| NEWSLETTER | February 2026
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Congratulations to the following retired faculty members being named Emeritus Professor:
- George Korfiatis, CEOE
- Xiaoguang Meng, CEOE
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Spring 2026 SES Faculty Meeting & Awards Ceremony will be held on Wednesday, March 4, from 3:00–4:30 p.m. in the UCC, Tech Flex Auditorium (reception to follow).
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- Congratulations to the following faculty members on receiving Stevens Employee Excellence Awards:
- Creating a Connected Community
- Lifetime Achievement Award
- George Korfiatis, CEOE (emeritus)
- Student Success Champion
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Stevens 3-Minute Thesis (3MT) Final Graduate Competition is scheduled for Thursday, March 12, from 12:30-3:00 p.m. in the UCC, TechFlex Auditorium. Click here for a list of finalists.
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Faculty Grant Workshop - NIH Funding is scheduled for Thursday, March 26, from 2–4 p.m. in Babbio 541A.
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Departmental Events
- CS QuackHacks 2026 (student-run hackathon): Saturday, February 28 to Sunday, March 1, in locations across campus.
- ME Ph.D. Symposium: Monday, March 30 from 11 a.m.–4 p.m. in Bissinger Room, Howe Center.
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Yu Gan (PI), BME Assistant Professor, was awarded $728K by the USDA for his project entitled “DSFAS PARTNERSHIP: Food Quality Evaluation and Prediction Leveraging Multi-Modal Deep Learning and Digital Twin.”
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Jacob Gissinger (PI), CEMS Assistant Professor was awarded $358,214 through the ARO Early Career Program for his project entitled “AI-Assisted Char Yield Prediction for Resins with High Heteroatom Content.”
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Weina Meng (PI), CEOE Associate Professor, was awarded $50K by the NSF for her project entitled "I-Corps: Multifunctional Cement Aerogel Panels for High-Performance Building Envelopes."
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CEOE Ph.D. Student’s Team Earns Top Honors at Hackathon |
Civil engineering doctoral student Jorge Bravo represented Stevens at the “Urban Futures: Co-Creating Climate Resilience in NYC” Hackathon, hosted by Columbia University’s LEAP Program.
As the sole Stevens participant on his team, Komodo Dragons, they earned top honors in the Best Built Environment Proposal category in this highly interdisciplinary competition focused on susteainability and impact.
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ECE Master's Student has Paper Accepted at IEEE International Conference |
Applied artificial intelligence master's student Christian Templin, with his advisor Hao Wang (ECE Assistant Professor), had a paper accepted by IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP).
Their paper, “SonicMotion: Generating Moving 3D Soundscapes with Latent Diffusion Models,” introduces a new approach to generating 3D audio that can actually move through space. This research represents a significant step forward for immersive audio technologies and embodied AI applications.
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CS Master's Student has Project Selected for New Jersey AI Innovation Challenge |
Computer science master's student Kevin Doshi noticed that Canvas wasn’t keeping up with how students learn or professors teach, he built Scholera, an AI-native platform that adapts to each student’s pace and every teaching style. Scholera was selected as one of 10 projects (from 280+) for the New Jersey AI Innovation Challenge, a statewide initiative by the New Jersey Economic Development Authority (NJEDA) to support AI solutions for real-world impact.
With guidance from Hao Wang (ECE Assistant Professor) and Zining Zhu (CS Assistant Professor), Kevin and his team will next develop a working MVP, test it in real classrooms and present at Demo Day in March, with the opportunity for additional funding to scale Scholera across New Jersey.
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Stevens to offer a dedicated undergraduate degree and minor in artificial intelligence
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Groundbreaking three-year study looks at how electrically charged gels can make batteries, soft robots, and medical devices work better.
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This unique event facilitates academic and industry expert networking and student presentations of practical, high-impact AI projects
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New radar system, operated by the university’s Davidson Laboratory, will provide high-resolution precipitation data to enhance real-time forecasting and community preparedness across the region
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2/28/26: CS QuackHacks 2026 (student-run hackathon)
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3/4/26: SES Faculty Meeting and Awards Ceremony
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3/15-22/26: SPRING RECESS—No Classes, Offices Open
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3/26/26: Faculty Grant Workshop - NIH Funding
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3/30/26: ME Ph.D. Symposium
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The archive of past SES Newsletters can be found here.
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