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Widener University Faculty Authors 2020 - 2021

Biomedical Engineering

LiKang Chin, PhD

Linkang Chin• Affo, S., Nair, A., Brundu, F., Ravichandra, A., Bhattacharjee, S., Matsuda, M., Chin, L., Filliol, A., Wen, W., Song, X., Decker, A., Worley, J., Caviglia, J. M., Yu, L., Yin, D., Saito, Y., Savage, T., Wells, R. G., Mack, M., … Schwabe, R. F. (2021). Promotion of cholangiocarcinoma growth by diverse cancer-associated fibroblast subpopulations. Cancer Cell, 39(6), 866-882. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ccell.2021.03.012  

• Bhattacharjee, S., Hamberger, F., Ravichandra, A., Miller, M., Nair, A., Affo, S., Filliol, A., Chin, L., Savage, T. M., Yin, D., Wirsik, N. M., Mehal, A., Arpaia, N., Seki, E., Mack, M., Zhu, D., Sims, P. A., Kalluri, R., Stanger, B. Z., … Schwabe, R. F. (2021). Tumor restriction by type I collagen opposes tumor-promoting effects of cancer-associated fibroblasts. Journal of Clinical Investigation, 131(11). https://doi.org/10.1172/jci146987  

Chemical Engineering

Dipendu Saha, PhD

Photo of Dipendu Saha• DeLuca, G., Saha, D., & Chakraborty, S. (2021) Why Ag(I) grafted porous carbon matrix prefers alkene over alkane? An inside view from ab-initio study. Microporous and Mesoporous Materials, 316https://doi.org/10.1016/j.micromeso.2021.110940

• Unsworth, C.E., Kuo, C-C., Kuzmin, A., Khalid, S., & Saha D. (2021) Adsorption of rare-earth elements in DNA functionalized mesoporous carbon. ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, 12(38), 43180–43190. https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acsami.0c09393#

• Saha, D., Hoinkis, T. J., & Van Bramer, S. E. (2020) Electrospun, flexible and reusable nanofiber mat of graphitic carbon nitride for photocatalytic reduction of hexavalent chromium. Journal of Colloid Interface Science, 575, 433-442. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcis.2020.04.090 

• Saha, D., Toof, B., Krishna, R., Orkoulas, G., Gismondi, P., Thorpe, R., & Comroe, M. (2020) Separation of ethane-ethylene and propane-propylene in Ag(I)-doped and sulfurized microporous carbon. Microporous and Mesoporous Materials, 299. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.micromeso.2020.110099  

Civil Engineering

Ronald L. Mersky, BSE, MSE, PhD, PE, BCEE

Photo of Ronald Mersky• Di Maria, F., Sisania, F., El-Hoz, M., & Mersky, R.L. (2020). How collection efficiency and legal constraints on digestate management can affect the effectiveness of anaerobic digestion of bio-waste: An analysis of the Italian context in a life cycle perspective. Science of the Total Environment. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.138555

• Di Maria, F., Sisania, F., Contini, S., Ghosh, S.K., & Mersky, R.L. (2020). Is the policy of the European Union in waste management sustainable? An assessment of the Italian context, Waste Management,103, 437-448. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wasman.2020.01.005 

• Guran S., Mersky R.L., & Ghosh S.K. (2020) Status of plastics waste in circular economy in the USA. In: S. K. Ghosh (Ed.), Circular Economy: Global Perspective (pp. 413-421). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-1052-6_21

• Di Maria, F., Mersky, R.L., Daskale, S., Ayalon, O., & Ghosh, S.K. (2020). Preliminary comparison among recycling rates for developed and developing countries: The case of India, Israel, Italy and USA. In S. K. Ghosh (Ed.), Sustainable Waste Management: Policies and Case Studies (pp. 1-13). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-7071-7_1  

Electrical Engineering

Syed Ali Hamza, PhD

Photo of Syed Ali Hamza• Ahmad, F., Markopoulos, P. P., Ouyang, B., Schooley, P. A., & Hamza, S. A. (2021). Radar human motion classification using multi-antenna system. Proceedings of SPIE, 11730(1), 1173005–1173008.

• Hamza, S. A. & Amin, M. (2020, Sept 20-25). Learning sparse array capon beamformer design using deep learning approach [Conference session]. IEEE Radar Conference, Florence, Italy. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9266359

• Hamza, S. A. & Amin, M. G. (2021) Sparse array beamforming for wideband signal models. IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, 57(2), 1211-1226. http://doi.org/10.1109/TAES.2020.3037409.

• Hamza, S. A. & Amin, M. (2021, Jan 18-21). Sparse array receiver beamformer design for multi-functional antenna [Conference session]. 28th European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO), Amsterdam, Netherlands. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9287795  

• Hamza, S. A., Zhai, W., Wang, X., &  Amin, M. (2021, June 6-11). Sparse array transceiver design for enhanced adaptive beamforming in MIMO radar [Conference session]. ICASSP 2021 - 2021 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Toronto, Ontario, Canada. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9414650  

• Zhai, W., Wang, X., Hamza, S. A., & Amin, M. (2021, May 7-14). Cognitive-driven optimization of sparse array transceiver for MIMO radar beamforming [Conference session]. IEEE Radar Conference (RADAR), Atlanta, GA, USA. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9455310  

Weisong Tian, PhD 

Photo of weisong Tian• Tian, W., & Wang, G. (2020). State estimation in mobile edge computing with unreliable communications. IEEE Communications Letters, 25(4),1149-1152. http://doi.org/10.1109/LCOMM.2020.3047882

Mechanical Engineering

Babak Eslami, PhD

Photo of Babak Eslami• Damircheli, M. & Eslami, B. (2020). Design of v-shaped cantilever for enhanced multifrequency AFM measurements, Beilstein Journal of Nanotechnology 11(1), 1525-1541. https://doi.org/10.3762/bjnano.11.135 

• Divid, S., Ma, X., Pierre, R., Eslami, B., Patek, S., & Bergbreiter, S. (2020) Latch-based control of energy output in spring actuated system. Journal of the Royal Society Interface, 17(168), 20200070. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsif.2020.0070  

• Livolsi, F., May, T., Caputo, D., Fouladi, K., & Eslami, B. (2021). Multiscale study of effect of humidity on shape memory polymers used in 3D printing. Journal of Manufacturing Science and Engineering, 143(9), 091010-091019. https://doi.org/10.1115/1.4050550

• Putnam, J., Damircheli, M., & Eslami, B. (2020). Effects of laser spot positioning with optical beam deflection method on tapping mode and bimodal AFM. Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part K: Journal of Multi-body Dynamics, 234(4), 675-690. https://doi.org/10.1177/1464419320951343

Kamran Fouladi, PhD, PE

Photo of Kamran Fouladi• Fouladi, K., & Coughlin, D. J. (2021). CFD investigation of trout-like configuration holding station near an obstruction. Fluids, 6(6), 204. https://doi.org/10.3390/fluids6060204 

• Livolsi, F., May, T., Caputo, D., Fouladi, K., & Eslami, B. (2021). Multiscale study on effect of humidity on shape memory polymers used in three-dimensional printing. Journal of Manufacturing Science and Engineering, 143(9), 1-9. https://doi.org/10.1115/1.4050550