New UB Faculty Research Interests (2003)



NAME

DEPARTMENT

RESEARCH ACTIVITIES
ARCHITECTURE
Daniel Hess Urban and Regional Planning Dr. Daniel B. Hess’ scholarship focuses on the built environment, land use, and the spatial distribution of people and places. Central to his research agenda is interpreting how the built environment of cities (and the public policies that support this form) influences travel behavior.An important part of Dr. Hess’ applied research has been the examination of campus transportation policies and employer-sponsored transportation incentives and subsidies.
Kelly Patterson Urban and Regional Planning  
Robert Silverman Urban and Regional Planning Dr. Silverman's research focuses on urban studies, community development, and housing. In particular, he studies community-based organizations, citizen participation, and fair lending.
ARTS AND SCIENCES
Eytan Agmon Music Theory and analysis of tonal music, with special emphasis on the theory of diatonicism and chromaticism, harmony, chromatic harmony, and harmonic hierarchy. My research in these areas involves mathematical tools, mainly number theory, graph theory, and algebra.
Richelle Allen -King Geology  
Jochen Autschbach Chemistry Dr. Autschbach's research interests are theory and computation of magnetic properties of molecules, in particular NMR chemical shifts and spin-spin coupling constants, optical activity (circular dichroism, optical rotation), the computation of properties of transition metal complexes, density functional theory, and relativistic quantum chemistry.
Sylvie Bélanger Art Sylvie Bélanger’s artwork uses photography, video, audio and computer imaging to explore the tension between representation and presentation. She investigates the margins between the absence and the presence of the body and, the constant transformations that affect our understanding of personal, cultural and social identities.
Sean Bennett Geography  
Jürgen Bohnemeyer Linguistics  
Serguey Braguinsky Economics  
Neil Coffee Classics  
James Currie Music Dr. Currie's work is highly interdisciplinary in orientation and is centered on two repetoires, the Vienese Classical Style of Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven (C. 1770-1830), and the early twentieth-century Second Viennese School (Schoenberg, Berg, Webern).Primarily, his work is concerned with using a hermeneutic combination of intellectual history, cultural studies, and music analysis, in order to negotiate certain questions of ethical and political philosophy.  Thus, through an interpretation of the famous slow movement (the Heiliger Dankgesang) of Beethoven’s String Quartet Op. 132, he is presently articulating problems encountered in relating the politics of difference with notions of productive political dialogue.
Charles Finocchiaro Political Science  
Robert Granfield Sociology  
Jacob Greenberg Music  
Michelle Gregory Linguistics  
Donald Grinde Center for the Americas Native American history, U.S. American Indian
Policy since 1871, Iroquois history and Environmental history.
Jong Han Physics  
Kiong Ho Biological Sciences  
Gregg Johnson Political Science  
William Kinney Physics  
Mingliang Li Economics Dr. Li's major interests include econometrics, economics of education, labor economics and applied microeconomics.
D. Scott Mackay Geography Dr. Mackay's interests lie at the interface between hydrology and terrestrial ecology, in natural and human-impacted watersheds.  His research focuses on understanding the processes that determine spatial variability of evatranspiration, carbon sequestion, and nutrients transport pathways.This research is directly relevant to global change and water quality issues.
Nathan Matthews Theatre and Dance Dr. Matthews work involves teaching, preparing and performing music theatre.  He is an orchestra conductor, pianist, composer, arranger and vocal coach and has interest in sung music on the theatre stage from opera to Broadway.
Christina Milletti English  
Elizabeth Otto Art History Dr. Otto's work examines photomontage and the political, cultural and gendered valences of images of bodily fragmentation in interwar Germany. Other research interests include the relationship between popular and avant-garde visual cultures from the nineteenth century to the present, gendered neoclassicism and French cubism, and the history of photography. Otto has also worked extensively in museums and is currently curating "Marianne Brandt: Photomontage" at the Bauhaus-Archiv in Berlin.
David Pape Media Study  
Jennifer Read Psychology  
Justin Read Romance Languages & Literatures  
Linda Reisman Media Study  
Andreas Rosenschon Mathematics  
Stephanie Rothenberg Art  
Peter Schmelz Music Dr. Schmelz's research areas include Russian, Soviet, and post-Soviet music, and questions of music and politics and music and society, particularly during the 1950s and 1960s.Others areas of interest include twentieth-century art music, opera in the twentieth century, ethnographic approaches to writing about recent music, music historiography, and American music, including jazz.
Narushige Shiode Geography  
Kenneth Shockley Philosophy  
Leonard Simms Psychology Dr. Simms' personal research program has evolved to encompass an overarching interest in measurement of and theory related to personality and psychopathology. More specifically, he is interested in applied and basic psychological assessment, dimensional models of personality measurement, and computerized adaptive testing.Most recently, he has been involved in the development and validation of a trait measure of personality pathology and in studying structural relationships among dimensions underlying depression and posttraumatic stress disorder.
Robert Wagmiller, Jr. Sociology Dr. Wagmiller's primary interest is in issues related to urban sociology and social stratification, in particular, the effect of crime on the structure of urban labor markets and the spatial distribution of poverty and joblessness.  In addition to these substantive interests, he maintains a strong interest in survey research methods (especially, survey sampling) and longitudinal data analysis techniques (specifically, multi-level growth models, latent growth curve models, and mixture growth models).
Scott Wersinger Psychology  
Kari Winter Center for the Americas  
Ewa Ziarek Comparative Litterature  
Krzysztof Ziarek Comparative Litterature  
DENTAL MEDICINE
Hiran Perinpanayagam Periodontics and Endodontics Dr. Visentin specializes in Clinical Pathology with a strong scientific research foundation in: biochemistry, hematology, immunology, immunohematology, blood banking, and analytical chemistry. He has a particularly strong expertise (theoretical and hands-on experience) in assays development, protein purification and expression in the fields of clinical laboratory, oncology, hematology, infectious diseases, neurodegeneration, preventive medicine, and transfusion medicine
M. Margaret Vickerman Periodontics and Endodontics  
EDUCATION
Vladimir Ageyev Learning and Instruction  
Patricia Chiodo Learning and Instruction  
Scott DeWitt Learning and Instruction  
Gloria Lee Counseling, School & Educational Psychology Dr. Lee's recently completed dissertation was on psychosocial aspects of pain and depression. She would continue along this line of research in the area of pain and depression. More specifically, she   foresees doing research on the areas of assessment, conceptualization, coping strategies of chronic pain; outcome measures in relation to chronic pain, e.g., quality of life, vocational outcome.
Deborah Moore-Russo Learning and Instruction "Interests include integration of literature and science in mathematics edcuation. She also studies the use of manipulatives in the teaching of school and undergraduate mathematics."
Marcia Roe Educational Leadership & Policy Dr. Roe's scholarly interests are in college student success, with emphasison students' perspectives and experiences. Her research focuses on:self-defined college student success (including patterns of success definitions among various groups of students and a conceptual model of influences on self-defined success); students' strategies for success during college; and effective approaches to facilitating student success.
Xiaohui Christine Wang Learning and Instruction Dr. Wang's primary research interest is in issues related to early childhood education and technology, particularly, young children's collaboration and learning in technology-rich environments. In addition, she is interested in a video-based methodology for analyzing construction of collaborative space.
ENGINEERING
Ismael Defarias Industrial Engineering  
Andre Filliatrault Civil, Structural & Environmental Engrg.  
Daniel Fischer Computer Science & Engineering  
Abhijit Gosavi Industrial Engineering Dr. Gosavi's research interests include reinforcement learning, simulation-based optimization, airline systems, production systems, pollution control, and engineering metrology.
Vladimir Mitin Electrical Engineering Dr. Mitin's expertise isin the area of numerical simulations and
modeling of lasers based on low dimensional semiconductor structures,multi-terminal lasers, high-frequency devices and thyristors, and infrared photodetectors. Recently he was actively involved in the investigation of details of electron-phonon interaction in low dimensional structures. Current emphasize is on structures with heterointerfacesbetween organic and inorganic materials, terahertz generators and detectors, and high sensitive nano-detectors.
Xin Wang Computer Science & Engineering I am an assistant professor of the department of Computer Science and Engineering. My area is: Wireless Networking and Mobile Computing, Internet Technologies, and Multimedia Systems.
Guizhen Yang Computer Science & Engineering Dr. Guizhen Yang's research covers practical as well as theoretical aspects of data and knowledge management. His past and current research work spans from Databases to Artificial Intelligence to Programming Languages. His most recent research effort is focused on mining structured data from hypertext Web documents and developing knowledge representation and inference infrastructure for the Semantic Web.
INFORMATICS
Thomas Feeley Communication  
Stephen Paling Library & Information Studies Dr. Paling's scholarly interests include the use of information technology in the organization, publication, and retrieval of information. He is currently finishing a study on the use of online technology by publishers of small literary magazines.
Silvia Southwick Library & Information Studies  
MANAGEMENT
Alicia Boisnier Organization and Human Resources  
Joon Chae Finance and Managerial Economics Dr. Chae's teaching and research interests are in asset pricing and market microstructure, especially, about trading volume under information asymmetry, roles of dealers in a financial market, and sources of momentum profits.
David Cho Finance and Managerial Economics  
Troy Janes Accounting and Law  
Emad Mohd Accounting and Law Dr. Mohd's expertise lies in various aspects of financial accounting, financial reporting and financial statement analysis, as well as incentives of financial analysts and accounting choices.
Andrei Strijnev Marketing  
Charles Wang Management Science and Systems  
MEDICINE
Richard Blondell Family Medicine Dr. Blondell is a family physician who specializes in Addiction Medicine. He has a particular interest in the medical and surgical problems associated with alcohol and drug abuse. He currently studies ways to improve alcohol and drug detoxification treatments and the use of peer counselors as a cost-effective way to improve patient outcomes.
Sandra Block Neurology  
Gregory Cherr Surgery Dr. Cherr is interested in outcomes research for patients with non-cardiac vascular disease, including primary and secondary prevention of atherosclerotic events in this patient population.  His particular focus is on patients with premature atherosclerosis.
Aidnag Diaz Radiation Oncology  
Michael Ferrick Orthopaedics  
Federico Gonzales-Fernandez Ophthalmology  
Reed Graves Medicine  
Celeste Hollands Surgery I am a pediatric surgeon who does research involving minimally invasive surgery including the use of robotics in surgery. I also have interests and project proposals under review that include surgical simulation, haptics, and virtual reality as related to teaching and performing surgery.
Alastair Hutchison Pediatrics  
David Martinke Family Medicine  
Vaddarse Nagaraja Pediatrics  
James Schwartz Medicine  
Michael Sitrin Medicine  
Donald Trump Medicine  
Gian Paolo Visentin Pediatrics Dr. Visentin, M.D. specialized in Clinical Pathology with a strong scientific research foundation in: biochemistry, hematology, immunology, immunohematology, blood banking, and analytical chemistry. He has a particularly strong expertise (theoretical and hands-on experience) in assays development, protein purification and expression in the fields of clinical laboratory, oncology, hematology, infectious diseases, neurodegeneration, preventive medicine, and transfusion medicine.
James Waxmonsky Psychiatry Dr. Waxmonsky's research interests are in the treatment of children with ADHD and comorbid mood disorders as well as the pharmacological management of pediatric mania. He is specifically interested in the efficacy of stimulant medications in such children. He works mostly with Dr. Pelham’s group. Clinically, his expertise is in general pediatric psychopharmacology as well as the specialty treatment of pediatric mania and pediatric and adult ADHD.
Rutao Yao Nuclear Medicine Dr. Yao specialized in radiation detection instrumentation and nuclear medical imaging technology.  Current interests are developing effective data correction and image reconstruction methods for positron emission tomography (PET) and establishing a small animal PET facility for functional imaging research.
NURSING
Mary Adams Nursing Dr. Adams’ professional career includes 15 years of experience in critical care. Her initial research focused on the effects of non-physiological factors on the electrocardiogram (ECG). Currently, she is developing a program of research focusing on clinical electrocardiography and evaluation of strategies to improve cardiac arrhythmia and ischemia monitoring.
Mary Ann Meeker Nursing "My research interests are in end of life care and decision-making, including patient decision-making and issues related to advance directives, and family decision-making. I am currently working on a prospective study of family surrogate decision-making in situations of advanced illness. "
PHARMACY
Javier Blanco Pharmaceutical Sciences "Research interests involve the pharmacodynamics and pharmacogenetics of anticancer therapies with a focus on hematological malignancies such as acute myeloid leukemia and multiple myeloma. "
PUBLIC HEALTH
Randolph Carter Biostatistics Dr. Carter's interests include biostatistics, statistics, maternal and child health, and radiation effects.He has published in the areas of longitudinal data analysis, measurement error models, perinatal risk assessment, longterm morbidity and educational disability, and cancer epidemiology.
Yulan Liang Biostatistics Statistical Genetics/Genomics (including microrarray-gene expression, association study, linkage analysis and QTL) and Bioinformatics; Statistical Learning and Pattern Recognition; Neural Networks, Data Mining and Maching Learning; Multivariate Analysis, Bayesian Risk Analysis, Statistical Computing and Simulation, Time Series Analysis; Decision-Making and Optimization for data intensive mathematical modeling, reasoning and Meta Analysis.
Greg Wilding Biostatistics  


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