Faculty Experts
Call the Office of Media Relations at (518) 956-8150Technology
Heidi Andrade
School of Education
Associate Professor
Department: Educational and Counseling Psychology
Expert in the following: Classroom assessment; including rubrics; formative assessment; performance assessment; self-assessment; self-regulated learning
Campus phone: (518) 437-4422
Campus email: handrade@albany.edu
George Berg
College of Computing and Information
Associate Professor
Department: Computer Science
Department: Associate
Department: Institute for Financial Market Regulation
Expert in the following:
Artificial intelligence; cognitive science
Campus phone: (518) 442-4267
Campus email: gberg@albany.edu
Elizabeth Berman
College of Arts and Sciences
Assistant Professor
Department: Sociology
Expert in the following:
U.S. universities; U.S. patent policy; biotech entrepreneurship; economic sociology
Campus phone: (518) 442-4675
Campus email: epberman@albany.edu
Peter Bloniarz
College of Computing and Information
Dean
Department: Office of the Dean, College of Computing and Information
Department: Associate
Department: Institute for Financial Market Regulation
Expert in the following:
Informatics; information technology; information science; egovernance
Campus phone: (518) 591-8871
Campus email: p.bloniarz@albany.edu
G. Burke
University at Albany
Department: Center for Technology in Government
Expert in the following:
Managing and preserving government electronic information; assessing the value of government information technology investments; Cross-boundary and multi-organizational information sharing in government
Campus phone: (518) 442-3895
Campus email: gburke2@albany.edu
Stephen Bush
College of Computing and Information
Lecturer
Department: Computer Science
Expert in the following: Network communications; wireless communication; network security; network science; quantum computation and communication
Campus phone: (518) 387-6827
Campus email: bushsf@research.ge.com
InduShobha Chengalur-Smith
School of Business
Associate Professor
Department: Information Technology Management
Department: Institute for Financial Market Regulation
Expert in the following: Open source software; technology adoption and implementation; information quality
Campus phone: (518) 442-4028
Campus email: shobha@albany.edu
Sridar Chittur
School of Public Health
Assistant Professor
Department: Biomedical Sciences
Expert in the following: Drug discovery; genomics; gene-expression; microarrays; flow cytometry; enzymology; high throughput technologies
Campus phone: (518) 591-7215
Campus email: schittur@albany.edu
Meghan Cook
University at Albany
Department: Center for Technology in Government
Expert in the following:
Intergovernmental relations and county and municipal government information management; Information sharing and integration; facilitation and cross-boundary collaborative work
Campus phone: (518) 442-4443
Campus email: mecook@albany.edu
Jim Costello
Rockefeller College of Public Affairs & Policy
Department: Center for Technology in Government
Expert in the following:
Web applications; XML; Database programming
Campus phone: (518)
Campus email: jcostello@albany.edu
Anthony Cresswell
University at Albany
Department: Center for Technology in Government
Department: Educational Administration and Policy Studies
Associate Professor
Expert in the following:
Organizational studies; research methods; the role of information in organizational action and innovation
Campus phone: (518) 442-3766
Campus email: acresswell@albany.edu
Sharon Dawes
Rockefeller College of Public Affairs & Policy
Associate Professor Emerita
Department: Public Administration and Policy
Department: Founding Director and Senior Fellow
Department: Center for Technology in Government
Expert in the following: Government information systems strategy and management; policy analysis; information management and policy
Campus phone: (518) 442-5932
Campus email: sdawes@albany.edu
John Delano
College of Arts and Sciences
Distinguished Teaching Professor
Department: Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences
Expert in the following: Space exploration; NASA; renewable energy; solar power; moon; astrobiology; environmental science
Campus phone: (518) 442-4479
Campus email: jdelano@albany.edu
Gregory Denbeaux
College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering
Assistant Professor
Department: Nanoengineering
Expert in the following: Lithography; extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography; optics contamination; mass spectrometry; plasma light source; microscopy; x-ray microscopy; magnetic materials
Campus phone: (518) 527-7987
Campus email: gdenbeaux@albany.edu
Diane Dewar
School of Public Health
Associate Professor
Department: Health Policy, Management and Behavior
Expert in the following: Health economics; medical technology; aging; end-of-life care; palliative care; health policy
Campus phone: (518) 402-0290
Campus email: ddewar@albany.edu
Hal Gueutal
School of Business
Associate Professor
Department: Management
Expert in the following:
Job design; performance appraisal; compensation and benefits; Human Resource Information Systems
Campus phone: (518) 442-4941
Campus email: hgueutal@albany.edu
Andrew Haas
College of Computing and Information
Associate Professor
Department: Computer Science
Expert in the following: Artificial intelligence; computational linguistics
Campus phone: (518) 442-9066
Campus email: ahaas@albany.edu
Pradeep Haldar
College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering
Professor
Department: Nanoengineering
Department: Head, Nanoengineering Constellation
Expert in the following: Alternate energy technologies; fuel cells; hydrogen; solar energy; advanced power electronics; superconductors; advanced photovoltaics
Campus phone: (518) 956-7322
Campus email: phaldar@albany.edu
David Hochfelder
College of Arts and Sciences
Assistant Professor
Department: History
Expert in the following: History of U.S. business and technology; public history; history of information technology; history of the telegraph; Thomas Edison; electric power; savings and investment
Campus phone: (518) 442-5348
Campus email: dhochfelder@albany.edu
Richard Johnson
School of Business
Associate Professor
Department: Management
Expert in the following:
Human Resource Information Systems, e-learning; psychological and sociological impacts of technology; psychology and computer use; motivation; the Digital Divide
Campus phone: (518) 442-3020
Campus email: rjohnson@albany.edu
Igor Lednev
College of Arts and Sciences
Associate Professor
Department: Chemistry
Expert in the following: Forensics; forensic analyis; Raman spectroscopy; crime scene investigation; laser spectroscopy; analytical and forensic chemistry, biochemistry, application of laser spectroscopy for biomedical diagnostics
Campus phone: (518) 591-8863
Campus email: ilednev@albany.edu
Siwei Lyu
College of Computing and Information
Assistant Professor
Department: Computer Science
Expert in the following: Image forensics; machine learning and artificial intelligence; computer vision.
Campus phone: (518) 442-5173
Campus email: slyu@albany.edu
Carla Meskill
School of Education
Professor
Department: Educational Theory and Practice
Expert in the following: Language of teaching and learning with technology; distance/online education; computer-assisted language learning (CALL); second language and bilingual education; media literacy; electronic literacy.
Campus phone: (518) 442-5007
Campus email: cmeskill@albany.edu
Rabi Musah
College of Arts and Sciences
Associate Professor
Department: Chemistry
Expert in the following: Isolation, analysis, biological evaluation and structure elucidation of natural products from medicinally important plants; rational evaluation of folkloric, ethno-medical, and traditional medicinal plants; organic chemistry; experimental physical chemistry; biochemistry; experimental methods of organic structure determination; pharmacognosy.
Campus phone: (518) 437-3740
Campus email: rmusah@albany.edu
Theresa Pardo
University at Albany
Director
Department: Center for Technology in Government
Department: Research Associate Professor
Department: Public Administration and Policy
Expert in the following:
Information technology innovation in the public sector; electronic records management; interagency and intergovernmental information sharing and integration; information technology business case planning and development
Campus phone: (518) 442-3984
Campus email: tpardo@Albany.Edu
Peter Shea
School of Education
Associate Professor
Department: Educational Theory and Practice
Department: Associate Professor
Department: Informatics
Expert in the following:
higher education; online learning; k-12 education
Campus phone: (518) 442-4009
Campus email: pshea@albany.edu
Joette Stefl-Mabry
College of Computing and Information
Associate Professor
Department: Information Studies
Expert in the following: Education technology; problem-based learning (PBL); instructional technologies; assessment and evaluation
Campus phone: (518) 442-5120
Campus email: jstefl-mabry@albany.edu
Tomek Strzalkowski
College of Computing and Information
Associate Professor
Department: Computer Science
Expert in the following: Information intelligence and tracking information about terrorists
Campus phone: (518) 442-2608
Campus email: tomek@albany.edu
Ozlem Uzuner
College of Computing and Information
Assistant Professor
Department: Information Studies
Department: Computer Science
Expert in the following: Medical informatics; natural language processing; clinical language processing; information extraction; information retrieval; question answering
Campus phone: (518) 442-5110
Campus email: ouzuner@albany.edu
Derek Werthmuller
University at Albany
Department: Center for Technology in Government
Expert in the following:
Reliable and sustainable computing; automated deployment and management of systems; computer and network security
Campus phone: (518) 442-9064
Campus email: dwerthmuller@albany.edu
David Wills
College of Arts and Sciences
Professor
Department: Languages, Literatures, and Cultures
Department: Professor
Department: English
Expert in the following: French and comparative literature; contemporary French philosophy, particularly post-structuralism, deconstruction and the work of Jacques Derrida; film theory; theories of technology.
Campus phone: (518) 442-4228
Campus email: dwills@albany.edu
Jianwei Zhang
School of Education
Assistant Professor
Department: Educational Theory and Practice
Expert in the following: Technology-supported innovations in learning; knowledge-creating communities
Campus phone: (518) 442-4007
Campus email: jzhang1@albany.edu

