Research NewsletterIssue: ORN-2022-45

2022 NJIT Faculty Research Showcase

Featuring New Faculty and Faculty Seed Grants

November 14, 2022; Ballroom A and B, Student Campus Center

We are pleased to introduce new faculty members and recipients of 2022 Faculty Seed Grants at the 2022 NJIT Faculty Research Showcase to be held on November 14, 2022. The showcase will start with the Distinguished Keynote talk on research, innovation and entrepreneurship. The Keynote Speaker is Judith Sheft, Executive Director, New Jersey Commission on Science, Innovation and Technology. After the individual podium presentations by new faculty, the showcase will feature e-poster session with ppt presentations by FY23 Faculty Seed Grant (FSG) recipients. The showcase will be held in-person at the campus.

All faculty, staff and students are invited to attend to learn about research expertise of our new faculty and ongoing emerging research projects at NJIT for exploring future collaborations.

Agenda

9.00 AM - 9.10 AM:  Welcome Remarks

                                    Atam Dhawan, Interim Provost and Senior Executive Vice President

9.10 AM - 9.50 AM:  Distinguished Keynote Lecture

                                  Judith Sheft, Executive Director, New Jersey Commission on Science, Innovation and Technology

9.50 AM - 10.50 AM:   New Faculty Presentations: Session-1 (NCE, CSLA)

10.50 AM - 11.00 AM:   Break

11.00 AM – 12.00 PM: New Faculty Presentations: Session-2 (YWCC, MTSM and CoAD)

12.30 PM – 1.00 PM:    Lunch and Networking

1.00 PM - 2.00 PM:       Poster Presentations and Networking Session:  New Faculty and Faculty Seed Grants

Biographical Sketch: Judith Sheft is the Executive Director of the New Jersey Commission of Science, Innovation and Technology. The Commission's mission is to accelerate economic development in New Jersey through science, innovation and technology including stimulating academic-industrial collaboration and encouraging and supporting entrepreneurs and inventors. Previously she was involved with regional economic and entrepreneurial cluster development program, the NJIT I-Corps Site and the Procurement Technical Assistance Center. She has been engaged with technology /IP innovation and commercialization efforts working with faculty and students to create startup companies and establishing licensing relationships with corporate partners. She advised external startups at NJIT’s high technology / life sciences business accelerator/incubator.  Judith served as the co-chair of Governor Murphy’s transition advisory committee for Technology Government and Innovation (2017). She is on the Board of Advisors to the NJIT Murray Women’s Center and serves as a mentor and coach to students and faculty. She is a member of the NJ – Israel Commission and serves on the Board of Greater Newark Enterprise Corporation, StartUp Newark, Women’s Center for Entrepreneurship Corporation, Einstein’s Alley, SheTek and NJEDA Technology Advisory Board, working to assist early-stage tech and life sciences entrepreneurs foster regional economic growth.

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Breakfast with Interim Provost Atam Dhawan

https://www.njit.edu/provost/breakfast-interim-provost

Informal breakfast sessions with small groups from the NJIT community is hosted by the Interim Provost each Tuesday from 8.30 AM to 10.00 AM at the University Club, Eberhardt Building. These breakfast meetings provide NJIT faculty, staff and students the opportunity to ask questions, give feedback, and engage with the Interim Provost on their experiences, concerns, expectations and needs. While it is open to all members of the community, seats are limited each week. If you are interested in participating in this informal discussion, please submit this form. The Office of the Provost will follow up with you to confirm the date of your breakfast session.

NSF: Partnerships in Astronomy & Astrophysics Research and Education (PAARE); Using the Rules of Life to Address Societal Challenges (URoL:ASC); Biology Integration Institutes (BII); Cyberinfrastructure, Data and Computation Opportunities for CMM

NIH: Engineering Next-Generation Human Nervous System Microphysiological Systems (R21); Transformative Educational Advancement and Mentoring Network (TEAM) (R25); NCMRR Early Career Research Award (R03); NCMRR Early Career Research Award (R03)

Department of Defense/US Army/DARPA/ONR: Young Faculty Award (YFA); AFPMB DWFP FY 23 Announcement

Department of Energy: Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL): Request for Information (RFI) Energy Efficiency Materials Pilot for Nonprofits; Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning for Autonomous Optimization and Control of Accelerators and Detectors; Environmental System Science; Atmospheric System Research (ASR)

NASA: ROSES 2022: Multidomain Reusable Artificial Intelligence Tools

National Endowment of Humanities: Landmarks of American History and Culture; Climate Smart Humanities Organizations; Cultural and Community Resilience

Federal Agencies Using Innovative Tech to Protect Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity: A Wednesday meeting of the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology heard expert opinions on better constructing a cyber-resilient digital infrastructure at the national level, with current government officials advocating for a combination of emerging technologies and risk mitigation.  The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has spearheaded efforts to strengthen critical infrastructure with the help of advanced data analytics and cybersecurity technology.  Kathleen Fisher, the director for DARPA’s Information Innovation Office, described an experiment where her office developed sensor tools intended for power grids to differentiate cyber attacks from weather incidents. “Failures caused by nature and by accidents are really really very different than the failures caused by a cyber adversary, because the cyber adversary, they can make the system lie,” she said during her presentation.  DARPA had tested a new sensor and corresponding algorithm to model power grids in their Rapid Attack Detection, Isolation and Characterization Systems, or RADIX program. RADIX was successful in training power engineers to black start a compromised power grid—or return part of an electric grid to operation without the use of external power—due to a cyberattack. More information is posted on the NextGov website.

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Pentagon on Track to Award $9 Billion Cloud Contract in December: The Pentagon is planning to award its “critically important” Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability—or JWCC—contract “in about a month, 30 days-ish, from now,” according to remarks made by a Defense Department official during the Defense Information Systems Agency's Forecast to Industry 2022 event on Monday. “I am so excited about what we have done with JWCC and the anticipation for the upcoming award here, again, in about a month,” DOD Chief Information Officer John Sherman said during a panel discussion. Last November, DOD named Amazon Web Services, Google, Microsoft and Oracle as contenders for the multi-cloud, multi-vendor contract valued at up to $9 billion. DOD previously pushed back its deadline for announcing the JWCC award from the initial April goal to the end of the year, to give officials more time to review the companies’ bids. Although all four companies received a formal solicitation, they are not guaranteed to receive an award. More information is posted on the NextGov website.

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AI, Data Analytics Star as Biggest Planned Investments for 2023: 2023 stands to see a continued investment and development in emerging technology systems, with artificial intelligence leading the technologies private companies are planning to leverage.  Detailed in a new 2023 industry forecast from Info-Tech Research Group, an IT analyst firm, private sector companies are expected to continue adopting more advanced technologies into their everyday business operations, regardless of any broader economic slowdowns.  While AI turned out to be the most popular technology businesses reported planning to contract for the 2023 fiscal year, with 44% of surveyed respondents saying they are planning to invest in AI systems by next year, data infrastructure was another hot topic for industries aiming to modernize their tech infrastructure.  “After AI, the two technologies gaining the most momentum in new investment are data lake or lakehouse and data fabric or mesh, with both seeing a 5% increase in the number of organizations planning to invest in 2023,” the report reads. “These platforms facilitate better access to enterprise data and enable real-time reporting.” The goal for both of these technologies is to make data-driven decisions at the corporate level easier, with more accessible, digestible data analyses. AI is likely to intersect with this task, as automated algorithms are being used to organize and compile data visualizations. More information is posted on the NextGov website.

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