NJ Wind Institute Fellowship Rutgers Faculty Advisors

Cohorts 2022-2023, 2023-2024
Dr. Aziz Ezzat leads the Renewables and Industrial Analytics (RIA) research group at Rutgers University. He received his Ph.D. from Texas A&M University in 2019, and his B.Sc. degree from Alexandria, Egypt, in 2013, both in Industrial Engineering. His research interests are in the areas of spatiotemporal data and decision sciences, probabilistic forecasting, and quality and reliability engineering, with a focus on renewable energy analytics and industrial informatics.

Cohort 2023-2024
Dr. Balasubramanian is an Assistant Teaching Professor in the Mathematics department at Rutgers University, New Brunswick. He teaches various undergraduate mathematics classes and reflects on teaching methods and how to make learning more active. His research interests are in mathematical physics and, recently on applying mathematics through optimization, statistics, and machine learning.

Cohorts 2022-2023, 2023-2024
Dr. Bilgen is a fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), and various other engineering societies. His research involves the development of new control, energy harvesting, and propulsion mechanisms for wind/water turbines, aircraft (e.g., drones), soft/compliant robotics with smart materials, and low-cost biomedical/wearable devices with the use of smart materials. He serves as a principal and co-principal investigator in several U.S. Government funded grants.

Cohorts 2022-2023, 2023-2024
Dr. Burlion began his career in his native France as an expert engineer for the French DoD before serving as a research scientist for French Aerospace Lab Onera, where he developed a passion for flight systems. He is working with MAE colleague Onur Bilgen on a project funded by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency to advance floating offshore wind turbines as a clean energy solution for New Jersey.

Cohort 2022-2023
Dr. Danley is an Associate Professor of Public Policy and Administration and author of A Neighborhood Politics of Last Resort: Post-Katrina New Orleans and the Right to the City. He researches protests, such as in his piece “They’re Not Building It for Us” which examines protests of gentrification in Camden, NJ. He also researches participation, including a grant with the RWJ Foundation to study youth participation in their Next Generation Community Leaders initiative.

Cohort 2023-2024
Professor Gold teaches Environmental Law, Administrative Law (the law of government agencies), and other courses at Rutgers Law School in Newark. He received an A.B. in biology from Harvard University and a J.D. from Yale Law School. Before Joining the Rutgers faculty, Professor Gold spent nearly two decades enforcing federal pollution laws as an attorney and senior attorney with the Environmental Enforcement Section of the United States Department of Justice.

Cohort 2022-2023
Dr. Kohut earned a B.S. in physics from the College of Charleston and a Ph.D. in physical oceanography from Rutgers University. He is a professor in the Department of Marine and Coastal Sciences and a member of the Center for Ocean Observing Leadership. His research focuses on the ocean processes that structure marine ecosystems and also deals with storm intensity, offshore wind, local water quality monitoring; U.S. east coast regional fisheries; and polar ecosystems in Antarctic coastal waters.

Cohorts 2022-2023, 2023-2024
Dr. Miles is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Marine and Coastal Sciences at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, where he also received his Doctorate. At RUCOOL, he has pioneered the use of autonomous underwater vehicles and ocean observing networks to study the oceans' response to hurricanes and is currently pursuing new research on ocean and atmosphere interactions with the development of offshore wind farms in the Mid-Atlantic region.

Cohort 2022-2023
Dr. Munroe is a shellfish ecologist at the Haskin Shellfish Research Laboratory. She earned a BSc in Environmental Science at Simon Fraser University and a PhD in Animal Science at the University of British Columbia. As a JSPS Post-Doctoral Fellow, she spent nearly two years in Japan studying intertidal community ecology at Hokkaido University. Her research focuses on the sustainable management of coastal and marine resources like shellfish fisheries and aquaculture.

Cohort 2023-2024
Dr. Naumova holds a Ph.D. in Operation Research from Rutgers University, and her B.S. and M.S. degrees are in Mathematics from Perm State University, Russia. Professor Naumova is currently with the Finance department at Rutgers Business School where she teaches classes in Quantitative Finance and does research in game theory and optimization under uncertainty. 

Cohort 2023-2024
Dr. Paul is an Assistant Professor of Economics, a member of the Rutgers Climate Institute, and a member of the Executive Board at Environmental Research: Energy. He is also the author of The End of Freedom: Reclaiming America's Lost Promise of Economic Rights, published with University of Chicago Press. His research examines the distributional implications of deep decarbonization in the United States, focusing on economic pathways to reduce inequality and mitigate emissions.

Cohort 2023-2024
Dr. Piccoli is University Professor and the Joseph and Loretta Lopez Chair Professor of Mathematics at Rutgers University–Camden. He also served as the Vice Chancellor for Research. His research interests span various areas of applied mathematics, including control theory, traffic flow on networks, crowd dynamics, math finance and application to autonomous driving, population health and bio-medical systems.

Cohort 2023-2024
Dr. Saba is an Associate Professor who leads a research group focused on biological oceanography and marine ecology within the Department of Marine and Coastal Sciences and serves as a faculty in the Center for Ocean Observing Leadership. In the offshore wind space, she is collecting observational data on ecological and physical oceanographic conditions such as pelagic zooplankton, as well as marine mammal presence in current and planned wind lease areas using autonomous underwater gliders.

Cohorts 2022-2023, 2023-2024
Dr. Wang is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Rutgers University. He received his Ph.D. in Environmental Fluid Mechanics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and conducted Postdoctoral research at UC Berkeley. Dr. Wang’s research group focuses on developing remote sensing and data-driven/numerical models to address the environmental uncertainty and impacts of hydrokinetic and offshore renewable energy.