Faculty
Faculty From Across the University
The Department of Informatics has 10 core faculty members with full or split appointments. As the interdisciplinary home of the College of Computing and Information, the Department draws upon some 31 affiliated faculty members from across the University. In addition to computer science and technology, areas of expertise include government, business, education, geography, physics, sociology, social welfare, and 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
Student Advisor, Informatics Faculty Steering Committee
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
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Peter A. Bloniarz
College of Computing & Information, Dean
Informatics, Interim Chair
Phone: 518-956-8240 Email: p.bloniarz [at] albany [dot] edu
Research Interests: Curriculum and pedagogic innovations,
public sector information systems
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Guy J. Cortesi
Informatics, Visiting Assistant Professor
Information Studies, Adjunct Faculty
Email: guy.cortesi [at] gmail [dot] com
Research Interests: Effective use of Information Technology in distance reporting and virtual organizational settings; the relation of communication channel and task on group composition, participation, and performance in virtual organizations
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Jagdish Gangolly
Informatics, O'Leary Associate Professor
Phone: 518-956-8240 Email: jgangolly [at] 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
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Jennifer Goodall
Informatics, Service Assistant Professor
Director, Informatics/Information Science Undergraduate Program
Phone: 518-442-3191 Email: jgoodall [at] albany [dot] edu
Research Interests: Curriculum development, women in information technology
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Kevin Knuth
Physics/Informatics, Associate 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
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Timothy L. Lance
Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus in Mathematics & Statistics (A&S)/Informatics (CCI)/Information Theory and Practice
Phone: 518-852-0753 Email: tl [at] nysernet [dot] org
Research Interests: Geometric toplogy, group actions on manifolds, cobordism theory, smoothing theory, homotopy theory of classifying spaces, applications to number theory, non-linear simliarity, data driven research and impact on networks, school outreach for advance students (JSHS) and early Stem development
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Toni Naccarato
Social Welfare/Informatics, Assistant Professor
Phone: 518-591-8788 Email: tnaccarato [at] albany [dot] edu
Research Interests: Child welfare, analysis and reform of economics and social policy
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Peter Shea
Educational Theory and Practice/Informatics, Associate Professor
Phone: 518-442-4009 Email: pshea [at] albany [dot] edu
Research Interests: Student and faculty experience in techno-
logy-mediated teaching and learning, teaching presence, community in asynchronous learning networks
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David F. Andersen
Public Administration & Policy/Informatics , Distinguished Service Professor
Chair, Informatics Faculty Steering Committee
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
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Robert Bangert-Drowns
Educational Theory and Practice, Associate Professor
Phone: 518-442-5022 Email: rbangert [at] albany [dot] 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 [at] cs [dot] albany [dot] edu
Research Interests: Machine learning, computational biology, and natural language processing
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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
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Suraj Commuri
Marketing, Associate Professor
Phone: 518-442-4954 Email: scommuri [at] albany [dot] edu
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Anthony M.Cresswell
Educational Administration and Policy Studies, Associate Professor Emeritus
Deputy 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
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Sharon Dawes
Public Administration and Policy, Professor Emerita
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
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Peter J. Duchessi
Information Technology Management, Associate Professor
Phone: 518-442-4945 Email: pduchessi [at] 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
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Philip B. Eppard
Information Studies, Professor
Phone: 518-442-5119 Email: peppard [at] albany [dot] 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 [at] albany [dot] edu
Research Interests: Managerial transitions, organizational behavior, and leadership effectiveness
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Ingrid E. Fisher
Accounting and Law, Associate 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
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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
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Teresa M. Harrison
Communication, Professor
Phone: 518-442-4883 Email: tharrison [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
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Hemalata Iyer
Information Studies, Associate Professor
Phone: 518-442-5116 Email: hiyer [at] albany [dot] edu
Research Interests: Classification theory, information organization and retrieval, natural language representation
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Rey Koslowski
Political Science/Informatics, Associate Professor
Phone: 518-442-5255 Email: rkoslowski [at] albany [dot] edu
Research Interests: International relations dealing with international organization, European integration, international migration,information technology, homeland security |
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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
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Terry Maxwell
Information Studies, O'Leary 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
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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
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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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Saggi Nevo
School of Business, Assistant Professor
Phone: 518-442-4924 Email: snevo [at] albany [dot] edu
Research Interests: Business value of information technology, information technology strategy, technology post-adoption, diffusion of innovations, social computing
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Theresa A. Pardo
Public Administration and Policy/Center for Technology in Government, Associate Research Professor/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
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Eliot Rich
Information Technology Management, Associate Professor
Phone: 518-442-4944 Email: e.rich [at] albany [dot] edu
Research Interests: Simulation, software systems, knowledge management
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George Richardson
Public Administration and Policy, O'Leary Professor
Phone: 518-442-5258 Email: gpr [at] albany [dot] edu
Research Interests: Computer simulation, modeling for public
policy analysis and group decision support
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Abebe Rorissa
Information Studies, Associate Professor
Phone: 518-442-5123 Email: arorissa [at] 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 Emeritus
Phone: 518-956-8240 Email: sschuman [at] albany [dot] edu
Research Interests: Information and decision-making, collaborative problem solving, and organizational change
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Donghee Sinn
Information Studies, Assistant Professor
Phone: 518-442-5117 Email: dsinn [at] albany [dot] edu
Research Interestes: Archives, archival research in history, archival use/user studies, personal archiving in the web environment, archiving web content, digital archiving of cultural artifacts, archives and public memory, and public memory in relation to Asian cultures and heritages.
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Joette Stelf-Mabry
Information Studies, Associate 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
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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
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Kinsun Tam
Accounting and Law, Associate Professor
Phone: 518-442-4950 Email: tam [at] albany [dot] 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: gtayi [at] albany [dot] edu
Research Interests: Data communications and communications
networks, information economics & policy, and quantitative models for policy analysis
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Özlem 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
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Xiaojun (Jenny) Yuan
Information Studies, Assistant Professor
Phone: 518-591-8746 Email: xyuan [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
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Staff Listing
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Informatics, Secretary
Phone: 518-442-4270 Email:
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