Director - Cell, Gene and Tissue Engineering Center
Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering
School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
Research Topics: Stem cells for vascular tissue engineering; signaling pathways in cell-cell adhesion and wound healing; lentiviral vectors and lentiviral microarrays for high-throughput gene expression analysis and gene discovery
Director, UB Initiative on Plastics Recycling and Innovation, a NYS Center of Excellence (April 2022 – to date)
University at Buffalo
Founding Director, The RENEW Institute (Jan 2015-July 2021)
University at Buffalo
Research Topics: Heteroepitaxial Growth of Functional Materials & Devices; Strain-driven Self-Assembly of Advanced Materials; Advanced Energy and Electronic Materials; Clean Energy Technologies.
Program director, Engineering Sciences (Data Science) MS program
Institute for Artificial Intelligence and Data Science
Research Topics: 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
Research Topics: 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
Research Topics: Mathematical modeling, optimization, systems engineering, process design, multi-scale modeling, techno-economic analysis, life cycle assessment, social justice, sustainable supply chains and systems, plastics recycling, waste management
Research Topics: Quantum Chemical Modeling; Molecular Simulation and Multiscale Modeling; AI/Machine Learning for Chemical and Material Research; Biological Transport and Systems Modeling
Research and Education in Energy, Environment and Water (RENEW)
Research Topics: Novel portable and standoff chemical and biological sensors for applications in health, environment, and safety; clean energy harvesting technologies; instrumentation for energy efficiency and sustainability