Experts by Expertise: Engineering

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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
2/22/23
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
8/2/22
Joseph Atkinson
Director of the Great Lakes Program
Expertise: Great Lakes water levels, flooding and water pollution

Phone: 716-645-2220
Email: atkinson@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
8/19/21
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
10/21/22
Michel Bruneau

SUNY Distinguished Professor of Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering

Expertise: disaster resilience, multi-hazard engineering, design of infrastructure to resist extreme events, earthquake engineering, design of steel structures, structural engineering
Phone: (716) 645-3398
Email: bruneau@buffalo.edu
8/16/21
Lora Cavuoto
Associate Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering
Expertise: ergonomics, occupational safety and health, fatigue monitoring, worker quality of life

Phone: 716-645-4696
Email: loracavu@buffalo.edu
8/16/21
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
10/27/22
John L. Crassidis
Moog Professor of Innovation
Expertise: space debris, space junk
Phone: 716-645-1426
Email: johnc@buffalo.edu
8/16/21
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
8/17/21
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
4/28/22
Amit Goyal
SUNY Distinguished Professor and Empire Innovation Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering
Expertise: renewable energy; environmental and water issues; high-temperature superconductivity; materials science
Phone: 716-645-5920
Email: agoyal@buffalo.edu
8/16/21
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
8/16/21
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
8/16/21
James N. Jensen

Professor of Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering
Expertise: public water systems, drinking-water treatment, wastewater treatment
Phone: 716-645-4007
Email: jjensen@buffalo.edu
12/6/21
Kenneth Joseph

Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Engineering

Expertise: computing for social good; societal impacts of social media and online platforms (including in news and politics); inequality and societal divides
Phone: 716-645-0682
Email: kjoseph@buffalo.edu
8/16/21
Mark H. Karwan
Praxair Professor of Operations Research
Expertise: sports scheduling, especially in the NFL
Phone: 716-645-2422
Email: mkarwan@buffalo.edu
8/16/21
Tevfik Kosar

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
6/16/22
Kemper E. Lewis
Dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
Expertise: advanced manufacturing, mass customization, engineering design
Phone: 716-645-2682
Email: kelewis@buffalo.edu
8/16/21
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
12/16/21
Siwei Lyu

Empire Innovation Professor of Computer Science and Engineering

Expertise: digital media forensics, deepfakes, computer vision, machine learning, art authentication
Phone: 716-645-1587
Email: siweilyu@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
8/17/21
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
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
8/16/21
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
8/2/22
Alan Rabideau
Professor and Chair of Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering
Expertise: pollution, groundwater contamination, radioactive and hazardous waste management, mathematical modeling
Phone: 716-645-4003
Email: rabideau@buffalo.edu
8/31/21
Bina Ramamurthy
Professor of Teaching in Computer Science and Engineering

Expertise: Blockchain; blockchain and cryptocurrency (Bitcoin, Ether) and non-fungible tokens; data-intensive computing; big data platforms

Phone: 716-645-3182
Email: bina@buffalo.edu
9/28/22
Kenneth W. Regan
Professor of Computer Science and Engineering
Expertise: cheating in chess

Phone: 716-645-4738
Email: regan@buffalo.edu
8/30/21
Adel Sadek
Professor of Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering
Expertise: traffic, traffic at border-crossings, traffic in bad weather, smart cities, electric, autonomous and conventional vehicles
Phone: 716-645-4367
Email: asadek@buffalo.edu
12/2/21
Matilde Sanchez-Pena

Assistant Professor of Engineering Education

Expertise: engineering education, cultures of wellbeing, institutional diversity, faculty advancement, equity in the engineering field, women in STEM, intersectionality
Phone: 716-645-5861
Email: matildes@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
10/25/21
Kang Sun

Assistant Professor of Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering

Expertise: air pollution, greenhouse gases, climate change, remote sensing, molecular spectroscopy

Phone: 716-645-6167
Email: kangsun@buffalo.edu
8/2/22
Mark Swihart

SUNY Distinguished Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering
Expertise: nanotechnology, materials science, chemistry of materials, aerosol science
Phone: 716-645-1181
Email: swihart@buffalo.edu
8/16/21
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
8/16/21
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
8/16/21
Andrew Whittaker
SUNY Distinguished Professor of Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering
Expertise: earthquake engineering; seismic protective systems; blast engineering; bridge engineering; infrastructure; design and assessment of nuclear power plants; performance-based engineering; risk engineering
Phone: 716-645-4364
Email: awhittak@buffalo.edu
8/17/22
Gang Wu

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
8/16/21
Yinyin Ye

Assistant Professor of Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering

Expertise: surveillance and disinfection of pathogens in wastewater and the environment; wastewater-based disease monitoring; environmental microbiology; proteomics
Phone: 716-645-4002
Email: yinyinye@buffalo.edu
8/16/21
Hao Zeng

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