Batu K. Chalise, Ph.D., assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering, was been appointed to serve as an editor of IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, a major archival journal that advances the theory and applications of wireless communication systems and networks, on December 7, 2021.

Anand Santhanakrishnan, Ph.D., assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering, along with faculty members from Stevens Institutes of Technology, were part of a team that was awarded first prize in the Hyperspace Challenge, a business accelerator run by the Air Research Laboratory and CNM Ingenuity as part of the U.S. Space Force’s new SpaceWERX program, on December 2, 2021. The team, using algorithms that are sixty percent more efficient than state-of-the-art methods, is working to develop an artificial ​intelligence-based system to continuously optimize how earth-based sensors track space objects and anticipate collisions to reduce “space jam” (satellite collisions and traffic).

Batu K. Chalise, Ph.D., assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering, was awarded 2021 IEEE Region 1 Technological Innovation (Academic) Award on October 4, 2021, for his technical contributions in signal processing and optimization for joint radar sensing and communications.

Batu 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, Ph.D., assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering, had his article, “Quantitative microstructural investigation of 3-D-printed and cast cement pastes using micro-computed tomography,” 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.

Babak D. Beheshti, Ph.D., dean of the NYIT College of Engineering and Computing Sciences, was featured as an Impact Creator in IEEE Transmitter 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.

Sophia Domokos, Ph.D., assistant professor of physics, presented her paper "A Pedagogical Introduction to Holographic Hadrons," at the AAPT Summer Meeting on June 25, 2021. The paper, co-written by Robert Bell, Ph.D., visiting assistant professor of mathematics, and two New York Tech undergrads, Trinh La, and Patrick Mazza, describes how string theory's holographic duality can be translated into the language of quantum mechanics.

Yusui Chen, Ph.D., assistant professor of physics, published an article entitled “Stochastic Schrödinger equation derivation of non‑Markovian two‑time correlation functions” in Scientific Reports on June 4, 2021. This research work, co-authored by Peng Zhao, a New York Tech CoECS master's student, demonstrated two-time correlation functions in a non-equilibrium environment and revealed the significant differences beyond the results from a traditional quantum regression theory. This work, as the start of a research project on quantum chemistry/biology, has paved the way for applying non-equilibrium quantum theories in chemical and biological systems.

Batu K. Chalise, Ph.D., assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering, and Moeness Amin, Ph.D. of Villanova University have been awarded $240,000 from the Army Research Laboratory as part of a research subcontract from Alion Science and Technology on April 14, 2021. Chalise and Amin will share the funding, which could potentially increase up to $780,000 over the period of next four years, to conduct research on “Distributed Sensing, Estimation, and System Configurability in Cognitive Radar Network.”

Yusui Chen, Ph.D., assistant professor of physics, published an article entitled “Impact of the central frequency of environment on non-Markovian dynamics in piezoelectric optomechanical devices” in Scientific Reports on March 10, 2021. This research work, co-authored by Peng Zhao, a New York Tech CoECS master's student and research assistant in the lab of Aydin Farajidavar, Ph.D., discovers a quantitative relation between the central frequency of the environment and the behavior of quantum entanglement in the steady-state of the piezoelectric optomechanical devices in the presence of a non-Markovian environment, which can be applied in the fields of electric/ optical switches and implantable devices, and long-distance distribution in a large-scale quantum network.