Faculty & Staff Accomplishments

Babak D. Baheshti

Babak D. Beheshti, Ph.D., dean of NYIT College of Engineering and Computing Sciences, was a featured expert on a discussion and interactive Q+A called “Tech-Agility: The MUST HAVE Skill to Succeed in School and Business,” on September 17, 2020. This event was hosted by Long Island Press and sponsored by LISTnet.

Babak D. Baheshti

Babak D. Beheshti, Ph.D., dean of NYIT College of Engineering and Computing Sciences, was quoted in a story on Vox.com, “We're closer to holographic meetings than you think,” on September 15, 2020. In the story, he speaks about how due to the pandemic, businesses can utilize AR and VR experiences to make the remote working and learning experience feel more like reality. It is also about the role of 5G as these technologies become more accessible and popular.

Ahmadreza Baghaie

Ahmadreza Baghaie, Ph.D., assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering, had his paper, "Towards multi‐modal data fusion for super‐resolution and denoising of 4D‐Flow MRI," published in the International Journal for Numerical Methods in Biomedical Engineering on September 7, 2020. This research was done in collaboration with researchers from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and Medical College of Wisconsin for denoising and super-resolution of in-vivo 4D Flow MRI data by means of Proper Orthogonal Decomposition (POD) and Dynamic Mode Decomposition in patients with a brain aneurysm.

Lynn Rogoff

Lynn Rogoff, M.F.A., adjunct associate professor of English, had her play, Love, Ben Love, Emma, presented online by the Wayward Sisters Theatre from September 5 - October 10, 2020. The play centers around the legendary Emma Goldman and and her relationship with Dr. Ben Reitman.

John Misak

John Misak, D.A., assistant professor of English, and Ronald Yaros, Ph.D., University of Maryland had their article,"Completing College Writing Assignments on Mobile Phones: Comparing Students’ Attitudes and Engagement Across Disciplines and Age" published in the Journalism and Mass Communication on September 4, 2020.

Pejman Sanaei

Pejman Sanaei, Ph.D., assistant professor of mathematics, in collaboration with members of New Jersey Institute of Technology had a research paper “On the influence of pore connectivity on performance of membrane filters,” published by Cambridge University Press on September 3, 2020

Jordan Thompson

Jordan Thompson, deputy general counsel, was elected President of the Huntington Lawyers' Club (HLC) on September 1, 2020. The Huntington Lawyer’s Club was founded in 1934 and is comprised of attorneys and judges living and/or working in the Township of Huntington. The purpose of HLC is to bring together a community of lawyers to further socialization, legal education, and networking.

Yusui Chen

Kevin LaGrandeur

Kevin LaGrandeur, Ph.D., professor of English, was interviewed for a podcast hosted by Posthumans.org on August 31, 2020. He spoke about his most recent book, Surviving the Machine Age.

Rajendram Rajnarayanan

Rajendram Rajnarayanan, M.SC., Ph.D., assistant dean of research and associate professor of biomedical sciences at NYITCOM-Arkansas, was interviewed by Wendi Li for an article, “How one Society Advocate created a summer research program” for the Society for Science & and the Public, published on August 26, 2020. The article described how Rajnarayanan in his role as a Society Advocate, created a paid summer internship program as a way to allow high school students to support their families while giving them an opportunity to gain laboratory exposure. \n\n