Accomplishments

Faculty Accomplishments: College of Engineering & Computing Sciences

The College of Engineering & Computing Sciences is excited to share recent accomplishments from our faculty and staff members.

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Accomplishments are listed by date of achievement in reverse chronological order, with the most recent first.


All Recent Accomplishments

Becky Frieden, M.B.A.,, senior director of enterprise applications and decision support systems, presented a session titled "How to Make Data Governance Relevant Across Your Campus" at the HelioCampus Summit in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, held in early February 2024. Pennie Turgeon, M.B.A., vice president for information technology, chief information officer, and chief information security officer, participated in a keynote panel.

Robert N. Amundsen, Ph.D., associate professor and chair of the Department of Energy Management, presented “Floating Power Plants: From Novelty to Mainstream” at the 2nd International Conference on Future Challenges in Sustainable Urban Planning and Territorial Management, held January 29–31, 2024.

Wei Zeng, Ph.D., assistant professor of mechanical engineering, published an article titled "Development of a biofidelic computational model of human pelvis for predicting biomechanical responses and pelvic fractures.'' The paper was published in Computers in Biology and Medicine, a peer-reviewed, open-access journal, on January 22, 2024.

N. Sertac Artan, Ph.D., associate professor of electrical and computer engineering, published an article entitled "A holistic approach to performance prediction in collegiate athletics: player, team, and conference perspectives," in Nature Scientific Reports on January 12, 2024. The paper evaluated Division-1 Women's basketball team performance using machine learning.

Ziqian (Cecilia) Dong, Ph.D., professor of electrical and computer engineering, along with Reza Khalaj Amineh, Ph.D., associate professor of electrical and computer engineering, and Fang Li, Ph.D., assistant professor of mechanical engineering, published a survey article entitled "A Survey of Wireless Soil Sensing Technologies" in IEEE Access on January 10, 2024. This survey presents an overview of the latest advances in wireless soil-sensing technologies. It covers the sensors and communication systems employed to promote soil health and enhance crop production for sustainable agriculture.

Ziqian (Cecilia) Dong, Ph.D., professor of electrical and computer engineering, presented two studies on November 6, 2023, at the 2023 IEEE 35th International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence. One, "PEAK: Policy Event Assessment of COVID-19 Cases at the Start of the Pandemic in New York City", proposes a policy event impact assessment framework (PEAK) that quantifies the impact of policies and events on COVID-19 incidence. The second, , tackles the incomplete data problem in transportation surveys and proposes data imputation for cost estimates (DICE) scheme to synthesize data from multiple sources to impute the missing data.

Ehsan Kamel, Ph.D., assistant professor of energy management, accepted the AEE Northeast US Region Energy Innovator of the Year Award for 2023. The award was presented at the AEE World Energy the Conference and Expo on October 25, 2023, where The Association of Energy Engineers came together to network, stay informed on the latest trends, and acquire tools and training needed to maintain a competitive edge. This award is presented to an individual for outstanding achievement and innovation in promoting the adoption of renewable, green, or other innovative energy technologies. Kamel’s research concentrates on creating physics-based large-scale building energy models, assessing the future impact of global warming on energy consumption, and addressing carbon dioxide emissions in the buildings sector.

Amin 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.

Jane 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.

Babak 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.