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.
Robert Amundsen
College of Engineering and Computing SciencesRobert N. Amundsen, Ph.D., associate professor and chair of the Department of Energy Management, presented “Disguised Infrastructure: Minimizing Visual Impacts” at the American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting, on February 27, 2022.
Briana Bronchick
Strategic CommunicationsBriana Bronchick, director of marketing, was featured in a case study titled "How New York Tech Drove Open House Registrations with Hulu Ad Manager," in which New York Tech was highlighted for using Hulu’s new ad management tool to enhance awareness and drive registrations to virtual Open House events, on February 22, 2022. Briana was one of the first users of this tool, which allowed us to be very targeted in reaching our primary audiences of prospective students and parents through the streaming TV space.
Chinmoy Bhattacharjee
PhysicsChinmoy Bhattacharjee, Ph.D., assistant professor of physics, published his paper, "Beltrami–Bernoulli equilibria in weakly rotating self-gravitating fluid," to Cambridge Core's Journal of Plasma Physics, on February 22, 2022. Bhattacharjee's work outlines the fluid velocity profile in a rotating self-gravitating star in presence of a "magnetic-type" gravitational field.
Colleen Kirk
School of ManagementColleen P. Kirk, D.P.S., associate professor of marketing, published her research paper entitled "It's Not Fair! Consumers' Reactions to Sharing Platforms when They Get Reviewed" in the proceedings of the American Marketing Association Winter Academic Conference (Las Vegas, NV), on February 19, 2022.
Claude Gagna
College of Arts & SciencesClaude E. Gagna, Ph.D., professor of biological and chemical sciences, published his abstract, "New omics platform - nucleic acid structural spatial genome organization, i.e., genomesorganizomics: multiplex immunofluorescent demonstration of B-DNA, Z-DNA, and quadruplex DNA," in the Biophysical Journal, on February 11, 2022. The abstract describes a novel method which demonstrated, for the first time, the spatial genomic organization of three different DNAs concurrently in human tissues; a technique that will help researchers better understand gene expression.
\n\nAmanda Golden
College of Arts and SciencesAmanda Golden, Ph.D., associate professor of English, Department of Humanities, gave a talk on "Reading Sylvia Plath Now," hosted virtually by Bedlam Book Cafe. The event was also the paperback launch of Golden's monograph, Annotating Modernism: Marginalia and Pedagogy from Virginia Woolf to the Confessional Poets, on February 11, 2022.
Wenjia Li
CoECS/Computer ScienceWenjia Li, Ph.D., associate professor of computer science, has recently published a conference paper titled "AdversarialDroid: A Deep Learning based Malware Detection Approach for Android System Against Adversarial Example Attacks" on February 10, 2022. In this paper, co-authored by Giuseppe D'Ambrosio, an NSF REU student that he advised during the summer of 2021, they propose a deep learning-based approach to identify malware for the Android system in the presence of adversarial example attacks. This research is partially supported by National Science Foundation Grant (No. CNS-1852316).
Claude Gagna
College of Arts & SciencesClaude E. Gagna, Ph.D., professor of biological and chemical sciences, published his article, "Otto Warburg versus Molecular Biologists: Who Is Correct About Human Carcinogenesis, and Why Does It Matter to Dermatologists?," concerning a new approach to cancer research, based on the work of the famous biochemist, Otto H. Warburg, and his hypothesis, i.e., the Warburg Effect, in Skinmed on February 3, 2022. The article focuses on how this approach to determine the origins of human cancer, which are still not fully understood, applies to pathologies of human skin.
Venugopal Prabhakar Gantasala
School of ManagementVenugopal Prabhakar Gantasala, Ph.D., associate professor and M.B.A. program director, Trinh La, and Swapna Bhargavi Gantasala, Ph.D., assistant professor of management, published a research article titled "Influence of motivation on achieving energy sustainability: mediating effects of decision-making" in Environment Systems and Decisions, on February 3, 2022.
Shaya Sheikh
School of ManagementShaya Sheikh, Ph.D., associate professor of quantitative and analytics, published his paper, "An integrated decision support system for multi-target forecasting: A case study of energy load prediction for a solar-powered residential house," in Computers & Industrial Engineering, on February 1, 2022.