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.
Rajendram Rajnarayanan
NYITCOM at Arkansas StateRajendram Rajnarayanan, Ph.D., assistant dean of research and associate professor at NYITCOM-Arkansas, was interviewed and featured in Outbreak.info, a project of The Scripps Research Institute, on September 21, 2021. In the article, Rajnarayanan discusses how biomedical scientists from NYITCOM-Arkansas are using data to increase COVID-19 testing, vaccinations, and health literacy in rural Arkansas, where thousands of people lack easy access to health care and health education, including information on COVID-19 and emerging variants.
Marcelle Hicks
Enrollment ManagementMarcelle Hicks, M.A., senior director of undergraduate admissions, was selected on September 8, 2021, to join the 15-member Applications Advisory Committee of the Common Application, a central application system used by more than 900 member colleges and universities around the U.S. and the world. Hicks will serve a three-year term and will assist the Common Application to expand its commitment to access equity and integrity in the college admissions process, and address issues impacting students, school counselors, and member institutions.
Amy Bravo
Career Success and Experiential Education in Student Engagement and DevelopmentAmy Bravo, M.A., senior director of career success and experiential education, was awarded the Engagement Award for Building Resilient Communities between New York Institute of Technology and Let's Talk Safety, Inc. in Harlem, on September 8, 2021.
Chinmoy Bhattacharjee
PhysicsChinmoy Bhattacharjee, Ph.D., assistant professor of physics, published his paper, Gravitomagnetic vorticity generation in black hole accretion discs: a potential spatial constraint on plasma flow stability, to Oxford Academic's Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, on September 4, 2021.\nBhattacharjee's paper proposes a new source of magnetic field and flow generation near a Black hole accretion disk. This new source is a consequence of a general relativistic effect called frame dragging which churns the background space and time near a Black hole. Bhattacharjee's result provides a mathematical basis to a phenomena predicted back in 1992 by the astronomers.
Batu Chalise
College of Engineering and Computing SciencesBatu 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
Electrical and Computer EngineeringAhmadreza 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.
Sophia Domokos
College of Arts and Sciences/PhysicsSophia Domokos, Ph.D., assistant professor of physics, had her paper "Holographic hadron masses in the language of quantum mechanics," published in the European Journal of Physics on August 23, 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 to translate aspects of string theory's mathematically and conceptually complex "holographic duality" into the simpler language of quantum mechanics.
.Amanda Golden
College of Arts & Sciences EnglishAmanda Golden, Ph.D., associate professor of English, Department of Humanities, was Interviewed for two episodes of the podcast Ear Read This on August 13, 2021. One episode focused on the poem “The Colossus” (1959) by Sylvia Plath, and the second episode focused on Golden's monograph, Annotating Modernism: Marginalia and Pedagogy from Virginia Woolf to the Confessional Poets (2020): “'It is Sort of Taboo': Amanda Golden on Writing in the Margins."
Babak Dastgheib-Beheshti
College of Engineering and Computing SciencesBabak 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.
Marta Panero
SCEAMarta Panero, Ph.D., executive director of external affairs, SCEA, was invited to join the Steering Committee of the NYC STEM Education Network on August 10, 2021. During her two-year tenure, she will help strengthen the Network's cross-sector collaborations between city agencies, youth development and education-focused organizations, higher education institutions, museums, cultural institutions, and long-term private funders. Marta's work will effectively make the city’s rich array of STEM learning opportunities more accessible to young people, and help build the capacity of after-school programs to deliver STEM. The Network also creates links to other sub-components of the city’s STEM ecosystem, such as NYC Urban Advantage, the NYC Hive Network, Queens 2020, and the STEM Educators Academy.