Ziqian (Cecilia) Dong, Ph.D., associate professor of electrical and computer engineering, oversaw NYIT's ten-week Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) program, which provides opportunities for motivated, talented undergraduate students to collaborate with faculty and graduate students on cybersecurity research for smartphones and their networks.

Sarah Meyland, Ph.D., associate professor of environmental technology and sustainability, presented "Water Use and the Cost of Drinking Water on LI, NY 2017" at the 2017 Groundwater Summit on May 5, 2017, in Huntington Station, New York.

Babak Dastgheib-Beheshti, Ph.D., associate dean and professor of telecommunications and electrical and computer engineering technology, presented "Linux Kernel OS Local Root Exploit" at the 2017 IEEE Long Island Systems, Applications and Technology Conference (LISAT2017), May 5, 2017, in Farmingdale, New York.

Robert Amundsen, Ph.D., associate professor and chair of the Department of Energy Management, was featured in two articles: "Relying on Wind Power Could Cost Long Island" in Long Island Business News on May 2, 2017; and "Offshore Wind Farm May not Meet Peak Summer Demand on South Fork" in Newsday on April 16, 2017.

Aydin Farajidavar, Ph.D., assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering, co-authored an abstract, "A Novel System and Methodology for Continuous Ambulatory Monitoring of Gastric Slow Waves," which was selected by The American Gastroenterological Association (AGA) as a Poster of Distinction for presentation during the organization's upcoming Digestive Disease Week (DDW) in May 2017 in Chicago, Ill. It was rated in the top 10 percent of all AGA abstracts selected for poster presentation at the event. DDW is the largest event in the gastroenterological field, with more than 14,000 attendees annually and more than 5,400 original lectures and poster/oral presentations.

Ziqian (Cecilia) Dong, Ph.D., associate professor of electrical and computer engineering, had her paper, "Indoor Localization Framework with WiFi Fingerprinting," presented at the 26th IEEE Wireless and Optical Communications Conference (WOCC 2017), April 7–8, 2017, by her co-author, NYIT graduate student and NYIT Research Experience for Undergraduates Fellow Rajan Khullar.

Sarah Meyland, M.S., associate professor of environmental technology and sustainability, gave a public testimony in person and in writing at the hearing by the Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) for New York City regarding the opening of NYC wells in Jamaica, Queens on June 2017.

Anand Santhanakrishnan, Ph.D.,assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering, co-authored "Joint Spectrum and Energy Efficiency in Device to Device Communication Enabled Wireless Networks," which was published in IEEE Transactions on Cognitive Communications and Networks (March 2017). The project was funded by an NYIT ISRC grant.

Fang Li, Ph.D., assistant professor of mechanical engineering, recently co-authored three journal papers: "The Influence of the Electrode Dimension on the Detection Sensitivity of Electric Cell-Substrate Impedance Sensing (ECIS) and its Mathematical Modeling" in Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical ; "Simulation Study of MEMS Piezoelectric Vibration Energy Harvester Based on C-Axis Tilted AlN Thin Film for Performance Improvement" in AIP Advances; and "A Novel Ropes-Driven Wideband Piezoelectric Vibration Energy Harvester" in Applied Sciences.

Paolo Gasti, Ph.D., assistant professor of computer science, co-authored "Privacy-Aware Caching in Information-Centric Networking," which was published in the March 8, 2017, issue of IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing. The article evaluates "some efficient countermeasures [against timing attacks] that offer quantifiable privacy guarantees while retaining the benefits of ICN [Information-Centric Networking]."