Meet Our New Faculty
8 new faculty hired in Spring 2021
Chosen for their outstanding research achievements to date and for what they will contribute to engineering, to UB and to their professions, our new faculty members will lead us in new directions and push us to ever greater achievements. We are delighted to welcome them to UB.
Chemical and Biological Engineering
Ashlee Ford Versypt, Associate Professor
Chemical and Biological Engineering
Viviana Monje-Galvan, Assistant Professor
Chemical and Biological Engineering
Miao Yu, Empire Innovation Professor
Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering
Yinyin Ye, Assistant Professor
Computer Science and Engineering
Hongxin Hu, Associate Professor
Computer Science and Engineering
Xianghang (Scott) Mi, Assistant Professor
Engineering Education
Matilde Sanchez-Pena, Assistant Professor
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Ryan St. Pierre, Assistant Professor
10 new faculty hired in 2020
Computer Science and Engineering
Nasrin Akhter, Assistant Professor of Teaching
Computer Science and Engineering
Siwei Lyu, Empire Innovation Professor
Computer Science and Engineering
Nalini Ratha, Empire Innovation Professor
Computer Science and Engineering
Ziming Zhao, Assistant Professor
Electrical Engineering
Jian-Ping Zheng, Empire Innovation Professor
Engineering Education
Alice Nightingale, Assistant Professor of Teaching
Engineering Education
Corey Schimpf, Assistant Professor
Industrial and Systems Engineering
Cecilia Martinez Leon, Associate Professor of Teaching
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Jiaoyan Li, Assistant Professor
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Jun Liu, Assistant Professor
12 new faculty hired in 2019
Biomedical Engineering
B. Rita Alevriadou, Empire Innovation Professor
Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering
Irina Benedyk, Assistant Professor
Computer Science and Engineering
Sreyasse Das Bhattacharjee, Teaching Assistant Professor
Electrical Engineering
Filippo Malandra, Research Assistant Professor
Engineering Education
Adrienne Decker, Assistant Professor
Engineering Education
Andrew Olewnik, Assistant Professor
Engineering Education
Jessica Swenson, Assistant Professor
Industrial and Systems Engineering
Seunghan Lee, Teaching Assistant Professor
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Eleonora Botta, Assistant Professor
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Danial Faghihi, Assistant Professor
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Jiyeon Kang, Assistant Professor
Institute of Computational and Data Sciences
Eric Walker, Research Assistant Professor
26 new faculty hired in 2018
Biomedical Engineering
Xiaoliang Zhang, Empire Innovation Professor
Chemical and Biological Engineering
Rudiyanto Gunawan, Associate Professor
Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering
Ian Bradley, Assistant Professor
Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering
Xiao Liang, Research Assistant Professor
Computer Science and Engineering
David Doermann, Empire Innovation Professor
Computer Science and Engineering
Zhanpeng Jin, Associate Professor
Computer Science and Engineering
Junsong Yuan, Associate Professor
Computer Science and Engineering
Kenny Joseph, Assistant Professor
Computer Science and Engineering
Weihang Wang, Assistant Professor
Computer Science and Engineering
Jingjing Meng, Teaching Assistant Professor
Electrical Engineering
Vasili Perebeinos, Professor
Electrical Engineering
Zhangyu Guan, Assistant Professor
Electrical Engineering
Luis Herrera, Assistant Professor
Electrical Engineering
Shaofeng Zou, Assistant Professor
Engineering Education
Kristen Moore, Associate Professor
Engineering Education
Arezoo Hajesfandiari, Teaching Assistant Professor
Engineering Education
Lauren Kuryloski, Teaching Assistant Professor
Engineering Education
Stephanie Phillips, Assistant Professor of Practice
Engineering Education
Presentacion Rivera Reyes, Teaching Assistant Professor
Industrial and Systems Engineering
Sayanti Mukherjee, Assistant Professor
Industrial and Systems Engineering
Johnson Fadeyi, Teaching Assistant Professor
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Shenqiang Ren, Professor
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
James Chen, Assistant Professor
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Frank Lagor, Assistant Professor
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Ardeshir Raihanian Mashhadi, Teaching Assistant Professor
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Craig Snoeyink, Assistant Professor