Faculty

Deborah Lines Andersen
Information Studies/Informatics, Associate Professor
Phone: 518-442-5122 Email: dla [at] albany [dot] edu
Research Interests: Research methods and statistics,
electronic information access technologies
and their users, public libraries

Peter A. Bloniarz
College of Computing & Information, Dean
Phone: 518-591-8871 Email: p.bloniarz [at] albany [dot] edu
Research Interests: Curriculum and pedagogic innovations,
public sector information systems

Monika P. Calef
Geography and Planning/Informatics, Assistant Professor
Phone: 518-591-8563 Email: mcalef [at] albany [dot] edu
Research Interests: Analyzing and modeling large scale
landscape patterns and dynamics using GIS

Stephen E. DeLong
Informatics/Information Studies, Professor
Phone: 518-591-8888 Email: delong [at] albany [dot] edu
Research Interests: Application of statistical physics to information retrieval and organization

Jagdish Gangolly
Informatics, Director
Phone: 518-956-8251 Email: gangolly [at] csc [dot] albany [dot] edu
Research interests: Modeling of security & controls in accounting information systems. Automatic Classification of accounting concepts (using techniques in statistical natural language processing) in order to generate retrieval thesauri for accounting, the development of markup languages for financial accounting standards to facilitate their temporal reconstruction

Jennifer Goodall
Informatics, Service Assistant Professor
Phone: 518-956-8245 Email: jgoodall [at] uamail [dot] albany [dot] edu
Research Interests: Curriculum development, women in information technology

Senem Guney
Informatics, Assistant Professor
Faculty Fellow, Center for Technology in Government
Phone: 518-442-4473 Email: sguney [at] ctg [dot] albany [dot] edu
Research Interests: Communicative practices and technology use in interorganizational collaboration, field research methods, discourse analysis

Kevin Knuth
Physics/Informatics, Assistant Professor
Phone: 518-442-4653 Email: kknuth [at] albany [dot] 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

Rey Koslowski
Political Science/Informatics, Associate Professor
Phone: 518-442-5255 Email: rkoslowski [at] uamail [dot] albany [dot] edu
Research Interests: International relations dealing with international organization, European integration, international migration,information technology, homeland security

Timothy L. Lance
Mathematics & Statistics/Informatics, Professor
Phone: 518-442-4610 Email: lance [at] albany [dot] 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

Toni Naccarato
Social Welfare/Informatics, Assistant Professor
Phone: 518-591-8788 Email: tnaccarato [at] uamail [dot] albany [dot] edu
Research Interests: Child welfare, analysis and reform of economics and social policy

Peter Shea
Educational Theory and Practice/Informatics, Assistant Professor
Phone: 518-442-4009 Email: pshea [at] uamail [dot] albany [dot] edu
Research Interests: Student and faculty experience in techno-
logy-mediated teaching and learning, teaching presence, community in asynchronous learning networks

Janet Stamatel
Criminal Justice/Informatics, Assistant Professor
Phone: 518-591-8786 Email: jstamatel [at] albany [dot] edu
Research Interests: Cross-national crime comparisons, social
change and crime, measurement and methods, data collection and utilization

David F. Andersen
Public Administration and Policy, Distinguished Service Professor
Phone: 518-442-5280 Email: david.andersen [at] albany [dot] edu
Research Interests: Public management, simulation and decision support systems in public policy, government information management

Robert Bangert-Drowns
Educational Theory and Practice, Associate Professor
Phone: 518-442-5022 Email: rbangert [at] csc [dot] albany [dot] edu
Research Interests: Meta-analytic and literature review
methodology, instructional design for computer-based instruction, higher-order thinking and literacy

George Berg
Computer Science, Associate Professor
Phone: 518-442-4267 Email: berg [at] csc [dot] albany [dot] edu
Research Interests: Machine learning, computational biology, and natural language processing

Indushobha Chengalur-Smith
School of Business, Associate Professor
Phone: 518-442-4028 Email: shobha [at] albany [dot] edu
Research Interests: Decision-making, information quality, and
technology implementation, open source software, security policy

Anthony M.Cresswell
Educational Administration and Policy Studies, Associate Professor
Interim Director, Center for Technology in Government
Phone: 518-442-3766 Email: tcresswell [at] ctg [dot] albany [dot] edu
Research Interests: Organizational studies and the role of
information in organizational action and innovation, with a focus on government

Sharon Dawes
Public Administration and Policy, Associate Professor
Senior Fellow, Center for Technology in Government
Phone: 518-442-3027 Email: sdawes [at] ctg [dot] albany [dot] edu
Research Interests: Information management in public sector

Peter J. Duchessi
Information Technology Management, Associate Professor
Phone: 518-442-4945 Email: duchessi [at] cnsunix [dot] albany [dot] 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 chains

Phillip B. Eppard
Information Studies, Professor
Phone: 518-442-5119 Email: pbe40 [at] albany [dot] edu
Research Interests: Archives, records administration,
preservation management, electronic records, history of recorded information

Sue Faerman
Public Administration & Policy, Professor
Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education
Phone: 518-442-3950 Email: sfaerman [at] uamail [dot] albany [dot] edu
Research Interests: Managerial transitions, organizational behavior, and leadership effectiveness

Ingrid E. Fisher
Accounting and Law, Assistant Professor
Phone: 518-442-4948 Email: i.fisher [at] albany [dot] edu
Research Interests: Information retrieval, automatic thesaurus construction, information semantics, assurance in business information systems

Sanjay Goel
Information Technology Management, Associate Professor
Phone: 518-442-4925 Email: goel [at] albany [dot] 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

Teresa M. Harrison
Communication, Professor
Phone: 518-442-4883 Email: harrison [at] albany [dot] 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

Hemalata Iyer
Information Studies, Associate Proefessor
Phone: 518-442-5116 Email: hi651 [at] albany [dot] 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 [at] albany [dot] 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

Terry Maxwell
Information Studies, Associate Professor
Phone: 518-442-5126 Email: tamaxwell [at] hvc [dot] rr [dot] com
Research Interests: Intellectual property policy, organizational
information management and use, information policy, information public domain

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Paul Miesing
Mangement, Associate Professor
Phone: 518-442-4942 Email: paul.miesing [at] albany [dot] edu
Research Interests: Strategic vision, organizational change and
transformation, technology transfer, business and education use of information technology

Lakshmi Mohan
Information Technology Management, Associate Professor
Phone: 518-442-4927 Email: l.mohan [at] albany [dot] edu
Research Interests: Decision Support Systems, Business Intelli-
gence, Data Warehousing & Data Mining, Customer Relationship Management and Information Resource Management

James Mower
Geography and Planning, Associate Professor
Phone: 518-442-4779 Email: jmower [at] albany [dot] 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 [at] cs [dot] albany [dot] 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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Priya Nambisan
Public Health/Informatics, Assistant Professor
Phone: 518 402-0332 Email: pnambisan [at] albany [dot] edu
Research Interests: Health Information Technology (HIT), consumer health informatics, and health care management

Theresa A. Pardo
Public Administration and Policy/Center for Technology in Government, Associate Research Professor/Deputy Director
Phone: 518-442-3892 Email: tpardo [at] ctg [dot] albany [dot] 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

Eliot Rich
Information Technology Management, Assistant Professor
Phone: 518-442-4944 Email: e.rich [at] albany [dot] edu
Research Interests: Simulation, software systems, knowledge management

George Richardson
Public Administration and Policy, Professor
Phone: 518-442-5258 Email: gpr [at] albany [dot] edu
Research Interests: Computer simulation, modeling for public
policy analysis and group decision support

Abebe Rorissa
Information Studies, Assistant Professor
Phone: 518-442-5123 Email: arorissa [at] uamail [dot] albany [dot] 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 [at] albany [dot] edu
Research Interests: Information and decision-making, collaborative problem solving, and organizational change

Joette Stelf-Mabry
Information Studies, Assistant Professor
Phone: 518-442-5120 Email: jstefl [at] albany [dot] 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

Jennifer Stromer-Galley
Communication, Assistant Professor
Phone: 518-442-4873 Email: jstromer [at] albany [dot] edu
Research Interests: Political uses and effects of new information and communication technologies (ICTs) by citizens, by government institutions, and by politicians

Tomek Strzalkowski
Computer Science, Associate Professor
Phone: 518-442-4275 Email: tomek [at] cs [dot] albany [dot] edu
Research Interests: Computational linguistics, information
retrieval & summarization, knowledge representation and knowledge-based systems, logic programming, and artificial intelligence

Kinsun Tam
Accounting and Law, Associate Professor
Phone: 518-442-4950 Email: tam [at] csc [dot] albany [dot] edu
Research Interests: XML, markup languages, computerized
content analysis of corporate text documents, database internal controls, and application of Internet technologies

Giri Kumar Tayi
Information Management Systems, Professor
Phone: 518-442-4947 Email: gk952 [at] cnsunix [dot] albany [dot] edu
Research Interests: Data communications and communications
networks, information economics & policy, and quantitative models for policy analysis

Ozlem Uzuner
Information Studies, Assistant Professor
Phone: 518-442-5110 Email: ouzuner [at] albany [dot] 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

Xiaojun (Jenny) Yuan
Information Studies, Assistant Professor
Phone: 518-591-8746 Email: xy454777 [at] albany [dot] edu
Research Interests: Information-seeking behavior, information
retrieval, user interface design and evaluation, information visualization, usability testing, human-computer interaction, and
digital libraries

Heide Horan
Informatics, Secretary
Phone: 518-956-8248 Email: HHoran [at] uamail [dot] albany [dot] edu