Brendan Englot (PI), Anson Wood Burchard Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Cristina Comaniciu (Co-PI) Electrical and Computer Engineerig Associate Professor, Enrique Dunn (Co-PI) Computer Science Associate Professor, Hamid Jafarnejad Sani (Co-PI) Mechanical Engineering Assistant Professor, Souran Manoochehri (Co-PI) Mechanical Engineering Professor, Philippos Mordohai (Co-PI) Computer Science Professor, Kishore Pochiraju (Co-PI) Systems Engineering Professor, and K.P. (Suba) Subbalakshmi (Co-PI) Electrical and Computer Engineering Professor, received an US Army DEVCOM award of $1.9M for their project, “Quantum and Artificial Intelligence Technologies for Next-Generation Armament Systems: AI Sub-Project.” Yuping Huang (PI), Physics Professor, is the PI of the overall project.

Samantha Kleinberg (PI), David and GG Farber Professor in Computer Science, was awarded $870K by the John Templeton Foundation for her project, “Explaining Why: A Multidisciplinary Approach to Token Causality.” 

Marouane Temimi (PI), Gallaher Associate Professor of Civil, Environmental, and Ocean Engineering, was awarded twice by the NOAA. He received $700K for his project "Augmenting River Ice Monitoring Capabilities Using Radar Imagery to Support Streamflow Forecast," and  he also received $50K for his project, "Investigating the effect of Rain-on-Snow Floods on River Ice Dynamics for Integration in the National Water Model."

Jia Mi (PI), Civil, Environmental and Ocean Engineering Assistant Professor, and Ying Wang (Co-PI), Systems Engineering Associate Professor, received a NIST award of $200K and a non-federal award of $100K for their project, “Bridging the Gap: Comprehensive Cybersecurity and Career Readiness Training for Critical Infrastructure in the NJ/NY Region.” 

Jose Ramirez-Marquez (PI), Systems Engineering Associate Professor, was awarded $216K by the Office of the Secretary of Defense for his project, "NLP Recognition and Categorization of Acquisition Text and Documents."

Roshanak Rose Nilchiani (PI), Systems Engineering Associate Professor, was awarded $214K from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), via SRI International as the prime, for the project “Complexity aware Hierarchical Optimization for Robust Design (CHORD).”

Marouane Temimi (PI), Gallaher Associate Professor of Civil, Environmental, and Ocean Engineering, and Mahmoud Ayyad (PI), Civil, Environmental and Ocean Engineering Research Assistant Professor, were granted $150K by the USGS for their collaborative project, "Nationwide Intelligent Streamflow Monitoring with USGS NIMS: Leveraging Deep Transfer Learning and Advanced Imaging Methods."

Eui-Hyeok Yang (PI), Mechanical Engineering Professor, was awarded $100K by the US Army Development Command (DEVCOM) for his project titled “2D Material-based Extraordinary Magnetoresistance Sensors."

Zhaozhuo Xu (PI), Computer Science Assistant Professor, received a $6K NVIDIA Academic Grant Program award for the project, “Sparse Federated Zeroth-Order Optimization for Resource-Frugal LLM Fine-Tuning.”

Lateefat Kalejaye, a fourth-year Ph.D. candidate in Chemical Engineering advised by Professor Pin-Kuang Lai, has been selected as a recipient of the 2025 AIChE Women in Chemical Engineering (WIC) Travel Award. The award includes an $800 travel stipend, complimentary registration to the 2025 AIChE Annual Meeting, an invitation to the WIC Breakfast and Keynote Event (together valued at $409), and 2026 AIChE membership. Lateefat will present her research at the WIC Poster Session during the Annual Meeting. Her work focuses on developing computational and machine learning approaches to predict the stability and developability of therapeutic antibodies, advancing early-stage biopharmaceutical development.

Faranak Mankavi, a Biomedical Engineering Ph.D. student in Professor Hongjun Wang’s Laboratory of Nanotherapeutics and Tissue Innovation, has received the 2025 ATCC Excellence Image Award for Cell Biology for her fluorescent images of neurons grown on conductive scaffolds. The prize includes a $300 Visa gift card. Her research focuses on improving upon existing neural tissue scaffolds to accelerate peripheral nerve regeneration. Her work focuses on the development of conductive scaffolds that accelerate peripheral nerve regeneration. The outgrowth shown in the award-winning image demonstrates potential for future advancements in therapy.

Khalid Mustafa, an Environmental Engineering Ph.D. student working with Professor Dibs Sarkar, has been awarded a $500 scholarship by the Association for Environmental Health & Sciences (AEHS) Foundation as part of the Dr. Michael E. Miller Student Competition. In the poster competition, he presented his project, “PFAS Persistence and Precursor Transformation in Municipal Wastewater Treatment.” He studies per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), often called “forever chemicals,” found in items like nonstick pans and firefighting foam, to learn how they persist and change in wastewater and in the solids left after treatment. By detecting hidden precursors and testing whether high heat can destroy them, his work guides better monitoring, cleanup, and policy.

Ph.D. candidate’s groundbreaking first research paper was recently covered in New Scientist.

Aidan Ouckama ’26 turned to TikTok to support his peers and build a thriving online computer science community.

Libby and her students are using mechanical engineering, robotics and artificial intelligence to bridge scientific research and real-life care.

Now in its second year and organized by students, the Symposium promotes collaboration and fresh perspectives to drive meaningful change in healthcare.