Labs & Facilties

See how classroom theory translates into applied research in our advanced on-campus labs and facilities. You’ll work with the same tools and equipment used by computer scientists, engineers, and other industry professionals, gaining critical hands-on experience and proficiencies. Read more below and in our brochure.

Lab Name	Applied Signal and Image Processing (ASIP) Laboratory
Location	Long Island Campus, HSH 222
Director
Areas of Interest	Biomedical Image Processing Statistical Pattern Recognition Computer Vision Biomedical Imaging Sparse Representations and Compressed Sensing Deep Learning and Convolutional Neural Networks Graphical Models
Active Projects	Error Quantification in Particle Image Velocimetry Deep Learning for Scanning Electron Microscope Data Processing

Lab Name	Bioenvironmental Laboratory
Location	Long Island Campus, Wastewater Treatment Plant and Theobald Hall Room 411
Director	David Nadler, Ph.D.
Areas of Interest	Water Quality Management and Pollution Control Technologies to Reduce Receiving Water Impacts Urban Food Security Bioremediation & Phytoremediation Biological Nutrient Removal from Wastewater Environmental, Health and Safety Management Safety Engineering Using Virtual Reality
Active Projects	Fate Analysis of Perfluorooctanoic Acid (PFOA) New York City Department of Environmental Protection Wastewater Treatment Study

Lab Name	Bio-Nanotechnology and Biomaterials (BNB) Laboratory
Location	Long Island Campus, Theobald Science Center 411
Director	Azhar Ilyas, Ph.D.
Areas of Interest	Microfabrication and 3-D printing Microfluidics and Cell Sorting Electrophysical Analysis of Diseased Cells Bioactive Coatings and Bioinks Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering
Active Projects	Microfluidic Devices for Tagless Identification/Quantification of Diseased Cells Nanofabricated and 3-D Printed Materials for Rapid Bone Healing Development of Highly Sensitive Novel Biosensors for Molecular Detection

Lab Name	Biological Sciences and Bioengineering (BSB) Laboratory
Location	Long Island Campus, Theobald Science Center
Director	Disease Diagnostics and Structural Biomaterials for Bone Regeneration Bacteriophages and Viruses? Therapeutic Effect to Treat Bacterial Infections Synthetic Biology Approaches: How Nervous Systems Encode Behaviors? Fate Analysis of Emerging Contaminants in Water and Soil

Lab Name	Computational Mechanics and Multiphysics Phenomena Laboratory
Location	Long Island Campus, HSH 117B
Director
Areas of Interest	Solid Mechanics Ferroelectrics Urban Food Security Fracture Mechanics Micromagnetics Phase-Field Methods Fluid-Structure Interaction
Active Projects	Phenomenological and Phase-Field Modeling of Multiferroic Nanostructures Vascular Mechanics and Hemodynamics

Lab Name	Energy and Green Technologies Laboratory (ENTECH Lab)
Location	Long Island Campus, HSH 103
Director	Ehsan Kamel, Ph.D.
Areas of Interest	Physics-Based Building Energy Modeling (BEM) Using Computer Simulation Tools and Building Information Modeling Decision-Making Units in Energy-Smart Buildings Design and Evaluation of Zero-Net-Energy (ZNE) Buildings Through Building Energy Retrofit Application of Multi-Functional Sensors for Data-Driven Energy Modeling
Active Projects	Physics-Based Building Energy Model ? Anna Rubin Hall Multifunctional Sensors in DataDriven Building Energy Modeling Using Machine Learning Techniques Physics-Based Building Energy Model ? Smart Energy House

Lab Name	Entrepreneurship and Technology Innovation Center (ETIC)
Location	Long Island Campus, HSH 107
Director	Michael Nizich, Ph.D.
Active Projects	Technology Skills Workshop Hackathon Series Internship Preparation Program Technology Design Challenge Series Student Entrepreneurship Program

Lab Name	Integrated Medical Systems (IMS) Laboratory
Location	Long Island Campus, HSH 222
Director
Areas of Interest	Biomedical Image Processing Statistical Pattern Recognition Computer Vision Biomedical Imaging Sparse Representations and Compressed Sensing Deep Learning and Convolutional Neural Networks Graphical Models
Active Projects	Error Quantification in Particle Image Velocimetry Deep Learning for Scanning Electron Microscope Data Processing

Lab Name	Xueqing Huang, Ph.D.
Location	Long Island Campus, HSH 226A
Director	Xueqing Huang, Ph.D.
Areas of Interest	Wireless Networking Mobile Edge Computing Internet of Things (IoT) Applications Mathematical Programming Data-Driven Optimization
Active Projects	Crowdsourced Video Generation and Distribution at Mobile Edge Physical Layer Security for IoT Networks Intelligent Cell Maturation Monitoring and Promotion System

Lab Name	MicroSensor Laboratory
Location	Long Island Campus, HSH, B19B
Director	Fang Li, Ph.D.
Areas of Interest	Acoustic Wave Sensors PiezoelectricTransducers Stretchable Electronics Lab-on-a-Chip Devices
Active Projects	A Lab-on-Chip Device for Promoting Stem Cell Maturation Signals in the Soil Wireless SAW Sensor System for Cryogenic Temperature and Pressure Sensing

Lab Name	Optical Diagnostics Laboratory
Location	Long Island Campus, HSH B14A
Director	James Scire, Ph.D.
Areas of Interest	Pulsed Digital Holography Thermal Imaging Active and Passive Infrared Spectral Measurements
Active Projects	High-Speed Digital Holography of Acoustic Levitation

Lab Name	Radar and Communications Laboratory (RADCOM)
Location	Long Island Campus, HSH 212
Director	Batu Chalise, Ph.D.
Areas of Interest	Joint Radar and Communications Systems Passive Radar Systems Physical Layer Security/Authentication Signal Processing Techniques for 5G and Beyond 5G Systems Optimization and Machine Learning
Active Projects	Joint Radar and Communications Systems Passive Radar Systems Signal Processing and Security for 5G Systems

Lab Name	Thermo-Fluid and Instrumentation Research Lab
Location	Long Island Campus, Theobald Hall Room 411
Director	Tindaro Ioppolo, Ph.D.
Areas of Interest	Dynamics of Unsteady Separated Turbulent Boundary Layer Development of Skin Friction Sensors for Low Speed and Hypersonic Speed Shock Wave Induced by Laser Pulses for Flow Control Dynamics of Air Bubble Formation During Water Entry of Objects Laser-Based Diagnostic
Active Projects	Characterization of Turbulent, Unsteady Separation Using Photonic Micro-Skin Friction and Wall Pressure Sensors (Army Research Office) Fabrication of Skin Friction Sensors Based on the Morphology Department Optical Resonances (Army Research Office) Gas Leak Detection Using Colored Nano/Micro-Particles Phase 2 (NYSEARCH/NGA)

Lab Name	Applied Electromagnetics Research Lab
Location	New York City Campus, EGGC, 801A
Director	Reza K. Amineh, Ph.D.
Areas of Interest	Biomedical Imaging Nondestructive Testing of Materials? Water/Soil Quality Sensing RF/Microwave Circuit Design Wireless Power Transfer Security Screening Wireless Communications Underground Imaging RF/Microwave Component Design
Active Projects	Fast and Robust Nondestructive Testing of Cylindrical Composite Components Based on Microwave Measurements (Supported by NSF) Autonomous Soil Nutrient Sensing System (Supported by NSF) Material Characterization With a Microwave Sensor Array: Application to Water Quality Sensing (Supported by New York Tech?s ISRC)

Lab Name	Biomedical Data Analysis Research Laboratory
Location	New York Campus, EGGC, 801
Director	Maryam Ravan, Ph.D.
Areas of Interest	Epilepsy Schizophrenia Major Depression Disorder Autism Spectrum Disorder Bipolar Disorder Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Stroke Cerebral Palsy Spinal Cord Injury
Active Projects	Developing Machine Learning Algorithms to Diagnose Schizophrenia and Predict the Response to Clozapine Therapy (Supported by New York Tech?s ISRC) Developing a Machine Learning Approach to Investigate the Brain Connectivity in Autistic Children and the Effect of Six Weeks’ Physical and Cognitive Therapy (Supported by New York Tech?s ISRC) Developing a Robust Brain Source Localization Technique to Identify Seizure Onset Developing Brain-Computer Interface Systems to Control Devices

Lab Name	Circuits, Networks, and Systems (CNS) Laboratory
Location	New York Campus, EGGC, 801
Director	Nabi Sertac Artan, Ph.D.
Areas of Interest	Implantable, Wearable, Point-of-Care and Assistive Devices Low-Power Circuit and System Design Wireless Power Transfer Data Converters High-Speed Networking and Network Security
Active Projects	Adaptive Data Converters Wireless Power Transfer to Implantable Devices

Lab Name	Human-Centric Data Analytics Laboratory
Location	New York Campus, EGGC 801A
Director	Houwei Cao, Ph.D
Areas of Interest	Data Science Machine Learning Speech and Natural Learning Processing
Active Projects	Multimodal Learning for Real-World Emotion Recognition Data-Driven Approaches to Edge Caching Sentiment Analysis and Opinion Mining in Social Media Urban Air Quality Prediction

Lab Name	LAMP – Laboratory for Behavioral Authentication, Machine Learning, and Privacy
Location	New York Campus, EGGC, 604; Long Island Campus, HSH 212
Director	Paolo Gasti, Ph.D. & Kiran Balagani, Ph.D.
Active Projects	Leveraging Movement, Posture, and Anthropometric Contexts to Strengthen the Security of Mobile Biometrics (Sponsored by NSF) Toward Energy-Efficient PrivacyPreserving Active Authentication of Smartphone Users (Sponsored by NSF)

Lab Name	Medical Informatics and Data Analytics Laboratory
Location	New York Campus, EGGC, 811
Director	Huanying Gu, Ph.D.
Areas of Interest	Biomedical Ontology Medical Informatics Data Analytics and Data Mining Object-Oriented Modeling
Active Projects	Structural and Semantic Methodologies for Enhancing Biomedical Terminologies Gait Study of Parkinson?s Disease Subjects

Lab Name	Wenjia Li, Ph.D..
Location	New York Campus, EGGC, 807
Director	Wenjia Li, Ph.D.
Areas of Interest	Security, Trust and Policies for Wireless Networks/Applications Vehicular Networks, Internet of Things,? Cyber-Physical Systems Security of Mobile Devices/Systems Malware Detection for Android Systems, Particularly in Presence of Machine Learning Attacks Security/Trust for Blockchain and Applications
Active Projects	Secure and Trustworthy Data Management for Intelligent Transportation System Malware Detection for Mobile System Against Adversarial Machine Learning Attacks

Lab Name	Network and Innovation Laboratory
Location	New York Campus, EGGC, 402
Director	Ziqian Dong, Ph.D.
Areas of Interest	High Performance Computer Networks and Wireless Sensor Networks Network Security and Forensics Assistive Medical Devices Innovation For Sustainability and Resilience of Both Natural and Built Environment
Active Projects	Food, Energy, and Water Nexus Signals in the Soil Assistive Medical Devices City-as-Lab Research Coordination Network (RCN) Geolocation Project

Lab Name	Network Resource and Security Lab (NRSL)
Location	New York Campus, EGGC, Room 803
Director	Anand Santhanakrishnan, Ph.D.
Areas of Interest	Blockchains for 5G Spectrum and Power Management Impact of Net Neutrality Repeal and Its Impacts Communication Infrastructure for Connected Vehicular Networks Data Reliability in Internet of Things (IoT)? Rumor Spread in Social Media and Influence on Pandemics Dynamics of Information Consumption in Internet Media
Active Projects	Spectrum Management for Successful Mission Completion in Tactical Networks (Supported by US Airforce Research Lab) Geolocation of IP Hosts in Large, Congested Computer Networks (Funded by NSF REU) Role of User Interaction in Information Spread in Social Media

Labs & Facilties

Long Island Campus

Applied Signal and Image Processing (ASIP) Laboratory

Bioenvironmental Laboratory

Bio-Nanotechnology and Biomaterials (BNB) Laboratory

Biological Sciences and Bioengineering (BSB) Laboratory

Computational Mechanics and Multiphysics Phenomena Laboratory

Energy and Green Technologies Laboratory (ENTECH Lab)

Entrepreneurship and Technology Innovation Center (ETIC)

Integrated Medical Systems (IMS) Laboratory

Intelligent Mobile Edge (IME) Laboratory

MicroSensor Laboratory

Optical Diagnostics Laboratory

Radar and Communications Laboratory (RADCOM)

Thermo-Fluid and Instrumentation Research Lab

New York City Campus

Applied Electromagnetics Research Lab

Biomedical Data Analysis Research Laboratory

Circuits, Networks, and Systems (CNS) Laboratory

Human-Centric Data Analytics Laboratory

LAMP – Laboratory for Behavioral Authentication, Machine Learning, and Privacy

Medical Informatics and Data Analytics Laboratory

Mobile Systems and Network Security (MOBISEC) Laboratory

Network and Innovation Laboratory

Network Resource and Security Lab (NRSL)