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  • Portrait of Nathalia Andrade.
    12/2/24

    Nathalia Andrade

    Clinical Assistant Professor of Periodontics and Endodontics

    Expertise: digital dentistry; oral medicine; periodontics and artificial intelligence, including leveraging AI to enhance oral diagnosis, surgeries and genomic data analysis

    Phone: 716-829-6185

    Email: andradnp@buffalo.edu

  • Head shot of Mark Bartholomew.
    12/7/23

    Mark Bartholomew

    Professor of Law

    Expertise: intellectual property, copyright, trademarks, cyber law, artificial intelligence and copyright law, cybersecurity bills, net neutrality, advertising law

    Phone: 716-645-5959

    Email: bartholo@buffalo.edu

  • Head shot of David Castillo.
    10/4/24

    David Castillo

    Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures

    Expertise: early modern culture, Baroque literature, horror and fantasy, new media and culture, AI and the humanities

    Phone: 716-645-0869

    Email: dc63@buffalo.edu

  • Portrait of Souma Chowdhury.
    12/3/24

    Souma Chowdhury

    Associate Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

    Expertise: swarm robotics, nature-inspired computing, autonomous vehicles and autonomous systems, artificial intelligence and machine learning

    Phone: 716-645-3095

    Email: soumacho@buffalo.edu

  • Portrait of Karthik Dantu.
    10/28/24

    Karthik Dantu

    Associate Professor of Computer Science and Engineering

    Expertise: robotics, artificial intelligence, unmanned aerial vehicles, autonomous driving, augmented and virtual reality

    Phone: 716-645-2670

    Email: kdantu@buffalo.edu

  • Head shot of David Doermann, ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½ faculty expert on artificial intelligence.
    10/15/24

    David Doermann

    SUNY Empire Innovation Professor of Computer Science and Engineering

    Expertise: artificial intelligence, pattern recognition, machine learning, deep learning, computer vision, image analysis and recognition, document analysis, media forensics

    Phone: 716-645-1557

    Email: doermann@buffalo.edu

  • Portrait of Mingchen Gao.
    10/28/24

    Mingchen Gao

    Associate Professor of Computer Science and Engineering

    Expertise: artificial intelligence, including computer vision and machine learning; AI-powered medical imaging

    Phone: 716-645-2834

    Email: mgao8@buffalo.edu

  • Portrait of Venu Govindaraju.
    1/5/24

    Venu Govindaraju

    Vice President for Research and Economic Development

    Expertise: artificial intelligence, including document analysis recognition, machine learning, pattern recognition, biometrics and generative AI

    Phone: 716-645-3321

    Email: govind@buffalo.edu

  • 2/14/25

    Christopher Hoadley

    Director of the UB Institute for Learning Sciences

    Expertise: technology and education, computer science education, educational technology, human computer interaction, learning sciences, AI in education

    Phone: 716-645-7787

    Email: tophe@buffalo.edu

  • Head shot of Yingjie Hu, ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½ faculty expert on GIScience and data mining.
    12/30/24

    Yingjie Hu

    Associate Professor of Geography

    Expertise: GIScience, spatial analysis, natural language processing, artificial intelligence, machine learning, data mining, big data

    Phone: 716-645-1820

    Email: yhu42@buffalo.edu

  • Portrait of Kenneth Joseph, ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½ computing for social good expert.
    3/29/24

    Kenneth Joseph

    Associate Professor of Computer Science and Engineering

    Expertise: computing for social good; societal impacts of social media and online platforms (including in news and politics); inequality and societal divides; artificial intelligence

    Phone: 716-645-0682

    Email: kjoseph@buffalo.edu

  • Head shot of Heidi Julien.
    12/7/23

    Heidi Julien

    Professor of Information Science

    Expertise: digital literacy, information literacy, information behavior, information practice

    Phone: 716-645-1474

    Email: heidijul@buffalo.edu

  • Portrait of Siwei Lyu, ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½ deepfakes, digital media forensics and computer vision expert.
    1/26/24

    Siwei Lyu

    SUNY Empire Innovation Professor of Computer Science and Engineering

    Expertise: digital media forensics, deepfakes, computer vision, machine learning, art authentication

    Phone: 716-645-1587

    Email: siweilyu@buffalo.edu

  • Portrait of Joanne Song McLaughlin, ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½ labor economics and age discrimination expert.
    10/26/23

    Joanne Song McLaughlin

    Associate Professor of Economics

    Expertise: labor economics; health insurance mandates; age discrimination; older workers; AI and the future of work

    Phone: 716-645-8685

    Email: jsmclaug@buffalo.edu

  • Portrait of Ifeoma Nwogu.
    3/20/24

    Ifeoma Nwogu

    Associate Professor of Computer Science and Engineering

    Expertise: artificial intelligence, including machine learning and human behavior; computer vision and facial expressions, and gestures and sign languages

    Phone: 716-645-1588

    Email: inwogu@buffalo.edu

  • Head shot of Yotam Ophir, ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½ media effects and health, science and political communication expert.
    9/23/24

    Yotam Ophir

    Associate Professor of Communication

    Expertise: misinformation; persuasion; effect of media content on audiences, including in health, science, politics and terrorism

    Phone: 716-645-1158

    Email: yotamoph@buffalo.edu

  • Dominic Sellitto.
    10/26/23

    Dominic Sellitto

    Clinical Assistant Professor of Management Science and Systems

    Expertise: cybersecurity; data breaches; data privacy and security regulations; ethical data usage; cyberwarfare; artificial intelligence and its interplays with cybersecurity; data analytics; health care analytics; automation technologies

    Contact: Dominic Sellitto can be reached most quickly through Jackie Ghosen in the School of Management Communications Office at 716-645-2833 or mgt-pr@buffalo.edu.

  • Portrait of Rohini Srihari, ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½ artificial intelligence and natural language processing expert.
    12/7/23

    Rohini Srihari

    Professor of Computer Science and Engineering

    Expertise: natural language processing, artificial intelligence, social bots, virtual assistants (Alexa, Siri), chatbots, social media mining, multilingual text mining, search

    Phone: 716-645-1602

    Email: rohini@buffalo.edu

  • Head shot of John E. Tomaszewski, ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½ pathology and clinical laboratory testing expert.
    10/26/23

    John E. Tomaszewski

    SUNY Distinguished Professor and Peter A. Nickerson, PhD, Chair of Pathology and Anatomical Sciences

    Expertise: clinical laboratory testing; COVID-19 testing; renal, immunological and urological pathology; digital and computational pathology; kidney disease; anatomical gifts

    Phone: 716-829-2846

    Email: johntoma@buffalo.edu. Tomaszewski can also be reached through Ellen Goldbaum in ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½ Communications at 716-645-4605 or goldbaum@buffalo.edu, or Douglas Sitler in ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½ Communications at 716-645-9069 or drsitler@buffalo.edu.

  • Head shot of Peter Winkelstein, ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½ faculty expert on electronic health records.
    11/22/24

    Peter Winkelstein

    Executive Director of the Institute for Healthcare Informatics

    Expertise: electronic health/medical records; medical informatics; ethics and informatics; computer modeling; AI in health care

    Phone: 716-881-7546. Winkelstein can also be reached through Ellen Goldbaum in ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½ Communications at 716-645-4605 or goldbaum@buffalo.edu, or Douglas Sitler in ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½ Communications at 716-645-9069 or drsitler@buffalo.edu.

    Email: pwink@buffalo.edu

  • Portrait of Jinjun Xiong.
    12/31/24

    Jinjun Xiong

    SUNY Empire Innovation Professor and Director of the UB Institute for Artificial Intelligence and Data Science

    Expertise: artificial intelligence; novel AI algorithms for computer vision, natural language processing and speech processing; optimizing software and hardware for AI

    Phone: 716-645-4760

    Email: jinjun@buffalo.edu