Graduate Seminars
CEE Graduate Seminars in Fall 2025 are hosted on Mondays afternoon from 4:00 pm to 5:20 pm in CKB Room G-08 or Zoom during the Fall 2025 semester and are open to all in the NJIT and CEE communities.
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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