Fall 2022 Research Events

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Faculty Research Orientation

October 11, 2022

In October, the Office of Research held its annual orientation for Fordham faculty. Twenty attended this Zoom session where faculty members’ questions were fielded by research staff, sponsored program staff and institutional giving staff. Our [email protected] email address is a great way to reach out with any questions that may arise for faculty.

 Fordham-Columbia, NYU, Georgetown, and IBM Research Fellows and Interns Forum

October 21, 2022

Dennis Jacobs on Zoom speaker view

Fordham-Columbia, Georgetown, IBM, and NYU
Research Fellows and Research Interns Forum

Organized by
The Fordham University Office of Research

Friday, October 21, 2022
9:30 – 11:30 a.m.
Location: Online Meeting via Zoom

Fordham University

I. Introduction: George Hong, Chief Research Officer and Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs

II. Remarks

  1. Dennis Jacobs, Provost, Fordham University
  2. Stacie Bloom, Vice Provost for Research, New York University
  3. Victoria Hamilton, Executive Director of Research Initiatives, Columbia University
  4. Billy Jack, Vice Provost for Research, Georgetown University
  5. Radha Ratnaparkhi, Vice President, Chief Technology Officer, Research Consulting Partnership, T.J. Watson Research Center, IBM

III. Collaborative Research Project Introductiona

1. Navid Asgari, Associate Professor, Strategy and Statistics Area of the Gabelli School of Business, and research intern Anh Tran, Gabelli School of Business

Project Title: “Studying Knowledge Decay in Organizations Using Knowledge Fingerprinting & Perishability Algorithms."

Partner: Kosrow Dehnad, Adjunct Professor, Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research, Columbia University

2. Stephen Hong Sohn, Professor, Department of English, Graduate School of Arts & Sciences, and research intern Amal Zaman, Department of English, Graduate School of Arts & Sciences

Project Title: “Asian American Literature: Interrogating Empire and War in Realist and Speculative Fictions”

Partner: Crystal Parikh, Professor, Department of Social & Cultural Analysis and Department of English, Director, Asian/Pacific/American Institute, New York University

3. Juntao Chen, Assistant Professor, Department of Computer and Information Sciences, Graduate School of Arts & Sciences, and research intern James Guest, Department of Computer and Information Sciences, Fordham College at Rose Hill

Project Title: “Trustworthy AI-Enabled Control of Multi-Agent Robotics under Cyberattacks”

Partner: Quanyan Zhu, Associate Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, New York University

4. Stephen Grimm, Professor, Department of Philosophy, Graduate School of Arts & Sciences, and research interns Marshawn Brewer and Nicholas Norita, Department of Philosophy, Graduate School of Arts & Sciences

Project Title: “The Point and Purpose of Epistemic Evaluation”

Partner: John Greco, McDevitt Chair in Philosophy, Georgetown University

5. Ying Mao, Assistant Professor, Department of Computer and Information Sciences, Graduate School of Arts & Sciences, and research intern Anthony S. D’Onofrio, Department of Computer and Information Sciences, Fordham College at Rose Hill/ Graduate School of Arts & Sciences

Project Title: “Improving Deep Learning Architectures with IBM-Q Quantum Computing”

Partner: Pin-Yu Chen, Chief Scientist, RPI-IBM AI Research Collaboration;

Research Staff Member, Trusted AI Group, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, NY, USA

6. Rahbel Rahman, Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Social Service, and research intern Rupal Patel, Graduate School of Social Service

Project Title: “Understanding Facilitators and Barriers to help-seeking, health beliefs and maternal mental health service among Pakistani women”

Partner: Susan S. Witte, Professor, Columbia University School of Social Work

IV. Discussion: Next Steps

FRAP Forum

Research Forum: Fordham Faculty Research Abroad Program with Jesuit Universities

Organized by The Fordham University Office of Research

Friday, November 11, 2022
10 a.m. – 12 p.m.
Location: Online Meeting via Zoom

I. Introduction: George Hong, Chief Research Officer and Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs

II. Remarks

  1. Jonathan Crystal, Vice Provost, Fordham University
  2. Lisa Lancia, Director of International Initiatives, Fordham University

III. Collaborative Research Project Introductions

1. Su-Je Cho, Professor, Division of Curriculum & Teaching, Graduate School of Education, along with Joanna Abramo, Adjunct Professor, and Hannah Terell, Doctoral Student

Project Title: “Bullying and Cyberbullying among Secondary School Students in the Philippines and the United States: A Bioecological Approach”

Research Partner Institution: Ateneo De Manila University, Philippines

Lorelie Ann Banzo-Librojo, Assistant Professor, Psychology Department, Ateneo De Manila University, Philippines

Leyah Dizon and Celina Cabigao, Doctoral Students, Ateneo De Manila University, Philippines

2. Frank Hsu, Clavius Distinguished Professor of Science, Department of Computer and Information Sciences, Graduate School of Arts & Sciences

Project Title: “Combinatorial Fusion Algorithm: Identifying and Mitigating Bias for Robust ML/AI”

Research Partner Institution: Ateneo De Manila University, Philippines John Paul C. Vergara; Department of Information Systems and Computer Science, Ateneo de Manila University, Quezon City, the Philippines

3. Yuko Miki, Associate Professor, Department of History, Graduate School of Arts & Sciences

Project Title: “Atlantic Stories of Brazil”

Research Partner Institution: PUC-Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Leonardo Pereira, Director of Graduate Studies in the Program of Cultural History and organizer of the "Atlantic Connections Lab" at PUC-Rio

4. Olena Nikolayenko, Professor, Chair, Department of Political Sciences

Project Title: "Nonviolent Resistance in Belarus"

Research Partner Institution: Gorka Urrutia Asua, Director, Human Rights Institute, University of Deusto, Spain

5. Clara Rodriguez, Professor, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Graduate School of Arts & Sciences, along with Carmen Collins, Doctoral Candidate, St. John’s University

Project Title: “Boquerón, Puerto Rico - Environmental Consortium for Social Justice (BEC)”

Research Partner Institution: University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez, Puerto Rico,

Ruperto Chaparro, Director of the Sea Grant Program at the l Ecosystems & Health
Rene F Esteves Amador, Marine Extension Director / Research Coordinator
Ana J Navarro Rodríguez, Research Associate, Specialist in Coastal Ecosystems & Health
Lillian Ramirez Durand, Research Associate, Coastal Communities Development and Climate Extension, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez

IV. Discussion: Next Step