Faculty Research Committees

Office of the Senior Vice Provost for Research

Research Focus Groups

Research Cluster A: Life Science and Engineering

Life Science and Healthcare
Co-Leaders: Namas Chandra & Bryan J. Pfister

Healthcare Systems, Informatics and Analytics
Co-Leaders: James Geller, Yi Chen and Wenbo Cao

Research Cluster B: Sustainable Systems

Water-Energy Nexus
Co-Leaders: Kamalesh Sirkar and Eon Soo Lee

Urban Ecology and Sustainability
Co-Leaders: Michel Boufadel and Reggie J. Caudill

Manufacturing Systems
Co-Leaders: Piero Armenante and Sanchoy Das

Advanced Materials and Engineered Particulates
Co-Leaders: Rajesh Dave and Trevor Tyson

Nanotechnology
Co-Leaders: Haim Grebel and Som Mitra

Research Cluster C: Data Science and Information Technology

Information and Communications Technology
Co-Leaders: Alexander Haimovich and Nirwan Ansari

Cyber Security
Co-Leaders: Kurt Rohloff and Cristian Borcea

Data Science and Systems
Co-Leaders: Usman Roshan, Haimin Wang and Frank Shih

Research Cluster D:  Trans-Disciplinary Areas

Mathematical Modeling and Computation Science
Co-Leaders: Michael Siegel and Shawn Chester

Transportation Systems
Co-Leaders: Lazar Spasovic and Edip Niver

Science-Technology-Society Interactions
Co-Leaders: Stephen Pemberton and Cesar Bandera

Faculty Research Advisory Board

Atam P Dhawan

Vice Provost for Research 
Distinguished Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Executive Director, Undergraduate Research and Innovation
Email: dhawan@njit.edu

Newark College of Engineering

Nirwan Ansari
Distinguished Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Michel Boufadel
Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering

Wenbo Cai
Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering

Namas Chandra
Professor, Biomedical Engineering

Raj Dave
Distinguished Professor, Chemical, Biological and Pharmaceutical Engineering

Haim Grebel
Professor, ECE and Director, Electronic Imaging Center

Alex Haimovich
Distinguished Professor, ECE and Ying Wu Endowed Chair Professor, NJCWT

Jay Meegoda
Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering

Bryan Pfister
Associate Professor, Biomedical Engineering

Pushpendra SinghProfessor, Mechanical and Industrial Engineering

Kamalesh Sirkar
Distinguished Professor, Chemical Engineering

Lazar Spasovic
Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering and Director ITSRC

Roman Voronov
Assistant Professor, Chemical Engineering

College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

Joseph Bozzelli
Distinguished Professor, Chemistry and Environmental Sciences

Daniel Bunker
Professor, Biology

Wenda Cao
Associate Professor, Physics

John Federici
Distinguished Professor, Physics

Burt Kimmelman
Professor, Humanities

Lou Kondic
Professor, Mathematical Sciences

Somenath Mitra
Professor, Chemistry and Environment Sciences

Farzan Nadim
Professor Biological Sciences

Stephen Pemberton,
Professor, History

Michael Siegal
Professor, Mathematical Sciences and Director CAMS

Gordon Thomas
Professor, Physics

Haimin Wang
Distinguished Professor, Physics

 

Ying Wu College of Computing

James Geller
Professor, Computer Science

Quentin Jones
Associate Professor, Information Systems

Chengjun Liu
Associate Professor, Computer Science

Marvin Nakayama
Professor, Computer Science

Kurt Rohloff
Assistant Professor, Computer Science

Frank Shih
Professor, Computer Science

Dimitrios  Theodorates
Associate Professor, Computer Science

Jason Wang
Professor, Bioinformatics and Computer Science

Songhua Xu
Assistant Professor, Information Systems

Yehoshua Perl
Professor, Computer Science

Martin Tuchman School of Management

Cesar Bandera
Assistant Professor, School of Management

Michael Ehrlich
Associate Professor, Finance

Yi Chen
Assistant Professor, Management

James Cicon
Assistant Professor, Finance

 

College of Architecture and Design

Anthony W. Schuman
Interim Dean, CoAD

John Cays
Professor and Associate Dean, CoAD

Taro Narihara
Associate Professor, Architecture and Design

Darius T Sollohub
Assistant Professor, Architecture and Design

 

 

Faculty Committee on Research, Scholarship and Creative Activity

Yehoshua Perl
CCS

Karen Franck
CoAD

Michael Siegel
CSLA

Jay Meegoda
NCE

 Yi Chen
SOM

Daniel Bunker
Faculty representative

Perry Dees
Office of Institutional Research and Planning