Meet Our New Faculty
8 new faculty hired in 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.
Computer Science and Engineering
Paul Dickson, Assistant Professor of Teaching
Computer Science and Engineering
Ifeoma Nwogu, Associate Professor
Computer Science and Engineering
Nazmus Sakib, Assistant Professor of Teaching
Computer Science and Engineering
Alina Vereshchaka, Assistant Professor of Teaching
Computer Science and Engineering
Jinjun Xiong, Empire Innovation Professor
Computer Science and Engineering
Zhuoyue Zhao, Assistant Professor
Engineering Education
Jill Martiniuk, Assistant Professor of Teaching
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Sangwoo Shin, Assistant Professor
18 new faculty hired in 2020
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
Nasrin Akhter, Assistant Professor of Teaching
Computer Science and Engineering
Hongxin Hu, Associate Professor
Computer Science and Engineering
Siwei Lyu, Empire Innovation Professor
Computer Science and Engineering
Xianghang (Scott) Mi, Assistant 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
Matilde Sanchez-Pena, Assistant Professor
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
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Ryan St. Pierre, 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