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.
Pejman Sanaei
College of Arts & Sciences MathPejman Sanaei, Ph.D., assistant professor of mathematics, had his research paper, “On the Performance of Multilayered Membrane Filters“ published in the Journal of Engineering Mathematics on March 20, 2021.
Pejman Sanaei
College of Arts & Sciences MathPejman Sanaei, Ph.D., assistant professor of mathematics, gave a talk and chaired a focus session at the American Physical Society March Meeting on March 17, 2021.
Yusui Chen
CASYusui Chen, Ph.D., assistant professor of physics, gave a talk about the research on superconducting piezoelectric-optomechanical materials at the American Physical Society March Meeting on March 17, 2021.
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College of Arts & Sciences College of Arts & Sciences PhysicsYusui Chen, Ph.D., assistant professor of physics, published an article entitled “Impact of the central frequency of environment on non-Markovian dynamics in piezoelectric optomechanical devices” in Scientific Reports on March 10, 2021. This research work, co-authored by Peng Zhao, a New York Tech CoECS master's student and research assistant in the lab of Aydin Farajidavar, Ph.D., discovers a quantitative relation between the central frequency of the environment and the behavior of quantum entanglement in the steady-state of the piezoelectric optomechanical devices in the presence of a non-Markovian environment, which can be applied in the fields of electric/ optical switches and implantable devices, and long-distance distribution in a large-scale quantum network.
Michael Nizich
Michael Nizich, Ph.D., adjunct associate professor of computer science and director of the Entrepreneurship and Technology Innovation Center (ETIC), recently had a book chapter published in The Emerald Handbook of Blockchain for Business on March 9, 2021, by Emerald Publishing. The chapter, “Considerations for Blockchain Adoption and Integration,” was co-authored by former student and ETIC grad assistant, Michael Campisi.
Kevin LaGrandeur
College of Arts & Sciences College of Arts & Sciences EnglishKevin LaGrandeur, Ph.D., professor of English, chaired a panel and gave a presentation, “Are We Ready for Direct Brain Links to AI and Implanted Memory Chips?,” at the Conference on Human Enhancement: Cognitive, Moral and Mood on March 2, 2021. The conference was based in Belgrade, Serbia and sponsored by The Center for the Study of Bioethics and the University of Oxford's Wellcome Centre for Ethics and Humanities.
Milan Toma
College of Osteopathic Medicine / Dept. of Osteopathic Manipulative MedicineMilan Toma, Ph.D., assistant professor of clinical sciences and two NYITCOM students, Jonathan Arias and Gregory D. Kurgansk, published their paper, “Fluid–Structure Interaction Analyses of Biological Systems Using Smoothed-Particle Hydrodynamics” in Biology on March 2, 2021.
Milan Toma
College of Osteopathic Medicine / Department of Osteopathic Manipulative MedicineMilan Toma, Ph.D., assistant professor of clinical sciences, Michael Nizich, Ph.D., adjunct associate professor of computer science and director of the Entrepreneurship and Technology Innovation Center (ETIC), and two CoECS students Y. H. Pandya and D. Dongre have published a paper titled, “Assessing Forces Exerted on Horses Using Varying Riding Crops,” in the Journal of Equine Veterinary Science, on March 1, 2021.
Ehsan Kamel
College of Engineering & Computing Sciences College of Engineering & Computing Sciences Dean's OfficeEhsan Kamel, Ph.D., assistant professor of energy management has been accepted to attend the course ENGY 718 - High-Performance Building Envelopes remotely. Kamel has created Erasmus+ KA107 student/scholar exchange program, an opportunity for the New York-based and Milan-based students to collaborate on different modeling and simulation computer tools such as THERM, WINDOW, and WUFI.
Venugopal Prabhakar Gantasala
School of ManagementVenugopal Prabhakar Gantasala, Ph.D., associate professor and M.B.A. program director, Swapna Bhargavi Gantasala, Ph.D., associate professor of management, Tareq Na’el Al-Tawil, and Prerana Prasad published "Quality of learning experience, Student satisfaction and Perceived overall experience in the COVID-19 context" in the Journal of Applied Research in Higher Education on January 27, 2021.