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Robert E. Baier

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Professor

Industry/University Center for Biosurfaces

 

Professor

Oral Diagnostic Sciences

 

Research Interests:

Air quality; Public health; Bioaerosols; Nosocomial infection control; Biohazards; Photocatalysis


http://wings.buffalo.edu/faculty/research/iucb

George A. Barnett

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Professor

Communication

 

Research Interests:

Communication & social change; Social & communication networks; International telecommunications; Communication campaigns; Risk communication


http://www.informatics.buffalo.edu/faculty/barnett/

Rajan Batta

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Professor

Industrial and Systems Engineering

 

Research Interests:

Airport Security System Design; Security Risk Modeling for Trucks Transporting Hazardous Materials; Management of Casualty Queues in a Disaster Setting; Management of Critical Resources in a Disaster Setting


http://www.acsu.buffalo.edu/~batta/

J. Gayle Beck

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Professor

Psychology

 

Research Interests:

PTSD; Resilience following trauma exposure; Cognitive Behavior Therapy


Ling Bian

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Associate Professor

Geography

 

Research Interests:

Individual-based spatially explicit epidemiological modeling; Interoperable environmental models; Geographic image retreival


http://www.geog/buffalo.edu/~lbian

Frank V. Bright

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UB Distinguished Professor, A. Conger Goodyear Chair

Chemistry

 

Research Interests:

Chemical sensors; Environmentally benign chemistry; Biomaterials for wound repair


http://www.chem.buffalo.edu/bright.php

Michel Bruneau

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Professor

Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering

 

Director

MCEER

 

Research Interests:

Structural engineering; Earthquake-resistant design; Blast engineering; Multi-hazard design; Dynamic response of structures; Seismic evaluation and retrofit of bridges and buildings; Ultimate behavior of steel, metal, and advanced composite structures


http://www.eng.buffalo.edu/~bruneau

Irene Casas

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Assistant Professor

Geography

 

Research Interests:

Travel behavior; Routing; Sustainability; Transport modeling: GIS: Artificial intelligence


http://www.buffalo.edu/~icasas

Deborah D.L. Chung

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National Grid Endowed Chair Professor

Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

 

Research Interests:

Smart materials & structures; Multifunctional structural materials; Strain, stress and damage sensing; Structural health monitoring; Structural vibration control; Electromagnetic interference shielding; Traffic & evacuation monitoring; Energy generation


http://alum.mit.edu/www/ddlchung

Sam Cole

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Professor

Urban and Regional Planning

 

Research Interests:

Global futures studies; Regional economic development; Tourism; Island planning


http://www.ap.buffalo.edu/~samcole/

Terry D. Connell

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Associate Professor

Microbiology and Immunology

 

Research Interests:

Gram-negative bacteria; Bordetella; Enteric bacteria; Vibrio cholerae; Gene regulation; Adjuvants; Mucosal immunology; Vaccines


http://www.smbs.buffalo.edu/wcmpi/Faculty/connell.html

Michael C. Constantinou

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Professor

Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering

 

Research Interests:

Structural dynamics; Dynamic testing and performance-based engineering with particular emphasis in the development and use of new technologies


http://www.civil.buffalo.edu/professors_constantinou.shtml

John L. Crassidis

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Professor and Associate Director, Center for Multisource Information Fusion

Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

 

Research Interests:

Data/Information fusion; Optimal nonlinear estimation, Robust vehicle tracking and navigation; Situational awareness


http://www.buffalo.edu/~johnc

Murat Demirbas

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Assistant Professor

Computer Science and Engineering

 

Research Interests:

Wireless sensor networks; Wireless ad hoc communication and networking; Distributed algorithms for tracking, localization, and in-network on-the-fly querying


http://www.cse.buffalo.edu/~demirbas/

Paul E. DesJardin

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Assistant Professor

Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

 

Research Interests:

Fire science and safety engineering; Computational fluid dynamics with an emphasis on the radiation heat transfer from large scale plumes and fluid-structure coupled response


http://www.mae.buffalo.edu/people/faculty/desjardin/

Steven L Dubovsky

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Professor and Chair

Psychiatry

 

Research Interests:

Psychopharmacology; Anxiety and mood disorders; Disaster response


Catherine N. Dulmus

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Associate Dean for Research and Director, Buffalo Center for Social Research

Social Work

 

Research Interests:

Child mental health; Trauma; Prevention; Violence


http://www.socialwork.buffalo.edu/research/

Ronald T. Eguchi

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Research Associate Professor

Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering

 

President, ImageCat, Inc.

 

Research Interests:

Earthquake engineering; Lifeline engineering; Loss estimation, including quantification of direct and indirect losses; Risk analysis as applied to natural and manmade hazards; Remote sensing and disaster response and recovery


http://www.imagecatinc.com

Isaac Ehrlich

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SUNY/UB Distinguished Professor & Chair, Melvin H. Baker Professor of American Enterprise

Economics

 

Research Interests:

Human capital and income distribution; Economic growth and development; Economics of health and value of life savings; Social security and population aging; Economics of information and uncertainty; Economics of crime and justice; Law and economics


http://www.economics.buffalo.edu/ehrlich.htm

Andre Filiatrault

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Professor

Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering

 

Director

Structural Engineering and Earthquake Simulation Laboratory

 

Research Interests:

Structural dynamics; Earthquake engineering; Seismic performance of structures with passive supplemental damping systems, nonstructural components & equipment; Seismic testing of large-scale structural components & systems; Design of wood structures


http://www.civil.buffalo.edu/professors_filiatrault.shtml

Kathryn A. Foster

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Director

UB Regional Institute

 

Research Interests:

Regional resilience; Governance; Regional structure, leadership and decision-making for slow-moving crises


http://regional-institute.buffalo.edu/staff.cfm

Mark G. Frank

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Associate Professor and Director, Communication Science Center

Communication

 

Research Interests:

Deception; Detecting Deception; Facial Expressions; Emotions; Interpersonal Interaction


James F. Garvey

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Professor

Chemistry

 

Research Interests:

Sterilizing air; Compressive heating; Purifying large gas flows; Killing anthrax; SARS; MARS; Legionnaire’s disease; Avian flu; TB; Airborne pathogens


http://www.chem.buffalo.edu/garvey.php

Tracy K.P. Gregg

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Associate Professor

Geology

 

Research Interests:

Lava flow eruption and emplacement dynamics in different environments (on land, under water, on Mars, Io and Venus)


http://www.acsu.buffalo.edu/~tgregg/

Philip Hancock

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Visiting Assistant Professor

Management

 

Research Interests:

Operations management; Emergency response management; Social network analysis; Statistical modelling; Table-top simulation


John Hay

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Professor and Chair

Microbiology and Immunology

 

Research Interests:

Viruses; Human infectious disease; Animal infectious disease; Pathogenesis; Epidemiology; Epizootiology; Genetics


Daniel B. Hess

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Assistant Professor

Urban and Regional Planning

 

Research Interests:

Emergency planning and preparedness; Evacuation; Transportation planning; Public transit


http://www.ap.buffalo.edu/planning/people/hess.asp

Dietrich Jehle

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Director of Emergency Services

Emergency Medicine

 

Research Interests:

Emergency Medicine; Bedside Sonography; Transportation Injury; Resuscitation


Richard J. Karalus

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Director of Microbiology

CUBRC

 

Research Assistant Professor

Microbiology and Immunology

 

Research Interests:

Biodefense related issues including biodetection, the development of novel therapeutics, decontamination, and aerosol biology modeling


http://www.cubrc.org

Venkat N. Krovi

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Associate Professor

Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

 

Research Interests:

Lifecycle treatment (design, modeling, analysis, control, implementation and verification) of smart, mechanical, mechatronic and robotic systems


http://mechatronics.eng.buffalo.edu

Chris Larsen

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Associate Professor

Geography

 

Research Interests:

Inter-relations between climate change; Fire frequency and forest composition


http://www.geog.buffalo.edu/~larsen

George C. Lee

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Samuel P. Capen Professor

Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering

 

Special Tasks Director

MCEER

 

Research Interests:

Behavior and design of metal structures; Seismic design and retrofit of buildings and bridges; Structural response modification technologies; Biomechanics


Kemper Lewis

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Professor

Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

 

Executive Director

NYSCEDII

 

Research Interests:

Reconfigurable systems design; Multiobjective decision making; Tradeoff modeling and visualization; Game theory; Decision making under uncertainty; Extreme event visualization and simulation


http://www.mae.buffalo.edu/people/faculty/lewis/

Li Lin

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Professor

Industrial and Systems Engineering

 

Research Interests:

Simulation modeling and analysis of operations in complex and critical systems; Delivery of health care services


Anne E. Meyer

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Research Associate Professor

Industry/University Center for Biosurfaces

 

Research Interests:

Biofouling, infection control; Analytical chemistry,; Surface science; Bioinvasions; Biofilms


http://wings.buffalo.edu/faculty/research/iucb

Michael D. Moskal

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Vice President, Information Exploitation Group

CUBRC

 

Research Interests:

Emergency Management; Information Fusion; Computer Science and Engineering; Modeling and Simulation


http://www.cubrc.org

Gilberto Mosqueda

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Assistant Professor

Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering

 

Research Interests:

Structural dynamics and earthquake engineering; Experimental evaluation of large-scale structural systems under extreme loads using hybrid simulation; Seismic fragility of nonstructural components and building content


http://www.civil.buffalo.edu/professors_mosqueda.shtml

Edward G. Niles

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Professor

Microbiology and Immunology

 

Research Interests:

Gene transcription; mRNA processing; Virology; Poxviruses; Vaccinia


http://www.smbs.buffalo.edu/wcmpi/Faculty/niles.html

Abani K. Patra

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Professor

Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

 

Research Interests:

Large scale modeling & simulation using modeling schemes & HPC for extreme events including geophysical mass flows (volcanic debris avalanches, mudslides); Hypervelocity impact; Biomechanical injury analysis; Meshfree & adaptive finite element methods


http://www.eng.buffalo.edu/~abani

E. Bruce Pitman

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Professor

Math

 

Research Interests:

Mathematical modeling; High performance computing


http://www.math.buffalo.edu/~pitman

Andrei M. Reinhorn

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Clifford C Furnas Eminent Professor

Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering

 

Research Interests:

Structural dynamics; Experimental and computational structural control; Development of strategies for protective systems of structures, buildings and bridges, with applications to collapse prevention


http://civil.eng.buffalo.edu/~reinhorn

Chris S. Renschler

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Associate Professor

Geography

 

National Center for Geographic Information & Analysis

 

Research Interests:

Extreme event analysis of earth system processes; Process-based environmental models, GIS & remote sensing; Dev. and implementation of geospatial process-based multi-hazard modeling tools; Decision- and policy-making in nat. resources & nat. hazards mgmt


http://www.geog.buffalo.edu/~rensch

Thomas C. Rosenthal

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Professor and Chair

Family Medicine

 

Research Interests:

Primary care physician preparation


Donald W. Rowe

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Public Health Liaison

Public Health

 

Research Interests:

Public Health collaborations/partnerships; PH emergency preparedness; Cross border public health; PH emergency preparedness curricula development


Thomas A. Russo

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Professor

Medicine

 

Research Interests:

Bacterial pathogenesis; Vaccine development; Host-pathogen interactions; Bioinformatics; Neutrophils; Escherichia coli; Acinetobacter baumannii


William T. Ruyechan

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Professor and Associate Chair

Microbiology and Immunology

 

Research Interests:

Virology; Viral pathogenesis; Host virus interactions; Viral vaccines


http://www.smbs.buffalo.edu/wcmpi/faculty/ruyechan.htm

W. James Sarjeant

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James Clerk Maxwell General Dynamics Chair Professor and Director, Energy Systems Institute

Electrical Engineering

 

Research Interests:

Capacitor development; Insulation coordination; Pulsed power; Power modulation; Partial discharge analysis


http://www.esi.buffalo.edu

Michael F. Sheridan

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Director, Center for Geohazards Studies

Geology

 

Research Interests:

Volcanic hazards; Computer simulation of granular flows; Explosive volcanism; Cross disciplinary synergism


http://www.eng.buffalo.edu/~mfs/

Natalie C. Simpson

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Associate Professor

Management

 

Research Interests:

Emergency service systems; Emergency response; Incident command; Event management and business resilience


http://www.mgt.buffalo.edu/CFDOCS/Forms/faculty/bios/faculty.cfm?fac=nsimpson

Tarunraj Singh

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Professor

Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

 

Research Interests:

Optimal control; Nonlinear control; Robust vibration control; Estimation


http://code.eng.buffalo.edu

Puneet Singla

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Assistant Professor

Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

 

Research Interests:

Uncertainty propagation: Multiresolution approximation: Nonlinear control and autonomous systems


http://www.buffalo.edu/~psingla

Edward Steinfeld

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Professor and Director, IDEA Center

Architecture

 

Research Interests:

Emergency evacuation; Disability and aging issues; Standards; Housing


http://www.ap.buffalo.edu/idea

Ernest Sternberg

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Professor

Urban and Regional Planning

 

Research Interests:

General conceptualization of disaster planning within a state, urban area, or facility


Moises Sudit

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Managing Director, Center for Multisource Information Fusion

Industrial and Systems Engineering

 

Research Interests:

Data/Information Fusion; Discrete Optimization; Graph Theory and Network Optimization; Situational Understanding


http://www.infofusion.buffalo.edu

Robert C. Sugarman

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Human Factors Coordinator

Industry/University Center for Biosurfaces

 

Research Interests:

Human factors; Ergonomics; Accident reconstuction and analysis; Psychology; Behavioral science; Training


http://www.rcspsi.com

Joseph A. Syracuse

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Director, Atlantic OSHA Training Center

Toxicology Research Center

 

Research Interests:

Occupational safety and health training; Environmental safety and health training; Construction and industrial safety and safety training; Industrial hygiene education; Disaster site safety and worker safety training at extreme event sites


http://www.wings.buffalo.edu/trc

Mai (Mike) Tong

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Senior Research Scientist

MCEER

 

Research Interests:

Probabilistic analysis of multiple hazard extreme events; Reliability based infrastructure design against natural hazards; Evaluation of operability and vulnerability of critical facilities under multiple hazard conditions


Maurizio Trevisan

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Professor and Dean

Public Health

 

Research Interests:

Epidemiology of long term health effects of natural disasters


Le Wang

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Assistant Professor

Geography

 

Research Interests:

Dev. of new remote sensing methods; Land cover & use classification and change detection; Coastal mangroves forest characterization; Invasive species spread modeling; Urban population estimation; LiDAR & hyperspectral remote sensing; Object extraction


http://www.buffalo.edu/~lewang

Troy D. Wood

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Associate Professor

Chemistry

 

Research Interests:

Biodefense; Chemical profiling


http://www.chem.buffalo.edu/wood.php

Jennifer Zirnheld

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Deputy Director, Energy Systems Institute and Adjunct Instructor

Electrical Engineering

 

Research Interests:

Dielectric phenomena; Power systems and energy management; Generation and distribution; Multifactor stress aging; Partial discharge analysis; Systems integration


http://www.esi.buffalo.edu