The fall semester at Binghamton University is a couple of month away from wrapping up, and the School of Systems Science and Industrial Engineering (SSIE) on the Thomas J. Watson College of Engineering and Applied Science is worked up to share its achievements in training and analysis within the second half of 2025.
For the 2024-25 fiscal yr, SSIE’s analysis expenditures had been practically $12.7 million, which represented practically 49% of Watson College and 14.5% of Binghamton University. Driving a lot of this analysis was the Watson Institute for Systems Excellence (WISE), which embeds graduate college students into industrial and healthcare settings to resolve real-world issues whereas college students acquire vital expertise.
SSIE additionally hosted the Flexible Automation and Intelligent Manufacturing (FAIM) worldwide convention in New York City in June. The theme was “The Future of Automation and Manufacturing Intelligence, Agility and Sustainability.” The convention had 228 attendees from 29 nations, with 180 shows on a range of manufacturing subjects.
Faculty information
Welcome to the brand new college this fall: Assistant Professor Safa ElKefi, Professor Saad Hamasha and Assistant Professor Mina Ostovari.
A Stanford University study that looks at the impact of scientists worldwide recognized 29 Binghamton University college who had been among the many high 2% of all researchers on the planet of their fields in 2024. Among them from SSIE had been Professor of Empire Innovation Carlos Gershenson-Garcia, Associate Professor Fuda Ning and Distinguished Professor Hiroki Sayama.
Research information
Associate Professor Jia Deng acquired a $580,623 National Science Foundation CAREER Award to pursue analysis into manufacturing electronics on a nano scale. He will examine a producing course of that makes use of a tiny software to work together by way of mechanical vibration and electrical fields as hybrid vitality kinds to “mark” the goal materials.
Associate Professor Fuda Ning also won a prestigious NSF CAREER grant, receiving nearly $600,000 for analysis to create higher tungsten alloys utilizing additive manufacturing. The new metals could possibly be used for rocket nozzles, radiation shields or MRI parts, amongst different high-tech purposes.
With synthetic intelligence more and more half of our on a regular basis lives, SSIE faculty members weighed in on what’s next and what the potential issues could be. Professor of Empire Innovation Carlos Gershenson-Garcia talks about what AI can and might’t do; Assistant Professor Stephanie Tulk Jesso thinks AI shouldn’t be a alternative for people; Associate Professor Christopher Greene mentioned how AI and robotics assist with manufacturing; Associate Professor Daehan Won worries about AI biases; Professor Sangwon Yoon appears at AI in healthcare decision-making; and Distinguished Professor Hiroki Sayama connects AI along with his analysis on synthetic life.
Assistant Professor Yingge Zhou teamed up with Assistant Professor Ying Wang from Binghamton’s Department of Biomedical Engineering for research into how to improve the vascular systems of engineered tissues. By integrating nanotubes right into a composite hydrogel that shaped half of the tissue-growing medium, they elevated blood move all through the cells.
Assistant Professor Neha Patankar collaborated with colleagues from world wide on research about accommodating our increasing need for power generation. They concluded that selecting the least costly choice isn’t all the time the perfect resolution, and even a bit wiggle room on price can present a way more socially, environmentally and politically coherent end result.
Assistant Professor Melissa Zeynep Ertem labored with Associate Professor Lina Begdache from Binghamton’s Decker College of Nursing and Health Sciences to discover how lack of nutrition changes our resilience, stress mindset and level of mental distress, notably throughout age and gender.
Research fellow Ahmed Abdeen Hamed led analysis that put ChatGPT and its large language models to the test when diagnosing medical conditions. The AI confirmed excessive accuracy in figuring out illness phrases, drug names and genetic info however struggled with symptom identification.
Master’s college students Jhanille Hurde and Amaya McCollough ’25 revealed research analyzing the use of personas and the way it will help sufferers in addition to the healthcare system as an entire. Personas have been credited with revolutionizing the supply of patient-centered care, which permits individuals extra enter into their very own well being administration.
Student information
Bryan Cabrera ’26 has been working with Distinguished Professor Mark Poliks as half of a long-term research co-op studying flexible microelectronics. Cabrera’s challenge appears to interrupt the bounds of inflexible expertise by designing biodegradable and bendable digital gadgets with the plasticity of a sheet of paper.
As half of her dissertation, PhD scholar Xin “Vision” Wang is developing VizTrust, an analytics software to make person belief dynamics in human-AI communication seen and comprehensible. She introduced her present work and findings in April on the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) CHI 2025 convention in Yokohama, Japan.
For a feature in this year’s Watson Review magazine, undergraduates Justin Mintz, Benjamin Deibler, Gerardo Dutan, Lilly Guizatoullina and Nicholas Ingraselino talked about their work with Professor Sangwon Yoon on a brand new algorithm to reschedule flights primarily based on climate circumstances.
Alumni information
Hadassah Mativetsky ’07, MS ’12, served as chair of the Binghamton City Council in 2024, bringing her ideas as a programs science graduate into the true world. She compares it to her profession in high quality administration, the place firms are presupposed to doc processes.
Balki Iyer, MS ’00, SD ’19, introduced his latest business venture again to the Binghamton space. Bridge Green Upcycle focuses on “Cleaning Up Clean Energy” by extracting vital minerals from batteries and decreasing the necessity for added mining or carbon emissions.
Michael Hindin ’18, MS ’19, works for Steinway & Sons, which has constructed high-quality, world-class pianos since 1853. He places in onerous work behind the scenes to make sure that operators can assemble their pianos with ease.