials, nano-materials, ceramics,
composites, durability, electronic and optical materials, materials characterization, magnetic
materials, metals and alloys, polymers and semiconductors.
Sensing and Control includes mechatronics covering mechanics, electronics, computing, control
engineering, molecular engineering, and optical engineering, as well as bio-cellular systems including
sensors and actuators with application to healthcare, life sciences, and engineering.
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P ROGRAM
Welcome and Introductory Remarks
Basil Baltzis
Interim Dean
Newark College of Engineering
“Technology and Human Health”
Dirk Bucher
Associate Professor of Biological Sciences
College of Science and Liberal Arts
Neural Circuit Dynamics: Lessons from Lobsters and Crabs
Namas Chandra
Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Newark College of Engineering
Understanding and Treating Traumatic Brain Injury: A Holistic Approach
Maria Hurtado de Mendoza
Associate Professor of Architecture
College of Architecture and Design
3 X 1: Variations with Repetition. Small Scale Healthcare Architecture
Poster Session by New Faculty
Reception
Campus Center
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S PEAKERS
Dirk Bucher
Associate Professor of Biological Sciences, College of Science and Liberal Arts
Dirk Bucher was an Assistant Professor at the Whitney Laboratory for Marine Biosciences
and Department of Neuroscience at the University of Florida College of Medicine before
joining the faculty at NJIT. His primary research interest is information transfer in animal
motor control systems, with the main focus on understanding how activity and neuromodulators alter, shape, and stabilize neural network function. Bucher’s work has
received extensive support from NIH grants and is published in top journals.
Namas Chandra
Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Newark College of Engineering
Namas Chandra’s research interests include computational mechanics of materials at
various scales, superplasticity, interfaces, nano-bio materials, experimental mechanics, and
blast- and blunt-induced traumatic brain injury. Specifically, he focuses on understanding
trauma, especially brain injury, using engineering principles and biomedical approaches.
Chandra has been continuously funded with approximately $23 million from federal, state
and private agencies, and has current funding of $7 million. He anticipates that his
research will synergize neuroengineering/neuroimaging groups at NJIT and Rutgers
University, as well as at Kessler Rehabilitation Institute.
Maria Hurtado de Mendoza
Associate Professor of Architecture, College of Architecture and Design
An international award-winning architect, Maria Hurtado de Mendoza is co-founder of
studio.entresitio. Her teaching and research examines mathematics and idealized systems
of order in architecture. Her work has been published in two books as well as major professional architectural journals. She has participated in several major curated international
exhibitions including three Venice Biennales.
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Dirk Bucher
SENSING AND CONTROL: Computer Hardware
Associate Professor of Biological Sciences, College of Science and Liberal Arts
Dirk Bucher was an Assistant Professor at the Whitney
Laboratory for Marine Biosciences and Department of
Neuroscience at the University of Florida College of
Medicine before joining the faculty at New Jersey
Institute of Technology. His primary research interest is
information transfer in animal motor control systems,
with the main focus on understanding how activity and
neuromodulators alter, shape, and stabilize neural network function.
Bucher’s work has received extensive support from
NIH grants and is published in top journals. He graduated from the Free University of Berlin, Germany with
a diploma in biology. He also earned a Ph.D., magna
cum laude, in neurobiology from the Free University of
Berlin. His postdoctoral research was done with A.
Buschges at the Institute for Animal Physiology in
Cologne, Germany, and with Eve Marder at Brandeis
University.
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Namas Chandra
SENSING AND CONTROL: Medical Devices
Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Newark College of Engineering
Director, Center for Injury Bio-Mechanics, Materials and Medicine (CIBM3)
Namas Chandra has made significant contributions to
the understanding of how blasts in the field cause mild
to moderate to severe traumatic brain injury (TBI) using
computational and experimental methods. TBI is a silent
epidemic affecting more than 1.7 million people and a
related problem, concussion is faced by about 4 million
people in the U.S. alone. TBI places a serious health,
social and economic burden on the victims, the family
and society at large. A large team of experts from
different fields ranging from biology, engineering, and
medicine are needed to find preventive and medical
solutions to the problem which is the primary goal of
the Center CIBM3 initiated at NJIT under Chandra’s
leadership.
Chandra and his colleagues have developed a novel blast
generator that can accurately reproduce the shock-blast
conditions measured in field explosions. These shock
tubes have currently become the industrial and scientific
standards. Using these generators, Chandra has developed a comprehensive animal injury model which correlates brain injury severity to the level of blast strength.
Popular Science magazine recently recognized his laboratory as a top 10 shock laboratory in the country. This
facility is now currently available at NJIT.
Chandra comes to NJIT from the University of
Nebraska-Lincoln, where he was the Elmer-Koch Chair
Professor of Engineering and was also the associate dean
for research and graduate studies in the College of
Engineering. He has approximately 28 years of academic
and nine years of industrial experience.
In 2005, he was recognized as the university-wide
Distinguished Professor of Research at Florida State
University. He was elected as a fellow of American
Society of Mechanical Engineering (ASME) in 1997.
He has approximately 208 publications including 104
in archival journals and has supervised about 52
Ph.D./M.S./post-doctoral scholars. He has been continuously funded with a total of $23 million (as PI and
co-PI) from various federal/state/private agencies. He
hopes to synergize biology/engineering/computing
groups among the different colleges at NJIT,
biology/medical schools at Rutgers University, Veterans
Biomedical Research, and the Kessler Rehabilitation
Institute and other stakeholders in the tri-state area to
address and resolve key issues in TBI as related to
military medicine and sports concussion.
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Casey Diekman
BIOCHEMISTRY: Cellular Systems
Assistant Professor of Mathematical Sciences, College of Science and Liberal Arts
Casey Diekman uses a combination of mathematical
modeling, numerical simulation, and dynamical systems analysis to gain insight into biological systems. He
is currently focused on creating a mathematical framework to understand how dynamic changes in gene
expression affect the electrical properties of neurons
and ultimately animal behavior. Circadian (24-hour)
rhythms offer one of the clearest examples of the interplay between these different levels of organization, with
rhythmic gene expression leading to daily rhythms in
neural activity, physiology and behavior.
Diekman has developed mathematical models of the
master circadian clock in the mammalian brain. These
models and the mathematical theory associated with
them led to counterintuitive predictions that have since
been validated experimentally by Diekman’s collaborators.
The primary goal of Diekman’s research program in
mathematical biology is to uncover mechanisms
underlying biological timekeeping, neuronal rhythm
generation, and the disruption of rhythmicity associated with certain pathological conditions including sleep
disorders, Alzheimer's disease, breathing problems, and
ischemic stroke.
Prior to joining NJIT, Diekman was a postdoctoral
fellow at the Mathematical Biosciences Institute (MBI).
MBI, located at The Ohio State University, is a research
institute funded by the National Science Foundation’s
Division of Mathematical Sciences. Diekman received
his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan in 2010 in
Bioinformatics and Industrial and Operations
Engineering. Since 2009, he has published 11 papers in
peer-reviewed journals.
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Gal Haspel
BIOCHEMISTRY: Cellular Systems
Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences, College of Science and Liberal Arts
Gal Haspel joined New Jersey Institute of Technology
from the National Institute of Neural Disorder and
Stroke, National Institutes of Health. His research
focuses on the mechanisms of locomotion generation,
as well as regeneration of locomotor activity after nervous system injury.
Haspel applies an interdisciplinary approach utilizing
molecular biology, genetics, genomics, neuroanatomy,
optogenetic, in-vivo imaging, analysis of behavior and
computational techniques, using the nematode worm
Caenorhabditis elegans. This is a very popular model
system that is best known for its use in genetic and
genomic work. Haspel’s optical tracking techniques
also dovetail well with current departmental strategies
in sensing and control.
Haspel has 15 peer-reviewed papers in the top journals
in the field, including Neuron, Journal of Neuroscience,
and Current Biology, and one multimedia History
Channel production. He has received a number of
awards, including two Grass Fellowships at the Marine
Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole (MA), and one
from the Human Frontier Science Program (HFSP).
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Maria Hurtado de Mendoza
ARCHITECTURE DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION: Resilient Infrastructure
Associate Professor of Architecture, College of Architecture and Design
An international award-winning architect and the
co-founder of estudio.entresitio (www.entresitio.com),
Maria Hurtado de Mendoza is an associate professor
in the College of Architecture and Design. Her work
focuses on the design of public work including health
care centers and social housing. She was a faculty
member of the School of Architecture at the
Polytechnic University, Madrid, and has twice been a
recent visiting professor at the School of Architecture,
Cornell University.
Hurtado de Mendoza has participated in curated
international exhibitions including three Venice
Biennales. She believes that her teaching and research
examines mathematics and the relationship between
order and disorder in architecture. Her work has been
published in two books and major professional
architectural journals.
In 2007, Architectural Record selected estudio.entresitio
as Design Vanguard, helping its work to be published
and seen in many countries. Its constructed work has
received more than 28 awards and honorable mentions.
The firm participated in the 10th and 11th Spanish
Biennial, the 7th BIAU (Iberoamerican Biennial of
Architecture and Urbanism), the Barbara Cappochin
Biennale and more. The firm recently received the
ArchDaily “Building of the Year 2012” in the healthcare category, for its health-care centers trilogy of San
Blas+Usera+Villaverde, Madrid.
Hurtado de Mendoza believes she was trained to negotiate with the real, always seeking for a better translation of abstract conceptual ideas into physical space.
A powerful conceptual strategy is, in her opinion, the
vehicle for the synthetic thinking that architecture is.
It is the structure, in the larger sense of the word structure, that allows considering all the disciplinary matters
related to each other; function, location, disposition,
scale, size, material, structural solution, construction,
and also the spatial consequences of a certain form
and the image that it builds.
Hurtado de Mendoza is a graduate of Polytechnic
University, Madrid. She spent one year as a resident
scholar of the Spanish Academy, Rome.
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Alexei Khalizov
BIOCHEMISTRY: Sustainable Environment
Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Environmental Sciences, College of Science and Liberal Arts
Alexei Khalizov received his undergraduate honor
degree in chemistry in 1994 from Bashkir State
University and a Ph.D. in physical chemistry in 1997
from the Ufa Research Center of the Russian Academy
of Sciences. He then spent two years at the Center
studying the reactions of chlorine dioxide and ozone in
non-aqueous solutions and on surfaces. Khalizov
joined the field of atmospheric chemistry during his
2000-2002 NATO/NSERC Postdoctoral Fellowship at
McGill University, where he investigated the oxidation
of atmospheric elemental mercury.
During 2003-2005, Khalizov studied the optical properties and homogeneous freezing of supercooled water
aerosols as a research associate at the University of
Waterloo. Prior to joining NJIT, he was an assistant
research scientist at Texas A&M University.
Khalizov’s current research is primarily focused on the
formation, chemical and physical transformations, and
impacts of atmospheric aerosols. He has published 52
peer-reviewed articles with an h-index of 16 and a total
citation of over 800. He recently received the Research
Productivity Award from the Department of
Atmospheric Sciences and the Dean’s Distinguished
Achievement Award from the College of Geosciences at
Texas A&M University.
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Joerg Kliewer
BIG DATA: Cloud Computing
Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Newark College of Engineering
Joerg Kliewer is an associate professor in the
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
at New Jersey Institute of Technology. His expertise is
in the area of coding and information theory with an
emphasis on physical and link layer security in wireless
networks, networked coordination and cooperation,
data storage, and applications to biological systems. He
is the principal investigator on several research grants
funded by federal funding agencies. He has published
over 110 papers and holds three patents in the area of
signal processing, wireless networks, coding and information theory and has a Google Scholar citation number of over 1,500.
From 1993 to 1998, he was a research assistant at the
University of Kiel in Germany, and from 1999 to 2004,
he was a senior researcher and lecturer with the same
institution. In 2004, he visited the University of
Southampton, Southampton, UK, for one year, and from
2005 until 2007, he was a visiting assistant professor at
the University of Notre Dame. In August 2007, he
joined New Mexico State University as an assistant
professor, where he was promoted to associate professor
in 2013.
Kliewer was the recipient of a Leverhulme Trust Award
and a German Research Foundation Fellowship Award
in 2003 and 2004, respectively. He received the Dean’s
Appreciation Award from the College of Engineering,
New Mexico State University, in 2011. Kliewer is also
an editor of the IEEE Transactions on Communications
and serves as Chair of the Outreach Committee of the
IEEE Information Theory Society.
He received an M.S.E.E. from the Hamburg University
of Technology in 1993 and a Ph.D. in Electrical
Engineering from the University of Kiel in 1999.
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Alexander Kosovichev
SENSING AND CONTROL: Sustainable Environment
Professor of Physics, College of Science and Liberal Arts
Director of Big Bear Solar Observatory
Alexander Kosovichev has over 30 years of experience
of direct involvement in the leading space and groundbased observational programs in heliophysics, theoretical modeling, data analysis and numerical simulations.
Prior to joining New Jersey Institute of Technology, he
was a senior research scientist with the W.W. Hansen
Experimental Physics Laboratory, and the Kavli
Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology at
Stanford University, as well as a co-investigator for two
instruments on the NASA’s space mission Solar
Dynamics Observatory.
He has published over 200 papers in top international
journals including Science, Nature, and Astrophysical
Journal Letters. It is expected that he will broaden and
strengthen the New Solar Telescope at Big Bear Solar
Observatory as a leading world-class observational
facility for studying the sun.
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Joyoung Lee
BIG DATA: Wireless Communication
Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Newark College of Engineering
Joyoung Lee is an assistant professor in the Department
of Civil and Environmental Engineering at New Jersey
Institute of Technology. He is a former laboratory
manager of the Saxton Transportation Operations
Laboratory (STOL) at the Turner-Fairbank Highway
Research Center in the Federal Highway Administration.
Lee’s major research interest lies in Connected Vehicles
(CV) and its applications to 1) traffic management
(i.e., CV-based route guidance system); 2) traffic signal
controls (i.e., CV-based real-time intersection control);
and 3) cooperative vehicle intersection control (CVIC)
for autonomous cars. He is an expert in the area of
simulations modeling including both traffic simulators
(e.g., VISSIM, AIMSUN, and CORSIM) and communications simulators (e.g., OMNeT++ and NCTUns).
Since joining the University of Virginia (UVA) in 2005,
he participated in various research projects requiring
the developments of simulation test-beds to assess the
potential benefits of CV-based applications. Prior to
joining UVA, he had worked as a transportation modeler at the Seoul Development Institute (SDI), a
research council for Seoul Metropolitan Government
(SMG), South Korea.
Lee has authored and co-authored about 30 peerreviewed journal and conference proceeding papers
since 2008. He was awarded the best paper prize of the
14th and 10th PTV VISSIM/VISSUM User Group
Meeting in 2012 and 2008, and the recipient of the
Excellence in Research Award in the Department of
Civil and Environmental Engineering at UVA in 2011.
He obtained his Ph.D. and M.S. degrees from the
University of Virginia in 2010 and 2007, respectively.
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Siva Nadimpalli
SENSING AND CONTROL: Sustainable Environment
Assistant Professor of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, Newark College of Engineering
Siva Nadimpalli believes that there can be a positive
impact on the environment and the economy by replacing conventional automobiles with electric vehicles,
which is possible only when the electric car is affordable
and it can perform on par with a conventional automobile. His research will help attain this goal by developing
durable and high energy density lithium-ion battery
designs, not only for electric vehicles, but also for grid
storage applications.
Nadimpalli’s most recent academic position was
a postdoctoral research associate in the School of
Engineering at Brown University where he focused on
the mechanical behavior of energy storage materials.
He also examined, using experimental techniques, how
mechanics phenomena can affect the electrochemical
performance of lithium-ion batteries.
Nadimpalli has worked in industry. His recent appointment was at Nanowave Technologies Inc. in Toronto,
Canada, where he supported both manufacturing and
product development groups. He performed thermal
and mechanical simulations (using finite element packages) to improve the reliability of the electronic devices
by providing effective cooling designs and by avoiding
fracture/delamination issues. Several years earlier, he
worked for the wind energy group at GE, Bangalore,
India, as a mechanical engineer managing projects
involving fatigue analysis of wind turbine components
and prototype testing of wind turbines.
During his doctoral studies at the University of Toronto,
Nadimpalli developed experimental techniques to characterize fracture behavior of solder joints and printed
circuit boards in commercial microelectronic packages.
He eventually received his doctorate from the University
of Toronto. His bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering is from Andhra University (Vishakhapatnam,
India) and his master’s degree in mechanical engineering
is from the Indian Institute of Science (Bangalore, India).
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Roman S. Voronov
ADVANCED MANUFACTURING PROCESSES: Cellular Systems
Assistant Professor of Otto H. York Department of Chemical, Biological, and Pharmaceutical
Engineering, Newark College of Engineering
Roman S. Voronov is an assistant professor at New
Jersey Institute of Technology. Prior to his appointment, he was an AHA postdoctoral fellow in the
Department of Chemical and Biomolecular
Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania under
the guidance of Professor Scott Diamond. His research
interests encompass high performance image-based
modeling of complex flows with applications ranging
from bone tissue engineering, to blood systems biology,
to drug delivery.
Prior to joining UPenn, Voronov held a brief post-doctoral appointment at the University of Oklahoma (OU)
studying enhanced oil recovery from porous rock formations (Advanced Energy Consortium). He received
his Ph.D. in 2010, an M.S. in 2006, and a B.S. (summa
cum laude with a minor in physics) in 2003 in
Chemical Engineering from OU. His dissertation
research involved optimization of culturing conditions
for artificial bone tissue using computational fluid
dynamics (NSF), and his thesis concentrated on relating
slip phenomena to contact angle on superhydrophobic
surfaces via molecular dynamics (ONR-NAVY).
Throughout his career, Voronov has held several leadership posts at OU, including President and Founder of
the Russian-Speaking Student Association, Graduate
Senator (Peer-elected position, ’05-’06) and Chemical
Engineering Graduate Society Officer. Among the
awards received by Voronov are the NSF Engineering in
Practice Teaching Fellowship, the LBNL-DOE 2009
Advanced Computational Software Collection
Workshop Fellowship, and the OU Outstanding
Graduate Teaching Assistant Award – (Campus-wide,
Spring ’06).
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Antai Wang
BIG DATA: Healthcare Informatics
Associate Professor of Mathematical Sciences, College of Science and Liberal Arts
Antai Wang was previously an assistant professor of
clinical biostatistics in the Department of Biostatistics
and Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center at
Columbia University. His research interests lie in survival analysis and microarray data analysis, specifically
focusing on modeling multivariate survival data and
dependent censored data.
Wang’s extensive collaboration to date with medical
investigators in conducting cancer and epidemiological
research will translate well into further collaboration
opportunities at NJIT both outside and inside the
Department of Mathematics. He is the principal investigator on an NSF project with funding of $140K. He
has more than 30 published papers in peer-review
journals, over 10 of which were published in the last
two years.
Wang received a Ph.D. in statistics from the University
of Rochester.
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OUR MISSION
NJIT is New Jersey’s science and technology university, committed to the pursuit of excellence –
• in undergraduate, graduate, and continuing professional education, preparing students
for productive careers and amplifying their potential for lifelong personal and professional growth;
• in the conduct of research with emphasis on applied, interdisciplinary efforts encompassing architecture, design, the sciences, including the physical and life sciences, engineering, mathematics, and infrastructure systems, computing information and communications technologies and management;
• in service to both its urban environment and the broader society of the city, state,
nation and global community by conducting public policy studies, making educational
opportunities widely available, and initiating community building projects;
• in contributing to economic development through the state’s largest business incubator
system, workforce development, joint ventures with government and the business community, and through the development of intellectual property.
NJIT prepares its graduates for positions of leadership as professionals and as citizens; provides
educational opportunities for a broadly diverse student body; responds to needs of large and
small businesses, state and local governmental agencies, and civic organizations; partners with
educational institutions at all levels to accomplish its mission; and advances the use of sciences,
technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) as a means of improving the quality of life.
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COLLEGES OF
NEW JERSEY INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
Newark College of Engineering
College of Architecture and Design
For more than 90 years, Newark College of Engineering
(NCE) has been preparing engineering students to use
science, technology and problem solving skills to work at
the leading edges of their profession in the private and
public sectors. NCE alumni lead major corporations,
hold senior public positions, own their own businesses,
and educate new generations of students at the nation’s
universities.
In 2008, New Jersey School of Architecture was reconstituted as the College of Architecture and Design (COAD)
encompassing the School of Architecture and the newlycreated School of Art+Design. COAD is recognized for
the innovative integration of digital technology into the
design curriculum. COAD students consistently win
national awards for excellence in design.
School of Management
College of Science and Liberal Arts
The College of Science and Liberal Arts (CSLA) is
moving into the forefront of many national research
activities, from solar astronomy to mathematical modeling.
CSLA provides students with skill sets for the professional
marketplace, including literacy in the mathematical, physical and biological sciences as well as traditional liberal
arts disciplines.
The degree programs and research efforts at NJIT’s
School of Management (SOM) are directed toward
understanding the effects of technology and technological change on business. SOM’s goal is to prepare a new
generation of technology-savvy business leaders who are
ready for the challenges of the continuing technological
revolution.
College of Computing Sciences
Albert Dorman Honors College
Albert Dorman Honors College (ADHC), which began
as a pilot honors program in 1985, became one of the
university’s colleges in 1993. The college today enrolls
nearly 700 of the nation’s most academically accomplished students. The college builds on NJIT’s rigorous
curriculum, offering enriched coursework and seminars
as well as real-world projects with outstanding faculty
researchers and industry leaders. Many of the college’s
students pursue dual degrees and minors to meet their
career goals and interests.
The mission of the College of Computing Sciences
(CCS), which was established in 2001, is to bring education in a broad range of computing disciplines to students on campus and at a distance, to carry out cutting
edge research, and to work closely with industry. The
college offers bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral degrees
in computing science, bioinformatics, human-computer
interaction, and web and information systems, and a
multidisciplinary undergraduate degree in information
technology.
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