Women Faculty in the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences

Research Topics: Cardiovascular Disease; Molecular Basis of Disease; Signal Transduction

Research Topics: Computational geomechanics; Fundamental understanding of coupled processes (fluid-mechanical-thermal-biological-dynamics) aimed at: Prediction of geo-environmental impacts of production/injection operations; Enhancement of hydrocarbon, geothermal and aquifer storage recovery operations; Energy storage in geomaterials; and Tunneling in extreme geological settings

Research Interests: Computational fluid dynamics; building energy utilization and renewable/alternative energy; turbulent multiphase and reacting flows

Research Topics: Intermodal freight transportation, optimal investment allocation, intermodal investor competition, freight demand modeling, self-driving tracks, travel behavior, human factors in transportation engineering, driver cognition, sustainable transportation and self-driving cars

Research Topics: Cognitive engineering; human factors in health care; human decision-making

Research Topics: Applied cryptography; information security; privacy-preserving computation and outsourcing

Research Interests: Dynamics and control of space tethers and large flexible space structures, active debris removal, collision detection and avoidance, spacecraft dynamics

Research Topics: Physical ergonomics; biomechanics of obesity; aging and human work capacity; occupational safety and health

Research Topics: Human-Machine Interactions, Cognitive Engineering, Driver Behavior and Safety, Human Factors in Healthcare

Research Interests: Materials science and engineering; particularly smart materials; concrete; thermal management; battery electrode materials; carbon fibers and filaments; composites processing and interfaces; metal-matrix composites; electronic packaging materials; activated carbon

Research Topics: Organic nitrogen chemistry in both engineered and natural environmental systems.

Specialty/Research Focus: Effectiveness of pre-college computing education; Introductory programming education (CS1/CS2); Broadening participation in computing and gaming; Assessment in computing education; History of computing, computing education, and computer games

Research Topics: Resilient communities; Reliability analysis; Performance-based design; Cascading multi-hazard analysis; fire engineering; and earthquake engineering

Specialty/Research Focus: Materials design and innovation; technology transfer cycle optimization; nanostructured magnetic materials and spin-electronic devices; data storage; random access memories; access and participation in STEM

Research Topics: Data mining; machine learning

Research Topics: Big healthcare data; medical imaging informatics; computer vision; machine learning

Research Interests: Cellular mechanosensitivity; cell-cell and cell-ECM interaction; traumatic brain injury (TBI); microfluidic devices and live-cell imaging

Specialty/Research Focus: Clean energy; energy policy. Due to responsibilities as SUNY Chancellor, Dr. Johnson is not advising PhD students at this time.

Research Topics: Transportation modeling; applied operations research

Research Interests: Rehabilitation robotics; prosthetic devices; cable-actuated mechanisms; intelligent wheelchairs for children with special needs

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

Research Topics: Chemical imaging through atom probe tomography

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

Research Topics: Operations research and analytics, Energy resilience and sustainability, Climate change impact assessment, Risk analysis and uncertainty modeling, Economic impact assessment, Disaster risk reduction, Growth econometrics and disaster impacts, Risk-informed decision analysis

Research Topics: Tribology; soft mechanics; surface and interfacial forces; atomic force microscopy

Research Topics: Reinforced/Prestressed concrete highway bridges and buildings; Low-damage seismic systems

Research Topics: Improvement of water quality; Microbial pollution; Bacterial contamination of coastal waters; Microbiology

Research Topics: Information extraction; information retrieval; multimedia information retrieval; text mining

Specialty/Research Focus: Engineering design process and methods, undergraduate conceptual knowledge in engineering science courses, Learning Assistant programs, women and girls in engineering programs, epistemology, epistemological framing, productive disciplinary engagement, student discourse, and responsive teaching

Research Topics: Molecularly engineered materials; self-assembly; interfacial phenomena; controlled crystallization; biomimetics

Research Topics: Informatics and high performance computing for materials design and manufacturing

Research Topics: Cancer theranostics; biosensors; cancer biomarkers

Research Topics: Nanomaterials and nanostructures for energy storage and conversion

Specialty/Research Focus: Power electronics; microgrid control and protection; high voltage dc transmission, high voltage engineering

Specialty/Research Focus: Compressed sensing; magnetic resonance imaging; image reconstruction

Research Interests: Iterative learning control; high precision control; nonlinear/robust control with applications to robotics; autonomous systems; manufacturing

Specialty/Research Focus: Insulation coordination; energy systems; mobility platforms; nano-dielectrics

Specialty/Research Focus: STEM Communications, Writing Pedagogy

Research Topics: Health information technology; health systems; process modeling and improvement; production systems

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

Specialty/Research Focus: STEM Communications

Specialty/Research Focus: Theoretical and Computational Solid and Fluid Mechanics, Size-dependent Continuum Mechancs, Micro/Nano Mechanics, MEMS/NEMS Devices, Biomechanics, Multiphysics phenomena, Finite Element Analysis, Computational Fluid Mechanics, Boundary Element Method

Specialty/Research Focus: Biomedical Engineering – bioimaging and image processing

Research Topics: Soil-bentonite hydraulic barriers; soil mechanics

Research Topics: Teaching of undergraduate laboratories

Specialty/Research Focus: Composition, Feminist and Critical Pedagogy, Twentieth-Century American Literature, Visual Culture Studies/Visual Rhetoric

Specialty/Research Focus: Introductory Engineering, Leadership in Engineering, Engineering Education

Research Topics: Innovation aspects of energy and environment; energy policy; CCS techno-economic evaluation; analysis of legal and regulatory frameworks; policy and financial instruments

Specialty/Research Focus: Technical Communication, Digital Rhetoric, and Sports Rhetoric

Research Topics: Cloud computing; computer architecture; data-intensive computing; parallel processing

Research Interests: Robust vibration control, optimization, estimation of dynamic systems, data assimilation and Bayesian inference, robust convex approximation theory; life-cycle cost modeling, aggregate demand, supply chain optimization, tradespace exploration, industrial internet, integrated circuit optimization

Research Topics: STEM education; social justice; social problems; sociology of education, race & ethnic relations, social networks & social capital; qualitative research methods; social media

Specialty/Research Focus: Material characterization; terahertz spectroscopy; and metrology

Research Topics: Transportation systems engineering

Research Topics: Nonuniform multimodal data representation and analysis; data fusion; computer engineering outreach and education