Dr. Dmitriy Kalantarov has an extremely diverse industry and educational background includes a Bachelor of Science Degree in Mathematics, an accelerated BS/MS Program Degree in Electrical Engineering, Masters of Business Administration in Global Business Management, a Masters of Engineering Degree in Engineering Physics, and a PhD in Theoretical Physics. Before fully transitioning into academia Dr. Kalantarov worked in industry as an engineer for over a decade where he analyzed multiple scenarios to identify costs/benefit trade-offs, challenged the status quo and evaluated processes through data informed decision making to resolve if process/production refinements would improve productivity, quality and drive business deliverables. He is also championed collaboration across multiple sectors; engineering, manufacturing, marketing, quality control, legal, and supply in order to build ad hoc project teams to meet the demands of our clients.
Dr. Kalantarov currently serves as the Chairperson of the Mathematics, Engineering Technologies and Computer Sciences (METCS) Division at Essex County College (ECC); where we offer a combination of 15 A.S. and A.A.S. degree programs. Dr. Kalantarov successfully unified the various departments under one division and oversees 26 fulltime faculty members and approximately +100 adjuncts. He is and is responsible for assigning schedules, resolving conflicts, conducting faculty observations, balancing budgets, evaluating programs, strategic planning, and policy development. Additionally, Dr. Kalantarov has designed innovative programs using data-informed decision-making for the evaluation and improvement current programs and streamlining of courses and delivery methods; he also tracks the status and effectiveness of initiatives implemented for continual improvement. He also heads up the NSF funded Perkins, and S-STEM Grants which require strict budgeting and compliance within the contract. Dr. Kalantarov is also a strong proponent of championing diversity, equity, and inclusion across the university and various industries by implementing SWE, IEEE, NSBE and including key senior leaders as well as external stakeholders. In his first year as chairperson at ECC he established a student charter affiliation and club with the Society of Women Engineers (SWE) one of the first of its kind in the nation.
Other than his current position as the Chairperson of METCS and professor of physics at Essex County College, Dr. Kalantarov is also the summer research co-coordinator for the GS-LSAMP (Garden Sate-Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation in the Sciences) at Essex since 2013. Under this grant, which is provided by a consortium of eight colleges throughout New Jersey and funded by the NSF, he co-coordinates efforts with the other awarded colleges to mentor inner-city minority students, and structure paid summer research experiences in academe and industry.
Dr. Kalantarov research endeavors span a wide variety of fields – both theoretical and experimental. Theoretically, he designed and an ultrasensitive, portable, and easy-to-use on-chip optical biosensors using machine learning coupled with genetic algorithms and statistical analysis run in python on a Tesla K40 graphics processing unit (GPU) in order to find the optimal parameters. This work was then experimentally evaluated and further refined via two successful fully funded grant submissions to fabricate integrated optical devices at Brookhaven National Laboratory Center for functional nanomaterials.
Dr. Kalantarov currently serves as the Chairperson of the Mathematics, Engineering Technologies and Computer Sciences (METCS) Division at Essex County College (ECC); where we offer a combination of 15 A.S. and A.A.S. degree programs. Dr. Kalantarov successfully unified the various departments under one division and oversees 26 fulltime faculty members and approximately +100 adjuncts. He is and is responsible for assigning schedules, resolving conflicts, conducting faculty observations, balancing budgets, evaluating programs, strategic planning, and policy development. Additionally, Dr. Kalantarov has designed innovative programs using data-informed decision-making for the evaluation and improvement current programs and streamlining of courses and delivery methods; he also tracks the status and effectiveness of initiatives implemented for continual improvement. He also heads up the NSF funded Perkins, and S-STEM Grants which require strict budgeting and compliance within the contract. Dr. Kalantarov is also a strong proponent of championing diversity, equity, and inclusion across the university and various industries by implementing SWE, IEEE, NSBE and including key senior leaders as well as external stakeholders. In his first year as chairperson at ECC he established a student charter affiliation and club with the Society of Women Engineers (SWE) one of the first of its kind in the nation.
Other than his current position as the Chairperson of METCS and professor of physics at Essex County College, Dr. Kalantarov is also the summer research co-coordinator for the GS-LSAMP (Garden Sate-Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation in the Sciences) at Essex since 2013. Under this grant, which is provided by a consortium of eight colleges throughout New Jersey and funded by the NSF, he co-coordinates efforts with the other awarded colleges to mentor inner-city minority students, and structure paid summer research experiences in academe and industry.
Dr. Kalantarov research endeavors span a wide variety of fields – both theoretical and experimental. Theoretically, he designed and an ultrasensitive, portable, and easy-to-use on-chip optical biosensors using machine learning coupled with genetic algorithms and statistical analysis run in python on a Tesla K40 graphics processing unit (GPU) in order to find the optimal parameters. This work was then experimentally evaluated and further refined via two successful fully funded grant submissions to fabricate integrated optical devices at Brookhaven National Laboratory Center for functional nanomaterials.