Faculty Experts
Call the Office of Media Relations at (518) 956-8150Information Technology

Pradeep Atrey
College of Engineering and Applied Sciences
Associate Professor
Department: Computer Science
Expert in the following:
Multimedia surveillance for homeland security; privacy issues in multimedia surveillance systems; multimedia data security and forensics; multimedia data mining
Campus phone: (518) 442-4281
Campus email: [email protected]

Peter Bloniarz
College of Engineering and Applied Sciences
Associate Professor
Department: Office of the Provost
Expert in the following:
Informatics; information technology; information science; e-governance
Campus phone: 956-8240
Campus email: [email protected]

Kim L. Boyer
College of Engineering and Applied Sciences
Professor and Dean
Department: https://www.albany.edu/computerengineering
Expert in the following:
Computer vision; image analysis
Campus phone: (518) 956-8240
Campus email: [email protected]

Ming-Ching Chang
College of Engineering and Applied Sciences
Assistant Professor
Department: https://www.albany.edu/computerengineering
Expert in the following:
computer vision; machine learning; image/video processing; artificial intelligence; medical image analysis and industrial inspection
Campus phone: (518) 442-5085
Campus email: [email protected]

Charalampos Chelmis
College of Engineering and Applied Sciences
Assistant Professor
Department: Computer Science
Expert in the following:
Big Data; Network Science
Campus phone: (518) 437-4948
Campus email: [email protected]

Feng Chen
College of Engineering and Applied Sciences
Assistant Professor
Department: Computer Science
Expert in the following:
Data mining; detecting emerging events in social media; discovering complex patterns in big data
Campus phone: (518) 437-4940
Campus email: [email protected]

InduShobha Chengalur-Smith
School of Business
Associate Professor
Department: Information Technology Management
Expert in the following:
Virtual communities; technology adoption and implementation; information quality and security
Campus phone: (518) 956-8315
Campus email: [email protected]
Expert in the following:

Hany Elgala
College of Engineering and Applied Sciences
Assistant Professor
Department: https://www.albany.edu/computerengineering
Expert in the following:
Telecommunications; digital signal processing and embedded systems
Campus phone: (518) 442-2585
Campus email: [email protected]

Sanjay Goel
School of Business
Professor
Department: Information Technology Management
Expert in the following:
Information security; hacking; computer forensics; risk analysis; cybersecurity; wireless security; botnets (zombie computers); nanosensor networks; optimization
Campus phone: (518) 956-8323
Campus email: [email protected]

Jeong-Hyon Hwang
College of Engineering and Applied Sciences
Associate Professor
Department: Computer Science
Expert in the following:
Databases; distributed systems; real-time data analysis
Campus phone: (518) 437-4935
Campus email: [email protected]

Richard D. 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; managing millennials
Campus phone: 442-3020
Campus email: [email protected]

Brian Keough
University Libraries
Department Head
Department: M.E. Grenander Special Collections and Archives
Expert in the following:
Acquisition and access to archival collections; needs assessments and business process analysis for record management programs; digital preservation; regional political history
Campus phone: (518) 437-3931
Campus email: [email protected]
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Jungwon Kuem
School of Business
Assistant Professor
Department: Information Technology Management
Expert in the following:
Information system users' behaviors; phishing; cyberloafing; social networking; online communities; IT addiction
Campus phone: (518) 956-8182
Campus email: [email protected]

Igor Kuznetsov
School of Public Health
Associate Professor
Department: Epidemiology and Biostatistics
Expert in the following:
bioinformatics, computational genomics, protein informatics, and genomic data integration.
Campus phone: 518-402-0415
Campus email: [email protected]

Catherine Lawson
College of Arts and Sciences
Associate Professor
Department: Geography and Planning
Expert in the following:
Urban Transportation Data and Information Systems; freight planning; travel behavior and time use; water transport; hazardous materials transport; microsimulation and GIS applications; Big Data
Campus phone: 442-4775
Campus email: [email protected]

Martin Manjak
University at Albany
Chief Information Security Officer
Department: Information Technology Services
Expert in the following:
Cybersecurity, malware, information technology
Campus phone: 518-442-6411
Campus email: [email protected]

Amirreza Masoumzadeh
College of Engineering and Applied Sciences
Assistant Professor
Department: Computer Science
Expert in the following:
Information security and privacy; social media data sharing; data sharing and location-bases services; access control policy models and privacy-preserving data sharing
Campus phone: (518) 437-4950
Campus email: [email protected]

Brian Nussbaum
College of Emergency Preparedness, Homeland Security and Cybersecurity
Assistant Professor
Department: Emergency Preparedness, Homeland Security and Cybersecurity
Expert in the following:
Cybersecurity and cyber threats; terrorism and terrorism analysis; homeland security; risk and intelligence analysis; critical infrastructure protection; urban security; smart cities
Campus phone: (518) 442-5781
Campus email: [email protected]

Shaghayegh Sahebi
College of Engineering and Applied Sciences
Assistant Professor
Department: Computer Science
Expert in the following:
Human-centered data mining including educational data mining, recommender and personalization systems, and user modeling
Campus phone: (518) 437-4950
Campus email: [email protected]

Peter Shea
School of Education
Associate Professor
Department: Educational Theory and Practice
Expert in the following:
higher education; online learning; k-12 education
Campus phone: 442-4009
Campus email: [email protected]

Tolga Soyata
College of Engineering and Applied Sciences
Associate Professor
Department: https://www.albany.edu/computerengineering
Expert in the following:
Cyber physical systems; digital health; GPU-based high-performance computing
Campus phone: (585) 764-8043
Campus email: [email protected]

Tomek Strzalkowski
College of Engineering and Applied Sciences
Professor
Department: Computer Science
Expert in the following:
Information intelligence; tracking information about terrorists
Campus phone: (518) 442-2608
Campus email: [email protected]

Mariya Zheleva
College of Engineering and Applied Sciences
Assistant Professor
Department: Computer Science
Expert in the following:
Wireless networks for infrastructure-challenged regions; wireless network monitoring; text messaging; cellular networks; network connectivity; smart phones
Campus phone: (518) 437-4941
Campus email: [email protected]

Daphney-Stavroula Zois
College of Engineering and Applied Sciences
Assistant Professor
Department: https://www.albany.edu/computerengineering
Expert in the following:
E-health; Cyberbullying Detection; Intelligent Transportation; Smart and Connected Communities
Campus phone: (518) 442-5086
Campus email: [email protected]