NJIT’s 6th Annual Innovation Day 2018

Tuesday, April 10, 2018

NJIT’s 6th Annual Innovation Day 2018Tuesday, April 10, 2018

Agenda

Ballroom A, Campus Center

9 a.m. - 9:15 a.m.: Welcome Remarks and Speaker Introduction Fadi Deek, Provost and Senior Executive Vice President Atam Dhawan, Senior Vice Provost for Research

9:15 a.m. – 9:45 a.m.: Keynote Lecture Andrea Colby, Pro Se LLC

9:45 a.m. – 10 a.m.: Introduction to Innovation Day Announcement of Winners of the TechQuest Innovation Competition Jim Stevenson, Corporate Fellow (ret.), Honeywell International

10 a.m. - noon: Student Project e-Poster Presentations

Innovation Day is sponsored by the James Stevenson Foundation, Ronald E. McNair Post-baccalaureate Achievement Program, The National Science Foundation,

PSEG, The Hearst Foundation, The Needham Foundation, the NJIT Office of the Provost, and the NJIT Office of Research

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Keynote Speaker

Andrea Colby

Andrea Colby is a certified professional coach and an intellectual property attorney with over 30 years of experience in the legal profession in New York and New Jersey. Throughout her career, Colby has worked for notable firms including: Johnson & Johnson, Morgan & Finnegan and Union Carbide Corporation and provides a full range of substantive intellectual property legal support for clients including patent preparation and prosecution, patent strategy, trademark and copyright litigation, patent interferences and client counseling.

In addition to her work as an attorney, Colby provides deep expertise to her coaching clients helping them work through key areas of transition both personally and professionally and developing a strategic plan to maximize their development and achieve their goals. She is particularly versed in the legal profession and understands firsthand what it takes to be successful in the legal field.

Colby continues to lecture extensively on topics related to professional practice (specializing in communication), patent and intellectual property law for the Practising Law Institute and has spoken before the New Jersey Institute of Continuing Legal Education, the annual “Joint Patent Practice Seminar” sponsored by New York, New Jersey, Connecticut and Pennsylvania IP Law Associations and the American Intellectual Property Law Association. She also serves on the Board of Trustees of Albany Law School of Union University, chairing the Board’s Career Services Committee.

Colby is also very active in her community and plays a key leadership role in support of nonprofit organizations, including Young Audiences of New Jersey and Congregation Neve Shalom. She has served on the Boards of the New Brunswick Chamber Orchestra and TADA! Children’s Theatre in Manhattan.

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2018 TECHQUEST INNOVATION COMPETITION WINNERS

FIRST PLACE

Victoria Harbour (ChE), Patricia Iglesias-Montoro (BME)Project: Preventing Cardiovascular Disease: A Novel PCKS9 Drug Formulation to Reduce CholesterolFaculty Adviser: Vivek Kumar, Department of Biomedical Engineering

FIRST PLACE (1ST TIME) - TIE

John Pentangelo (ChE), Younes Younes (ChE)Project: Development of a Continuous Manufacturing Method of Oral FilmsFaculty Adviser: Rajesh Dave, Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering

FIRST PLACE (1ST TIME) - TIE

Shaurya Chandhoke (CS), Hamlet Jaquez (CS)Project: Low-Cost Lidar Sensor Fusion for Mapping Applications in Transportation IndustryFaculty Adviser: Pramod Abichandani, Department of Engineering Technology

THIRD PLACE

Leidy Manzueta (CE)Project: Development Reactive Nanobubble Technology for Green and Sustainable Environmental and Agricultural ApplicationsFaculty Adviser: Wen Zhang, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

TECHQUEST PROTOTYPE WINNER

Stephen Katz (CoE), Dominic Gannon (CoE), Amira Feknous (EE), Vince Capizzi (CoE), Gregory Escobar (CoE), Ivan Mitevski (EE & Math), Jefferson Guerrero (EE), Tamanna Kamra (EE) and Emmanuel Okoye (EE)Project: Integrated Power Management System for Electric CarsFaculty Adviser: Leonid Tsybeskov, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

TECHQUEST FINALISTS

Adrian Lopez (MET), Giacomo Gesualdo (ME), Darek Wojtowicz (ME), Kyle Watt (ME), Jabari Mallory (ME), Amira Feknous (EE), Ivan Mitevski (EE & Match), Jefferson Guerrero (EE), Tamanna Kamra (EE), and Emmanuel Okoye (EE)Project: Four-Directional Light-Weight Carbon Fiber Body for Solar CarsFaculty Adviser: Leonid Tsybeskov, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Jason Murzello (EE), Nestor Guzman (EE), Mathieu Gaydos (EE), Amira Feknous (EE), Ivan Mitevski (EE & Math), Jefferson Guerrero (EE), Tamanna Kamra (EE) and Emmanuel Okoye (EE)Project: Motor Control System with Automatic Pre-charge and Regenerative BrakingFaculty Adviser: Leonid Tsybeskov, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Dushyant Singh (CS), Rohit Premkumar (Business/Bio)Project: BarNone: Inventory Management SystemFaculty Adviser: Ananya Dass, Department of Computer Science

MCNAIR 2018 SCHOLARS

Mirana Alam (EE)Project: Conformal Micro Patch AntennaFaculty Adviser: Haim Grebel, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

John Alexiades (COE)Project: Embedded GPU Platform for Spike Based Hand-Written Digit ClassificationFaculty Adviser: Bipin Rajendran, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Emily Almeida (ChE)Project: Bioprinting of Vascularized Networks Using HydrogelsFaculty Adviser: Murat Guvendiren, Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering

Faustin Arevalo (ChE)Project: Spray Drying of Griseofulvin Nanosuspensions and Solutions for Preparation of Nanocomposites and Amorphous Solid Dispersions: Comparative Assessment of Drug Release Faculty Adviser: Ecevit Bilgili, Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering

John Brito (ChE)Project: Manual Labeling of Cells Faculty Adviser: Roman Voronov, Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering

Joshua Coronel (BME)Project: Patterning Nanofibrous Electrospun Mats Using Electric Field Focusing TechniquesFaculty Adviser: Treena Arinzeh, Department of Biomedical Engineering

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Mateusz Kalata (EE)Project: Kinetic Human Control Interface for a Surrogate RobotFaculty Adviser: Cong Wang, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Matias Maidana (BME)Project: Virtual Simulation of a Robotic Exoskeleton for Gait Analysis and OptimizationFaculty Adviser: Saikat Pal, Department of Biomedical Engineering

Jorge Pereyra (ChE)Project: Solvent Induced Wrinkling Patterns in HydrogelsFaculty Adviser: Murat Guvendiren, Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering

Raymon Saadalla (COE)Project: Kinetic Human Control Interface for a Surrogate RobotFaculty Adviser: Cong Wang, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

SPRING 2018 URI PHASE-1 STUDENT SEED GRANT WINNERS

Lauren Hutnik (Biology)Project: Developing Photo-Therma Nanoparticles to Excite Transmembrane ProteinsFaculty Adviser: Yuanwei Zhang (CES)

Miriam Marquez (ChE)Project: Protein Corona Measurements by Nanoparticle Tracking AnalysisFaculty Adviser: Kathleen McEnnis (ChE)

Pedro Moura (ChE)Project: CNTs Incorporated in Hollow Fiber Membranes as a Matrix for Protein PurificationFaculty Adviser: Sagnik Basuray (ChE)

Vatsal Shah (ME)Project: A Portable Low-Cost Incubation Platform for Long-Term Live-Cell Microscopy in Biomedical Research and IndustryFaculty Adviser: Roman Voronov (CPBE)

SPRING 2018 URI PHASE-2 STUDENT SEED GRANT WINNERS

Shaurya Chandhoke (CS), Hamlet Jaquez (CS)Project: Low-Cost Lidar Sensor Fusion for Mapping Applications in Transportation IndustryFaculty Adviser: Pramod Abichandani, Department of Engineering Technology

Victoria Harbour (ChE), Patricia Iglesias-Montoro (BME)Project: Preventing Cardiovascular Disease: A Novel PCKS9 Drug Formulation to Reduce CholesterolFaculty Adviser: Vivek Kumar, Department of Biomedical Engineering

Adithya Kannan (BME), Mona Ibrahim (BME)Project: Advancing Stem Cell Therapy for Cardiovascular DiseasesFaculty Adviser: Alice Eunjung Lee, Department of Biomedical Engineering

Adrian Lopez (MET), Giacomo Gesualdo (ME), Darek Wojtowicz (ME), Kyle Watt (ME), Jabari Mallory (ME), Amira Feknous (EE), Ivan Mitevski (EE & Match), Jefferson Guerrero (EE), Tamanna Kamra (EE), and Emmanuel Okoye (EE)Project: Four-Directional Light-Weight Carbon Fiber Body for Solar CarsFaculty Adviser: Leonid Tsybeskov, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Karen Mandarina (BME), Melissa Mendez-Nguyen (BME), Jeffrey Kim (BME), Patricia Iglesias Montoro (BME)Project: Assistive Device for Autistic People 2 (ADAP 2)Faculty Adviser: Alev Erdi, Department of Biomedical Engineering

John Pentangelo (ChE), Younes Younes (ChE)Project: Development of a Continuous Manufacturing Method of Oral FilmsFaculty Adviser: Rajesh Dave, Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering

Ann Therese Ramirez (BME)Project: The Comparison of Different PLGA Particle Synthesis Methods and Its Effect on the Uptake by Breast Cancer CellsFaculty Adviser: Kathleen McEnnis (ChE)

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FALL 2017 URI PHASE-1 STUDENT SEED GRANT WINNERS

Jose Antunes (Biochemistry)Project: Enhanced Bioremediation of 1,4-Dioxane and Chlorinated Aliphatic Hydrocarbons by A Gram-Negative Propanotrophic BacteriumFaculty Adviser: Mengyan Li, Department of Chemistry and Environmental Science

Faustin Arevalo (ChE)Project: A Spray Drying Platform for the Production of Nanocomposites and Amorphous Solid Dispersion of Poorly Water-Soluble DrugsFaculty Adviser: Ecevit Bilgili, Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering

Amira Feknous (EE), Jonathan Rodriguez (EE), Adriano Pena (EE)Project: Measurement and Study of Possible Influence of Electromagnetic Field of the Earth on an Electromagnetic Dipole of the Human HeartFaculty Advisers: Edip Niver and Oksana Manzhura, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Ohrid Kalemi (Bioinformatics)Project: Analysis of MicroRNA and Transcription Factor Mediated Regulatory Networks in Hepatocellular CarcinomaFaculty Adviser: Jason T. Wang, Department of Computer Science

Christian Narvaez (BME), Daniel DeBoer (BME)Project: Wrist Exoskeleton for Neuromuscular RehabilitationFaculty Adviser: Sergei Adamovich, Department of Biomedical Engineering

John Pentangelo (ChE)Project: Improving Bio-Relevance in Oral Film Testing MethodsFaculty Adviser: Rajesh Dave, Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering

Parth Sojitra (EE)Project: Design, Analysis and Applications of Strange Attractor Circuit DynamicsFaculty Adviser: Denis Blackmore, Department of Mathematics

Juliana Yang (BME)Project: Hello Kidney! Envisioning a Brighter Future for ESRD Patients. The Development of a Wearable Artificial Kidney to Replace Dialysis TreatmentFaculty Adviser: Kyle Dobiszewski, Albert Dorman Honors College

FALL 2017 URI PHASE-2 STUDENT SEED GRANT WINNERS

Emily Almeida (ChE)Project: 3-D Bioprinting of Vascularized Networks Using Hydrogels Faculty Adviser: Murat Guvendiren, Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering

Bernadette Huynh (BME), Sadie Gann (BME), Alessandro Howells (BME), Ashley Fitzsimmons (BME)Project: Rapid STD Testing Using Carbon Nanotube BiosensorsFaculty Adviser: Vivek Kumar, Department of Biomedical Engineering

Shivani Jaisinghani (BME)Project: Antibacterial PeptidesFaculty Adviser: Vivek Kumar, Department of Biomedical Engineering

Hollins Jose (ME), Jaime Felice (ME)Project: Energy Interaction with Novel Surface TexturesFaculty Adviser: Kyle Dobiszewski, Albert Dorman Honors College

Soojin Kim (BME)Project: Novel Native Extracellular Matrix (ECM) Hydrogel for Vascularized Pancreatic TissueFaculty Adviser: Alice Eun Jung Lee, Department of Biomedical Engineering

Leidy Manzueta (CE), Mohamed Hassan (CE)Project: Development of Reactive Nanobubble Technology for Green and Sustainable Environmental and Agricultural ApplicationsFaculty Advisers: Wen Zhang and Taha Marhaba, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Ivan Mitevski (EE), Jefferson Guerrero (EE), Emmanuel Okoye (EE), Amira Feknous (EE), Tamanna Kamra (EE), Jason Murzello (EE), Vincent Capizzi (EE), Dominic Gannon (EE), Adrian Lopez (EE), Gregory Escobar, Nestor Guzman (EE) Project: Integrated Power Management System for Solar Car: Energy Management Using Solar Cells and Power RegulationFaculty Adviser: Leonid Tsybeskov, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

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Ivan Mitevski (EE), Jefferson Guerrero (EE), Emmanuel Okoye (EE), Amira Feknous (EE), Tamanna Kamra (EE), Jason Murzello (EE), Vincent Capizzi (EE), Dominic Gannon (EE), Adrian Lopez (EE), Gregory Escobar, Nestor Guzman (EE) Project: Integrated Power Management System for Solar Car: Battery ManagementFaculty Adviser: Leonid Tsybeskov, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Ivan Mitevski (EE), Jefferson Guerrero (EE), Emmanuel Okoye (EE), Amira Feknous (EE), Tamanna Kamra (EE), Jason Murzello (EE), Vincent Capizzi (EE), Dominic Gannon (EE), Adrian Lopez (EE), Gregory Escobar, Nestor Guzman (EE) Project: Integrated Power Management System for Solar Car: Telemetry and User Interface (UI)Faculty Adviser: Leonid Tsybeskov, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

NEWARK INNOVATION ACCELERATION CHALLENGE (NIAC)

Mark Quiles (MTSM) – 1st Place WinnerProject: League of LifeguardsFaculty Adviser: Michael Ehrlich, Martin Tuchman School of Management

Bharath Babu Nunna (MIE) – 2nd Place WinnerProject: Micro Biochip for Cancer DetectionFaculty Adviser: Eon Soo Lee, Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering

Osama Lahham (BME) - FinalistProject: KeeFaculty Adviser: Michael Ehrlich, Martin Tuchman School of Management

Shabab Abedi (Chemistry) - FinalistProject: The Yan GroupFaculty Adviser: Michael Ehrlich, Martin Tuchman School of Management

Daniel Encarnacao (Business) - Finalist Project: Electric Charging StationsFaculty Adviser: Michael Ehrlich, Martin Tuchman School of Management

INNOVATION ACCELERATION CLUB

Mansha Kohli (Finance) Project: OrcaFaculty Adviser: Michael Ehrlich, Martin Tuchman School of Management

FALL 2017 NSF I-CORP TEAMS

Ronak Mandaliya (CE)Project: Affordable Eye Tracking DeviceFaculty Adviser: Saikat Pal, Department of Biomedical Engineering

Haodi Jiang (CS)Project: Transfer Learning for Recommender SystemsFaculty Adviser: Jason Wang, Department of Computer Science

Moab Philip (CE)Project: High Resolution Phosphor-free Nanowire Light-Emitting Diodes for Endoscopic SystemsFaculty Adviser: Hieu Nguyen, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Daniel Wang (Honors College) Project: High Density Biochar – An Economical and Green Solution for Sediment DecontaminationFaculty Adviser: Mengyan Li, Department of Chemistry and Environmental Science

Erica Ostar (CE)Project: Service Quality Assessment and Improvement Methods and ToolsFaculty Adviser: Paul Ranky, Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, and Information Technology/Information Systems

Kristofer Rauffer (CE)Project: Product Design Review Modeling and Management Decision Support ToolkitFaculty Adviser: Paul Ranky, Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, and Information Technology/Information Systems

Mehnaz Mursalat (CE)Project: Shear Enhanced Purification of Monoclonal AntibodiesFaculty Adviser: Sagnik Basuray, Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering

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Thang Bui (CE)Project: Nanowire Light-Emitting Diodes for Camera Flash and Micro-Display ApplicationsFaculty Adviser: Hieu Nguyen, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Jose Antunes (Science and Liberal Arts)Project: Enhanced Bioremediation of 1,4-Dioxane and Chlorinated Aliphatic Hydrocarbons by A Gram-Negative Propanotrophic BacteriumFaculty Adviser: Mengyan Li, Department of Chemistry and Environmental Science

Kaila Trawitzki (Honors College) Project: Meal Assistance Orthotics: Cerebral PalsyFaculty Adviser: Kyle Dobiszewski, Albert Dorman Honors College

Madeline Corrigan (CE)Project: Portable Transfer Chair for Individuals with DisabilitiesFaculty Adviser: Richard Foulds, Department of Biomedical Engineering

Pamela Rivera (CE)Project: HydraPulse MassagerFaculty Adviser: Joel Schesser, Department of Biomedical Engineering

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