NYU Tandon School of Engineering

10/27/2026

A C2SMART study finding that heavier electric trucks could raise New York City's road and bridge damage costs by nearly 12% by 2050 appears in Providence Business News coverage of Cybertruck tolls on Rhode Island's Pell Bridge.

Gresh Laing’s 2024 Tesla Cybertruck gets plenty of attention on Rhode Island’s roads. Most of it isn’t friendly. “I get more middle fingers and thumbs-downs and just looks of disdain and hate, having this vehicle drive me around Rhode Island, than I have ever experienced in my entire life,.....

10/27/2026

Huge congratulations to Tandon graduate students Rayan Bargouth & Asser El Ashwah on being the runners up in the National Inventors Hall of Fame's 2026 Collegiate Inventors Competition.

Bargouth & El Ashwah presented BioAxis, a single-use, point-of-care medical device that combines a patient’s platelet-rich plasma with a prefilled bioresorbable polymer to form a tissue-adherent hydrogel. This closed sterile system combines scaffold reconstitution, controlled platelet activation, and injectable hydrogel delivery to support tendon preservation and repair for patients who don’t meet the threshold for full surgical repair. They were advised by Industry Associate Professor Richard Stein.

El Ashwah is also the CEO & Founder of Vitalis, which aims to enhance healing, reduce complications, and improve outcomes in the surgical repair of tendon injuries. He's previously earned the Audience Favorite honor at InnoVention 2025, a challenge run by the NYU Tandon Future Labs, and Audience Choice Award in the Healthcare Venture Competition at the 2025 NYU Entrepreneurs Challenge.

Photos courtesy of the National Inventors Hall of Fame.

10/26/2026

Assistant Professor Elizabeth Hénaff contributed to a new study that shows how plant-based biofilters could help reduce indoor CO2 to levels below those found outdoors.


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10/26/2026

Professor Justin Cappos questioned why fashion retailers need dedicated mobile apps that collect extensive customer data, warning that companies encouraging downloads through discounts may expose consumers to unnecessary cybersecurity risks, Sourcing Journal reported.


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10/25/2026

Princeton's Andlinger Center announced that Assistant Professor Dharik Mallapragada is a co-principal investigator on a team awarded $3 million from Schmidt Sciences to model U.S. industrial emissions and electrification.

A multi-university team led by Princeton Professor Jesse Jenkins won a grant to build computational models of complex industrial processes to better understand carbon emissions from the manufacturing sector.

10/25/2026

Researchers led by Assistant Professor Danny Huang found that AI chatbots frequently provide inaccurate, incomplete or potentially unsafe advice to people experiencing technology-facilitated abuse.

“An answer can sound confident and reasonable, and may even be technically correct, while still leaving out critical context or recommending something that does not actually make the person safer,” said Huang.“In high-risk situations, that distinction can have very real consequences.”

Huang is joined by Vijay Prakash, who earned his Tandon PhD in 2026 and is now a postdoctoral fellow at Northeastern University, as a core researcher of this project.

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10/24/2026

Industry Assistant Professor Anton Rozhkov and Shenghan Lyu found solar incentives can miss middle-income households, which earn too much for aid but can't afford panels on their own.

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10/24/2026

On NBC Nightly News, Assistant Professor Ben Riviere discussed the engineering challenges and practical limitations of Tesla's newly unveiled flying Roadster.


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10/23/2026

Assistant Professor Omar Wani's team is evaluating some 80,000 small culverts across New York State, work noted in a New York Times story on how culvert failures can turn deadly.


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10/23/2026

Institute Professor Julia Stoyanovich, Director of the Center for Responsible AI, warned that AI apps designed to manage family schedules can expose children's private information and leave parents vulnerable to security breaches or consequential errors, The New York Times reported.


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