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Zuiru Lin (left), a medicinal chemistry major, works in the lab of UB Distinguished Professor Janet Morrow (right). They are photographed in a lab in the Natural Sciences Complex in July 2019 in connection with the Boldly Buffalo Campaign Women in Sciences and Engineering (WiSE) story. Photographer: Douglas Levere.

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Ciprian Ionita

Dr. Ionita is assistant professor in the departments of Biomedical Engineering and Neurosurgery and director of the Endovascular Devices and Imaging lab at UB's Canon Stroke & Vascular Research Center. His research focuses on improvement of endovascular image guided interventions and encompasses three major components: medical imaging, computer programming and endovascular device development. 

 

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Nirupam Aich

Civil, Structural, and Environmental Engineering

Catalytic nanohybrids for pollutant removal from water and wastewater systems, fate and transport of next generation nanomaterials through terrestrial and subsurface media, interaction of complex nanohybrids with the biological wastewater treatment, additive manufacturing for nano-enable water treatment, environmental and human health implications of nanohybrids and nano-enable products such as electronic waste

Praveen Arany

Oral Biology

Low dose Biophotonics Therapy; Stem cells in regenerative medicine; TGF beta Biology

Joe Balthasar

Pharmaceutical Sciences

Utilization of pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic analyses and mathematical modeling to guide the discovery and development of new immunotherapies for cancer and autoimmunity

Sathy Balu Iyer

Pharmaceutical Sciences

Immunotherapy: Develop lipid mediated tolerance strategies to overcome unwanted immune responses (protein and antibody therapeutics, allergies, autoimmune conditions and gene therapy)
Protein delivery and immunotherapy: Adopts an interdisciplinary approach of biophysics/bioengineering, pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic and immunology.
Protein formulation: Physicochemical and analytical methods of assessing protein structure, function, and stability in developing improved dosage forms

Francine Battaglia

Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering


Director of Advanced Simulations for Computing ENergy Transport Laboratory (ASCENT); Fluid and Thermal Sciences

Glenna Bett

Obstetrics and Gynecology

Biomedical Imaging; Cardiac pharmacology; Drug Development; Drug Discovery; Electrophysiology; Ion channel kinetics and structure; Ion Transport; Membrane Biophysics; Membrane Transport (Ion Transport); Molecular and Cellular Biology; Molecular Basis of Disease; Neurobiology; Neuroscience; Stem Cells; Translational Research

Sreyasee Das Bhattacharjee

Computer Science and Engineering

Computer vision; machine learning; multimodal data analytics; pattern recognition; large-scale visual search and mining; big data analytics

Ann Bisantz

Industrial and Systems Engineering

Supporting human performance in complex systems, by modeling aspects of human-machine interaction and by analyzing and designing tasks, training interventions, and information aids and displays

Kevin Burke

Electrical Engineering

Power and energy management; dielectric phenomena; pulsed power; insulation performance/reliability

Sabrina Casucci

Industrial and Systems Engineering

Health information technology and informatics, healthcare systems modeling, design and evaluation of healthcare interventions on patient and organizational outcomes, process and product quality improvement, simulation modeling and applications

Lora Cavuoto

Industrial and Systems Engineering

Physical ergonomics, biomechanics, occupational safety and health, workplace wellness, designing workplace accommodations for the obese and older populations

Chong Cheng

Chemical and Biological Engineering

Biodegradable functional polymers and nanostructures, new drug delivery systems, synthetic materials for tissue engineering.

Deborah Chung

Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Materials science and engineering: multifunctional structural materials (self-sensing, self powering, and vibration damping); electromagnetic shielding materials; thermal interface materials (microelectric cooling); three-dimensional printing; dielectric conductors; interface-derived viscoelasticity

Timothy Cook

Chemistry

Self-assembly and characterization of discrete inorganic metallacycles and cages; energy harvesting, transport and storage in photo- and redox-active molecular materials. Polynuclear catalysts for small molecule activations of relevance to renewable energy schemes.

Ning Dai

Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering

Applies environmental chemistry to address engineering challenges in water treatment, wastewater reuse, and desalination and to enrich the understanding of natural processes for the transformation of synthetic chemicals on environmental surfaces (e.g., soil and leaf)

Jason M. Davies.

Jason M. Davies

Neurosurgery

Bioinformatics tools to advance personalized medicine; improve quantity and quality of data for medical research; lower barriers to entry for clinicians; advanced machine learning and data analytic methods

Paul Desjardin

Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Computational fluid dynamics; multiphase reacting flows; fire and combustion; fluid-structure simulation

David Doermann

Computer Science and Engineering

Document image understanding, video analysis, pattern recognition, computer vision, media forensics, artificial intelligence

Mark Ehrensberger

Biomedical Engineering

Applied orthopedic biomechanics, Corrosion and biocompatibility of metallic orthopedic biomaterials

Zhangyu Guan.

Zhangyu Guan

Electrical Engineering

Network Design Automation, New Spectrum Technologies, Wireless Network Security

Johannes Hachmann

Chemical and Biological Engineering

Computational chemistry and materials science; virtual high-throughput and Big Data; machine learning; electronic structure theory and methods; quantum effects in catalysis and materials; rational design

Luis C. Herrera

Electrical Engineering

Power electronics control; ​dc microgrid; power system optimization

Christine A. Human

Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering

Soil-bentonite hydraulic barriers; soil mechanics

Ciprian Ionita

Biomedical Engineering

Biomedical Imaging; Cardiovascular Disease; Diagnostic Radiology; Image Processing and Analysis; Imaging Informatics; Neurosurgery; Radiological Physics; Vascular and Interventional Radiology; Vision science

Amy Jacobs.

Amy Jacobs

Microbiology and Immunology

Runs BSL3 Lab Facility; Microbial Pathogenesis; Microbiology; Molecular and Cellular Biology; Protein Function and Structure; Viral Pathogenesis; Virology

Quanxi Jia

Materials Design and Innovation

Synthesis, characterization, and application of advanced electronic and energy materials; investigation of the processing-structure-property relationship of epitaxial thin films and heterostructures; monolithic integration of materials with complimentary functionalities for electronic devices; and exploration of superconductors and their applications to energy and quantum devices

Jee Eun "Jamie" Kang

Industrial and Systems Engineering

Evaluation of the infrastructure requirements for alternatively fueled vehicles; Impacts of autonomous vehicles on transportation systems; Optimization of paratransit services; Disaster operations management; Understanding rider preferences in multi-modal transportation systems.

Eleni A. Kyriakidou

Chemical and Biological Engineering

Heterogeneous catalysis; nanoparticle synthesis and surface science, and the application of such catalysts to environmental processes

Huamin Li

Electrical Engineering

Nano-scale electronics and optoelectronics based on low-dimensional materials

Haiqing Lin

Chemical and Biological Engineering

Novel membrane materials for CO₂ capture from flue gas and syngas; antifouling membranes for water purification; understanding of polymer structure/property correlations in thin films

Jun Liu

Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Advanced energy materials; Nano/micro-mechanics; Self-powered electronics and systems; Nanotechnology; Scanning probe microscopy (SPM)

Jon Lovell

Biomedical Engineering

Development of nanomedicine approaches to meet unmet needs in treating, diagnosing or preventing disease; Nanomedicine; Phototherapy

Fillippo Malandra.

Fillippo Malandra

Electrical Engineering

Internet of things; wireless communications; cellular networks (4G/5G); network performance analysis and simulation; communications for the smart grid; optimization; machine learning

Baishakhi Mazumder

Materials Design and Innovation

Chemical imaging through atom probe tomography

Thmoas Melendy.

Thomas Melendy

Microbiology and Immunology

DNA Replication, Recombination and Repair; Drug Discovery; Emergent Pathogens; Genome Integrity; Infectious Disease; Microbiology; Molecular and Cellular Biology; Molecular genetics; Virology

Hui Meng

Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Biomedical engineering; hemodynamics and vascular biomechanics; advanced laser flow diagnostics; computational fluid dynamics

Viviana Monje-Galvan

Chemical and Biological Engineering

To characterize lipid-lipid and lipid-protein interactions that are relevant for lipid regulation and cell signaling processes in cancer and liver disease.

Janet Morrow.

Janet Morrow

Chemistry

Bioinorganic chemistry: Magnetic resonance imaging contrast agents based on iron, cobalt or nickel; bimodal (fluorescent) probes; ligand synthesis, self-assembled multinuclear iron complexes for imaging and drug delivery; yeast cell labeling with inorganic complexes

Timothy Murphy.

Timothy Murphy

Medicine

Bacterial infection in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD); Haemophilus influenzae pathogenesis; Microbial pathogenesis within the respiratory tract; Moraxella catarrhalis pathogenesis; Vaccine development

Prathima Nalam

Materials Design and Innovation

Tribology; soft mechanics; surface and interfacial forces; atomic force microscopy

Mostafa Nouh

Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Structural dynamics; acoustics; vibration damping and control; smart materials; energy harvesting; metamaterials and periodic structures

Kwang Oh

Electrical Engineering

LOC (lab-on-a-chip); MicroTAS (Micro Total Analysis Systems); BioMEMS (Bio Micro Electro Mechanical Systems); SANS (Sample-to-Answer Nano/microfluidic Systems); nanobiosensors for bio/chemical/environmental applications; world-to-chip interfacing and packaging; single cell manipulation, sorting, and detection; microvalves; micropumps; microfluidic

Jun Qu

Pharmaceutical Sciences

High-resolution and large-scale expression profiling of pathological proteomes;

Randall Rasmusson

Physiology and Biophysics

Biomedical Engineering; Biophysical Modeling; Computational Biology; Drug Development; Drug Discovery; Electrophysiology; Ion channel kinetics and structure; Ion Transport; Membrane Biophysics; Membrane Transport (Ion Transport); Neuroscience; Stem Cells

Javid Rzayev

Chemistry

Polymer and organic materials chemistry: synthesis of multicomponent polymers, self-assembly and nanomaterials, chemical upcycling of polymers

Ram Samudrala

Biomedical Informatics

Artificial Intelligence; Bioinformatics; Biomedical Informatics; Biophysical Modeling; Computational Biology; Computational Chemistry; Computational Drug Discovery; Drug Design; Drug Development; Drug Discovery; Genomics and proteomics; Molecular and Cellular Biology; Nanotechnology; Protein Folding; Protein Function and Structure; Proteomics; Structural Biology; Translational Research

Dhavalkumar Shah.

Dhavalkumar Shah

Pharmaceutical Sciences

Targeted drugs; biologics; anticancer medications; tumor growth; pediatric drug dosing; drug discovery and development

Adnan Siddiqui

Neurosurgery

Neurological Surgery, Neuroradiology, Aneurysm, Stroke, Thrombectomy, Cancer, Neurovascular Imaging, Neurovascular Surgery, Vascular

Uttam Singisetti.

Uttam Singisetti

Electrical Engineering

Advanced GaN and novel III-N devices for THz electronics; transport in III-N hetero-structures; novel devices utilizing new materials functionalities; energy-efficient, nano-electronics in emerging materials

Animesh A. Sinha.

Animesh A. Sinha

Dermatology

Autoimmunity; Dermatology; Gene Expression; Genomics and proteomics; Immunology

Rohini Srihari

Computer Science and Engineering

Databases and Data Science

Robert M. Straubinger.

Robert M. Straubinger

Pharmaceutical Sciences

Biophysical investigations of the pharmaceutical properties of drug carrier complexes; pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic analysis to probe mechanisms behind the therapeutic effects of drug carriers; proteomic analysis based on liquid chromatography/mass spectrometry; drug-mediated interdiction of specific of tumor-stromal interactions to modulate tumor vascular permeability and antibody/drug carrier deposition in tumors

Mark Swihart

Chemical and Biological Engineering

Synthesis and application of nanoparticles; application of chemical engineering science (chemical kinetics, thermodynamics, transport phenomena) to understand and improve processes by which these materials are prepared.

Thomas Thundat

Chemical and Biological Engineering

Novel physical, chemical, and biological detection using micro and nano mechanical sensors and electrical power delivery using the single wire concept

Albert Titus

Biomedical Engineering

Bio-Inspired Analog Visual Systems; Bioinstrumentation; Integrated Sensors; Neuromorphic Visual Processing Systems

Marina Tsianou

Chemical and Biological Engineering

Molecular recognition, crystallization, self-assembly, interfacial phenomena, biomimetics, formulations. Materials: polymers (polyelectrolytes, biopolymers, associating polymers, block copolymers), surfactants, biomaterials, supramolecules, dyes, colloidal particles, crystals, cosolvents. Techniques: rheology, small-angle X-ray (SAXS) and neutron (SANS) scattering, static and dynamic light scattering, UV-vis and fluorescence spectroscopy, conductivity, vapor pressure osmometry (VPO), surface free energy, electron spectroscopy for chemical analysis (ESCA), atomic force microscopy (AFM). Broad impact: products and processes that improve the quality of life (health, environment).

Olga Wodo

Materials Design and Innovation

Silico studies of the morphological phenomena in engineered and natural heterogeneous systems with application to energy, nanotechnology, biomedical engineering, and materials science

Gang Wu

Chemical and Biological Engineering

Functional materials for electrochemical energy storage and conversion; electrocatalysis for renewable energy and environmental science; materials electrochemistry; batteries; fuel cells

Yun Wu

Biomedical Engineering

Engineering principles and design concepts to develop novel therapeutics and diagnostics (theranostics) for the diagnosis and treatment of cancer and other deadly diseases.

Jun Xia

Biomedical Engineering

Optical and ultrasonic imaging techniques to meet needs in cancer and neurological research; Sensors, Medical Imaging, Photoacoustics

Fei Yao

Materials Design and Innovation

Low-dimensional material synthesis and property engineering; Low-dimensional materials for energy storage and conversion

Xiu Yao

Electrical Engineering

Power electronics (Modular Multilevel Converter); microgrid control and protection; high voltage dc transmission; high voltage engineering

Leslie (Lei) Ying

biomedical engineering

Compressed sensing; magnetic resonance imaging; image reconstruction

Chi Zhou

Industrial and Systems Engineering

Additive manufacturing, rapid prototyping

Jennifer Zirnheld

Electrical Engineering

Dielectric phenomena; energy and power; multifactor stress aging; partial discharge analysis; systems of systems integration and engineering education.

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