2023 NJIT Ph.D. Commencement Ceremony
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Various graduate students of NJIT were officially given their Ph.D. degrees at the 2023 NJIT Ph.D. Commencement Ceremony held on 2023-05-16 at the Newark Wellness Center.
Stats
- Time: 2023-05-16T17:12:07-04
- Location: Wellness and Events Center, 104 Lock St, Newark, NJ 07103
- Location (WGS84): 40.742319° N, 74.180442° W
- Duration: 1h31m
- URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3yoMN8lWsUA
Program
Timestamps are from the YouTube livestream (duration: 1h31m30s).
Introduction
- Speaker: Daniel Mottern
- Position: Graduate Student Association President
- Time: 00:01:28
Newark College of Engineering was founded in 1919.
College of Science and Liberal Arts was founded in 1982.
Ying Wu College of Computing was founded in 2001.
Opening remarks
- Speaker: Atam Dhawan, Ph.D.
- Position: Provost and Senior Executive Vice President ad interm.
- Time: 00:09:16 (2023-05-16T17:12:07-04)
Opening song
- Singer: Debbie-Ann Spence
- Singer title: National Anthem Singer
- Song: US National Anthem
- Time: 00:10:58
Presentation of Colors by AFROTC Detachment 490 Color Guard.
Talk 1
- Speaker: Kevin D. Belfield, Ph.D.
- Position: Dean, College of Science and Liberal Arts
- Time: 00:18:18
Talk 2
- Speaker: Audrey Biondi Kellogg, Ph.D.
- Position: Student Speaker
- Time: 00:20:57
Talk 3
- Speaker: Moshe Kam, Ph.D.
- Position: Dean, Newark College of Engineering
- Time: 00:26:35
Talk 4
- Speaker: Vincent L. DeCaprio, Ph.D. ʼ72, ʼ20 HON
- Position: Board Emeritus Trustee
- Time: 00:29:50
Shared a story about how the Ph.D experience is good preparation to become a CEO in business.
Ph.D. experience allows you to gain access to capital and influential people.
Hashimoto Prize Award
Time: 00:44:47
An award given in honor of Dr. Kazuo Hashimoto to an outstanding electrical engineering student. The prize was started around 1994. The prize is awarded to Ravi Teja Velpula.
Presentation of degrees
- Speaker: Sotirios Ziavras, Ph.D
- Position: Vice Provost for Graduate Studies and Dean of Graduate Faculty, Graduate Studies
- Time: 00:47:20
Sotirios Ziavras, Ph.D. begins ceremony of recognizing individual students who have fulfilled NJIT Ph.D. degree requirements.
Student information will be formatted as follows:
* Student: [department] ** Advisor: [advisor name] ~ paper title ** Time: [HH:MM:SS] # video timestamp when they appear
Newark College of Engineering
Time: 00:49:32
- Ludvik Alkhoury: Electrical Engineering
- Moshe Kam ~ Motion-Resistant Pulse Oximetry
- Time: 00:49:38
- John G. Lyssikatos: Civil Engineering
- Fadi Karaa ~ Expert System for Risk Scoring and Mitigation of Lender-Financed Building Construction Projects
- Time: 00:50:15
- Michael E. Hanna: Biomedical Engineering
- Bryan Pfister ~ Elucidating the Link Between Cytoskeleton and Altered Calcium Signaling Post Traumatic Brain Injury
- Time: 00:52:11
- Ozan Cakmak: Biomedical Engineering
- Mesut Sahin ~ Improving the Stimulation Selectivity in the Human Cochlea by Strategic Selection of the Current Return Electrode
- Time: 00:52:32
- Ravi Teja Velpula: Electrical Engineering
- Hieu Nguyen ~ Carrier Transport Engineering in Wide Bandgap Semiconductors for Photonic and Memory Device Applications
- Time: 00:53:02
- Esma Cetinkaya: Biomedical Engineering
- Mesut Sahin ~ Sensorimotor Content of oMulti-Unit Activity in the Paramedian Lobule of the Cerebellum
- Time: 00:53:38
- Meng Cao: Biomedical Engineering
- Xiaobo Li, Tara L. Alvarez ~ Neural Correlates of Post-Traumatic Brain Injury Attention Deficits in Children
- Time: 00:53:32
- Apurva N. Limaye: Biomedical Engineering
- Treena L. Arinzeh ~ Naturally Derived Fibrous Scaffolds Containing Metabolic Factors for Bone Tissue Engineering
- Time: 00:54:00
- Naphtaly Ehrenberg: Biomedical Engineering
- Sergei Adamovich, Karen Nolan ~ Biomechanical and Psychophysical Underpinnings of Balance Dysfunction in Individuals With Traumatic Brain Injury
- Time: 00:54:19
- Ashley Joyce MontJohnson: Biomedical Engineering
- Sergei Adamovich ~ Development and Evaluation of a Hand Exoskeleton for Neurorehabilitation Post Stroke
- Time: 00:54:41
- Zain Siddiqui: Biomedical Engineering
- Vivek Kumar ~ Angiogenic Supports for Microvascular Engineering
- Time: 00:55:04
- Jin Fan: Civil Engineering
- Mathew Bandelt, Mathew Adams ~ Multi-Physics Numerical Simulation of Corrosion and Service Life Evaluation of Novel Reinforced Concrete Systems
- Time: 00:55:26
- Jitendra Anil Kewalramani: Civil Engineering
- Jay N. Meegoda ~ The Ultrasound Technology for Remediation of Per and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances in Environmental Media
- Time: 00:55:46
- Boran Wang: Environmental Engineering
- Lucia Rodriguez-Feire, Jay N. Meegoda ~ Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (Pfas) Distribution in Contaminated Soils and Impact on Rhizosphere and Plant
- Time: 00:56:12
- Mohab A. Hussein: Civil Engineering
- Rayan H. Assadad ~ Modeling Uncertainties in the Resistance of Driven Piles in Intermediate Geomaterials: Machine Learning Methods
- Time: 00:56:29
- Fatemeh Mohammadi Shakiba: Computer Engineering
- Mengchu Zhou, Seyyedmohsen Azizi ~ Artificial Neural Networks and Their Applications to Intelligent Fault Diagnosis of Power Transmission Lines
- Time: 00:56:50
- Paa Kwesi Afir Esubonteng: Electrical Engineering
- Roberto Rojas Cessa ~ Nondirect Line-of-Sight Free-Space Optical Communications and Networks
- Time: 00:57:10
- Anushreya Ghosh: Electrical Engineering
- Alexander M. Haimovich ~ Sparse Methods for Blind Source Separation of Frequency Hopping RF Sources
- Time: 00:57:29
- Wen Ji: Environmental Engineering
- Michel Boufadel ~ Formation of Oil Partical Aggregates and the Impact on the Fate of Oil
- Time: 00:57:52
- Ruixue Liu: Mechanical Engineering
- Michel Boufadel ~ Oil Droplet Size in Subsea Oil Spills: The Experimental and Numerical Investigation
- Time: 00:58:10
- Qingquan Ma: Environmental Engineering
- Wen Zhang, Joshua A. Young ~ Faceted Nanomaterial Synthesis, Characterizations and Applications in Reactive Electrochemical Membrane Filtration
- Time: 00:58:31
- Suman Jaiswal: Mechanical Engineering
- Shawn A. Chester ~ Experimental Characterization and Modeling of the Anisotropic Behavior of Porcine Dermis
- Time: 00:58:51
- Abhishek Mukherjee: Mechanical Engineering
- Simone Marras, Juan Carlos Cajas ~ Importance of Vegetation in Tsunami Mitigation: Evidence From Large Eddy Simulations With Fluid-Structure Interactions
- Time: 00:59:14
- Zhenglong Li: Materials Science and Engineering
- Sagnik Basuray ~ Electroanalytical Chemistry Under Flow Using Microelectrodes and Microfluidics
- Time: 00:59:32
- Alina Emelianova: Chemical Engineering
- Gennady Gor ~ Molecular Simulations of Mechanical Effects of Adsorption in Gas and Liquid Phases
- Time: 00:59:50
- Gulenay Guner: Chemical Engineering
- Ecevit Bilgili, Lisa Axe ~ Microhydrodynamic, Kinetic and Thermal Modeling of Wet Media Milling for Process Optimization and Intensification
- Time: 01:00:08
- Dogacan Yilmaz: Industrial Engineering
- Esra Buyuktahtakin ~ Integrated Machine Learning and Optimization Approaches
- Time: 01:00:28
- Nontawat Muanpaopong: Chemical Engineering
- Ecevit Bilgili, Rajesh N. Dave ~ PBM and DEM Simulations of Large-Scale Closed-Circuit Continuous Ball Milling of Cement Clinker
- Time: 01:00:45
- Sangahh Selene Kim: Chemical Engineering
- Rajesh N. Dave ~ Direct Blend-Direct Compaction (DB-DC) Formulations Enabled Through Reduced API Cohesion and Agglomeration via Dry Coating
- Time: 01:01:12
- Andrew N. House: Chemical Engineering
- Murat Guvendiren ~ A Novel Biomaterial Platform for Cardiac Tissue Engineering
- Time: 01:01:29
- Zhongyu Li: Chemical Engineering
- Xiaoyang Xu~ Development of Non-Viral Nano-Carriers for Gene Delivery and COVID-19 Vaccines
- Time: 01:01:47
- Aida Lopez Ruiz: Chemical Engineering
- Kathleen McEnnis ~ Platinum Nanoparticles, Targeted Therapy for Triple NEgative Breast Cancer
- Time: 01:02:06
- Baran Teoman: Chemical Engineering
- Piero M. Armenante ~ Hydrodynamic Investigation of the Discharge of Complex Fluids From Dispensing Bottles Using Experimental and Computational Approaches
- Time: 01:02:28
College of Science and Liberal Arts
Time: 01:02:51
- Afstathios S. Pafiakis: Materials Science
- Piero M. Armenante, Costas Gogos ~ Influence of material Properties on Granules Prepared by Dry Co-Rotating Twin Screw Extrusion and Counter-Rotating Batch Mixing
- Time: 01:02:58
- Mathew B. Cooper: Applied Physics
- Andrew Gerrard ~ Large-Scale and Meso-Scale Ion Dynamics of the Near-Earth Space Environment
- Time: 01:03:19
- Airefetalo Ajoke Sadoh: Materials Science
- Nuggehalli Ravindra ~ Optical Properties of Smart Polymers
- Time: 01:03:44
- John T. Stefan: Applied Physics
- Alexander V. Kosovichev ~ Helioseismic Diagnostics of Active Regions and Their Magnetic Fields
- Time: 01:04:10
- Christopher M. Bolton: Applied Physics
- John F. Federici, Ian Gatley ~ Monostatic Electromagnetic Reflection Enhancement by Printed Metallic Structures
- Time: 01:04:30
- Adrien Pierre Genoud: Applied Physics
- Benjamin Thomas ~ Photonic Monitoring of Atmospheric Fauna
- Time: 01:04:52
- Nian Liu: Applied Physics
- Haimin Wang, Ju Jing ~ Understanding the Role of Magnetic Field Evolution in the Initiation and Development of Solar Eruptions
- Time: 01:05:12
- Audrey Biondi Kellogg: Biology
- Brooke Flammang ~ Biologically Inspired Fin for Underwater Robotics: A Study of Mola Mola Swimming Mechanics
- Time: 01:05:39
- Subash Kusum Ray: Biology
- Simon Garnier ~ Brainless, but Smart: Investigating Cognitive-Like Behaviors in the Acelular Slime Mold Physarum Polycephalum
- Time: 01:06:02
- Christine Ellen Sosiak: Biology
- Philip Barden ~ How To Survive A mass Extinction: Detangling Drivers of Extinction in Deep Time
- Time: 01:06:24
- Jie Dou: Chemistry
- Yuanwei Zhang ~ Amphiphilic Block Copolymers and the Applications in Therapeutics Delivery
- Time: 01:06:43
- Gaddi B. Eshun: Chemistry
- Omowunmi Sadik ~ Sustainable Nanomaterials for Sensing and Antimicrobial Characterization
- Time: 01:07:03
- Daniel Kasungi Isika: Chemistry
- Omowunmi Sadik ~ Design, Synthesis, Biological and Computational Studies of Flavanoid Acetamide Derivatives
- Time: 01:07:26
- Mohammad Saiful Islam: Chemistry
- Somenath Mitra ~ Development of Novel Hybrid Structures for Fast Dissolution of Hydrophobic Drugs
- Time: 01:07:47
- Indrani Gupta: Environmental Science
- Somenath Mitra ~ Development of Novel Nanocarbon Based Materials and Membranes With Enhanced Biocidal Capabilities for Clean Water Generation
- Time: 01:08:10
- Chen Wu: Environmental Science
- Mengyan Li ~ Biotransformation and Biodefluorination of Fluorotelomer Carboxylic Acids
- Time: 01:08:31
- Ali Hasani: Chemistry
- Alexei Khalizov ~ Combustion Soot Nanoparticles: Mechanism of Restructuring and Mechanical Properties
- Time: 01:08:54
- Binan Gu: Mathematical Sciences
- Linda J. Cummings, Lou Kondic ~ Stochastic Modeling of Flows in Membrane Pore Networks
- Time: 01:09:42
- Conner J. Robertson: Mathematical Sciences
- Anand Oza, Travis Askham ~ Continuum Modeling of Active Nematics via Data-Driven Equation Discovery
- Time: 01:10:06
- Soheil Saghafi: Mathematical Sciences
- Casey Diekman ~ Deep Hybrid Modeling of Neuronal Dynamics Using Generative Adversarial Networks
- Time: 01:10:28
Ying Wu College of Computing
Time: 01:10:46
- Hessamaldin Mohammadi: Computer Science
- Ali Mili ~ Mapping Programs to Equations
- Time: 01:10:56
- Yasser Abduallah: Computer Science
- Jason T L Wang ~ Machine Learning-Based Data Analytics for Understanding Space Weather and Climate
- Time: 01:11:13
- Firas Gerges: Computer Science
- Jason T L Wang, Michel Boufadel ~ Monitoring Climate Change With Machine Learning and Uncertainty Quantification
- Time: 01:11:34
- Niloofar Aghaieabiane: Computer Science
- Ioannis Koutis ~ Machine Learning and Network Embedding Methods for Gene Co-Expression Networks
- Time: 01:12:01
- Chih-yuan Li: Computer Science
- James Geller, Soon Ae Chun ~ Ai Approaches to Understand Human Deceptions, Perceptions, and Perspectives in Social Media
- Time: 01:12:41
- Yajuan Li: Computer Science
- Jing Li, Marvin K. Nakayama ~ Computation of Risk Measures in Finance and Parallel Real-Time Scheduling
- Time: 01:13:03
- Mojtaba Zaheri: Computer Science
- Reza Curtmola ~ Towards Better Web Privacy: Cross-Site Leaks and Countermeasures
- Time: 01:13:30
- Thi Kim Phung Lai: Information Systems
- Hai Phan ~ Trustworthy Machine Learning Through the Lens of Privacy and Security
- Time: 01:13:50
- Raina Elizabeth Samuel: Information Systems
- Iulian Neamtiu ~ Android Security: Analysis and Applications
- Time: 01:14:13 (MP4)
Martin Tuchman School of Management
Time: 01:14:35
- Pelin Ayranci: Business Data Science
- Cesar Bandera, Hai Phan ~ Passive Interpretable Deep Learning From Cell Phone Activity for Mental Healthcare
- Time: 01:14:43
- Shaoqing Zhang: Business Data Science
- Xinyuan Tao ~ Understanding the Role of Social Media in Finance
- Time: 01:15:05
J. Robert and Barbara A. Hillier College of Architecture and Design
Time: 01:15:24
- Esther Zipori: Urban Systems
- Gabrielle Esperdy, Maurie Cohen ~ The Future of the Urban Street in the United States: Visions of Alternative Mobilities in the Twenty-First Century
- Time: 01:15:30
Talk 5
- Speaker: Oya Tukel, Ph.D.
- Position: Dean, Martin Tuchman School of Management
- Time: 01:16:14
Closing song
- Time: 01:18:03
- Song: NJIT Alma Mater
- Singers: Gigabeats - A Capella Student Organization
Closing remarks
- Speaker: Teik Lim. Ph.D.
- Position: President, New Jersey Institute of Technology
- Time: 01:19:18
Encourages students to remember their parentsʼ pride.
Officially announces degrees have been awarded.
Hat throw at 01:26:33.
Meta: Errata
Between 00:52:25 and 00:54:00, a desynchronization occured between the video feed and the digital overlays naming each student as they were individually recognized. Students affected were: Michael E. Hanna, Ozan Cakmak, Ravi Teja Velpula, Esma Cetinkaya, Meng Cao.
History
- 2023-05-16: The Ph.D. Commencement Ceremony was held.
Baltakatei history
- 2023-05-16: I watched the livestream to see Raina Elizabeth Samuel graduate.
