Igor Pikovski (PI), PHY Geoffrey S. Inman ’51 Assistant Professor, and Jack Harris (Co-PI, Yale University) were awarded $1.3M by the W.M. Keck Foundation for their project titled, "Towards Single Graviton Detection with Quantum Acoustic Cavities.”  

Hamid Jafarnejad Sani (PI), ME Assistant Professor, was awarded $40K by the NVIDIA Academic Grant Program for his project titled, "Event-Driven Learning for Safe and Agile Autonomous Navigation."

Paola DiMarzio (PI), CCB Teaching Associate Professor, was awarded a 2026 Pfizer PURE Grant of $4,800 for her project titled, “Interdisciplinary, Technology-Driven Undergraduate Research and Training Initiatives to Prepare Students for Careers in Healthcare and Public Health."

Adam Overvig, PHY Assistant Professor, received the 2025 Advanced Photonics Young Innovator Award for his project "Wavefront-selective Fano resonant metasurfaces.” The award was presented by SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics, and Chinese Laser Press (CLP).

Nick Parziale, ME George Meade Bond Professor of Mechanical Engineering, won the Innovations in Aerodynamic Measurement Technologies Award at AIAA (American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics) Scitech Forum 2026, for his project “Non-Intrusive Optical Diagnostics for HIgh-Speed Boundary-Layer Physics and Multiphase Flow."

K.P. (Suba) Subbalakshmi, ECE Professor, was selected as one of the 2025 N2Women: Stars in Networking and Communications by N2Women (Networking Networking Women), a professional community for women in networking and communications research.

Data science master's student Vandna Rajpal and her Georgia Tech teammate's Neural Navigators (United States) was selected as the Global Winner of D3CODE 2025, after competing against teams from India, the United Kingdom, Mexico, Malaysia, and the United States. This year’s competition was the largest to date, with 25,000+ participants, 6,600 teams, and students from over 2,900 universities worldwide.

As part of this recognition, they were invited to present their solution at UST’s D3 Global Technology Conference in Thiruvananthapuram, India, highlighting Stevens Institute of Technology on a prominent international industry stage. The global winning team received a USD 10,000 award, underscoring the significance of the achievement.

Researchers make breakthroughs and secure big-ticket investment once again in FY25.

Interdisciplinary team of business and engineering students take first place in Rutgers Healthcare Hackathon.

AI can improve clinicians’ assessments — but only when certain conditions are met.

Interdisciplinary team is working to crack the code of cause-and-effect relationships.