Yi Bao (PI), CEOE Associate Professor, and Jianmin Qu (Co-PI), Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost, received an USDOT award of $1M for their project “Enhancing Knowledge and Technology to Prevent and Mitigate Risks of Stress Corrosion Cracking for Pipeline Integrity Management,” with Rutgers University and North Dakota State University are collaborators of this Stevens-led project.

Muhammad Hajj (PI), CEOE Chair, George Meade Bond Professor & Director of Davidson Laboratory; Raju Datla (Co-PI), Davidson Laboratory & CEOE Research Associate Professor; Lei Wu (Co-PI), ECE Professor and Anson Wood Burchard Chair Professor; and Gizem Acar (Co-PI), ME Assistant Professor, received an NSF award of $597K for their project “IUCRC Phase I: Center for Growing Ocean Energy Technologies and the Blue Economy (GO Blue).”

David Naumann (PI), CS Chair and Professor, received an NSF award of $588K for his project "SaTC: CORE: Small: Auto-active Hyperproperty Verification for Security."

Nicholaus Parziale (PI), ME Professor, received a DoD award of $413K for his project “Cost-Effective High-Speed Aerothermodynamics and Encounter Testing,” with Case Western Reserve University as prime.

Darinka Dentcheva (PI), MS Professor, received an AFOSR award of $300K for her project “Optimization and Learning with Contextual Risk Models,” with Rutgers University as prime.

Jacob Gissinger (PI), CEMS Assistant Professor, received a NASA award of $206K for his project “Predicting Graphitizability of High-Temperature Resins.” 

Svetlana Malinovskaya (PI), PHY Professor, received an ONR award of $140K for her project “Remote Magnetometry with Resonantly Enhanced Multiphoton Ionization Readout," with Rochester Scientific, LLC as prime.

Philip Orton (PI), CEOE Research Associate Professor, received a National Parks Service award of $130K for his project “Evaluating Nature-based solutions for GATE Jamaica Bay.”

Marouane Temimi (PI), CEOE Associate Professor, received a FEMA award of $107K for his project “Advancing the Identification of Flood Risk Hotspots Using Remote Sensing and in-situObservations.”

Chang-Hwan Choi, ME Professor, organized and served as a General Chair for the 3rd International Conference on Nature Inspired Surface Engineering (NISE-2024) held Nov 20-22 at the University of Granada in Spain. He is also currently serving as Guest Editor for Scientific Reports: Additive Manufacturing and Micromachines: Laser Additive Manufacturing of Metallic Materials.

Shima Hajimirza, ME Associate Professor, was appointed Associate Editor for the Journal of Solar Energy Engineering.

Jennifer Kang-Mieler, BME Chair and Professor, was selected by the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO) Foundation as one of its 2025 ARVO Foundation Honorees. This is the highest honor bestowed by the ARVO Foundation, the largest and most respected eye and vision research organization in the world.

Kevin Lu, ECE Teaching Professor, received the IEEE SA Standards Board Distinguished Service Award for superior IEEE SA Governance leadership as the IEEE SA Standards Board Audit Committee Chair and as the IEEE SA Industry Connections Committee Chair.

Dibyendu "Dibs" Sarkar, CEOE Professor & SCS Director, was named to the ROI NJ Influencers: Environment 2024 list

Jorge Bravo, CEOE Ph.D. student, is the grand prize winner of the 2024 AGU Michael H. Freilich Student Visualization Competition for his work on satellite data visualization. The NASA-sponsored award includes a $6K grant and the opportunity to present his proposed data visualization with AGU and NASA at the 2024 AGU Fall Meeting.

Katelyn Chiurri, CCB undergraduate student, is a Stevens campus nominee for the Goldwater Scholarship. The Barry Goldwater Scholarship is the most prestigious scholarship in the natural sciences, mathematics, and engineering in America that only allows 4-6 students per institute to apply each year.

Katelyn Chiurri and Mirian Rodriguez, CCB undergraduate students, are recipients of the Simons Foundation Shenoy Undergraduate Research Fellowship in Neuroscience (SURFiN). This program aims to spark and sustain interest in neuroscience among undergraduate students whose backgrounds and experiences are underrepresented in science. In addition to receiving financial support, fellows will engage with mentors through virtual and in-person professional development, and community-building activities.

The mechanical engineering professor and director of the Stevens Institute for Artificial Intelligence leads a groundbreaking project to improve the autonomy of unmanned surface vehicles

Sarah Goodman and Emily Atieh promote interest in the field of materials science by making it relevant to students’ everyday concerns – especially for women, underrepresented groups in STEM and first-gen college students

Adam Leszczynski ’25 emphasizes the importance of collaboration, global perspectives and clear communication in chemical biology research

The 2024 Next-Gen Healthcare Innovators Symposium was the first of its kind, bringing together graduate and Ph.D. students to share their research with faculty, industry experts and each other