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Govind P. Agrawal

Agrawal, Govind P.

Dr. James C. Wyant Professor of Optics

Professor of Optics

Professor of Physics

Distinguished Scientist, Laboratory for Laser Energetics

Office Location
515 Goergen Hall
Telephone
(585) 275-4846
Web Address
Website

Interests: Fiber Optics; Lasers; Optical Communications

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Almudevar, Anthony

Associate Professor of Biostatistics and Computational Biology

Office Location
4168 Saunders Research Building
Telephone
(585) 275-6992
Web Address
Website

Interests: genetics; bioinformatics

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Anand, Ajay

Associate Professor

Deputy Director, Goergen Institute of Data Science

Office Location
1203 Wegmans Hall
Telephone
(585) 276-3149

Interests: Data analytics, machine learning, and deep learning for healthcare; Biomedical/ultrasound signal processing, biomedical instrumentation, predictive modeling, time-series analysis

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Zhen Bai

Bai, Zhen

Assistant Professor of Computer Science

Office Location
3007 Wegmans Hall
Telephone
(585) 275-7758
Web Address
Website

Interests: Human-Computer Interaction; Augmented Reality; Tangible User Interfaces; Embodied Conversational Agent; Technology-Enhanced Learning; Computer-Supported Collaborative Work; Assistive Technology; Machine Learning for HCI

Yasemin Basdogan

Basdogan, Yasemin

Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering

Office Location
4305 Wegmans Hall
Telephone
(585) 275-4584
Web Address
Website

Interests: Artificial Intelligence; Machine Learning; Molecular Dynamics Simulations; Quantum Chemistry; Computational Materials Design; Energy and Sustainability; Polymers, Solutions, Catalysis

Raffaella Borasi

Borasi, Raffaella

Frederica Warner Professor, Director Center for Learning in the Digital Age

Office Location
446 LeChase Hall
Telephone
(585) 484-0518
Web Address
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Mujdat Cetin

Cetin, Mujdat

Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Professor of Computer Science

Robin and Tim Wentworth Director, Goergen Institute for Data Science

Director, New York State Center of Excellence in Data Science

Office Location
1211 Wegmans Hall and 719 Computer Studies Building
Telephone
(585) 276-5061

Interests: computational sensing and imaging as applied to radar and biomedical imaging; probabilistic methods for image and video analysis as applied to biomedical image analysis, microscopic neuroimaging, and computer vision; signal processing and machine learning for brain-computer/machine interfaces, with applications for alternative communication and rehabilitation for patients and monitoring of cognitive states

Bin Chen

Chen, Bin

Associate Professor of Economics

Office Location
224 Harkness Hall
Telephone
(585) 275-5781
Web Address
Website

Interests: Econometric Theory; Financial Econometrics

Jean-Philippe Couderc

Couderc, Jean-Philippe

Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Professor, Department of Medicine, Cardiology Heart Research

Office Location
G11001C Medical Research Building
Telephone
(585) 275-1096
Web Address
Website

Interests: Physiological signal processing; Medical software design; Quantitative electrocardiograph; Clinical study design and implementation; Cardiac Safety

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Ray Dorsey

Dorsey, E. Ray

David M. Levy Professorship in Neurology

Director , Center for Human Experimental Therapeutics

Telephone
(585) 276-6824
Web Address
Website

Interests: Movement disorders, neurological disorders

Marvin Doyley

Doyley, Marvin

Wilson Professor of Electronic Imaging

Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Professor of Biomedical Engineering

Professor of Imaging Sciences (Radiology)

Chair, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Office Location
518 Chair Office / 621 Faculty Office Computer Studies Building
Telephone
(585) 275-3774
Web Address
Website

Interests: Therapeutic and diagnostic imaging using optical, magnetic resonance, and ultrasound imaging

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Dreisbach, Caitlin

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Assistant Professor

Office Location
HWH 2W211
Telephone
(585) 275-0336
Web Address
Website

Interests: The use of data science to make better clinical assessments during pregnancy; Co-creation of health care technologies with patients

Zhiyao Duan

Duan, Zhiyao

Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and of Computer Science

Office Location
720 Computer Studies Building
Telephone
(585) 275-5302
Web Address
Website

Interests: Computer Audition; Audio Signal Processing; Machine Learning; Music Information Retrieval

Sandhya Dwarkadas

Dwarkadas, Sandhya

Visiting Research Professor of Computer Science

Web Address
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Interests: Parallel and distributed computing; Computer architecture and networks; Interaction and interface between the compiler, runtime system, and underlying architecture; Software distributed shared memory; Integrated compiler and runtime support for parallelism; Simulation methodology; Uniprocessor and multiprocessor architectures; Parallel applications development; Performance evaluation

Timothy Dye

Dye, Timothy

Professor, Department of Pediatrics and Department of Public Health Sciences

Office Location
255 Crittenden Blvd.
Telephone
(585) 276-6953
Web Address
Website

Interests: Applied public health, particularly within marginalized, isolated, and global; Social and cultural determinants of health

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Ellickson, Paul

Professor of Economics and Marketing

Office Location
3-110F Carol Simon Hall
Telephone
(585) 273-1491
Web Address
Website

Interests: quantitative marketing; industrial organization

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Fay, Justin

Professor

Research Active

Now accepting:

PhD students

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Undergraduate researchers

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Office Location
319 Hutchison
Telephone
(585) 275-2998
Web Address
Website

Interests: Evolution of gene regulation; Comparative genomics and domestication; Disease consequences of human evolution

George Ferguson

Ferguson, George

Professor of Computer Science (Instruction) Co-Director Computer Science Undergraduate Program

Office Location
2103 Wegmans Hall
Web Address
Website

Interests: Artificial intelligence; Intelligent agents; Agent communication languages; Agent architectures; User interfaces: speech recognition, natural language understanding, dialogue, conversational agents; Temporal reasoning: representation, planning, scheduling; Semantic web: ontologies, knowledge-based systems

James R. Fienup

Fienup, James R.

Robert E. Hopkins Professor of Optics

Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Professor of Optics

Professor in the Center for Visual Science

Distinguished Scientist, Laboratory for Laser Energetics

Office Location
410 Wilmot Building
Telephone
(585) 275-8009
Web Address
Website

Interests: Phase retrieval; Wavefront Sensing; Image reconstruction and restoration; Unconventional imaging; Digital holography; Imaging with sparse apertures; Fourier optics; Synthetic-aperture radar

Adam Frank

Frank, Adam

Professor of Physics and Astronomy

Office Location
417A Bausch & Lomb Hall
Telephone
(585) 275-1717
Web Address
Website

Interests: Theoretical Astrophysics; Hydrodynamic and magneto-hydrodynamic evolution of matter ejected from stars; Jets from Young Stellar Objects; Bipolar outflows from evolved stars such as Planetary Nebulae and Massive stars; Large scale numerical simulations; Plasma astrophysical research; Magnetic diffusion in interstellar clouds and the evolution of solar magnetic flux tubes

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Gourab Ghoshal

Ghoshal, Gourab

Professor of Physics

Associate Professor of Computer Science

Office Location
464 Bausch & Lomb Hall
Telephone
(585) 276-7748
Web Address
Website

Interests: theoretical condensed-matter physics and data science

Daniel Gildea

Gildea, Daniel

Professor of Computer Science

Office Location
3019 Wegmans Hall
Telephone
(585) 275-7230
Web Address
Website

Interests: Machine translation; Semantic parsing; Algorithms for natural language processing

Scott Grimm

Grimm, Scott

he/him/his

Associate Professor and Chair of Linguistics

Director of Quantitative Semantics Lab

On leave for the 23-24 academic year

Office Location
512 Lattimore Hall
Web Address
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Ralf Haefner

Haefner, Ralf

Assistant Professor of Brain and Cognitive Sciences

Telephone
(585) 275-4801
Web Address
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Interests: Understanding how the brain forms percepts; Machine learning to construct mathematical models to explain neural responses and behavior

Hangfeng He

He, Hangfeng

Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Data Science

Office Location
3009 Wegmans Hall
Telephone
(585) 275-8848
Web Address
Website

Interests: Machine learning; Natural language processing; Reasoning

Elaine Hill

Hill, Elaine

Associate Professor, Department of Public Health Sciences

Office Location
265 Crittenden Blvd.
Telephone
(585) 275-0165
Web Address
Website

Interests: health impacts of pollution; health care utilization, quality and access; human capital formation

Ehsan Hoque

Hoque, Ehsan

Associate Professor of Computer Science

Office Location
3013 Wegmans Hall
Telephone
(585) 275-1351
Web Address
Website

Interests: Human Computer Interaction; Artificial Intelligence ; Interactive machine learning; Health and wellbeing; Future of skills

Kaave Hosseini

Hosseini, Kaave

Assistant Professor of Computer Science

Office Location
2507 Wegmans Hall
Web Address
Website

Interests: Theoretical computer science; Additive combinatorics; Pseudorandomness; Discrete Fourier analysis

Thomas M. Howard

Howard, Thomas M.

Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Office Location
732 Computer Studies Building
Telephone
(585) 275-3755

Interests: Artificial Intelligence; Robotics; Motion Planning; Human-Robot Interaction

Michael Huang

Huang, Michael

he/him/his

Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and of Computer Science

Office Location
414 Computer Studies Building
Telephone
(585) 275-2111
Web Address
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Interests: High-performance and energy-efficient computer microarchitecture; non-von Neumann computing; Ising machines

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Iordan, Marius Cătălin

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Assistant Professor, Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Neuroscience

Office Location
308 Meliora Hall
Web Address
Website

Interests: visual and semantic cognition; learning; attention; neuroplasticity; real-time fMRI; neurofeedback; machine learning; neural networks; data science

Alex Iosevich

Iosevich, Alex

Professor of Mathematics

Office Location
909 Hylan Building
Telephone
(585) 275-9419
Web Address
Website

Interests: Classical Analysis and Fourier Integral Operators; Geometric Combinatorics and Geometric Measure Theory; Additive and Analytic Number Theory; Convex Geometry and Probability Theory

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Robert Jacobs

Jacobs, Robert A.

Professor, Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Computer Science, and the Center for Visual Science

Office Location
306 Meliora Hall
Telephone
(585) 275-0753
Web Address
Website

Interests: cognitive and perceptual learning; neural computation

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Jones, Roy

Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine, Cardiology and Clinical Assistant Professor of Computers and Information Systems

Office Location
3-316 Carol Simon Hall
Telephone
(585) 275-3398

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Anson Kahng

Kahng, Anson

Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Data Science

Office Location
2401 Wegmans Hall
Web Address
Website

Interests: Computational social choice; Democracy and computer science; Economics and computation; Artificial intelligence; Theoretical computer science; Algorithmic game theory

Christopher Kanan

Kanan, Christopher

Associate Professor of Computer Science

Office Location
3017 Wegmans Hall
Web Address
Website

Interests: Artificial Intelligence; Deep Learning; Computer Vision; Cognitive Science; Applied Machine Learning (e.g. Medical Computer Vision)

Jian Kang

Kang, Jian

Assistant Professor of Computer Science

Office Location
3011 Wegmans Hall
Web Address
Website

Interests: Data mining; Computational social science; Uncertainty quantification; Algorithmic fairness; Trustworthy AI; Machine learning

Douglas H. Kelley

Kelley, Douglas H.

Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering

Staff Scientist, Laboratory for Laser Energetics (LLE)

Office Location
218 Hopeman
Web Address
Website

Interests: Fluid dynamics of the brain’s waste removal system; Mixing in the inner ear; Liquid metal batteries and grid-scale energy storage; Mixing in metals casting; Coherent structures in reactive mixing

Mayya Komisarchik

Komisarchik, Mayya

Assistant Professor of Political Science

Office Location
Meet on Zoom
Telephone
(585) 275-4291
Web Address
Website

Interests: Representation; voting rights; race and ethnic politics; policing; immigration; political incorporation

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Amanda Larracuente

Larracuente, Amanda

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Associate Professor

Associate Chair

Research Active

Now accepting:

PhD students

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Undergraduate researchers

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Office Location
343 Hutchison
Telephone
(585) 273-1693
Web Address
Website

Interests: Evolutionary genetics and genomics; Intragenomic conflict and the evolution of selfish DNA; Evolutionary and functional genomics of satellite DNA; Sex chromosome and dot chromosome evolution in Drosophila; Centromere organization and evolution

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Li, Dongmei

Professor, Department of Clinical and Translational Research, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Public Health Sciences

Office Location
1.265 Saunders Research Building
Telephone
(585) 276-7285
Web Address
Website

Interests: biostatistics; microarray data analysis; genomic data analysis especially in methylation and transcriptome data analysis; social media data analysis; public health

Xin Zhiguo Li

Li, Xin Zhiguo

Associate Professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics and Urology

Telephone
(585) 275-6576
Web Address
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Interests: Interdisciplinary approach that includes genetics, epigenetics, RNA biochemistry, reproductive biology, early embryology, and bioinformatics, and testing our findings across different model organisms including mammals and birds.

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Lovett, Mitchell J.

Associate Professor of Marketing

Office Location
3-208 Carol Simon Hall
Telephone
(585) 276-4020
Web Address
Website

Interests: quantitative marketing; targeted advertising; advertising content and schedule choices; online and offline word-of-mouth; branding; social media listening; consumer learning

Jiebo Luo

Luo, Jiebo

Albert Arendt Hopeman Professor of Engineering

Professor of Computer Science

Office Location
3101 Wegmans Hall
Telephone
(585) 276-5784
Web Address
Website

Interests: Computer Vision; Machine learning; Data Mining; Social Media; Biomedical Informatics; Human Computer Interaction; Ubiquitous and Mobile Computing

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Marcos, Susana

Nicholas George Endowed Professor in Optics

Professor of Optics and Ophthalmology

Professor in the Center for Visual Science

David R. Williams Director, Center for Visual Science

Office Location
G-4107 Medical Center
Telephone
(585) 276-6279
Web Address
Website
Gonzalo Mateos

Mateos, Gonzalo

Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Associate Professor of Computer Science

Asaro Biggar Family Fellow in Data Science

Office Location
726 Computer Studies Building
Telephone
(585) 275-5930
Web Address
Website

Interests: Statistical Signal Processing; Networks; Machine Learning; Decentralized Optimization; Graph Signal Processing

Matthew McCall

McCall, Matthew

Associate Professor of Biostatistics

Associate Director, Statistics PhD Program

Office Location
4143 Saunders Research Building
Telephone
(585) 273-3177
Web Address
Website

Interests: Statistical genomics; Systems biology; Bioinformatics

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McDavid, Andrew

Assistant Professor, Department of Biostatistics and Computational Biology

Office Location
601 Elmwood Ave, Box 630
Telephone
(585) 275-5983

Interests: Methods and applications of single cell gene expression assays

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McGregor, Juliette E.

Assistant Professor, Department of Ophthalmology

Office Location
601 Elmwood Ave, Box 659
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Mort, Brendan

Assistant Professor of Chemistry, Research

Director of the Center for Integrated Research and Computing

Office Location
418 Hutchison Hall
Telephone
(585) 275-8289

Interests: High performance computing; application of computing technology to chemistry and biology; computational chemistry algorithm development; molecular dynamics simulations, electronic structure theory

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Murray, Lee

Associate Professor

Office Location
479 Hutchison Hall
Telephone
(585) 275-2077
Web Address
Website

Interests: Application and development of 3-D global models of atmospheric chemistry and climate to examine various couplings between atmospheric chemistry and the climate system in the past, present and future.

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Olugboji, Tolulope

Assistant Professor

Office Location
224B Hutchison Hall
Telephone
(585) 276-6609
Web Address
Website

Interests: High-Resolution 3-D Earth Imaging using Seismology (Tomography, Receiver Functions, Ambient Noise Dispersion Analysis, Spectral Analysis, Model description); Application of Computational Statistics to Geophysics (Bayesian Methods); Seismic Data Analysis using High-performance Computing (Large-N Seismic Arrays and Graph Theory), Geophysical Inverse Theory (Parameter Estimation and Uncertainty Quantification).

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Sreepathi Pai

Pai, Sreepathi

Assistant Professor of Computer Science

Office Location
3409 Wegmans Hall
Telephone
(585) 276-2391
Web Address
Website

Interests: Compilers; Heterogeneous Architectures; GPU algorithms; Performance Modeling

Adam Purtee

Purtee, Adam

Associate Professor of Computer Science (Instruction)

Office Location
2109 Wegmans Hall
Web Address
Website

Interests: Natural language understanding ; Knowledge representation ; Commonsense reasoning ; Machine Learning ; Numerical programming

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Rosero, Spencer

Professor and Interim Chief, Department of Medicine, Cardiology

Office Location
Box 679 601 Elmwood Ave
Telephone
(585) 275-2475
Huaxia Rui

Rui, Huaxia

Professor of Business Administration, Simon Graduate School of Business Administration

Xerox Chair of Computer and Information Systems

Office Location
3-318 Carol Simon Hall
Telephone
(585) 275-4278
Web Address
Website

Interests: Social media analytics; Online word of mouth; Online advertising

Jeff Runner

Runner, Jeffrey T.

he/him/his

Dean of the College in Arts, Sciences and Engineering

Professor of Linguistics and Brain & Cognitive Sciences

Office Location
317L Lattimore Hall

Interests: Experimental Syntax; Syntactic/Linguistic Theory; Binding Theory; Syntax Processing; Phrase Structure; Syntax/Semantics Interface

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Michael L. Scott

Scott, Michael L.

Arthur Gould Yates Professor of Engineering

Professor of Computer Science

Chair, Department of Computer Science

Office Location
3401 Wegmans Hall
Web Address
Website

Interests: Systems software for parallel and distributed computing; Programming languages; Operating systems; Synchronization; Transactional memory; Persistent memory

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Seidmann, Abraham

Professor Emeritus

Office Location
3-333C Carol Simon Hall
Telephone
(585) 275-5694
Web Address
Website

Interests: medical informatics; electronic commerce; online auctions; information systems; health care management; business process design; project management and optimal resource allocation; strategic manufacturing systems; information economics; stochastic processes and performance modeling for capacity planning and pricing

Gaurav Sharma

Sharma, Gaurav

Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Professor of Computer Science

Professor of Biostatistics and Computational Biology

Office Location
725 Computer Studies Building
Telephone
(585) 275-7313
Web Address
Website

Interests: Data Analytics; Cyber Physical Systems; Signal and Image Processing; Computer Vision; Media Security; Communications

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Signorino, Curtis

Associate Professor of Political Science

Office Location
303 Harness Hall
Telephone
(585) 273-4760
Web Address
Website

Interests: statistical methods for structural estimation of strategic choice models; statistical methods for modeling temporal dependence in event history models; aggregation bias in indices of power and democracy

Scott Steele

Steele, Scott

Associate Professor, Department of Public Health Sciences (SMD)

Office Location
Office 1-208 265 Crittenden Blvd.
Telephone
(585) 275-0708
Web Address
Website

Interests: Science, technology, and health policy; Regulatory science

Daniel Stefankovic

Stefankovic, Daniel

Professor of Computer Science

Office Location
2315 Wegmans Hall
Web Address
Website

Interests: Theoretical computer science: graph theory, combinatorics, Fourier transform, Markov chains/counting, learning theory, phylogeny, game theory, graph equations, routing

Robert Strawderman

Strawderman, Robert

Donald M. Foster MD Distinguished Professor of Biostatistics

Chair, Department of Biostatistics and Computational Biology (SMD)

Office Location
4122 Saunders Research Building
Telephone
(585) 275-6688
Web Address
Website

Interests: Statistical learning methods with applications to risk prediction and survival analysis; Statistical and computational modeling for high dimensional data; Semiparametric models; Statistical inference for stochastic processes; Collaborative research

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Duje Tadin

Tadin, Duje

Professor, Brain & Cognitive Sciences, Ophthalmology, Neuroscience, Center for Visual Science

Chair, Brain & Cognitive Sciences

Director of Training, Center for Visual Science

Office Location
310 Meliora Hall
Telephone
(585) 275-8682
Web Address
Website

Interests: neural mechanisms of visual perception

Juilee Thakar

Thakar, Juilee

Associate Professor for the Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Department of Biomedical Genetics, Department of Biostatistics and Computational Biology

Office Location
3-9611 Kornberg Medical Research Building
Telephone
(585) 276-6925
Web Address
Website

Interests: Bioinformatics; Systems biology; Dynamic Modeling Tools

David Topham

Topham, David

Professor of Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Center for Vaccine Biology and Immunology (SMD) – Primary

Office Location
3-9631 Kornberg Medical Research Building
Telephone
(585) 273-1403
Web Address
Website

Interests: Virus infections of the respiratory tract; Influenza and immunity

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John H. Werren

Werren, John H.

Research Professor

Nathaniel and Helen Wisch Professor in Biology

Office Location
306 Hutchison
Telephone
(585) 275-3694

Interests: Evolutionary genetics, genomics, and proteomics. The unifying theme is how interacting elements shape systems at different levels of biological organization. A current research project focuses on combining computational and molecular evolutionary approaches to investigate protein function and protein-protein interactions relevant to biology and disease. Other research topics include the genetics of speciation, nuclear-mitochondrial coevolution, microbe-host interactions, and parasitism across biological levels.

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White, Andrew D.

Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering

Office Location
4401 Wegmans Hall
Telephone
(585) 276-7395
Web Address
Website

Interests: AI Directive Design of Materials; Molecular Simulations; Augmented-Reality in Chemical Engineering Education; Grid-Energy Storage Simulations

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White, Aaron

he/him/his

Associate Professor of Linguistics

Director of Graduate Studies in Linguistics

Director of FACTS.lab

Office Location
511A Lattimore Hall
Web Address
Website

Interests: Computational Linguistics; Natural Language Semantics

David R. Williams

Williams, David R.

William G. Allyn Professor of Medical Optics

Professor of Optics

Professor of Brain and Cognitive Sciences

Professor of Ophthalmology

Professor of Biomedical Engineering

Professor in the Center for Visual Science

Director, Center for Visual Science

Office Location
270 Meliora Hall
Telephone
(585) 275-8672
Web Address
Website

Interests: The Human Visual System; Physiological Optics

Axel Wismueller

Wismueller, Axel

Professor of Department of Imaging Sciences (SMD) - Primary

Professor of Department of Biomedical Engineering (SMD)

Professor of Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering

Office Location
2A218 Medical Center Annex Building
Telephone
(585) 273-1689
Web Address
Website

Interests: Innovative strategies for computational radiology; data exploration, pattern recognition, visualization, and machine learning methods for biomedical imaging

Tong Tong Wu, PhD.

Wu, Tong Tong

Associate Professor of Biostatistics and Computational Biology

Director, MA in Statistics and MS in Biostatistics Programs

Office Location
4141 Saunders Research Building
Telephone
(585) 276-6858
Web Address
Website

Interests: High-dimensional data analysis; Survival analysis; Machine learning; Computational statistics; Computational biology

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Martin Zand

Zand, Martin

Professor of Department of Medicine, Nephrology (SMD) – Primary

Senior Associate Dean, Clinical Research, Department of Dean's Office M&D - Administration

Office Location
601 Elmwood Ave.
Telephone
(585) 275-7753
Web Address
Website

Interests: Organ transplantation; B cell immunobiology, vaccine biology, and computational modeling of immune responses

Yuhao Zhu

Zhu, Yuhao

Assistant Professor of Computer Science

Office Location
3501 Wegmans Hall
Web Address
Website

Interests: Augmented/Virtual Reality; Human Perception and Cognition; Computational Photography/Imaging; Computational Heritage/Humanities; Computer architecture