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Experts by Expertise: Social Media and the Internet
Associate Professor of Management Science and Systems
Expertise: cloud computing, digital piracy, business information systems, business statistics
Contact: Sanjukta Das Smith can be reached most quickly through Jackie Ghosen in the School of Management Communications Office at 716-645-2833 or mgt-pr@buffalo.edu.
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.
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
Expertise: sensory marketing and visual perception; consumer attention and learning; new product use and design; advertising and social media
Contact: Arun Lakshmanan can be reached most quickly through Jackie Ghosen in the School of Management Communications Office at 716-645-2833 or mgt-pr@buffalo.edu.
Expertise: information behavior, information literacy, usability, organization of information, Web portal design, interface design, indexing, abstracting, qualitative research methods
Director of the Alberti Center for Bullying Abuse Prevention
Expertise: school violence, bullying prevention and intervention, parent and peer relationships, assessment and treatment of emotional and behavioral disorders
Expertise: Computational methods in social work and social policy; social movements on social media; disinformation targeting Black and brown communities online
Contact: Sourav Sengupta can be reached through Ellen Goldbaum in University Communications at 716-645-4605 or goldbaum@buffalo.edu, or Douglas Sitler in University Communications at 716-645-9069 or drsitler@buffalo.edu.
Expertise: communication strategies for health promotion and social change; entertainment-education; communication technology; social networks; digital media literacy; health interventions