Experts by Expertise: Science and Technology

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3/26/19
Diana Aga
Professor of Chemistry
Expertise: industrial pollution; Great Lakes pollution; emerging contaminants including pharmaceuticals, nanomaterials and flame retardants; wastewater treatment; antibiotic resistance

Phone: 716-645-4220
Email: dianaaga@buffalo.edu
12/19/18
Victor Albert

Professor of Biological Sciences

Expertise: evolutionary biology, genomics, plant genomics, flowers, junk DNA
Phone: 716-645-4983
Email: vaalbert@buffalo.edu
8/22/19
Stelios Andreadis

SUNY Distinguished Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering

Expertise: regenerative medicine, tissue engineering, stem cells, vascular grafts
Phone: 716-645-1202
Email: sandread@buffalo.edu
12/19/18
Praveen Arany
Assistant Professor of Oral Biology
Expertise: therapeutic uses of lasers and light, particularly in wound healing and tooth regeneration

Phone: 716-829-3479
Email: prarany@buffalo.edu
3/26/19
Ekin Atilla-Gokcumen

J. Solo Assistant Professor of Chemistry
Expertise: chemical biology, lipids; cellular aging and senescence; cell death (apoptosis and necroptosis); omics approaches to research
Phone: 716-645-4130
Email: ekinatil@buffalo.edu
6/22/20
John D. Atkinson

Associate Professor of Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering
Expertise: sustainability, greenhouse gas emissions, air and water pollution control, materials science and engineering, adsorption, life-cycle assessment
Phone: 716-645-4001
Email: atkjdw@buffalo.edu
3/27/19
Priya R. Banerjee

Assistant Professor of Physics

Expertise: intrinsically disordered proteins, protein droplets, membrane-less organelles, single-molecule biophysics
Phone: 716-645-3444
Email: prbanerj@buffalo.edu
11/8/19
Javid Bayandor
Associate Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Expertise: Mid-air collisions; crashes involving drones (unmanned aircraft systems); space exploration and missions; crashworthiness; ballistics; advanced aerospace design
Phone: 716-645-1422
Email: bayandor@buffalo.edu
3/26/19
Jason Benedict

Associate Professor of Chemistry

Expertise: chemistry, chemical reactions, chemical crystallography, photochemistry, nanomaterials, synchrotron light sources

Phone: 716-645-4276
Email: jbb6@buffalo.edu
5/13/19
Gino Biondini

Professor of Mathematics

Expertise: mathematical properties of waves, solitons, applied mathematics, mathematical physics, general questions about mathematics

Phone: 716-645-8810
Email: biondini@buffalo.edu
12/19/18
Matthew Bolton

Assistant Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering

Expertise: medical alarm masking
Phone: 716-645-8405
Email: mbolton@buffalo.edu
10/31/19
Ian Bradley

Assistant Professor of Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering

Expertise: wastewater treatment, algae, algal blooms in the Great Lakes and elsewhere
Phone: 716-645-4004
Email: ianbradl@buffalo.edu
5/16/19
Irus Braverman

Professor of Law

Expertise: laws governing animals, zoos, wildlife, coral reefs, extinction and climate change law, law and society, law and conservation, law and the environment, environmental justice in Israel/Palestine
Phone: 716-645-3030
Email: irusb@buffalo.edu
12/31/18
Jason Briner
Professor of Geology
Expertise: climate change, sea level rise, glaciers, ice sheets, Greenland Ice Sheet, Arctic environmental change
Phone: 716-645-4326
Email: jbriner@buffalo.edu
10/22/20
Holly Buck

Assistant Professor of Environment and Sustainability

Expertise: environmental policy, climate change policy, geoengineering, carbon capture, climate adaptation, environmental justice
Phone: 716-645-0135
Email: hbuck2@buffalo.edu
12/19/18
John Cerne

Professor of Physics

Expertise: physics in everyday life, condensed matter physics, high-temperature superconductors, graphene, optics
Phone: 716-645-2542
Email: jcerne@buffalo.edu
6/22/20
James M. Chen

Associate Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Expertise: materials science, turbulence, energy harvesting, hypersonic/supersonic vehicles, aerodynamics, nonequilibrium phenomena, high-performance computing
Phone: 716-645-3163
Email: chenjm@buffalo.edu
6/22/20
Timothy Cook
Associate Professor of Chemistry

Expertise: molecular self-assembly, photochemistry, fluorescence, phosphorescence, batteries, alternative energy
Phone: 716-645-4327
Email: trcook@buffalo.edu
6/1/20
John L. Crassidis
Samuel P. Capen Professor
Expertise: space debris, space junk

Phone: 716-645-1426
Email: johnc@buffalo.edu
12/19/18
Beata Csatho
Chair of Geology

Expertise: climate change, sea level rise, Greenland Ice Sheet, Antarctic ice loss, glaciers, remote sensing, using satellite data and laser altimetry to measure the Earth

Phone: 716-645-4325
Email: bcsatho@buffalo.edu
9/28/20
Ning Dai
Associate Professor of Civil, Structural and Environmental

Expertise: wastewater reuse, disinfection and disinfection byproducts; seawater desalination; algal blooms; pesticides
Phone: 716-645-4015
Email: ningdai@buffalo.edu
2/17/20
Derek Daniels

Professor of Psychology

Expertise: science of thirst; science of food, water and salt intake; ingestive/eating behaviors
Phone: 716-645-0264
Email: danielsd@buffalo.edu
6/10/19
David Doermann
Director of the University at Buffalo Artificial Intelligence Institute
Expertise: artificial intelligence, pattern recognition, machine learning, deep learning, computer vision, image analysis and recognition, document analysis, media forensics
Phone: 716-645-1557
Email: doermann@buffalo.edu
9/2/20
Negar Elhami-Khorasani

Assistant Professor of Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering

Expertise: structural fire engineering, wildfires in wildland-urban interface communities, fire following earthquake, multi-hazard engineering, disaster resilience
Phone: 716-645-3019
Email: negarkho@buffalo.edu
5/16/19
Stuart M. Evans

Assistant Professor of Geography

Expertise: climate change, dust and dust storms, weather, atmospheric science, precipitation, monsoons, lake effect snow

Phone: 716-645-0491
Email: stuartev@buffalo.edu
3/16/20
Joana Gaia
Clinical Assistant Professor of Management Science and Systems
Expertise: health information systems; business intelligence; digital security and privacy; data analytics; emergency management; girls and STEM careers

Contact: Joana Gaia can be reached most quickly through Jackie Ghosen in the School of Management Communications Office at 716-645-2833 or mgt-pr@buffalo.edu.
10/6/20
Qiaoqiang Gan

Professor of Electrical Engineering

Expertise: light; photonics; optoelectronics; materials science; nanomaterials for solar energy, cooling and sensing applications
Phone: 716-645-1152
Email: qqgan@buffalo.edu
1/30/20
Joseph A. Gardella Jr.
SUNY Distinguished Professor of Chemistry
Expertise: industrial pollution; hazardous waste; microbeads; surface chemistry of plastics; controlled release of pharmaceuticals; wound healing; tissue engineering; STEM education

Phone: 716-645-1499
Email: gardella@buffalo.edu
10/23/19
Omer Gokcumen
Associate Professor of Biological Sciences

Expertise: human and primate evolution, ancient humans (including Neanderthals and Denisovans), anthropological genomics
Phone: 716-645-4937
Email: omergokc@buffalo.edu
10/24/17
Tracy K. P. Gregg
Associate Professor of Geology

Expertise: volcanology, volcanoes on Mars and Venus, the search for water on Mars, volcanism on the moon, deep-sea eruptions, basaltic lava flows

Phone: 716-645-4328
Email: tgregg@buffalo.edu
12/5/16
Richard M. Gronostajski
Professor of Biochemistry

Expertise: stem cell research and therapies; genetic engineering, testing and disease; genome editing; personalized or precision medicine; congenital developmental disorders

Phone: 716-829-3471
Email: rgron@buffalo.edu
12/19/18
Shermali Gunawardena
Associate Professor of Biological Sciences

Expertise: neurons, axonal transport, biology of neurodegenerative diseases
Phone: 716-645-4915
Email: sg99@buffalo.edu
6/22/20
Johannes Hachmann

Associate Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering

Expertise: computational chemistry; molecular and materials modeling; cheminformatics; machine learning; big data; materials discovery and design

Phone: 716-645-1524
Email: hachmann@buffalo.edu
12/5/16
Marc Halfon

Professor of Biochemistry

Expertise: genetics; gene expression; gene drive; genome editing; mosquito genome; cell growth, differentiation and development

Phone: 716-829-3126
Email: mshalfon@buffalo.edu
12/19/18
John F. Hall

Assistant Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Expertise: Wind energy; design, analysis and optimization of wind farms

Phone: 716-645-5946
Email: johnhall@buffalo.edu
10/6/20
Nicholas B. Holowka

Assistant Professor of Anthropology

Expertise: human movement, biomechanics of walking/running, human feet, footwear, primate locomotion, human evolution
Phone: 716-645-0444
Email: nbholowk@buffalo.edu
4/15/20
Sameer Honwad

Assistant Professor of Learning and Instruction

Expertise: access, equity and diversity in education; cultural studies; international education; science and environmental education

Phone: 716-645-2455
Email: sameerho@buffalo.edu
11/5/18
Yingjie Hu

Assistant Professor of Geography

Expertise: GIScience, spatial analysis, natural language processing, artificial intelligence, machine learning, data mining, big data
Phone: 716-645-1820
Email: yhu42@buffalo.edu
12/19/18
Ia Iashvili
Professor of Physics
Expertise: Higgs boson search, particle detectors, search for supersymmetric particles
Phone: 716-645-6611
Email: iashvili@buffalo.edu
12/19/18
Avto Kharchilava
Professor of Physics
Expertise: Higgs boson search, particle detectors, phenomena beyond the Standard Model
Phone: 716-645-6251
Email: avto@buffalo.edu
12/19/18
William H. Kinney
Professor of Physics
Expertise: astronomy, cosmic inflation, accelerating universe, dark matter/dark energy, solar storms, cosmic microwave background physics, public outreach in science
Phone: 716-645-5360
Email: whkinney@buffalo.edu
12/19/18
Tevfik Kosar

Associate Professor of Computer Science and Engineering

Expertise: big data, cloud computing, distributed systems, high-performance computing, green computing, energy-efficient systems
Phone: 716-645-2323
Email: tkosar@buffalo.edu
11/14/18
Trevor Krabbenhoft

Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences

Expertise: fish ecology (especially in rivers and lakes), genomics, evolutionary biology, invasive species, climate change, Great Lakes
Phone: 716-645-4934
Email: tkrabben@buffalo.edu
8/20/19
Howard Lasker

Chair of Environment and Sustainability

Expertise: coral reefs; coral bleaching; climate change and oceans
Phone: 716-645-4870
Email: hlasker@buffalo.edu
6/20/19
Haiqing Lin

Associate Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering

Expertise: separation science, carbon capture, water purification, polymers, materials science

Phone: 716-645-1856
Email: haiqingl@buffalo.edu
7/7/20
Charlotte Lindqvist

Associate Professor of Biological Sciences

Expertise: evolutionary biology, evolution of polar bears, hybridization of polar bears and brown bears, genomics
Phone: 716-645-4986
Email: cl243@buffalo.edu
10/30/17
Ciprian N. Ionita

Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering

Expertise: 3-D medical imaging, 3-D printing in medicine, neuroimaging, cardiovascular imaging, endovascular disease

Phone: 716-829-5413
Email: cnionita@buffalo.edu
3/1/18
Xiufeng Liu

Professor of Learning and Instruction

Expertise: STEM education, including student achievement, assessment and evaluation, and STEM teaching in colleges and universities; science and the public
Phone: 716-645-4050
Email: xliu5@buffalo.edu
4/20/20
Vincent Lynch

Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences

Expertise: evolutionary developmental biology; genetics; genomics; mammoths; evolution of mammalian pregnancy and cancer
Phone: 716-645-4899
Email: vjlynch@buffalo.edu
5/16/19
Andrea Markelz
Moti Lal Rustgi Professor of Physics

Expertise: protein dynamics, spectroscopy, terahertz light, optical properties of materials, nonlinear optics
Phone: 716-645-2739
Email: amarkelz@buffalo.edu
6/22/20
Joanne Song McLaughlin
Associate Professor of Economics

Expertise: labor economics; health insurance mandates; age discrimination; older workers; AI and the future of work
Phone: 716-645-8685
Email: jsmclaug@buffalo.edu
9/3/20
Kathryn Medler
Associate Professor of Biological Sciences

Expertise: taste, taste cells, senses, peripheral nervous system, neuronal signaling
Phone: 716-645-4947
Email: kmedler@buffalo.edu
10/5/20
Sayanti Mukherjee

Assistant Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering

Expertise: resilient sociotechnical systems, predictive analytics, risk-informed decision-making, public health and health care, electrical grid and energy, climate change impact assessment
Phone: 716-645-4699
Email: sayantim@buffalo.edu
3/27/19
Sarah Muldoon
Assistant Professor of Mathematics

Expertise: brain activity, brain networks, network neuroscience
Phone: 716-645-6284
Email: smuldoon@buffalo.edu
3/26/20
Yotam Ophir

Assistant Professor of Communication

Expertise: misinformation; persuasion; effect of media content on audiences, including in health, science, politics and terrorism

Phone: 716-645-1158
Email: yotamoph@buffalo.edu
7/17/19
Blaine Pfeifer

Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering

Expertise: metabolic engineering; biosynthesis of antibiotics and other compounds; vaccine design and delivery

Phone: 716-645-1198
Email: blainepf@buffalo.edu
2/6/18
Kristin Poinar

Assistant Professor of Geology

Expertise: climate change, Greenland Ice Sheet, ice sheet modeling, sea level rise, Antarctica, Great Lakes ice cover

Phone: 716-645-4286
Email: kpoinar@buffalo.edu
2/27/20
Stephanie A. Poindexter

Assistant Professor of Anthropology

Expertise: biological anthropology, primate evolution, primate conservation

Phone: 716-645-0427
Email: sapoinde@buffalo.edu
12/26/18
Chunming Qiao
SUNY Distinguished Professor of Computer Science and Engineering
Expertise: Self-driving and connected cars, specifically the computing systems for these technologies

Phone: 716-645-4751
Email: qiao@computer.org
6/22/20
Nicholas Rajkovich

Associate Professor of Architecture

Expertise: climate change and cities, adaptation to climate change, building resiliency, energy efficiency, renewable energy, and climate refuge cities
Phone: 716-829-6910
Email: rajkovic@buffalo.edu
12/26/18
Bina Ramamurthy
Teaching Professor of Computer Science and Engineering

Expertise: Blockchain technology; data-intensive computing; big data platforms, such as Hadoop and Spark
Phone: 716-645-3182
Email: bina@buffalo.edu
12/26/18
Salvatore Rappoccio

Associate Professor of Physics

Expertise: particle physics, particle detectors
Phone: 716-645-6250
Email: srrappoc@buffalo.edu
12/26/18
Kenneth W. Regan
Associate Professor of Computer Science and Engineering
Expertise: cheating in chess

Phone: 716-645-4738
Email: regan@buffalo.edu
8/27/20
Chris S. Renschler

Professor of Geography

Expertise: flooding, soil erosion, watersheds, hurricanes, radioactive fallout, disaster preparedness and response, natural resources management, GIS
Phone: 716-645-0480
Email: rensch@buffalo.edu
5/14/19
Stefan Ruhl

Professor of Oral Biology

Expertise: saliva, oral bacteria, glycobiology of bacterial adhesion, oral microbiome, oral health
Phone: 716-829-6073
Email: shruhl@buffalo.edu
12/8/16
Adel Sadek
Professor of Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering
Expertise: traffic, applying information technology to crash risk, border-crossings, environmental effects, infrastructure and land-use design, traffic in bad weather
Phone: 716-645-4367
Email: asadek@buffalo.edu
9/19/17
Surajit Sen

Professor of Physics

Expertise: wave behavior, granular systems, quasi-equilibrium, nonequilibrium and chaotic phenomena, collisions, shock mitigation, sociophysics
Phone: 716-645-6151, 716-907-4961
Email: sen@buffalo.edu
6/25/19
Monica Stephens

Assistant Professor of Geography

Expertise: social media, social media and politics, digital divides, misinformation (fake news), mapping social phenomena, volunteered geographic information (VGI), Big Data, gender and the Internet

Phone: 716-645-0499
Email: mgstephe@buffalo.edu
5/15/19
Dejan Stojkovic

Professor of Physics

Expertise: cosmology, gravity, black holes, particle physics, exotic physics, origins of the universe, extra dimensions

Phone: 716-645-5014
Email: ds77@buffalo.edu
8/21/19
Mark Swihart

UB Distinguished Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering
Expertise: nanotechnology, materials science, chemistry of materials, aerosol science
Phone: 716-645-1181
Email: swihart@buffalo.edu
12/26/18
Panayotis (Peter) K. Thanos

Senior Research Scientist at the Clinical and Research Institute on Addictions

Expertise: addiction; reward pathways in the brain; addictive disorders including drug abuse, alcoholism and obesity
Phone: 716-881-7520
Email: pthanos@ria.buffalo.edu
3/1/18
Elizabeth K. Thomas

Assistant Professor of Geology

Expertise: climate change, Arctic ice sheets, precipitation, lake effect snow, sea level rise, monsoons

Phone: 716-645-4329
Email: ekthomas@buffalo.edu
6/30/20
Letitia Thomas

Assistant Dean for Diversity in the University at Buffalo School of Engineering and Applied Sciences

Expertise: STEM education and pipelines; women and students of color in STEM; sociology of education; social justice; social networks; microaggressions
Phone: 716-645-3071
Email: lthomas@buffalo.edu
12/26/18
Albert H. Titus
Professor and Chair of Biomedical Engineering
Expertise: biomedical engineering, wearable technology, biosensors, smart sensors

Phone: 716-645-1019
Email: ahtitus@buffalo.edu
5/31/19
Machiko R. Tomita

Clinical Professor of Rehabilitation Science

Expertise: aging, falls and frailty prevention in older adults, caregiving for older adults, smart home technology, virtual group exercise
Phone: 716-829-6740
Email: machikot@buffalo.edu
9/3/20
Ann-Marie Torregrossa

Assistant Professor of Psychology

Expertise: taste science, feeding, food choice, bitterness
Phone: 716-645-0354
Email: amtorreg@buffalo.edu
10/15/20
Brian Tsuji

Professor of Pharmacy Practice
Expertise: superbugs, antibiotic-resistant bacteria, antibiotics
Phone: 716-881-7543
Email: btsuji@buffalo.edu
12/26/18
Shambhu Upadhyaya
Professor of Computer Science and Engineering
Expertise: cybersecurity, hacking, encryption, cyberattacks, protecting infrastructure from cyber threats

Phone: 716-645-3183
Email: shambhu@buffalo.edu
7/16/18
Greg A. Valentine

Director of the Center for Geohazards Studies

Expertise: volcanoes, volcanic eruptions, disaster preparedness, supervolcanoes

Phone: 716-645-4295
Email: gav4@buffalo.edu
2/28/20
Noreen von Cramon-Taubadel

Associate Professor of Anthropology
Expertise: human and primate evolution; human skeleton; morphological evolution; biological anthropology

Phone: 716-645-0430
Email: noreenvo@buffalo.edu
4/2/20
Zhen Wang

Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences

Expertise: plant natural products, medicinal plants, synthetic biology, metabolic engineering

Phone: 716-645-4969
Email: zhenw@buffalo.edu
8/16/19
Gang Wu

Associate Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering

Expertise: materials science, electrochemical energy storage, batteries, hydrogen fuel cells, supercapacitators, catalysts, electrochemistry
Phone: 716-645-8618
Email: gangwu@buffalo.edu
3/28/20
Janet Yang

Associate Professor of Communication

Expertise: science, health, environmental and risk communication

Phone: 716-645-1169
Email: zyang5@buffalo.edu
1/8/19
Eun-Hye “Enki” Yoo

Associate Professor of Geography
Expertise: GIScience, human mobility, spatial statistics (including in relation to public health, air pollution and the environment)

Phone: 716-645-0476
Email: eunhye@buffalo.edu
12/26/18
Hao Zeng

Professor of Physics
Expertise: magnetism, spintronics, nanomaterials, materials science, materials for solar energy harvesting
Phone: 716-645-5749
Email: haozeng@buffalo.edu
3/26/19
Eva Zurek

Professor of Chemistry

Expertise: superconductors, high-pressure chemistry, crystals, materials science, materials discovery, computational chemistry
Phone: 716-645-4332
Email: ezurek@buffalo.edu

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