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Faculty Research and Innovation at the Schaefer School

LEADING WHAT'S NEXT

At the Schaefer School, our innovative faculty are traversing new ground every day in the name of science and engineering.

Artificial intelligence and machine learning are core strengths of our research enterprise that permeate nearly every department's scholarly efforts whether it's healthcare, robotics, chemical engineering or quantum science.

Meanwhile, our quantum researchers are at the forefront of the quantum revolution, boldly pushing technology where it's never gone before – including the exploration of quantum gravity.

We're attacking climate change from every angle by developing renewable energy and sustainability technologies. With our university being located at the convergence of the Hudson River and New York Harbor, coastal resilience research is in our DNA and our sustainability researchers work in a living laboratory.

No problem is too big or too small. At Stevens' Charles V. Schaefer Jr. School of engineering and science, we tackle them all.

Engineering the Future with Stevens-Made Technology

Here are just a few of the discoveries and technologies we're developing to take society to the next level and meet global challenges head-on.

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These Smart Underwater Robots Will Soon Help Us Inspect Where We Don't Want To

Professor Brendan Englot, a robotics expert, uses machine learning to teach remotely operated underwater vehicles (ROVs) to build better maps in real time as they navigate in murky, changing conditions inspecting bridges, piers, pipes and ships.

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New Stevens Research Uses Fake News-Spotting Artificial Intelligence to Identify False Information

To address the alarming rise in misinformation, Stevens Electrical and Computer Engineering researcher K.P. Subbalakshmi and computer scientist Yue Ning develop new strategies and AI to detect markers of fake news on the web, including emotional provocation, low-level vocabulary and bot generation. .

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Exposing — and Eliminating — the Hidden Biases in AI

Computer scientist Jia Xu works to pinpoint, analyze and remove potential sources of bias from the AI systems that approve or deny our mortgages, recommend jail sentences for criminals and more

At Stevens, we leverage a century-long legacy of technology innovation and education to create new engineering grounds for quantum information technologies that will shape the future of our society.
Dr. Yuping HuangGallagher Associate Professor of Physics & Director of the Center for Quantum Science and Engineering
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New Research Suggests a Way to Capture Physicists’ Most Wanted Particle — the Graviton

Theoretical physicist Igor Pikovski’s team have devised a way to do the impossible: detect gravitons with near-future quantum sensing technology, opening the door for the first experimental explorations of quantum gravity.

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Invisible Touch: Giving AI the Ability to Feel and Measure Surfaces

Quantum-science advances using AI can measure very small surfaces and distances — opening a world of medical, manufacturing and other applications, thanks to quantum engineer Yuping Huang and the Center for Quantum Science and Engineering.

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Turbocharging Next-Gen Quantum Communication with "Twisty" Photons

In a cover story in the August 2022 issue of Optica, researchers led by Stefan Strauf, head of the NanoPhotonics Lab at Stevens, show that they can create and control individual flying qudits, or “twisty” photons, on demand — a breakthrough that could dramatically expand the capabilities of quantum communication tools.


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Stevens Researchers Directly Link Destruction from Hurricane Sandy to Human-Caused Climate Change, Tallying Over $8 Billion in Damage

Novel modeling of sea level rise impacts by Stevens Institute of Technology researcher and collaborators creates a framework for assessing human-caused damage of past and future coastal storms.

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Novel Wave-Energy Converters Generate Sustainable Energy From the Ocean

Stevens lab director Muhammad Hajj designs and tests oscillators that float in the sea and generate emission-free energy using novel design, electronics, and hardware.

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Civil Engineers at Stevens Design New "Smart" Self-Healing Concrete that Cleans Air, Seals Cracks, and Resists Fire

The Stevens-developed building material may help mitigate soil and groundwater pollution because it's produced using high-volume construction and demolition waste and industrial solid waste, which typically goes into landfills.

One of the things I find most compelling about Stevens is its interest in tackling large, complex societal challenges and their underlying systems.
Amro FaridProfessor, Department of Systems & Enterprises
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Stevens Designs Filter That Removes 'Forever Chemicals' from Drinking Water

Stevens Center for Sustainability director Dibs Sarkar develops natural green filters to portably remove dangerous PFAS and PFOS substances from drinking water supplies

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Stevens Professor Develops First Deep Learning Model to Predict High Concentration Antibody Viscosity

Chemical Engineering professor Pin-Kuang Lai's convolutional neural network surrogate model can accelerate early-stage antibody drug development by screening for elevated viscosity in a fraction of a second.

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New Nanotech Delivers Medicines Directly to Cancer Tumors

Biomedical Engineering Professor and Director of the Semcer Center for Healthcare Innovation Hongjun Wang's new research with a major medical center reveals that gold-nanoparticle packages ferry cancer drugs precisely.


Featured Faculty Research Highlights

The Charles V. Schaefer, Jr. School of Engineering and Science Virtual Research Forum highlights our exciting research breakthroughs in five pillar areas. Each forum features highly accomplished faculty speakers from multiple departments within the Schaefer School. 

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Research News at the Schaefer School

Browse all research news, innovations, and happenings at the Charles V. Schaefer Jr. School of Engineering and Science.