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Heidi Andrade

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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