Awards & Honors

College of Arts and Sciences 

• Alejandra Bronfman, Professor, Africana, Latin American, Caribbean and Latinx Studies
  "Revoiced: History and Memory in the Cold War Caribbean"
• Elise Andaya, Associate Professor, Anthropology
  “Materializing Smell: Smell Disorders, Disability Activism, and Olfactory Science in the Post-COVID Era”
• Gabriele Fuchs, Associate Professor, Biological Sciences
  "Novel Mechanisms of SARS-CoV-2 Translation Regulation"
• Morgan Sammons, Associate Professor, Biological Sciences
  "Multi-omics of the Integrated Stress Response"
• Daniel Robbins, Associate Professor, Physics
  “Generalized Symmetry Enhancement in Conformal Field Theories”

College of Integrated Health Sciences

• Janice Pata, Associate Professor, Biomedical Sciences
  ”Initiation of Staphylococcus aureus DNA replication by the polymerases DnaG and DnaE”

College of Nanotechnology, Science, and Engineering

• Jeong-Hyon Hwang, Associate Professor, Computer Science
  “UniDB: Towards a Universal Database System”

Massry School of Business

• Na Dai, Professor, Finance
  “Bank Culture, Innovation, and Strategic Responses to FinTech Disruption”

College of Arts and Sciences

• Koomla Ulrich Hounyo, Associate Professor, Economics
  ”From Theory to AI: Stock Prediction Face-Off between Factor Models and Large Language Models”
• Marcus Adams, Associate Professor, Philosophy
  ”Archival Research for a published edition of Margaret Cavendish’s 1663 Philosophical and Physical Opinions (PPO)”

College of Emergency Preparedness, Homeland Security and Cybersecurity

• Phung Lai, Assistant Professor, Cybersecurity
  ”SWIFT: Scalable Watermarking for Intellectual Property and LLM Footprint Tracking”

College of Integrated Health Sciences

• Melissa Tracy, Associate Professor, Epidemiology & Biostatistics
  ”Readmission after intimate partner violence identified in hospital settings: a nationwide network analysis approach”
• Jean Moore, Research Assistant Professor, Health Policy, Management, and Behavior
  ”Preliminary Analysis of Educational Pathways Among Nurses in New York”

College of Integrated Health Sciences, School of Social Welfare

• Wonhyung Lee, Associate Professor, Social Welfare
  “Reviving Brownfields: Charting the Future of Albany’s Abandoned Gas Stations”

College of Nanotechnology, Science, and Engineering

• Carlo Cafaro, Associate Professor, Nanoscale Science and Engineering
  “Length-independent complexity measure of quantum-mechanical evolutions”
• Susan Sharfstein, Professor, Nanoscale Science and Engineering
  “Bioinformatic Analysis of Transcriptomic and Proteomic Data from Antibody-Producing Chinese Hamster Ovary Cells”
• Yubing Xie, Professor, Nanoscale Science and Engineering
  “Cellular Self-Organization in Hydrogels for Understanding Environmental Stresses”

Rockefeller College of Public Affairs & Policy

• Stephen Holt, Associate Professor, Public Administration and Policy
  “Teacher Certification Requirement Impacts on Access to Quality Special Education Teachers”

Massry School of Business

• Sukwoong Choi, Assistant Professor, Information Systems and Business Analytics
  “How Generative AI Perceives Job Replacement: A Comparison with Human Experts' Expectations”

School of Education

• Tianlin Wang Ford, Assistant Professor, Educational and Counseling Psychology
  “Mental State Words and Gender Representation: Impacts on Children’s Social Cognition”

University Libraries

• Abigail Adams, Associate Librarian, Academic Success
  “Graphic Novel Research Expansion”

"New York City Urban Integrated Field Laboratories (IFL)" 

Team Leader: Jorge Gonzalez-Cruz – Atmospheric Sciences Research Center 

Team: 

• Chris Thorncroft – Atmospheric Sciences Research Center 

• Jeff Freedman – Atmospheric Sciences Research Center 

• Shao Lin – Environmental Health Sciences, School of Public Health 

"Super-enhancer regulation of cancer metabolism" 

Team Leader: Jason Herschkowitz – Biomedical Sciences, Cancer Research Center, School of Public Health 

Team: 

•  Douglas Conklin– Biomedical Sciences, School of Public Health 

• JoEllen Welsh – Environmental Health Sciences, School of Public Health 

• Ramune Reliene – Environmental Health Sciences, School of Public Health 

• BK Lee – Biomedical Sciences, School of Public Health 

"Proposal to establish the Institute for Microbial Stress Response" 

Team Leader: Cheryl Andam – Biological Sciences, College of Arts and Sciences 

Team: 

• Thomas Begley – Biological Sciences, College of Arts and Sciences 

• Alex Valm – Biological Sciences, College of Arts and Sciences 

• Marlene Belfort – Biological Sciences, College of Arts and Sciences 

• Alexander Ciota – Biomedical Sciences and Wadsworth Center 

• Nicholas Mantis – Biomedical Sciences and Wadsworth Center 

• Yanna Liang– Environmental & Sustainable Engineering, College of Engineering & Applied Sciences 

• Mathias Vuille – Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences, College of Arts and Sciences 

"Center for Integrated Sensors, Screening, and Security (CIS3)" 

Team Leader: John Petrucelli – Physics, College of Arts and Sciences 

Team: 

• Alexander Khmaladze – Physics, College of Arts and Sciences 

• Benjamin Yankson – College of Emergency Preparedness, Homeland Security & Cybersecurity 

• Brandon Behlendorf – College of Emergency Preparedness, Homeland Security & Cybersecurity 

• Carolyn MacDonald – Physics, College of Arts and Sciences 

• DeeDee Bennett Gayle – College of Emergency Preparedness, Homeland Security & Cybersecurity 

• Gary Ackerman – College of Emergency Preparedness, Homeland Security & Cybersecurity 

• Igor Lednev – Chemistry, College of Arts and Sciences 

• Jason D’Cruz – Philosophy, College of Arts and Sciences 

• Lee Spitzley – Information Security & Digital Forensics, School of Business 

• Ming-Ching Chang – Computer Science, College of Engineering & Applied Sciences 

• Petko Bognaov – Computer Science, College of Engineering & Applied Sciences 

• Sanjay Goel – Information Security & Digital Forensics, School of Business 

"Targeting Senescent Cells for Fibrotic Diseases"  

Team Leader: Melinda Larsen – Biological Sciences, College of Arts and Sciences 

Team: 

• Gabrielle Fredman — Molecular and Cellular Physiology, Albany College of Medicine 

• Juan Andre Melendez — College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering, SUNY Polytechnic Institute 

• Scott Tenenbaum — College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering, SUNY Polytechnic Institute 

"Convergence Science for Extreme Weather Resiliency and Emergency Preparedness" 

Team Leader: Eric Stern – College of Emergency Preparedness, Homeland Security & Cybersecurity 

Team: 

• Chris Thorncroft – Atmospheric Sciences Research Center 

• Ryan Torn – Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences, College of Arts and Sciences 

• Amber Silver – College of Emergency Preparedness, Homeland Security & Cybersecurity 

• Sheila Curran Bernard – History, College of Arts and Sciences 

• Jorge Gonzalez-Cruz – Atmospheric Sciences Research Center 

• Ryan Irwin – History, College of Arts and Sciences 

"NSF Institute for Resilient-AI in Crisis Decision-Making (INFORM)" 

Team Leader: Eric Stern – College of Emergency Preparedness, Homeland Security & Cybersecurity 

Team: DeeDee Bennett Gayle – College of Emergency Preparedness, Homeland Security & Cybersecurity 

"Climate adaptation through process understanding, risk assessment, education, and public dialogue" 

Team Leader: Mathias Vuille – Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences, College of Arts and Sciences 

Team: 

• Alandeon Oliveira – Educational Theory & Practice, School of Education 

• Shao Lin – Environmental Health Sciences, School of Public Health 

• Fangqun Yu – Atmospheric Sciences Research Center 

• Catherine Lawson – Geography and Planning, College of Arts and Sciences 

"NYCAD: New York Center for Analytics in Disasters" 

Team Leader: DeeDee Bennett Gayle – College of Emergency Preparedness, Homeland Security & Cybersecurity 

Team: 

• Dola Saha – Electrical & Computer Engineering, College of Engineering and Applied Sciences 

• Shao Lin – Environmental Health Sciences, School of Public Health  

• Jerald Brotzge – Atmospheric Sciences Research Center 

“Artificial Intelligence Institute for Secure and Trustworthy Cyber-Systems" 

Team Leader: George Berg – College of Emergency Preparedness, Homeland Security & Cybersecurity 

Team: 

• Unal Tatar – College of Emergency Preparedness, Homeland Security & Cybersecurity  

• Kajal Lahiri – Economics, School of Business  

• Pradeep Atrey – Computer Science, College of Engineering and Applied Sciences 

• Benjamin Griffy, Assistant Professor, Economics
  “Demographic Inequality and the Macroeconomy”
• Melanie Wilcox, Associate Professor, Educational and Counseling Psychology
  “Whiteness, Public Health, and Structural Competence: Understanding the Roots of Distress”

Ilka Kressner – Associate Professor of Hispanic Studies and Chair of Languages, Literatures and Cultures
College of Arts and Sciences    
“Living in Languages Journal”

• Michael Fasullo, Associate Professor, Nanobioscience 
  “Synergizing Artificial Intelligence and High-throughput Biological Screening  to Eliminate Unnecessary Animal Testing in Genotoxicity Assays”

• Hyeonwoo Do
  Economics
  “The Effect of Nursing Home Closures: Staff Replacement, Resident Relocation, and Quality of Care”
• Cara Fresquez
  Educational and Counseling Psychology
  “The Moderating Effect of Self-Efficacy on the Relationship Between Social Determinants of Health and Alcohol Use”
• Donald Harris
  Information Science
  “Investigating the Relationship between Use Inhibitors in Mental Health Mobile Applications and Abandonment”
• Yeeun Hong
  Sociology
  “Paper Trails to the Altar: The Impact of U.S. Immigration Policies on Asian Migrants’ Intimate Relationships”
• Madhav Kharel
  Environmental and Sustainable Engineering
  “Evaluating the impact of plant cultivation on PFAS leachability in biosolid-amended soil”
• Lin Lin
  Communication
  “Exploring Resilience Enactment among Graduate-Student Parents Through Ventriloqual Analysis”
• Yifan Liu
  Sociology
  “Where to next? Exploring the career and cultural factors that shape the international graduate students’ post-graduation mobility expectations”
• Andrew Munoz Gamba
  Biological Sciences
  “Identify the genetic determinants in the Zika virus genome that influence transmission and host-adaptation”
• Seulgi Park
  Communication
  “Applying the Ecological Model of Medical Encounters to Understand Patient-Centered Communication for Korean Migrants in the U.S.”
• Rafia Rahman
  Anthropology
  “Experiences of Pregnancy and Motherhood Among Female Garment Workers in Bangladesh”
• Qi Sun
  Educational and Counseling Psychology
  “Use of AI-based Scaffolding in Writing: Impact on Critical Thinking”
• Vasuda Trehan
  Information Science
  “Designing a machine learning system to predict exoplanet atmospheric absorption spectra based on planetary parameters”