Faculty
Faculty From Across the University
The Department of Informatics has 13 core faculty members with full or split appointments. As the interdisciplinary home of the College of Computing and Information, the Department draws upon some 37 affiliated faculty members from across the University. In addition to computer science and technology, their areas of expertise include government, business, education, geography, physics, sociology, social welfare and even music.
The core faculty has expertise on such diverse topics as:
- Electronic information access to libraries
- Ecological modeling using Geographic Information Systems
- Applying statistical analysis to Web structure and search
- Collaborating project teams in IT
- Automated machine learning systems for data analysis
- International organization; homeland security
- Video and digital media
- Child welfare, economics and social policy
- Women in information technology
- Technology-mediated teaching and learning
- Social change and crime
The Ph.D. program currently has six active specialties:
- Decision and Policy Sciences (DAPS)
- Geographic Information Science (GIS)
- Information Assurance (IA)
- Information, Government, and Democratic Society (IGDS)
- Information in Organizational Environments (IOE)
- Knowledge Organization and Management (KOM)
Faculty Listing
Core Faculty
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Deborah Lines Andersen
Information Studies/Informatics, Associate Professor
Phone: 518-442-5122 Email: dla@albany.edu
Research Interests: Research methods and statistics,
electronic information access technologies
and their users, public libraries
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Peter A. Bloniarz
College of Computing & Information, Dean
Phone: 518-591-8871 Email: p.bloniarz@albany.edu
Research Interests: Curriculum and pedagogic innovations,
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Monika P. Calef
Geography and Planning/Informatics, Assistant Professor
Phone: 518-591-8563 Email: mcalef@albany.edu
Research Interests: Analyzing and modeling large scale
landscape patterns and dynamics using
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Stephen E. DeLong
Informatics/Information Studies, Professor
Phone: 518-591-8888 Email: delong@albany.edu
Research Interests: Application of statistical physics to information retrieval and organization |
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Senem Guney
Communication/Informatics, Assistant Professor
Phone: 518-442-4880 Email: sguney@albany.edu
Research Interests: Communicative practices in interorganizational collaboration, especially the
practices that relate to managing and negotiating boundaries among
interorganizational collaborators; use of information and communication technologies
in interorganizational collaboration; field research methods, organizational
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Kevin Knuth
Physics/Informatics, Assistant Professor
Phone: 518-442-4653 Email: kknuth@albany.edu
Research Interests: Inductive inference and inquiry, source
separation of mixed signals, information
processing in the brain, identification of
relevant causal interactions, astrobiology, intelligent instruments and robotic
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Rey Koslowski
Political Science/Informatics, Associate Professor
Phone: 518-442-5255 Email: rkoslowski@uamail.albany.edu
Research Interests: International relations dealing with
international organization, European
integration, international migration,information technology, homeland security
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Timothy L. Lance
Mathematics & Statistics/Informatics, Professor
Phone: 518-442-4610 Email: lance@albany.edu
Research Interests: Geometric toplogy, group actions on manifolds, cobordism theory, smoothing theory, homotopy theory of classifying spaces, applications to number theory, non-linear simliarity
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Yvette Mattern
Music and Art/Informatics, Assistant Professor
Phone: 518-442-4565 Email: ynmattern@yahoo.com
Research Interests: Video works, video design, television and film editing and directing
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Toni Naccarato
Social Welfare/Informatics, Assistant Professor
Phone: 518-591-8788 Email: tnaccarato@uamail.albany.edu
Research Interests: Child welfare, analysis and reform of economics and social policy
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Jennifer Goodall
Informatics, Service Assistant Professor
Phone: 518-956-8245 Email: jjpowers@uamail.albany
Research Interests: Curriculum development, women in information technology
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Peter Shea
Educational Theory and Practice/Informatics
Phone: 518-442-4009 Email: pshea@uamail.albany.edu
Research Interests: Student and faculty experience in techno-
logy-mediated teaching and learning,
teaching presence, community in
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Janet Stamatel
Criminal Justice/Informatics, Assistant Professor
Phone: 518-591-8786 Email: jstamatel@albany.edu
Research Interests: Cross-national crime comparisons, social
change and crime, measurement and methods, data collection and utilization
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Affiliated Faculty
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David F. Andersen
Public Administration and Policy, Distinguished Service Professor
Phone: 518-442-5280 Email: david.andersen@albany.edu
Research Interests: Public management, simulation and decision support systems in public policy, government information management |
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Robert Bangert-Drowns
Educational Theory and Practice, Associate Professor
Phone: 518-442-5022 Email: rbangert@csc.albany.edu
Research Interests: Meta-analytic and literature review
methodology, instructional design for computer-based instruction, higher-order thinking and literacy |
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George Berg
Computer Science, Associate Professor
Phone: 518-442-4267 Email: berg@cs.albany.edu
Research Interests: Machine learning, computational biology, and natural language processing
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Indushobha Chengular-Smith
School of Business, Associate Professor
Phone: 518-442-4028 Email: shobha@albany.edu
Research Interests: Decision-making, information quality, and
technology implementation, open source
software, security policy |
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Anthony M.Cresswell
Educational Administration and Policy Studies, Associate Professor
Interim Director, Center for Technology in Government
Phone: 518-442-3766 Email: tcresswell@ctg.albany.edu
Research Interests: Organizational studies and the role of
information in organizational action and
innovation, with a focus on government
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Sharon Dawes
Public Administration and Policy, Associate Professor Senior Fellow, Center for Technology in Government
Phone: 518-442-3027 Email: sdawes@ctg.albany.edu
Research Interests: Information management in public sector |
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Peter J. Duchessi
Information Technology Management, Associate Professor
Phone: 518-442-4945 Email: duchessi@cnsunix.albany.edu
Research Interests: Information technology-enabled business
models, securing supply chains with radio
frequency identification (RFID) and
electronic product code (EPC)
technologies, electronic connectivity in
modern supply
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Phillip B. Eppard
Information Studies, Professor
Phone: 518-442-5119 Email: pbe40@albany.edu
Research Interests: Archives, records administration,
preservation management, electronic records, history of recorded information
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Sue Faerman
Public Administration & Policy, Professor
Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education
Phone: 518-442-3950 Email: sfaerman@uamail.albany.edu
Research Interests: Managerial transitions, organizational behavior, and leadership effectiveness
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Ingrid E. Fisher
Accounting and Law, Assistant Professor
Phone: 518-442-4948 Email: i.fisher@albany.edu
Research Interests: Information retrieval, automatic thesaurus construction, information semantics, assurance in business information systems
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Jagdish Gangolly
Accounting and Law, Associate Professor
Phone: 518-442-4949 Email: gangolly@csc.albany.edu
Research interests: Knowledge representation issues in accounting, concept classification in accounting, formal modeling of internal controls, and security in auditing
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Sanjay Goel
Information Technology Management, Associate Professor
Phone: 518-442-4925 Email: goel@albany.edu
Research Interests: Application of information technology in
business and engineering applications,
computer networking and network security
(including cryptography and public key
infrastructure), network-based distributed
computation and availability of services
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Richard Hall
Sociology, Professor
Phone: 518-442-4664 Email: r.hall@albany.edu
Research Interests: Work/labor markets
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Teresa M. Harrison
Communication, Professor
Phone: 518-442-4883 Email: harrison@albany.edu
Research Interests: Computer-mediated communication, comm-
unity applications of new technologies, technology and democracy, digital government, community networking, geographic information systems, urban communication, communication theory, and organizational communication
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Floyd M. Henderson
Geography and Planning, Professor
Phone: 518-442-4770 Email: f.henderson@albany.edu
Research Interests: Remote sensing applications in land use,
wetlands and agriculture, digital image
analysis, geographic information systems
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Hemalata Iyer
Information Studies, Associate Proefessor
Phone: 518-442-5116 Email: hi651@albany.edu
Research Interests: Classification theory, information organization and retrieval, natural language representation
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Catherine Lawson
Geography & Planning, Associate Professor
Phone: 518-442-4775 Email: lawsonc@albany.edu
Research Interests: Travel behavior, freight, archived intelligent transportation systems data,
community development, housing issues,
land use, transportation planning, and
spatial analysis/geographic information system applications
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Terry Maxwell
Information Studies, Associate Professor
Phone: 518-442-5126 Email: tamaxwell@hvc.rr.com
Research Interests: Intellectual property policy, organizational
information management and use, information policy, information public domain
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Paul Meising
Mangement, Associate Professor
Phone: 518-442-4942 Email: paul.miesing@albany.edu
Research Interests: Strategic vision, organizational change and
transformation, technology transfer,
business and education use of information technology
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Lakshmi Mohan
Information Technology Management, Associate Professor
Phone: 518-442-4927 Email: l.mohan@albany.edu
Research Interests: Decision Support Systems, Business Intelli-
gence, Data Warehousing & Data Mining,
Customer Relationship Management and
Information Resource Management
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James Mower
Geography and Planning, Associate Professor
Phone: 518-442-4779 Email: jmower@albany.edu
Research Interests: Automated cartography, geographic information systems, application of real-time
perspective viewing models, applications of parallel computing
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Neil V. Murray
Computer Science, Professor
Phone: 518-442-3393 Email: nvm@cs.albany.edu
Research Interests: Automated deduction, extension of
deductive techniques to various non-classical logics, including multiple-valued, annotated and fuzzy logic, knowledge compilation
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Theresa A. Pardo
Public Administration and Policy/Center for Technology in Government, Research Assistant Professor/Deputy Director
Phone: 518-442-3892 Email: tpardo@ctg.albany.edu
Research Interests: Information technology innovation in the
public sector, cross-boundary collaboration
and information sharing, preservation of
government records in digital form, return
on investment analysis for public sector IT
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Eliot Rich
Information Technology Management, Assistant Professor
Phone: 518-442-4944 Email: e.rich@albany.edu
Research Interests: Simulation, software systems, knowledge management
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George Richardson
Public Administration and Policy, Professor
Phone: 518-442-5258 Email: gpr@albany.edu
Research Interests: Computer simulation, modeling for public
policy analysis and group decision support
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Abebe Rorissa
Information Studies, Assistant Professor
Phone: 518-442-5123 Email: arorissa@uamail.albany.edu
Research Interests: Multimedia information organization and
retrieval, measurement and scaling of
users’ information need and their perceptions of multimedia information sources
and services, the use/acceptance/adoption and impact of information and communication technonogies (ICTs)
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Sandor Schuman
Center for Policy Research, Research Associate
Phone: 518-442-5889 Email: sschuman@albany.edu
Research Interests: Information and decision-making, collaborative problem solving, and organizational
change
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Joette Stelf-Mabry
Information Studies, Assistant Professor
Phone: 518-442-5120 Email: jstelf@albany.edu
Research Interests: Integration and assessment of educational
technologies, user needs; social implications of technology, media decision-making, and media exposure and its effects on brain functioning
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Jennifer Stromer-Galley
Communication, Assistant Professor
Phone: 518-442-4873 Email: jstromer@albany.edu
Research Interests: Political uses and effects of new information and communication technologies (ICTs) by citizens, by government institutions, and by politicians
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Tomek Strzalkowski
Computer Science, Associate Professor
Phone: 518-442-4275 Email: tomek@cs.albany.edu
Research Interests: Computational linguistics, information
retrieval & summarization, knowledge
representation and knowledge-based
systems, logic programming, and artificial intelligence
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Kinsun Tam
Accounting and Law, Associate Professor
Phone: 518-442-4950 Email: tam@csc.albany.edu
Research Interests: XML, markup languages, computerized
content analysis of corporate text
documents, database internal controls, and application of Internet technologies
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Giri Kumar Tayi
Information Management Systems, Professor
Phone: 518-442-4947 Email: gk952@cnsunix.albany.edu
Research Interests: Data communications and communications
networks, information economics & policy, and quantitative models for policy analysis
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Ozlem Uzuner
Information Studies, Assistant Professor
Phone: 518-442-5110 Email: ouzuner@albany.edu
Research Interests: Medical informatics, medical language
processing, electronic health records,
natural language understanding, information
retrieval, information extraction, privacy,
security, intellectual property, and user intefaces
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Huahai Yang
Information Studies, Assistant Professor
Phone: 518-442-5118 Email: hyang@albany.edu
Research Interests: Human-computer interaction, computer-
supported cooperative work, information
visualization, collaborative virtual
environment, user modeling, and user adaptive interaction
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Xiaojun (Jenny) Yuan
Information Studies, Assistant Professor
Phone: 518-591-8746 Email: xy454777@albany.edu
Research Interests: Information-seeking behavior, information
retrieval, user interface design and evaluation, information visualization, usability
testing, human-computer interaction, and
digital libraries
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Staff Listing
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