Graduate Seminars
CEE Graduate Seminars in Fall 2026 are hosted on Mondays afternoon from 4:00 pm to 5:20 pm in CKB G-08 or Zoom during the Fall 2026 semester and are open to all in the NJIT and CEE communities.
2026 Fall Seminar Series
Virtual and In-person
Date: Monday, September 28 (4:00 pm - 5:20 pm)
Location: CKB G-08 - NJIT campus
Title: Earth-Observation Foundation Models for Environmental Decision Making
Guest Speaker: Mashrekur Rahman, PhD
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2026 Spring Seminar Series
Virtual and In-person
Date: Monday, April 27th (4:00 pm - 5:20 pm)
Location: ME 221 - NJIT campus
Title: 2026 CEE PhD 3-Minute Presentation Competition
CEE doctoral students will present their research in just three minutes.
The winner of the competition will receive a special award.
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Date: Monday, April 13th (4:00 pm - 5:20 pm)
Location: ME 221 - NJIT campus
Title: Recent efforts of the NAS in Ocean Science
Guest Speaker: Dr. Susan Roberts, Director Ocean Studies Board, The National Academies
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Date: Monday, March 30th (4:00 pm - 5:20 pm)
Location: Zoom
Title: Open Access Publishing
Guest Speaker: Barnaby Crook, Journal Relations Specialist, MDPI
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Date: Monday, March 23rd (4:00 pm - 5:20 pm)
Location: ME 221 - NJIT campus
Title: NJ water supply and use of USGS gage
Guest Speaker: Paul Schorr, P.E. - Adjunct Instructor, Civil & Environmental Engineering Department - NJIT
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Date: Monday, March 9th (4:00 pm - 5:20 pm)
Location: ME 221 - NJIT campus
Title: Radioactive waste management in Bangladesh: Policies, practices and prospect
Guest Speaker: Dr. Mohammad Moniruzzaman - Principal Geologist at the Bangladesh Atomic Energy Commission (BAEC) and a Fulbright Visiting Scholar in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at Florida International University
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Date: Monday, March 2nd (4:00 pm - 5:20 pm)
Location: ME 221 - NJIT campus
Title: From Plastics to the Micro-Nanoplastics Crisis: Emerging Evidence, Risks and Solutions
Guest Speaker: Philip Demokritou, PhD - The Henry Rutgers Chair in Nanoscience and Environmental Bioengineering at Rutgers Biomedical Health Sciences and Founding Director of the Environmental Health Nanoscience and Advanced Materials Center (NAMC)
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Date: Monday, February 16, (4:00 pm - 5:20 pm)
Location: ME 221 - NJIT campus
Title: Machine Learning Applications in Geotechnical Engineering: Regression and Classification Approaches
Guest Speaker: Magued Iskander, PhD, PE, F.ASCE - Civil engineering professor at New York University (NYU) Tandon School of Engineering, where he served as Chair of the Civil and Urban Engineering Department (2013–2025) and now
serves as Senior Director of Strategic Initiative.
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2025 Fall Seminar Series
Virtual and In-person
Date: Monday, December 8, 2025, (4:00 pm - 5:20 pm)
Location: only on Zoom
Title: Transitioning Structural Engineering Foundations for Resilient Urban and Environmental Systems in a Changing World
Guest Speaker: Dr. Byeongseong Choi - Postdoctoral Fellow in Civil Engineering at the University of Texas at Arlington
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Date: Monday, December 1, 2025, (4:00 pm - 5:20 pm)
Location: NJIT - CKB G-08
Title: Intersection of Architecture and Structural Engineering in Digital Technology
Guest Speaker: Simon Shim, P.E., MSCE
Principal of Active Design Group and Adjunct Professor, CE495, Civil and Environmental Engineering Department at
New Jersey Institute of Technology
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Date: Monday, November 24, 2025, (4:00 pm - 5:20 pm)
Location: NJIT - CKB G-08
Title: Engineering Solutions for Treating Emerging Organic Contaminants in the Environment
Guest Speaker: Guangbin Li, Ph.D., Assistant Professor at Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering - University of Maryland, College Park
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Date: Monday, November 10, 2025, (4:00 pm - 5:20 pm)
Location: only on Zoom
Title: Wind Engineering and Computational Innovation
Guest Speaker: Justin Downey, P.Eng., MSc., LEED AP BD+C, WELL AP
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Date: Monday, November 3, 2025, (4:00 pm - 5:20 pm)
Location: NJIT - CKB G-08
Title: Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances in household wastewater and advanced treatment technologies
Guest Speaker: Adeyemi Adeleye, PhD
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Date: Monday, October 22, 2025, (4:00 pm - 5:20 pm)
Location: Virtual on Zoom (details in the flyer below)
Title: From Soil Box to Sea: Commercializing a Novel Offshore Anchor Technology
Guest Speaker: Junho Lee, PhD
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Date: Monday, October 13, 2025, (4:00 pm - 5:20 pm)
Location: NJIT - CKB G-08
Title: From Contaminant Treatment to Infrastructure Adaptation: Engineering for Resilience and Sustainability
Guest Speaker: Yang Deng, PhD
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Date: Monday, September 22, 2025, (4:00 pm - 5:20 pm)
Location: NJIT - CKB G-08
Title: The Role of Freight Transportation Policy and Planning in the Fight Against Climate Change
Guest Speaker: Jose Holguin-Veras, PhD
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2025 Spring Seminar Series:
Virtual and In-person
Date: Monday, January 27, 2025, (4:00 pm - 5:30 pm)
Location: NJIT - Tiernan Hall - Room 106
Title: Effects of Nanobubbles on Bacterial Communities: Applications in Plant Growth Enhancement and Biofilm Removal
Guest Speaker: Thu Le, PhD
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Date: Monday, February 3, 2025, (4:00 pm - 5:30 pm)
Location: NJIT - Tiernan Hall - Room 106
Title: Unveiling processes affecting leaching of PFAS from sewage sludges and biosolids
Guest Speaker: Christopher M. Sales, PhD
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Date: Monday, February 10, 2025, (4:00 pm - 5:30 pm)
Location: NJIT - Tiernan Hall - Room 106
Title: Multi-Scale Catastrophe Modeling and Resilience Assessment of Power Transmission Lines
Guest Speaker: Paolo Bocchini, PhD
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Date: Monday, February 24, 2025, (4:00 pm - 5:30 pm)
Location: NJIT - Tiernan Hall - Room 106
Title: Sustainable Nutrient Recovery Using Mixotrophy: A Pathway
to Carbon Neutrality in Wastewater Treatment Sector
Guest Speaker: Muhammad Mubashar, PhD
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Date: Monday, March 10, 2025, (4:00 pm - 5:30 pm)
Location: NJIT - Tiernan Hall - Room 106
Title: Ultra High Performance Concrete and applications in Bridges
Guest Speaker: Anuoluwa Ope Adediji PhD, P.E
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Date: Monday, March 31, 2025, (4:00 pm - 5:30 pm)
Location: NJIT - Tiernan Hall - Room 106
Title: A Half Century of Protecting the Environment
Guest Speaker: Christopher Uchrin, PhD, P.E.
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Date: Monday, April 7, 2025, (4:00 pm - 5:30 pm)
Location: NJIT - Tiernan Hall - Room 106
Title: Fungi Geotechnics: Emerging Concepts, Mechanisms, Applications, and Future Directions
Guest Speaker: Emmanuel Salifu, PhD
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Date: Monday, April 14, 2025, (4:00 pm - 5:30 pm)
Location: NJIT - Tiernan Hall - Room 106
Title: Lessons learned from a reexamination of the 2019 Feijão Dam 1 failure
Guest Speaker: Tyler Oathes, PhD
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2024 FALL Seminar Series:
Virtual and In-person
Date: Monday, September 9, 2024, (4:00 pm - 5:30 pm)
Location: NJIT - Kupfrian Hall Room 205
Title: Metal Hydrides for Hydrogen Storage: From Research to Real-World Applications
Guest Speaker: Stephanie Taboada, PhD, P.E.
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Date: Monday, September 16, 2024, (4:00 pm - 5:30 pm)
Location: NJIT - Kupfrian Hall Room 205
Title: Sustainable Nutrient Water Recovery by a Hybrid Electrodialysis - Forward Osmosis Process for Agricultural Application
Guest Speaker: Jin Xue, PhD
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Date: Monday, September 23, 2024, (4:00 pm - 5:30 pm)
Location: NJIT - Kupfrian Hall Room 205
Title: Life-Cycle Reliability, Risk, Resilience, and Sustainability of Civil Infrastructure under Multi-hazards
Guest Speaker: Dan M. Frangopol, PhD
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Date: Monday, September 30, 2024, (4:00 pm - 5:30 pm)
Location: NJIT - Kupfrian Hall Room 205
Title: Congestion Pricing and the Balanced Transportation Analyzer – Reducing Congestion, Raising Revenue, and Improving Quality of Life
Guest Speaker: Babu K Veeregowda, PhD, PE, PTOE
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Date: Monday, October 7, 2024, (4:00 pm - 5:30 pm)
Location: NJIT - Kupfrian Hall Room 205
Title: The Magic of Pressure Cooking: Hydrothermal Systems for Waste Valorization
Guest Speaker: Yalin Li, PhD
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Date: Monday, October 14, 2024, (4:00 pm - 5:30 pm)
Location: NJIT - Kupfrian Hall Room 205
VIRTUAL - Zoom link: Meeting ID: 994 3917 6432; Passcode: 058807
Title: Toward microbial soil improvement: Micro-scale characteristics of MICP and clay-bacteria interactions
Guest Speaker: Tae-Hyuk Kwon, PhD
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Date: Monday, October 21, 2024, (4:00 pm - 5:30 pm)
Location: NJIT - Kupfrian Hall Room 205
Title: Volatile PFAS Released from Paper-based Food Packaging under Simulated Landfill Conditions and Novel Approach Development to Degrade PFAS in Water
Guest Speaker: Yuemei Ye, PhD
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Date: Monday, October 28, 2024, (4:00 pm - 5:30 pm)
Location: NJIT - Kupfrian Hall Room 205
Title: Innovative Advanced Oxidation Processes for Clean Water: Single-Atom Catalysts to Remove Organic Micropollutants
Guest Speaker: Jiahui Hu, PhD
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Date: Monday, November 4, 2024, (4:00 pm - 5:30 pm)
Location: NJIT - Kupfrian Hall Room 205
Title: Sustainable Nanotechnology: Bio-inspired, nature-derived, and non-toxic nanomaterials for agri-food applications and beyond
Guest Speaker: Phillip Demokritou, PhD
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Date: Monday, November 11, 2024, (4:00 pm - 5:30 pm)
Location: NJIT - Kupfrian Hall Room 205
Title: Nanoparticles in Environment, Engineered Systems, and Agriculture
Guest Speaker: Yiming Su, PHD (Utah State University)
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Date: Monday, November 18, 2024, (4:00 pm - 5:30 pm)
Location: NJIT - Kupfrian Hall Room 205
Title: Nanoplastics and Female Reproductive Health
Guest Speaker: Genoa Warner, PhD (NJIT)
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Date: Monday, November 25, 2024, (4:00 pm - 5:30 pm)
Location: NJIT - Kupfrian Hall Room 205
Title: Protecting and monitoring public health through sewer and wastewater microbiology
Guest Speaker: Nicole Fahrenfeld, PhD
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Date: Monday, December 2, 2024, (4:00 pm - 5:30 pm)
Location: NJIT - Kupfrian Hall Room 205
Title: Application of explainable ML-based surrogate model to accelerate performance-based earthquake engineering
Guest Speaker: Mohsen Zaker Esteghamati, PhD
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Date: Monday, December 9, 2024, (4:00 pm - 5:30 pm)
Location: NJIT - Kupfrian Hall Room 205
Title: Expanding the Horizons of Wastewater-Based Surveillance: Innovations, Global Initiatives, and Future Directions in Public Health
Guest Speaker: Adam Gushgari, PhD
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Spring 2024 Seminar Series:
Virtual and In-person
Date: Monday, January 22nd, 2024, at 4:00 pm
Location: NJIT
Title: Development of hybrid cavitation processes targeting complete defluorination of per-fluoro alkyl substances (PFAS) in complex matrices
Guest Speaker: Deepak Kirpalani, Ph.D.
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Date: Monday, January 29th, 2024, at 4:00 pm
Location: NJIT
Title: Ultrasound - Computational Metabeams and Variegated Effective Behaviors
Guest Speaker: Debajyoti Saha, Ph.D.
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Date: Monday, February 5th, 2024, at 4:00 pm
Location: NJIT
Title: The Architectural, Engineering, and Construction Industry and the Fourth Industrial Revolution
Guest Speaker: Lucio Soibelman, Ph.D., Dist M.ASCE - Fred Champion Estate Chair in Engineering Professor
University of Southern California
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Date: Monday, February 12th, 2024, at 4:00 pm
Location: NJIT
Title: Nano-enabled agriculture: A path to global food security in a changing climate
Guest Speaker: Jason C. White, Ph.D. - Director of the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station
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Date: Monday, February 19th 2024, at 4:00 pm
Location: NJIT
Title: Integrated Water Resources - Northwest Kenya (Turkana and Marsabit Counties)
Guest Speaker: Richard H. Kropp - United States Geological Survey, Water Science Center, New Jersey
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Date: Monday, March 4th, 2024, at 4:00 pm
Location: NJIT
Title: Design and Construction Management Challenges and Innovations of the Railroad Infrastructure
Guest Speaker: George Attara, Ph.D. - Adjunct Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering Department NJIT
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Date: Monday, March 18th, 2024, at 4:00 pm
Location: NJIT
Title: Lessons Learned from Engineering Challenges: Navigating Unprecedented Geological Conditions and Ensuring Project Feasibility
Guest Speaker: Sean S. Lee, Ph.D., PE - Head, Department of Earth Resources and Environmental Engineering, Hanyang University
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Date: Monday, March 25th, 2024, at 4:00 pm
Location: CKB 217
Title: Thoughts on Practical Challenges to Critical Infrastructure Resilience
Guest Speaker: Najib N. Abboud, Ph.D., PE - Managing Principal & Applied Science Practice Co-Leader
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Date: Monday, April 8th, 2024, at 4:00 pm
Location: CKB 217
Title: Challenges of Trenchless Technologies: case of Large Diameter Tunnels and Projects
Guest Speaker: Todd Kilduff, PE - Founder and President of Kilduff Underground Engineering
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