Research NewsletterIssue: ORN-2023-29

2023 Undergraduate Summer Research and Innovation Symposium

and

National Academy of Inventors (NAI) – NJIT Innovation Day

July 26-27, 2023; Ballroom A&B, Campus Center, NJIT

Faculty and Researchers Registration Form

for URI 2023 Summer Research Symposium and NAI-NJIT Innovation Day

Please RSVP by July 22, 2023

The 2023 NJIT Undergraduate Summer Research and Innovation Symposium integrated with the Innovation Day will be held on July 26-27, 2023, featuring distinguished keynote talks from Robert Cohen, Chair, NJIT Board of Trustees and President, Stryker Digital, Robotics, and Enabling Technology; Dereje Agonafer, Presidential Distinguished Professor at UTA and Member, National Academy of Engineering and The Academy of Medicine, Engineering and Science of Texas, and Fellow of the national Academy of Inventors; and Jamie Renee, Executive Director, National Academy of Inventors. President Teik Lim will open the symposium with welcome remarks. More than 150 undergraduate students will be presenting their summer research and innovation projects at  the 2023 Summer Research Symposium. These students are from NJIT through NJIT URI programs and other top national universities through NSF REU sites grants, and the Heritage Institute of Technology, India.  Best innovation projects will be awarded Dr. James Stevenson Innovation Award: first, second and third prizes of $1,000, $750 and $500, respectively, along with 5 honorable mentions of $100 each.

All faculty, chairs, deans and administrators are invited to encourage and support undergraduate students for their tremendous work on research and innovation projects of high societal and technology impact.

Programs included:

URI Provost Summer Research Fellowships

McNair Achievement Program

Honors College Summer Scholar Program

NSF REU and iCorps NJIT Site Programs

Other Grant Funded Projects

Other UG Student Summer Researchers

Student Summer Research Program with Heritage Institute of Technology, India

The URI Summer Research Symposium agenda is posted on the NJIT Google Drive folder at https://docs.google.com/document/d/1zHTQ35FETFaYib3zBJQ5oujVj0tGr9Th/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=106271384393410283667&rtpof=true&sd=true.  

Distinguished Keynote Speakers:

Teik Lim, NJIT President

Robert Cohen, Chair, NJIT Board of Trustees, President, Stryker Digital, Robotics, and Enabling Technology

Dereje Agonafer, Presidential Distinguished Professor, UTA, Member, National Academy of Engineering; Member, The Academy of Medicine, Engineering and Science of Texas; Fellow: AAAS, ASME and NAI

Jamie Renee, Executive Director, NAI

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URI External Advisor Board Members and Judges:

Brian Kiernan, Angel Investor, Executive VP and Chief Scientist (ret), InterDigital Communications Corp. (https://www.linkedin.com/in/brian-kiernan-a5636b11/)

Govi Rao, Co-Founder, Carbon Group Global (https://carbongroup.global/) (https://www.linkedin.com/in/govirao/)

Manish Patel, CEO, TrickyWater LLC (www.trickywater.com) (https://www.linkedin.com/in/manish-patel-innovate/)

Pallavi Madakasira, Vice President at the Phase Change Solutions, (https://www.linkedin.com/in/pallavi-madakasira-3418aa/)

Liz Miller, President, Summit Place Financial Advisors, LLC (https://www.linkedin.com/in/liz-miller-cfa-cfp-5100096/)

Shashi Patel, Manager – Engineering, PSEG (https://www.linkedin.com/in/shashikant-patel-1073161b/)

Alfredo Matos, President and CEO, A Z Matos, LLC (https://www.linkedin.com/in/alfredo-al-matos-bs-msee-mba-47abb627/)

NSF: Mathematical Sciences Postdoctoral Research Fellowships (MSPRF); Facility and Instrumentation Request Process (FIRP); National Science Foundation Research Traineeship (NRT); Program Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU)

NIH: Single Source: NIH Blueprint for Neuroscience Research: NeuroImaging Tools and Resources Collaboratory (R24); Cellular and Molecular Biology of Complex Brain Disorders (R21)

Department of Defense/US Army/DARPA/ONR: FY23 Science & Technology for Advanced Manufacturing Projects (STAMP); Biological Technologies

Department of Commerce/EDA:  Climate Program Office FY2024; Measurement Science and Engineering (MSE) Research Grant Programs

Department of Energy: Bipartisan Infrastructure Law: Silicon Solar Manufacturing, and Dual-use Photovoltaics Incubator; Fiscal Year 2024 Distinguished Early Career Program

National Endowment of Humanities: Spotlight on Humanities in Higher Education; Humanities Connections; Climate Smart Humanities Organizations

New White House cyber implementation plan looks to ramp up resilience: The White House released its long-awaited implementation plan for the national cybersecurity strategy, offering federal agencies a roadmap with specific initiatives and requirements to bolster national security and improve long-term resilience against major cyberattacks.  Senior White House officials described the 57-page plan as a "living document" during a phone call with reporters on Wednesday, saying that the guidance will be updated annually to meet emerging threats targeting the federal government.  The plan features more than 65 "high-impact initiatives," each assigned to a designated agency, that align with the five pillars of the cybersecurity strategy released earlier this year: defending critical infrastructure, disrupting and dismantling threat actors, shaping market forces to drive security and investing in a resilient future.  The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency will lead public-private partnerships and scale those collaborative efforts to drive the development and adoption of secure-by-design and secure-by-default technologies. The Department of Defense is tasked with publishing an updated departmentwide cyber strategy that focuses on "challenges posed by nation-states and other malicious actors whose capabilities or campaigns pose a strategic-level threat." More information is posted on the NextGov website.

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Space Race 2.0: How the government is rapidly adopting next-gen space tech: An emerging technological space race is launching into high gear as the federal government leverages innovative procurement techniques to equip NASA, the Space Force and other agencies with the next generation of space technology.  Rather than relying on traditional acquisition methods that require more contracting time, federal agencies are leveraging new ways to harness commercial tools and emerging technologies from the private sector.  Last month, the Space Force opened a new commercial marketplace for innovation and collaboration. The marketplace is part of the newly-formed Commercial Space Office led by Col. Richard Kniseley and serves as a center for multiple new initiatives, including the Space Force's technology hub, known as SpaceWERX, and the Space Systems Command's Front Door, an online portal that can connect users to acquisition officials. The goal of the marketplace "is to get capabilities — including emerging technologies — to the warfighter in a much more expeditious fashion," according to David Logsdon, senior director of space policy at the Information Technology Industry Council. More information is posted on the NextGov website.

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Inside NIST’s effort to lay the groundwork for a functional quantum computer:  Researchers affiliated with the National Institute of Standards and Technology unveiled a new device last week that aims to cut down the “noise” generated by quantum computing systems’ information processing, part of a larger agency agenda to meet private sector innovation in the quantum information science and technology field.  The device, a programmable switch that can improve connectivity between two qubits, or quantum units of information, was initially introduced in a research paper. One of the authors, NIST physicist Ray Simmonds, told Nextgov/FCW that with these devices, NIST aims to enable future advances in quantum computing infrastructure.  “NIST is trying to…say, ‘what do we need to do to make that technology happen?’” he said. “Right now, Google and IBM have been working on scaling something up, and they're using a technology that can work on a larger scale…but it's not going to have all the functionality you need necessarily to make a robust machine at this point. There's other things that have to get sorted.” Making a strong switch between these qubits to help them perform calculations and other operations more accurately is one of those external components key to emerging QIST architectures. More information is posted on the NextGov website.

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