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Kemper E. Lewis, PhD, MBA, and dean of UB’s School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, is a global leader in engineering design, system optimization and advanced manufacturing. Prior to being named dean, Lewis served as chair of UB's Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, where he was also the Moog Professor of Innovation.

Lewis is also the director of UB’s Community of Excellence in Sustainable Manufacturing and Advanced Robotic Technologies (SMART), an initiative that harnesses the strengths of faculty across the university to develop advanced manufacturing and design processes including autonomy, intelligence and materials technologies.

He is a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), and has served on the National Academies Panel on Benchmarking the Research Competitiveness of the United States in Mechanical Engineering. He has published over 200 refereed journal articles and conference proceedings and has been principal or co-principal investigator on grants totaling more than $33 million.

Active in the profession, Lewis chaired ASME’s Mechanical Engineering Department Head Executive Committee. He has received numerous awards in recognition of his teaching and research excellence from several professional societies, including ASME, the Society of Automotive Engineers, the American Society for Engineering Education, and the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics.

Lewis joined UB in 1996. He earned a BS in mechanical engineering and a BA in mathematics from Duke ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½, his MS and PhD in mechanical engineering from Georgia Tech, and an MBA from UB.

Jonathan Bird joined the faculty of the UB Department of Electrical Engineering as Professor in Fall 2004. Prior to this, he obtained his BSc (First-Class Honors) and PhD degrees in Physics from the ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½ of Sussex (United Kingdom), in 1986 and 1990, respectively. He was a JSPS visiting fellow at the ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½ of Tsukuba (Japan) from 1991 - 1992, after which he joined the Frontier Research Program of the Institute of Physical and Chemical Research (RIKEN, also in Japan). In 1997, he was appointed as Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at Arizona State ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½, where he spent seven years before joining UB. Prof. Bird's research is in the area of nanoelectronics. He is the co-author of nearly 300 peer reviewed publications as well as of undergraduate and graduate textbooks.

Venu Govindaraju, VP for Research and Economic Development and SUNY Distinguished Professor, is also the founding director of the Center for Unified Biometrics and Sensors of Computer Science and Engineering at the State ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½ of New York (SUNY) at Buffalo. He received his Bachelor’s degree with honors from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur in 1986, and his Ph.D. from SUNY Buffalo in 1992.

A recognized authority in the field of Pattern Recognition, Govindaraju has received peer honors such as the IAPR/ICDAR Outstanding Achievements (2015), Distinguished Alumnus Award from IIT Kharagpur (2014), the IEEE Technical Achievement Award (2010), MIT Global Indus Technovator Award (2004), and fellowships from the major professional societies such as AAAS, ACM, IAPR, IEEE, and the SPIE. He is a member of the National Academy of Inventors (2015).

Govindaraju is credited with major conceptual and practical advances in this area with six books and over 425 refereed publications. He has served on the editorial boards of several premier journals including the most prestigious IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence and has been the Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Biometrics Council Compendium. Recently he served as the president of the IEEE Biometrics Council positioning it for consideration of a full fledged IEEE Technical Society.

Govindaraju has graduated 37 doctoral students as their major advisor and was recently awarded the ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½’s “Excellence in Graduate Student Mentoring Award (2017)”. He has given over a hundred invited talks, keynotes, plenaries and seminars, at prestigious venues including influential think tanks such as the Science and Technology Investment committee of the National Academy of Sciences.

Govindaraju has had active and continuous sponsorship from the National Science Foundation for the past 15 years (2002-17) and a career total of nearly $70M of sponsored funding as a Principal or Co-Principal Investigator from several federal and state agencies and industry. His annual research expenditures are consistently over $1.5M, making him a top performer at UB.

Govindaraju is the Chief Research Officer at UB with an annual operating budget of $35M and over 100 staff members reporting to the Office of the Vice President of Research and Economic Development. He sits on the President’s cabinet as well as the Provost’s cabinet and is responsible for managing UB’s research enterprise, including supporting scholarly excellence, creating collaborations, ensuring compliance in a regulatory environment, and oversees programs that contribute to regional job growth and a diversified economy in the Western New York region.

Laura Schelhas received her doctorate in chemistry from the ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½ of California, Los Angeles in 2013, where she studied the influence of nanoscale architecture on the materials properties in magnetic and magnetoelectric materials. In 2014, she accepted a postdoctoral position at the Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory using in-situ and operando methods to study both the formation and degradation of optoelectronic materials. She became staff in the Applied Energy Division in 2016 and served as the deputy director of the division and the group leader for the Grid Integration, Systems & Mobility (GISMo) Lab before taking her group manager position at NREL. Her current research interests are focused on the intersection between photovoltaic reliability, emerging new technologies, and materials characterization.

Matthew Lumb founded Polaris Semiconductor in 2018 after spending over a decade leading optoelectronic device R&D programs in a joint role with the US Naval Research Laboratory and The George Washington ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½. Dr. Lumb is the sole inventor of Polaris Semiconductor’s innovative voltage regulator architecture and leads the commercialization of the technology. He founded Polaris Semiconductor after he was awarded first prize in the 2019 GW Pitch Competition, with the goal of developing devices capable of meeting the needs of even the most demanding applications.

Seth Hubbard is currently a Professor of Microsystem Engineering and Physics at the Rochester Institute of Technology as well as serving as Director of the NanoPower Research Laboratory. Dr. Hubbard currently leads a team of undergraduate and graduate students and research staff working on the epitaxial growth, fabrication and characterization of nanostructured solar photovoltaic devices. He has received over $10M in funded external research related to photovoltaic device development, has authored or co-authored over 170 journal and conference publications on electronic and photovoltaic devices and received an NSF CAREER Award as well as the RIT Trustee Scholarship Award. Dr. Hubbard serves as an Editor of the IEEE Journal of Photovoltaics and is actively involved in the organization of the IEEE Photovoltaics Specialists Conference.  He has been the advisor to 6 post-doctoral fellows, 7 PhD graduates and over 15 MS students. Prof. Hubbard received his PhD in Electrical Engineering from The ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½ of Michigan under Prof. Dimitris Pavlidis studying the effects of materials properties and epitaxial device design on high power GaN and AlGaN heterojunction field effect transistors grown using vapor phase epitaxy.

Professor Sellers research focuses on the development and investigation of novel quantum-engineered material and devices for next generation photovoltaics. Specific programs involve hot carrier dynamics in III-V and perovskite systems, defect formation and stability of thin-film CIGS and perovskites solar cells, as well as their suitability for deep space power applications.

Thomay is an experimental physicist specializing in solid-state quantum light emitters, ultrafast excitonic dynamics, and fiber integration of quantum detectors and sources. He is an assistant professor in the Physics Department at the State ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½ of New York at Buffalo. He studied physics in Konstanz, Germany, with research stints in Rio de Janeiro under Dr. Elisa Baggio-Saitovitch and in Vienna, Austria. After completing his master’s and PhD in Konstanz, focusing on ultrafast spectroscopy and nanofabrication, he held a postdoctoral fellowship at NIST, studying quantum optical properties of III-VI quantum dots for quantum communication. He later worked as a research scientist in SUNY Buffalo’s Electrical Engineering Department before joining the Physics faculty. 

Zheng joined the faculty of the UB Department of Electrical Engineering in Spring 2020 as SUNY Empire Innovation Professor. He had been the faculty of the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering at Florida A&M ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½ and Florida State ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½ from 1997 to 2020, as Associate Professor, Professor, and Sprint Eminent Scholar Chair Professor. Prior to this, he had been worked at Army Research Laboratory from 1992 to 1997. He is the recipient of National Academy of Inventors Fellow, IEEE Fellow, National Research Council Fellow, Army Research & Development Achievement Award, NASA Faculty Research Award, and Progress Energy Professional Development Award. He has published more than 200 articles in scholarly journals, and 150 papers in conference proceedings in the fields of energy storage, fuel cells, nano-sensors, photonics, and thin film growth, and been awarded 26 patents, and 5 patents have been licensed by private companies

Professor Mi's group is focused on the investigation of (ultra)wide bandgap semiconductors and their applications in electronic, photonic, clean energy, and quantum devices and systems. My primary research areas include: Epitaxial growth and fundamental properties of semiconductor heterostructures and nanostructures; III-nitride materials and devices, including the emerging ferroelectric nitrides; Light emitting diodes, lasers, and UV photonics; Quantum Photonics; Artificial photosynthesis, solar fuels and clean energy.

Sudip K. Mazumder is a UIC Distinguished Professor and Robert Uyetani Professor of Engineering in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½ of Illinois Chicago (UIC) and is the Director of Laboratory for Energy and Switching-Electronics Systems (LESES). He has over 30 years of professional experience and has held R&D and design positions in leading industrial organizations and has served as Technical Consultant for several industries. He also serves as the President of , a small business organization that he setup in 2008.

He received his PhD degree from Virginia Tech in 2001 and the MS degree from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) in 1993. At Virginia Tech, he conducted his Doctoral work under the joint supervision of Prof. Dushan Boroyevich, a Member of U.S. National Academy of Engineering, and a renowned leader in power electronics, and Prof. Ali H. Nayfeh, regarded as the most influential scholar and scientist in the area of applied nonlinear dynamics in mechanics and engineering. 

Robert J. Nemanich received his bachelor's and master's degrees in physics at Northern Illinois ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½ before continuing on to obtain his doctorate at the ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½ of Chicago. He joined North Carolina State ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½’s faculty and remained there for nearly 20 years before joining Arizona State ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½ as a professor for the Department of Physics in 2006. ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½ aside, Professor Nemanich is also heavily involved the fields of research including: diamond and other wide bandgap semiconductors, nanostructures, semiconductor surface processing, heteroepitaxy on Si, silicide formation, Raman scattering and surface science.

Professor Singisetti's research group explores novel electronic devices for high speed circuits, low power logic, and next generation power electronics applications. Please explore more about the research, people and facilities in the group going through the side links, and feel free to contact us if you have any questions about the group.

Jung-Hun Seo received his B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from Korea ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½, Seoul, South Korea, in 2006. He received his MS and PhD degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½ of Wisconsin–Madison in 2011 and 2014, respectively. In 2016, he joined the faculty of the ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½, SUNY, as an assistant professor in the Department of Materials Design and Innovation and was promoted to associate professor in 2022. His current research focuses on carbon materials and their micro-/nano-fabrication for device applications. He is the author or co-author of over 200 peer-reviewed technical papers and book chapters related to his research and holds more than 20 U.S. and international patents.

Professor Mazumder's research group focuses on understanding the atomic-level structural chemistry using atom probe tomography (APT). The material features the group probes include direct 3D visualization of atoms within the analyzed material structures, accurate stoichiometry, confident detection/quantification of impurity or trace elements, small precipitates within the buried hetero-structures and interfacial roughness/abruptness. The unique strength of the group involves employing machine learning (ML) on APT data to extract patterns and link it to known material features. This enables predicting different materials’ properties beyond the capabilities of conventional APT analysis. The rare combination of APT–ML in the group is helping the materials science community to understand and develop wide range of novel material systems including wide bandgap semiconductors, ceramics, quantum materials and many more.

Shriram Ramanathan is the inaugural Rodkin-Weintraub Chair in Engineering in the College of Engineering at Rutgers ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½. Previously, he has served as a faculty member at Purdue ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½ (School of Engineering, MSE, ECE (Courtesy) and Harvard ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½ (Applied Physics, SEAS) and as a member of research staff at Components Research, Intel. Ramanathan serves as an editor / editorial board member for various journals publishing in physical sciences, is a member of the Board of Visitors for Massachusetts Institute of Technology Corporation, and has co-organized numerous symposia for organizations such as Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Materials Research Society, American Physical Society.

Adam received a PhD degree in electrical and computer engineering in Dmitri Strukov's group and a M.A. degree in teaching and learning from the ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½ of California, Santa Barbara in 2015. She was a research scientist with the National Institute for R&D in Microtechnologies (IMT Bucharest) and a visiting scholar at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL). Amongst her scientific achievements are the first demonstration of a stacked RRAM crossbar with 4 bit precision, high yield functional integration of stacked RRAM onto foundry CMOS and the first perceptron network implemented in monolithically integrated RRAM crossbars. Her honors include the International Fulbright Science and Technology award (2010), the Mirzayan fellowship at the U.S. National Academy of Engineering (2012), the Marie Sklodowska Curie individual fellowship from the European Commission (2016), the AFOSR Young Investigator Program Award (2023), the NSF CAREER award (2023) and the DOE Early Career Research Program award (2024). She also received the GW Engineering Outstanding Early Career Teaching Award (2022), the GW-wide Morton A. Bender Teaching Award (2023), the Northeastern Association of Graduate Schools Doctoral-level Teaching Award (2024) and the IEEE HKN C. Holmes MacDonald Outstanding Teaching Award (2024).

Yingying Wu is a postdoctoral associate and a postdoctoral fellow in CIQM at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She earned her PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½ of California, Los Angeles in 2020. Prior to that, she received her MPhil degree from the Hong Kong ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½ of Science and Technology and a Bachelor’s degree from Nanjing ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½. Her research interests focus on exploring emerging quantum materials and devices for nanoelectronics.

As dimensions of materials cross over fundamental length scales, new physics emerge. We are interested in understanding fundamental spin and magnetic phenomena in materials at reduced dimensions, such as 2D thin films, 1D nanowires and 0D nanocrystals. We grow these materials using both chemical solution phase synthesis, and physical and chemical vapor deposition techniques. Doping, alloying and heterostructures are exploited to modify the properties of the host materials. We use magnetic, charge transport and magneto-optical probes to study the physical properties of these materials.  Presently, the topics of our research include: studying magnetism in atomically thin layers; developing novel 2D magnets and their heterostructures; developing novel magnetic nanoparticles for biomedical applications such as imaging and magnetic hyperthermia.

We are also interested in the design and development of novel materials for energy applications. Our experimental work is guided by first principles theory and materials informatics. Presently our project is focused on developing chalcogenide perovskites, an emerging class of unconventional ionic

Ganapathy's experimental research group studies physical properties of low dimensional condensed matter systems. They use advanced nanofabrication techniques combined with controlled sample growth to design and develop sub-micron devices. These devices will be used to explore microscopic mechanisms that influence and/or dictate the fundamental physical properties at the nanometer scale level.

His group explores electron transport in oxide nanowire FETs, nanotubes, 2D semiconductors, and other atomic layers under extreme physical conditions: ultra low temperatures (10 mK), high magnetic fields (16 T) and a.c. electric fields (~GHz). Some of his physics interests include metal-insulator transitions, noise spectroscopy near phase transitions, superconductor-insulator transition, microwave spectroscopy to study collective phases in 2D materials etc. 

Quanxi Jia is a SUNY Distinguished Professor, an Empire Innovation Professor, and a National Grid Professor of Materials Research. He is also the Scientific Director of UB’s New York State Center of Excellence in Materials Informatics (CMI). Prior to joining UB in Fall 2016, Jia was the Director of the Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies, a DOE Nanoscale Science Research Center operated jointly by Los Alamos and Sandia National Laboratories. He has authored/co-authored over 500 peer-reviewed journal articles and holds 50 U.S. patents. He is an elected Fellow of the Los Alamos National Laboratory, the Materials Research Society (MRS), the American Physical Society (APS), the American Ceramic Society (ACerS), the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), and the National Academy of Inventors (NAI).