NJIT in the News

Two NJIT faculty members will receive Innovators’ Awards and two recent alumni will be honored at the New Jersey Inventors Hall of Fame dinner on Oct. 22, 2009 at Stevens Institute of Technology. 

"Fault Diagnosis Engineering of Digital Circuits Can Identify Vulnerable Molecules in Complex Cellular Networks" is the topic of a Mathematical Biology Seminar by Ali Abdi, associate professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at NJIT, on Feb. 10 at 4 p.m. in Cullimore Hall, Room 611.

Scientists believe that complex diseases such as schizophrenia, major depression and cancer are not caused by one, but a multitude of dysfunctional genes. A novel computational biology method developed by a research team led by Ali Abdi, PhD, associate professor in NJIT’s department of electrical and computer engineering, has found a way to uncover the critical genes responsible for disease development.

An NJIT professor who has discovered new communication channels in underwater environments and invented a technique to communicate data through these channels will be honored later this month by the New Jersey Inventors Hall of Fame.

Ali Abdi, PhD, an associate professor in the department of electrical and computer engineering at NJIT, will receive the 2008 New Jersey Inventors Hall of Fame Innovators Award for his work on underwater acoustic communication. Dr. Abdi will be presented with the award in a ceremony on October 23 at Stevens Institute of Technology.

NJIT has promoted one faculty member to the rank of distinguished professor, six to the rank of professor, seven to the rank of associate professor with tenure and one to the rank of associate professor.PROMOTED TO DISTINGUISHED PROFESSOR
Robert Miura
Mathematical SciencesPROMOTED TO PROFESSOR
Norman Loney
Chemical EngineeringZoi-Heleni Michalopoulou
Mathematical SciencesEdip Niver
Electrical & Computer EngineeringRonald Rockland
Engineering TechnologyLeonid Tsybeskov
Electrical & Computer EngineeringChao Zhu
Mechanical EngineeringPROMOTED TO ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR WITH TENURE
Ali Abdi
Electrical & Computer EngineeringGabrielle Esperdy
ArchitectureDavid Horntrop
Mathematical SciencesRoberto Rojas-Cessa
Electrical & Computer EngineeringLaurent Simon
Chemical EngineeringDimitrios Theodoratos
Computer ScienceBrook Wu
Information SystemsPROMOTED TO ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
Andrei Sirenko
Physics