NJIT’s 7th Annual Innovation Day 2019

Monday, April 8, 2019

NJIT’s 7th Annual Innovation Day 2019Monday, April 8, 2019

Agenda

Ballrooms A & B, Campus Center

9 a.m. – 9:10 a.m.: Welcome Remarks and Speaker Introduction Fadi Deek, Provost and Senior Executive Vice President Atam Dhawan, Senior Vice Provost for Research

9:10 a.m. – 9:15 a.m. Introduction to Govi Rao, Co-Chair URI Advisory Board 9:15 a.m. - 10.10 a.m.: Panel Discussion: Research, Innovation and Entrepreneurship Moderator: Govi Rao Co-Founder & Managing Partner, Carbon Group Global Panelists: Paul Doll Lead Technical Scientist, Advanced Materials Division The Dow Chemical Company Melinda Einsla Research Scientist, The Dow Chemical Company Lucas Dorazio Team Leader, Gasoil Technologies, Refinery Catalyst R&D BASF Corporation

10:10 a.m. – 10:15 a.m.: Introduction to Innovation Day Announcement of Winners of the TechQuest Innovation Competition Jim Stevenson

10:15 a.m. - 12.00 p.m.: Student Project e-Poster Presentations

Innovation Day is sponsored by the James Stevenson Foundation, the Ronald E. McNair Post-baccalaureate Achievement Program, Brian Kiernan and Family,

the National Science Foundation, the PSEG Foundation, the Hearst Foundation, the Needham Foundation, Wells Fargo, UPS, the Gilbert Memorial Fund, Capital One Bank,

the NJIT Office of the Provost and the NJIT Office of Research

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Speakers

GOVI RAO

Govi Rao has over 25 years of experience globally, across several industries, including specialty chemicals, coatings, building materials, lighting, energy and the rapidly evolving IoT space. As co-founder and managing partner of Carbon Group Global (CGG), he is currently leading CGG’s vision to scale transformational solutions, specifically to address education, total resiliency of women and resource efficiency. Prior to CGG, Rao was the president and chief executive officer of Noveda Technologies, a pioneer in water and energy management solutions based in Bridgewater, N.J. In 2007, he was instrumental in envisioning and pioneering one of the earliest LED lighting solutions providers, Lighting Science Group Corporation, where he served as the chairman and CEO.

Previously, Rao was vice president and general manager of the Philips Solid State Lighting business in North America. He also held several leadership roles at Philips, including as vice president of business creation and brand, where he was responsible for product management, strategic marketing, branding and sustainability. Prior to joining Philips, Rao spent over a decade with specialty chemicals leader Rohm and Haas Company (now part of Dow Chemicals) in various leadership roles across a range of businesses and geographies. In addition to his experience with a wide business portfolio, he has extensive functional expertise that includes strategic planning, business innovation, product management, marketing, operations, leadership development and general management. Widely traveled across Asia, Europe and the Americas, he has a keen sense of value creation in emerging markets and technologies, grounded on the principles of sustainability. He has built winning teams that achieved extraordinary goals in start-ups, as well as mature businesses – pioneering and inspiring profitable and sustainable growth.

Rao serves on several boards, including the Undergraduate Research and Innovation program at NJIT and the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology at Rutgers University. He also serves as an adviser to Hellothinkster, an AI-based educational technology company. He is active in discussions with various governments, NGOs and investment groups to drive market adoption of social impact solutions and is a contributing author of the Sustainable Enterprise Fieldbook (AMACOM, 2008). He has testified before the U.S. House of Representatives on IP and innovation. A graduate of Villanova University, Rao and his family currently live in the Greater Princeton Area in New Jersey.

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PAUL DOLL

Paul Doll is a senior scientist in the Advanced Material division at the Dow Chemical Company. For the past 25 years, Doll has been developing high-end innovative inks and coatings that deliver valuable market solutions. He holds several patents and is the author and technical contributor of numerous scientific publications and two reference books. He has received the coating industry’s prestigious Shelby F. Thames Award and the Dow Chemical Company’s Responsible Care Award.

Since obtaining his degree in imaging science from the Rochester Institute of Technology, he has gone on to grow two start-up companies, lead numerous coatings projects focused on efficiently and selectively lowering VOCs and on functional coatings that improve indoor air quality. His strong interest in innovating a better tomorrow has also led him to become an LCA practitioner and serve on the American Coatings Industry Sustainability Committee. These skills and platforms allow him to drive sustainable innovations into the coatings industry as the Lead Technical Scientist for Specialty Architectural Binders for Dow Coating Materials.

LUCAS DORAZIO

Lucas Dorazio is a practicing chemical engineer with experience in several engineering and research positions for over 20 years. He received his doctorate from Columbia University in New York City where his research was in the field of heterogeneous catalysis, working in the group of Marco Castaldi. He started working as a product development engineer in the specialty chemicals business at BASF in 2000, later leading a team of engineers and chemists in the scale-up and commercialization of new products. In 2008, he moved to BASF’s catalyst research center in Iselin, N.J. where he has worked in several areas of heterogenous catalysis. Lucas currently leads a team of scientists developing fluid catalytic cracking catalysts to support the refining industry.

In addition to his work in industrial research, Dorazio is an adjunct professor at NJIT where he teaches two courses in the field of catalysis. This April, he received the Newark College of Engineering Excellence in Teaching Award based on student recommendations and evaluations.

Dorazio has authored several journal articles and has been granted several patents in the field of catalysis. He recently co-authored a textbook on the topic of industrial catalysis. He is an active member of the local catalysis community where he serves as a director for the New York Metropolitan Catalysis Society and organizing committee co-chair for the North American Catalysis Society conference to be held in New York City in 2021.

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MELINDA EINSLA

Melinda Einsla is a research scientist at the Dow Chemical Company. She holds a B.S. in chemistry from Bloomsburg University and a Ph.D. in macromolecular science and engineering from Virginia Tech. Einsla joined Dow in 2008, and since then she has worked in the areas of plastics additives, photovoltaic encapsulants, paper coatings, pressure sensitive adhesives and architectural coatings. Einsla’s passion and motivation lie in the development of technology that solves real-world sustainability challenges. Before joining Dow, Einsla completed a post-doctoral fellowship at Los Alamos National Laboratory where she studied inorganic and polymeric proton conductors for proton exchange membrane fuel cells.

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JAMES STEVENSON

Jim Stevenson has more than 35 years of experience in processing rubber and plastics. His work on rubber extrusion includes extruder operation, die design, feeding and takeaway operations, instrumentation and process control. He has experience with equipment ranging from 2-inch extruders for vinyl gaskets, to 3.5-inch extruders for industrial rubber products, to dual hot feed and triplex cold feed pin barrel extruders for tire components. His work on dynamic head technology resulted in a head capable of forming curved weatherstrip and of quick die changes. Other areas of expertise include process simulation, injection (polymers and metals), transfer, compression molding, modeling reaction kinetics, measurement of flow properties and foam technology. His work at GenCorp formed the basis for the three-day short course, Rubber Extrusion Technology, which he and co-workers have presented more than 40 times to companies, university and technical symposia.

Stevenson has written book chapters on the extrusion of rubber and plastic and of composite materials. His edited book, Innovation in Polymer Processing: Molding, was published in 1996. He has published more than 60 papers on polymer processing and flow, and holds more than 20 patents. Stevenson retired in 2011 as a Fellow (senior scientist) at Honeywell Aerospace where he worked on composite materials and novel processes and applications for polymers and metal powder compounds. He then founded a consulting company, Stevenson PolyTech LLC, which specializes in plastics and rubber processing. Prior to joining Honeywell in 1996, he was director of research at Trexel, a start-up company, where he initiated work on microcellular injection molding.

For the previous 18 years, Stevenson held several technical and management positions and headed the rubber extrusion laboratory at GenCorp (previously General Tire) in Akron, Ohio. Before joining GenCorp, he was an associate professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering at Cornell University where he was a founding member of the Cornell Injection Molding Project and conducted research on polymer flow. Stevenson earned his B.S. in chemical engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He serves on the boards of the Undergraduate Research and Innovation program at New Jersey Institute of Technology and the Honeywell Retiree’s Association. Stevenson received the NJIT Special Friend of the University Award in 2017.

2019 TECHQUEST INNOVATION COMPETITION WINNERSFIRST PLACE

Ricardo Garcia (BME), Giovanna Nolan (BME), Christian Pignataro (BME), Madison Taylor (BME)Project: DeXter: Body-Powered Distal Interphalangeal Finger ProstheticFaculty Adviser: Sergei Adamovich, Department of Biomedical Engineering

SECOND PLACE

Ryan Rattazzi (BME), Emad Haque (BME)Project: Developing an Inexpensive Myoelectric Prosthetic Arm for Persons with AmputationFaculty Adviser: Ghaith Androwis, Department of Biomedical Engineering

THIRD PLACE

Jorim Morainvil (CET)Project: A Low-Cost, Electro-Mechanical System to Create 3D Scans Using 2D LIDARsFaculty Adviser: Pramod Abichandani, Department of Engineering Technology

TECHQUEST FINALISTS

Cameron Crosby (ECE), Piotr Rzymski (ET), Dip Panchal (ME), Chanales Flores (CS)Project: Solar Electric Personal Aerial VehicleFaculty Adviser: Jaskirat Sodhi, Department of Mechanical Engineering

Yasmine Ghattas (Chem & Bio), Shreena Mehta (CS), Naira Abou-Ghali (Bio), Yasmine Mohamed (Bio)Project: Google HealthFaculty Adviser: Lorna Ronald, Albert Dorman Honors College

Mohamed Hassan (CE), Wayne Rawlins (CE)Project: Concrete Time LimitFaculty Adviser: Mohamed Mahgoub, Department of Engineering Technology

Francis Stipa (BME), Alvin Mathew (BME), Sameer Rana (BME), John Badiola (BME)Project: Touch-To-Speech (TTS)Faculty Adviser: Sergei Adamovich, Department of Biomedical Engineering

MCNAIR 2019 SCHOLARS

Naira Abou-Ghali (Bio)Project: Exploring a Role for Rac1 in Xenopus Neurulation Using OptogeneticsFaculty Adviser: Gregory Weber, Department of Biological Sciences

Rogina Gerges (BME)Project: Clearance of Waste Metabolites in the Paravenous SpaceFaculty Adviser: James Haorah, Department of Biomedical Engineering

Jeffery Jude (EE)Project: Establishing Temperature Control Through the Cell Environment Using a Raspberry PiFaculty Adviser: Roman Voronov, Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering

Deena Khandakar (ME)Project: Database of Mechanism AnimationsFaculty Adviser: Balraj Mani, Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering

Kimberly Prince (STS)Project: Social Systems/Network Application for Recovering Opioid Addicts Customer DiscoveryFaculty Adviser: Donghee Yvette Wohn, Department of Informatics

Keyra Pulliam (ChE)Project: Boiling of HFE-7100 on a MicroheaterFaculty Adviser: Boris Khusid, Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering

Amina Siraj (Bio)Project: Observing Morphological and Ecological Evolution Over 20 Million Years Through Ants and AmberFaculty Adviser: Phillip Barden, Department of Biological Sciences

Pablo Tejada (BME)Project: Optimizing Hand Rehabilitation Post-Stroke Using Interactive Virtual EnvironmentsFaculty Adviser: Sergei Adamovich, Department of Biomedical Engineering

Louis Yepez (ECE)Project: Multi-Platform Optics and Photonics Educational AppFaculty Advisers: John Carpinelli and Abdallah Khreishah, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

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SPRING 2019 URI PHASE-1 STUDENT SEED GRANT WINNERS

Mark Lee (Bio)Project: Dielectrophoresis-Assisted Membrane Filtration for Efficient BioseparationFaculty Adviser: Wen Zhang, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Haian Alhoch (ID), Ben Ruoff (ID), Kaishon Way (ID), Brent Hartwell (ID)Project: Semi-Autonomous Sensor BotsFaculty Adviser: Martina Decker, College of Architecture and Design

Andrew Carter (ID), Jenna Stuiso (ID), Jayna Patel (ID), Masha Chernyakhovskaya (ID)Project: Weakly-Electric Fish AmplifierFaculty Advisers: Martina Decker, College of Architecture and Design, and Eric Fortune, Department of Biological Sciences

Daniel Meza (ID)Project: Slime Mold Tissue FixationFaculty Adviser: Simon Garnier, Department of Biological Sciences

Gregory Tanis (ME)Project: Development of Autonomous Lawn Care Equipment Utilizing High-Precision Positioning SystemsFaculty Adviser: Cesar Bandera, Martin Tuchman School of Management

Richard Marsh (ChE)Project: Sonochemical Degradation of Emerging PollutantsFaculty Adviser: Jay Meegoda, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Abigail Varughese (Bio)Project: Neuromodulation of Sensory EncodingFaculty Adviser: Dirk Bucher, Department of Biological Sciences

Ishani Patel (Bio)Project: Effect of Semaphorin Signaling Pathway on Dendritic Branching and Neuronal RegenerationFaculty Adviser: Gal Haspel, Department of Biological Sciences

SPRING 2019 URI PHASE-2 STUDENT SEED GRANT WINNERS

Chanales Flores (CS), Dip Panchal (ME), Piotr Rzymski (ET), Cameron Crosby (ECE)Project: Solar Electric Personal Aerial Vehicle Prototype Development for Full Scale ModelFaculty Adviser: Jaskirat Sodhi, Department of Mechanical Engineering

Jagathi Kalluru (Bio)Project: Injectable Angiogenic Peptide Hydrogel for Blood-Brain-Barrier Revascularization Treatment Post Traumatic Brain InjuryFaculty Adviser: James Haorah, Department of Biomedical Engineering

John Hawks (BioChem), Jose Antunes (BioChem)Project: Enhanced Bioremediation of 1,4-Dioxane and Chlorinated Aliphatic Hydrocarbons by A Gram-Negative Propanotrophic BacteriaFaculty Adviser: Mengyan Li, Department of Chemistry and Environmental Sciences

Karen Reyes (ChE), Miriam Marquez (ChE)Project: Best Way to PEGylate a ParticleFaculty Adviser: Kathleen McEnnis, Department of Chemical Engineering

Donna Sunny (ChE)Project: Investigation of Particle Noise Produced by Tip SonicationFaculty Adviser: Kathleen McEnnis, Department of Chemical Engineering

Erin McCullough (Chem)Project: Decorated Biochar for Purification of 1,4-Dioxane in Drinking WaterFaculty Adviser: Mengyan Li, Department of Chemistry and Environmental Sciences

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FALL 2018 URI PHASE-1 STUDENT SEED GRANT WINNERS

Karen Ayoub (BME), Karina Dsouza (BME), Swathi Pavuluri (BME)Project: Instrumented Platform for the Quantitative Assessment of Human Balance Control with Visual FeedbackFaculty Adviser: Carlotta Mummolo, Department of Biomedical Engineering

Angel Guzman (BME)Project: Artificial Voice BoxFaculty Adviser: Sergei Adamovich, Department of Biomedical Engineering

Nayeem Kamal (CS), Brian Duemmer (CS)Project: A Vital Signs-Monitoring Smart Helmet for Racing Vehicle DriversFaculty Adviser: Leonid Tsybeskov, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Simon Lam (Computing and Business), Viktoriya Kelyman (Architecture)Project: XR Campus for Planning and Development Faculty Adviser: Margarita Vinnikov, Department of Informatics, Matthew Schwartz, College of Architecture and Design

Sravana Nuti (BME), Taiga Akiyama (BME)Project: Channel Reduction in Functional Near Infrared Spectroscopy (fNIRS) Processing Heart Rate Variability from fNIRS to Determine Attention in ListeningFaculty Adviser: Antje Ihlefeld, Department of Biomedical Engineering

Emmanuel Okoye (EE), Piotr Rzymski (ES)Project: Solar-Powered Personal Aerial Vehicle Prototype Development for Full-Scale ModelFaculty Adviser: Jaskirat Sodhi, Department of Mechanical Engineering

Kush Patel (CE)Project: Expediting the Process of Food Waste Decomposition Through Anaerobic DigestionFaculty Adviser: Jay Meegoda, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Donna Sunny (ChE)Project: Investigation of Particle Noise Produced by Tip SonicationFaculty Adviser: Kathleen McEnnis, Department of Chemical Engineering

FALL 2018 URI PHASE-2 STUDENT SEED GRANT WINNERS

Quratulain Butt (BME)Project: Characterization of Cytokines Released for Post-Myocardial Infarction TherapyFaculty Adviser: Eun Jung Lee, Department of Biomedical Engineering

Lerone Clark (Biochemistry)Project: Rhodamine Conjugated Peptides for Live Bacterial Cell ImagingFaculty Adviser: Mengyan Li, Department of Chemistry and Environmental Sciences

Yasmine Ghattas (Bio and ChE)Project: Feedback Control of Social BehaviorFaculty Adviser: Eric Fortune, Department of Biological Sciences

Paula Heredia Guerrero (CE), Esther Daramola (CE), Sarah Garcon (ME)Project: Sustainable Recovery of Metals from Waste Lithium-Ion Batteries through a Green Leaching ProcessFaculty Advisers: Wen Zhang and Lucia Rodriguez-Freire, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Natalie Kozan (BME)Project: Tunable Hydrogels for Varying Cell EnvironmentsFaculty Adviser: Vivek Kumar, Department of Biomedical Engineering

Asha Mahmood (CE), John Nunez (CE)Project: Development of Sustainable Bio-Adsorbent Using Spiky Sweet Gum for the Removal of Water ContaminantsFaculty Adviser: Wen Zhang, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Anna Mathew (Bio)Project: Novel Drug Delivery System Using Anti-Angiogenic Peptides for Glioblastoma MultiformeFaculty Adviser: Vivek Kumar, Department of Biomedical Engineering

Manali Patel (Bio)Project: Inflammation Modulation Using Injectable Peptide HydrogelsFaculty Adviser: Vivek Kumar, Department of Biomedical Engineering

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Reshma Paul (BME)Project: Antibacterial Peptide Hydrogel for Treatment of Infected Foot UlcersFaculty Adviser: Vivek Kumar, Department of Biomedical Engineering

Keanu Radgman (ChE)Project: Nanocrystalline Cellulose as a Novel Dispersant for Enhancing Bioavailability of Poorly Water-Soluble DrugsFaculty Adviser: Ecevit Bilgili, Department of Chemical Engineering

Isaac Scott (EE), Mathieu Gaydos (EE)Project: Manufacturing Lightweight Solar Arrays for Solar VehiclesFaculty Adviser: Leonid Tsybeskov, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Sydney Sweet (ChE)Project: Nanoparticle-Mediated Oral Delivery of GLP-1 for the Treatment of DiabetesFaculty Adviser: Xiaoyang Xu, Department of Chemical Engineering

NEW BUSINESS MODEL COMPETITION

Steven Dias (CS)Project: Experience Newark Faculty Adviser: Michael Ehrlich, Martin Tuchman School of Management

Geoffrey Gesaka (IE)Project: Access Travel Faculty Adviser: Michael Ehrlich, Martin Tuchman School of Management

Xiaoye Huo (ME)Project: Artsoft Faculty Adviser: Michael Ehrlich, Martin Tuchman School of Management

Huong Le (CS)Project: Hawk the PriceFaculty Adviser: Michael Ehrlich, Martin Tuchman School of Management

Carmen Vicena (EE)Project: Junior EngineerFaculty Adviser: Michael Ehrlich, Martin Tuchman School of Management

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INNOVATION ACCELERATION CLUB

Ronak Pasricha, President Francis Thottungal, Co-President Yoshi Nomura, Vice President Sergio Hernandez, Secretary Tomislav Antolijak, Treasurer Sevilay Onal, Co-Adviser Mark Quiles, Adviser Vignesh Praphapananee, Vice President – Graduate Student Association Michael Drozdowski, Vice President of Internal Affairs Project: Machine Learning and Fin TechFaculty Adviser: Michael Ehrlich, Martin Tuchman School of Management

FALL 2018 NSF I-CORP TEAMS

Amira Feknous (ECE)Project: Solar CarFaculty Adviser: Leonid Tsybeskov, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Kevaughn Francis (HCI)Project: SampleFour: A New iPad Sample-based Musical Instrument for Live PerformanceFaculty Adviser: Amy Hoover, Department of Informatics

Nicholas Green (ME)Project: Tornado Water Filtration BottleFaculty Adviser: Rajpal Sodhi, Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering

Abhimanyu Kumawat (CS)Project: Auto-Pill Dispenser (IoT)Faculty Adviser: David Lubliner, Department of Engineering Technology

Yuexin Liu (Applied Math, Ph.D.)Project: Deep Learning in Modeling Complex SystemsFaculty Adviser: Yuan-Nan Young, Department of Mathematical Sciences

Deepan Lobo (Electrical Engineering, Ph.D.)Project: Stabilization of Quadcopters in Extreme Wind ConditionsFaculty Adviser: Pramod Abichandani, Department of Engineering Technology

Willow Lv (Transportation Engineering, Ph.D.)Project: Virtue Docking Bike Share for First and Last Mile TravelFaculty Adviser: Rongfang Liu, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Lucas Martin (Geotechnical Engineering, Ph.D.)Project: Ion Exchange Membrane (IEM) to Enhance Electro-osmotic ConsolidationFaculty Adviser: Jay Meegoda, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Parth Mehta (IT)Project: eCubedFaculty Adviser: Suresh Kumar, Ying Wu College of Computing

Milad Mirghahari (CS)Project: Krow NetworkFaculty Adviser: Suresh Kumar, Ying Wu College of Computing

Kevin Moriarty (Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, Ph.D.)Project: Service Quality Assessment and Improvement Methods and Tools for Engineered SystemsFaculty Adviser: Paul Ranky, Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering

Camilo Martinez Moyano (BME)Project: Geospatial AppFaculty Adviser: Je Hyun Ro, Department of Mathematical Sciences

Ann Ramirez (BME)Project: Self-Contained Vacuum ToothbrushFaculty Adviser: Vivek Kumar, Department of Biomedical Engineering

Kan Zhang (Business Administration, MBA)Project: TriCopterFaculty Adviser: Mengchu Zhou, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

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