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., associate professor of marketing, published a paper titled "Saying No: The Negative Ramifications from Invitation Declines are Less Severe Than We Think" in the American Psychological Association's Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. The paper was accepted for publication on October 9, 2023.
\nAmanda Golden
College of Arts & Sciences / HumanitiesAmanda Golden, Ph.D., associate professor of English in the Department of Humanities, gave a lecture on “Sylvia Plath’s Poetry,” for Koh-Ed Talks, at École Jeannine Manuel, Paris, France, on October 5, 2023.
Deborah Y. Cohn
SOMDeborah Y. Cohn, Ph.D., interim dean and professor of management and marketing studies; Joshua E. Bienstock, L.L.M., J.D., director of the Center for Risk Management and associate professor; Kevin O’Sullivan, director of MS Risk Management and associate professor; and Victoria Neubauer, senior major gift officer, were awarded a 2023 Risk Management and Insurance Course Development Grant on October 2, 2023, for $27,500. The grant will be funded by Spencer Educational Foundation.
Amin Milani Fard
College of Engineering and Computing SciencesAmin Milani Fard, Ph.D., associate professor of computer science, was awarded the Most Influential Paper award at the 23rd IEEE International Conference on Source Code Analysis and Manipulation in Bogotá, Colombia, held on October 2 to 3, 2023. This award is for the paper "JSNose: Detecting JavaScript Code Smells", published 10 years ago at the same venue, for its impact on the research and professional community. The work has been cited over 180 times (33 in top-tier software engineering conferences including ICSE, FSE, ASE, ICSME, ESEM, and journals including TSE, TOSEM, ACM Computing Surveys, Empirical Software Engineering, and JSS, as well as 32 Theses work). JSNose open-source tool has been used by other researchers and developers to enhance the quality and maintenance of web applications.
Askia VanOmmeren
Career Success and Experiential EducationAskia VanOmmeren, assistant director of experiential education, and Denniesia Cameron, associate director of student employment, presented Innovative Programming: Widening the Lens of Inclusive Experiential Education Programs at the Society for Experiential Education's 52nd Annual Conference on September 26, 2023. Their presentation explored how they have widened the lens of New York Tech's experiential education programming to address increasing diversity of the student population. They presented how the International Student Employment Fund and Consultants for the Public Good have aided international students in finding their niches through project-based volunteering, better access to on-campus employment and continual targeted support in their career development.
\nJane Polizzi
College of Engineering and Computing SciencesJane Polizzi,, assistant dean, administration and operations, College of Engineering and Computing Sciences, will represent New York Tech at the National Association of College and University Business Officers (NACUBO). On September 25, 2023, it announced the 2023–2024 cohort of the Emerging Leaders Program, a professional development experience for promising mid-level managers in higher education business and finance. Seventy-three business officers at member institutions were selected for the program, which helps participants enhance their leadership skills, expand their cross-campus relationships, and build their professional network. Designed for business officers who want to advance in higher education business and finance, the program focuses on higher education business models and financial communications.
Pablo Lorenzo-Eiroa
SoADPablo Lorenzo-Eiroa, M.Arch., associate professor of architecture, was interviewed in Ethic Magazine on September 11, 2023, in relation to his recent book: Digital Signifiers on an Architecture of Information: From Big Data and Simulation to Artificial Intelligence. He described the danger of AI exponential growth but also the speculation of a digital feudalism in creating advantages for their models to expand; he focused on AI replication of data bias and the effect of human behavior.
Dong-Sei Kim
SOAD/Department of ArchitectureDongsei Kim, M.Des., assistant professor of architecture, will be serving as one of the \nco-chairs of the Korean Studies seminar, one of "The University Seminars" at Columbia University, beginning on September 21, 2023. The seminar series is an ongoing community of partnerships, each of which is constituted by scholars from multiple academic departments and disciplines, often including experts from outside academia, devoted to the study of an institution, practice, or issue of theoretical and practical importance.
Evan Shieh
School of Architecture & DesignEvan Shieh, M.AUD., assistant professor of architecture, and Dongsei Kim, M.Des., assistant professor of architecture, exhibited their collaborative proposal "Productive Han-Ga-Ram: the Han River as an Ecological & Cultural Madang (Frontyard)” at the 2023 Seoul Biennale of Architecture & Urbanism, on display from September 1 to October 29. The exhibition was created in collaboration with MMK+, Strange Works Studio, and Terrain Work. It aims to transform Seoul's Han River into a new central hub for the city by utilizing a kit-of-parts approach that adapts existing bridges and riverfronts. The result is a performative, productive, and social infrastructure that addresses the hydrological impacts of the climate crisis while sparking sociopolitical changes for the next 100 years in Seoul.
Babak Beheshti
Engineering and Computing SciencesBabak D. Beheshti, Ph.D., dean of the New York Tech College of Engineering and Computing Sciences, was interviewed for a September 1, 2023, article on climate change and connectivity and was quoted several times in the article entitled "Harnessing Digital Connectivity and 5G To Support Clean Tech," featured on the IEEE Climate Change website.
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