Meet Our New Faculty
12 new faculty hired in 2019
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.
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
Craig Snoeyink, Assistant Professor
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Ardeshir Raihanian Mashhadi, Teaching Assistant Professor
34 new faculty hired in 2017
Biomedical Engineering
Jing Wang, Teaching Assistant Professor
Chemical and Biological Engineering
Thomas Thundat, Empire Innovation Professor
Chemical and Biological Engineering
Eleni Kyriakidou, Assistant Professor
Chemical and Biological Engineering
Monica Lupion-Cordero, Teaching Assistant Professor
Chemical and Biological Engineering
David Courtemanche, Teaching Assistant Professor
Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering
Darrell Kaminski, Assistant Professor of Practice
Computer Science and Engineering
Marina Blanton, Associate Professor
Computer Science and Engineering
Matthew Knepley, Associate Professor
Computer Science and Engineering
Changyou Chen, Assistant Professor
Computer Science and Engineering
Mingchen Gao, Assistant Professor
Computer Science and Engineering
A. Erdem Sariyuce, Assistant Professor
Computer Science and Engineering
Alan Hunt, Professor of Practice
Electrical Engineering
Jun (Brandon) Choi, Assistant Professor
Electrical Engineering
Huamin Li, Assistant Professor
Electrical Engineering
Peter Qiang Liu, Assistant Professor
Engineering Education
Keshab Acharya, Teaching Assistant Professor
Engineering Education
Emily Hammond, Teaching Assistant Professor
Engineering Education
Amy Baird, Assistant Professor of Practice
Engineering Education
Kristen Depowski O'Donnell, Assistant Professor of Practice
Industrial and Systems Engineering
Winnie Chen, Assistant Professor
Industrial and Systems Engineering
Hongyue Sun, Assistant Professor
Industrial and Systems Engineering
Mohamed Awwad, Teaching Assistant Professor
Materials Design and Innovation
Baishakhi Mazumder, Assistant Professor
Materials Design and Innovation
Prathima Nalam, Assistant Professor
Materials Design and Innovation
Kristofer Reyes, Assistant Professor
Materials Design and Innovation
Fei Yao, Assistant Professor
Materials Design and Innovation
Alan Friedman, Research Associate Professor
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Francine Battaglia, Professor
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Vojislav Kalanovic, Professor of Practice
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Javid Bayandor, Associate Professor
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Yaowu Hu, Assistant Professor
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Minghui Zheng, Assistant Professor
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Aaron Estes, Teaching Assistant Professor
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Liselle Trinidad, Teaching Assistant Professor