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.
Colleen Kirk
School of ManagementColleen P. Kirk, D.P.S., professor of marketing, was quoted in a Newsday article about consumer holiday spending trends. The article was published on November 28, 2025.
Colleen Kirk
School of ManagementColleen P. Kirk, D.P.S., professor of marketing, published an article entitled "AI Ghostwriting Remorse: Guilt for Using Generative AI in Interpersonal Heartfelt Messages" in the Journal of Consumer Behaviour, a peer-reviewed journal, on November 14, 2025. As consumers increasingly use generative AI tools like ChatGPT to write personal, emotionally meaningful messages, this research finds that doing so elicits guilt because it feels dishonest. Five preregistered experiments show elevated guilt when AI secretly writes a message, but not when using a standard greeting card. The results highlight dishonesty concerns in generative AI-assisted communication and suggest transparency and co-creation can reduce discomfort.
Lynn Rogoff
College of Arts and SciencesLynn Rogoff, M.F.A., adjunct associate professor of English, Department of Humanities, was featured in USA Today's Native American Heritage Month 2025 Special Edition, on November 7, 2025, highlighting her film, Bird Woman, and AI chatbots made with the help of a New York Tech grant.
Jeffrey Raven
School of Architecture and Design, MS.AUD ProgramJeffrey Raven, Ph.D., associate professor and director of the graduate program in architecture, urban and regional design, published a book, Planning, Urban Design, and Architecture for Climate Action, with the Cambridge University Press, on November 5, 2025. The peer-reviewed work contains benchmarked knowledge and city projections for urban climate change researchers, city practitioners, and policy makers at all levels of governance to motivate rapid action.
Zohre Bairieva
School of Architecture and DesignThe Hyatt Regency hotel, located on the waterfront in Jersey City, N.J., selected artworks created by Zohre Bairieva, administrative specialist of graduate programs at the School of Architecture and Design, for an exhibition in the hotel on November 1, 2025. The exhibition is a permanent display of works from local artists, including paintings, drawings, handmade accessories, jewelry, and other artisanal items.
Wenyao Hu
School of ManagementWenyao Hu, Ph.D., CFA, , assistant professor of accounting and finance at the School of Management, presented “Muted Transparency: The Unexpected Role of Free Speech Protection in Corporate Obfuscation” at the 2025 Financial Management Association Annual Meeting in Vancouver on October 22, 2025. The study examines how state anti-SLAPP laws affect corporate disclosure practices. Using a difference-in-differences approach with earnings call transcripts, the research shows that firms increase language complexity after the enactment of these laws, especially those with greater flexibility or powerful CEOs.
Robert Amundsen
College of Engineering and Computing SciencesRobert N. Amundsen, Ph.D., associate professor and chair of the Department of Energy Management, presented “Grid Modernization: Infrastructure, Workforce and Reliability” at the International Conference on Engineering, Science and Technology, October 16–19, 2025, in Los Angeles, Calif.
Amanda Golden
College of Arts and SciencesAmanda Golden, Ph.D., associate professor of English in the Department of Humanities, presented "Robert Lowell and The New Yorker" on the roundtable, "Midcentury Boston Poetic Infrastructures: Robert Lowell, Sylvia Plath, and Anne Sexton" at the Modernist Studies Association Conference in Boston, Mass., October 9–12, 2025. She also chaired the panel, "Archive as Infrastructure: Rerouting Modernist Paradigms." Golden served as a mentor for an early-career researcher at the conference, as part of a new program. Golden was a member of the conference organizing committee and is now vice president of the Modernist Studies Association. The conference marked the end of her year as second vice president, the first in a three-year term concluding with president.
Colleen Kirk
School of ManagementColleen P. Kirk, D.P.S., professor of marketing, presented research at the prestigious Association for Consumer Research conference in Washington, D.C. on October 10, 2025. She reported on two of her papers: "The Art of Buying: Exploring the Paradox of Fame in Consumer Valuation of Art-Infused Products" and "My Feedback Is Better than Yours: Are Narcissistic Consumers More Likely to Respond to Survey Invitations?" New York Tech graduate research assistant Berke Cinar (M.B.A. '24) was a co-author of the latter.
Chinmoy Bhattacharjee
College of Arts and SciencesChinmoy Bhattacharjee, Ph.D., assistant professor of physics in the College of Arts and Sciences, published a paper, "Formation of multiscale structures in a self-gravitating dusty plasma with matter current," in the Physical Review E journal, his fourth single-author paper in this journal, on October 9, 2025. The article explores the structure of magnetic and flow fields in dusty plasmas. It illuminates the impact of Einstein's theory of general relativity in dusty plasmas, which is critical for star formation in the universe.