Henry Du (PI), CEMS Professor & Associate Dean for Research and Faculty Development, and Yuping Huang (Co-PI), PHY Professor & CQSE Director, received an EPA Award of $300K for their project “Multimodal Nanosensor for Field Detection and Degradation of PFAS Contamination in Groundwater and Wastewater (SENSE-PFAS),” with Clarkson University as prime.

Matthew Janssen (PI), Davidson Laboratory & CEOE Research Assistant Professor, and Jon Miller (Co-PI), Davidson Laboratory & CEOE Research Associate Professor, received an NJDOT Award of $235K for their project “St. George’s Thorofare, Absecon Inlet Sediment Management Study,” with Dewberry as prime.

William Querido (PI), BME Assistant Professor, received an NIH award of $64K for his project “Multifactorial Contribution of Bone Nanoscale Composition to Tissue Quality in Osteoporosis.”

Shaoyi Huang (PI), CS Assistant Professor, and Zhaozhuo Xu (Co-PI), CS Assistant Professor, received the SES Bridging Program Award of  $20K for their project “Bridging: Coopetitive LLM-Based Multi-Agents for Hardware Description Language Generation in Efficient Sparse Computing Chip Design.” 

Zahra Pournorouz (PI), ME Teaching Assistant Professor, received the SES PIER Program award of $10K for her project “PIER: Exploring the Impact of AI-Based Assistants on Student Learning in Engineering Courses - Thermodynamics Case Study.” 

Antonia Zaferiou (PI), BME Associate Professor, Ashley Lytle (Co-PI), HASS Associate Professor of Psychology, and Nancy Nowacek (Co-PI), HASS Associate Professor, received the SES SPRINT Program  award of $8K for their project “SPRINT: Intergenerational Art and Movement Workshops to Improve Health and Wellbeing for Young and Older Adults.”

Dibyendu “Dibs” Sarkar, CEOE Professor & SCS Director, and his  team were selected as winners of the 2023 MDPI Topic Award for their topic Sustainable Environmental Technologies. 

Stephen Crocco and Caden Stott, CEOE AMP undergraduate students, received the top golden award at the 2024 Institute of Sustainable Infrastructure (ISI) Annual Conference. Their presentation, based on their senior design project advised by Dr. Weina Meng and sponsored by Stantec, detailed designs to guide the 107th Street Pier & Bobby Wagner Walkway Restoration project in a sustainable manner.

The following ECE graduate students are winners of the 2nd annual ECE Three-Minute Thesis (3MT) Competition:

Hanfei Yu, ECE graduate student advised by Hao Wang, was selected as the ACM/IEEE SC 2024 Best Student Paper Finalist for his paper "Stellaris: Staleness-Aware Distributed Reinforcement Learning with Serverless Computing," accepted by the International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis (SC) 2024. 

His second paper, "Pre-Warming is Not Enough: Accelerating Serverless Inference with Opportunistic Pre-Loading" won the ACM SoCC’2024 Best Paper Award and was accepted by the ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing (SoCC) 2024.

Vivli CEO Rebecca Li at the forefront of increased sharing of data from clinical drug trials in pharmaceutical industry

Century-old invention by Stevens Professor Louis Alan Hazeltine revolutionized early radio industry

Mechanical Engineering researcher investigates whether the moon’s icy volcanic plumes offer insights into its surface — and potential habitability

The project will explore how Transactive Energy Services (TES) can support cleaner, more affordable and more resilient residential power supplies