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Michael Leczinsky is a Professor of Practice in the Informatics program in the College of Emergency Preparedness, Homeland Security and Cybersecurity at the University at Albany.

Mr. Leczinsky has an interdisciplinary background that includes the arts, education, entrepreneurship and technology. He joined the University in 2012 in the music department and moved to the Informatics Department in 2014. He is dedicated to student success and student engagement, as evidenced by his commitment to his teaching practice and investment in the University community through a wide range of initiatives and programs on campus.

The founding director and head coach of UAlbany eSports, a co-ed championship winning team of over 100 students, he recently helped develop the University鈥檚 new Informatics concentration in Game Design & Development.

Mr. Leczinsky has co-founded several labs including the CEHC Makerspace, Drone Lab and eSports and Gaming Lab. His research interests include multimedia, mixed reality, simulation, and emerging technologies.

He holds an AAS in Music Business from Schenectady County Community College, an AS in Music Performance from Schenectady County Community College, a BS in Creative Writing and English from SUNY Brockport, a BA in Music Composition from the University at Albany, an MS in Curriculum Development and Instructional Technology from the University at Albany. He also holds a Certificate of Advanced Study in Online Teaching & Learning, Educational Theory, and Practice from the University at Albany, a Certificate in Music Production and Technology Berklee College of Music, and a Certificate in Music Performance from Schenectady County Community College.

Tomoko Udo, Ph.D is an Associate Professor at Department of Health Policy, Management, and Behavior, School of Public Health, University at Albany. Prior to joining UAlbany SPH, Dr. Udo was an Associate Research Scientist and Junior Faculty Scholar for Yale Building Interdisciplinary Research Careers in Women鈥檚 Health (BIRCWH) program at Department of Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine. She also completed postdoctoral training at Center of Alcohol Studies, Rutgers University.

The overarching goal of Dr. Udo鈥檚 research program is to identify ways to improve health of individuals with various addictive behaviors, including drug abuse and behaviors partly overlap with drug addiction such as binge eating/obesity, as well as other mental health problems. She is also interested in understanding the impact of social stress on health, such as discrimination, incarceration, and childhood adversity. Dr. Udo uses a wide range of research approaches, from basic laboratory behavioral experiments, survey methods, quasi-experimental studies, mixed methods, to secondary data analysis of epidemiological data. She is currently involved in multiple funded projects aiming to evaluate innovative programs targeting substance users that are implemented by the New York State Department of Health, community health organizations, and law enforcement.

Pradeep K. Atrey is an associate professor at the State University of New York, Albany, NY, USA. He is also the director of computer science undergraduate program and the founding co-director of Albany Lab for Privacy and Security (ALPS). Previously he was an associate professor at the University of Winnipeg, Canada. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the National University of Singapore, M.S. in Software Systems and B.Tech. in Computer Science and Engineering from India. He was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Ottawa, Canada. His current research interests are in the area of security and privacy with a focus on multimedia surveillance and privacy, multimedia security, secure-domain cloud-based large-scale multimedia analytics, and social media. He has authored/co-authored over 130 research articles at reputed ACM, IEEE, and Springer journals and conferences. His research has been funded by Canadian Govt. agencies NSERC and DFAIT, and by Govt. of Saudi Arabia. Dr. Atrey is on the editorial board of several journals including ACM Trans, on Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications (TOMM), Elsevier Image Communication, and Wiley ETRI Journal. He has been associated with over 60 international conferences/workshops in various roles such as General Chair, Program Chair, Area Chair, Publicity Chair, Web Chair, Demo Chair and TPC Member. Dr. Atrey was a recipient of the ACM TOMM Associate Editor of the Year (2015), the IEEE Comm. Soc. MMTC Best R-Letter Editor Award (2015), the Erica and Arnold Rogers Award for Excellence in Research and Scholarship (2014), ETRI Journal Best Editor Award (2012), ETRI Journal Best Reviewer Award (2009) and the three University of Winnipeg Merit Awards for Exceptional Performance (2010, 2012 and 2013). He was also recognized as the ACM Multimedia Rising Star (2015), the ICME and SMC Outstanding Organizing Committee Member (2013 and 2017) and the ICME Quality Reviewer (2011).

Doctor of Philosophy in Business. University of Nebraska-Lincoln. 2001
Master of Arts in Business Administration (Business). University of Nebraska-Lincoln. 1998
Master of Management Studies (Marketing). University of Bombay, India. 1991
Bachelor of Arts in Economics. Osmania University, India. 1989
Academic Subfields

Consumer Behavior/E-Marketing

Research Interests

Household Decision Behavior/ Consumer Generated Content

Applied Interests

Marketing Research/ E-Marketing/ Consumer Behavior

Courses

Marketing Management

Marketing Research

Buyer Behavior

Dr. Yanna Liang joined the University at Albany as Professor and Chair in the newly minted Department of Environmental and Sustainable Engineering in Summer 2017. Before Dr. Liang started her academic career in 2007 at Southern Illinois University Carbondale (SIUC), she worked for the Environmental Protection Agency in China and the United States for more than eight years. She has secured more than $5 million external research funding from Federal and state agencies, industry and foundation and participated in over $4.63 million projects funded by NSF. She has published over 70 peer-reviewed journal papers and invited book chapters and presented her research through more than 81 conference presentations. As a result of her multidisciplinary work, Dr. Liang has been a regular panelist for NSF, DOE, DoED, NIH, EPA, DOD, USDA and a frequent reviewer for more than 40 scientific journals. Additionally, she is a registered professional engineer, a board certified environmental engineer, an ABET Program Evaluator, an ASCE ExCEED Teaching Fellow, and has won various awards from ASCE, AWRA, and AWMA. 

Her research interests are tied strongly to sustainable environment and energy. Besides working on conventional environmental research topics, such as remediation of organic and inorganic contaminants, water and wastewater treatment, she is passionate about research and development on renewable energy. In addition, to be proactive on protecting our environment, she is interested in understanding the fate and transport of emerging contaminants in different environmental matrices. Specifically, her research interests are:  

Biodegradation and phytoremediation of organic contaminants in subsurface and groundwater
Nanomaterials for environmental clean-up
Microbial ecology in engineered and natural systems
Fate and transport of engineered nanoparticles and emerging contaminants in aquatic and soil environments
Microbial electrochemical cells for CO2 reduction 
Biochemical and thermochemical conversion of renewable feedstocks to biofuels and bio-products 
Water reuse and wastewater treatment

Specialization: Public Law

Personal Webpage: https://jnovkov.wixsite.com/novkov

Julie Novkov is a Professor of Political Science and Women鈥檚, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at the University at Albany, SUNY. She came here in 2006 after spending ten years on the faculty at the University of Oregon. Her research and teaching are situated at the intersection of law, history, US political development, and subordinated identity. She views law as both a system of political and social control and as a site for reform through activists鈥� pressure. She is particularly interested in the way that the law defines and translates categories associated with identity, such as race and gender, and the ways that these categories transform and are transformed by legal discourse.

Professor Novkov is the author of Racial Union, which was the co-recipient of the American Political Science Association's 2009 Ralph Bunche Award for the best scholarly work in political science which explores the phenomenon of ethnic and cultural pluralism. This book argues that the criminal regulation of interracial intimacy played a pivotal role in shaping and reflecting the development of white supremacy in Alabama between the end of the Civil War and the beginning of the Civil Rights Era. Her first book, Constituting Workers, Protecting Women (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press 2001), addressed gender and constitutional development, rereading through the lens of gender the history of the courts' unwillingness to accept protective legislation for workers in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. She is also the author of The Supreme Court and The Presidency, published by CQ Press in 2013. She is the co-editor of Statebuilding from the Margins (with Carol Nackenoff, published by the University of Pennsylvania Press in 2014),  Race and American Political Development (with Joseph Lowndes and Dorian Warren, published by Routledge Press in 2008), and Security Disarmed (with UAlbany professor Barbara Sutton and Sandra Morgen, published by Rutgers University Press in 2008).

Professor Novkov is actively engaged in the academy. In the American Political Science Association, she served on the Executive Council, organized panels for Constitutional Law and Jurisprudence, presided over the Sexuality and Politics Section, and chaired the LGBT Status Committee. She currently serves as the Program Chair and President-Elect of the Western Political Science Association, for which she has previously organized panels for Women and Politics and Politics and History and served on the Executive Council. In the Midwest Political Science Association she organized panels for Judicial Politics and Law and Courts. She has also served on numerous prize, award, and nomination committees. She currently serves on the editorial boards of the American Political Science Review, Polity, the Journal of Law and Courts, and Politics, Gender and Identities. In her spare time, she serves on the University at Albany鈥檚 Institutional Review Board.

Kristen Campbell Wilcox holds a PhD from the University at Albany with a specialization in Curriculum and Instruction. A former second and foreign language teacher in the U.S., Puerto Rico, and Brazil, and with Japanese, Spanish, and Portuguese languages in her toolkit, her areas of research interest have focused on the intersections of language, culture, and academic performance among diverse learners and what policies, processes, and practices close opportunity gaps among adolescents and young adults in particular.  

She has received a number of awards for her teaching, service, and research including the National School Development Council's Cooperative Leadership Award, University at Albany, School of Education鈥檚 Full-time teaching award, The University at Albany鈥檚 Community Engagement Award and the Literacy Research Association鈥檚 Committee on Ethnicity, Race, and Multilingualism Early Career Award. Wilcox has been called upon to conduct research and offer guidance to state as well as national leaders particularly with regard to closing opportunity gaps for diverse learners. In this capacity she served on President Obama鈥檚 Advisory Commission on Educational Excellence for Hispanics and New York鈥檚 Governor Cuomo Summit for Drop-out Prevention and Student Engagement.

As a bridging and translational scholar who seeks to connect research and practice, her research delves into questions around policy and leadership as well as curriculum and instruction with a consistent emphasis on what malleable factors within classrooms, schools, and districts impact socioeconomically, linguistically, and culturally diverse youth outcomes. She has published her research in six books and edited volumes, eight book chapters, dozens of peer-reviewed journal articles, and practitioner journal articles, newsletters, briefs, blogs, and reports. Her research has appeared in such academic journals as the Journal of Educational Change, Peabody Journal of Education, Educational Administration Quarterly, Journal of Research in Rural Education, Education and Urban Society, Journal of School Leadership, Teachers College Record, Research in the Teaching of English, Reading & Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, and Cultural Studies: Critical Methodologies among others.

As Research and Development Director of NYKids (a public-private research practice partnership) for 15 years, Wilcox has led numerous studies of odds-beating schools (i.e. schools achieving above-predicted outcomes among diverse youth) identifying the salient policies, processes, and practices that differentiate these schools from others with less exemplary student outcomes. Wilcox鈥檚 NYKids research informed her development of a set of improvement science based resources and tools that support system-wide improvements, which she has presented at the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching annual summits. Based on her research, Wilcox has worked with over 40 K-12 district and school teams as well as higher education leaders in using improvement science-based processes to improve outcomes and support sustained improvements across the educational pipeline.

Sanjay Goel is a Professor in the School of Business at the University at Albany, SUNY (UAlbany). He is also the Director of Research at the New York State Center for Information Forensics and Assurance at the University. He has worked at General Electric Global Research on engineering optimization primarily related to aircraft engine and power turbines. His research group at the University is currently engaged in cybersecurity and warfare-related projects including: investigation of computer security threats such as botnets and malware, risk analysis, security policy development and evaluation, security modeling, and development of self-organized complex systems. His self-organized system research includes traffic light coordination, nano-bio computing, and security modeling. He is currently leading an effort launched by IEEE Communications Society and the IEEE Standards Association to create a vision for the Smart Grid future 15 years ahead.

He has over 50 articles in refereed journals and conference publications including top journals such as the California Management Review, IEEE Journal of Selected Areas in Communication, Decision Support Systems, and the Information and Management Journal. In addition, he has been invited to present at 30 other conferences including over 10 keynotes and plenary talks. He is a recognized international expert in information security and cyber warfare and has given plenary talks in events across several countries including, U.S., Germany, Russia, Serbia, Croatia, and India that have been sponsored by NATO, OSCE, and other professional organizations. For the last six years, he has given a plenary talk with a demonstration of cyber hacking each year at the NYS Cybersecurity Conference that garners attendance of over eight hundred people. He is a part of the 鈥淕roup of Experts鈥� for the Office of Security Cooperation in Europe鈥檚 (OSCE) Action against Terrorism Unit. He is also the UAlbany representative of the Capital Region Cyber Crime Partnership and is one of the key members of the international volunteer group Project Grey Goose, which investigates incidents of cyber warfare around the world. He established the Annual Symposium on Information Assurance as an academic symposium held in conjunction with the NYS Cybersecurity Conference and has served as its chair. In its fifth year now, it has received praise from academics as well as practitioners in the field based on feedback from attendees. He also initiated and served as the general chair for the International Conference on Digital Forensics and Cyber Crime (ICDF2C) and hosted the first event in Albany in collaboration with the NYS Police and the NYS Department of Criminal Justice Services. He won the promising Inventor鈥檚 Award in 2005 from the SUNY Research Foundation. In 2006, he was awarded the SUNY Chancellor鈥檚 Award for Excellence in Teaching, the UAlbany Excellence in Teaching Award, and the Graduate Student Organization Award for Faculty Mentoring. In 2010 he was awarded the UAlbany Excellence in Research Award. He was named one of the three AT&T Industrial Ecology Faculty Fellows for 2009-2010. He has received grant funding from multiple sources including: National Institute of Justice, U.S. Department of Education, National Science Foundation, Region II University Transportation Research Center, and New York State Energy Research and Development Agency (NYSERDA).

Research Interests

Application of Information Technology in business and engineering applications, Computer Networking and Network Security (including Cryptography and Public Key Infrastructure), Network based distributed computation and availability of services, XML based data interchange standards and efficient implementation of supply chain management systems. Use of machine learning algorithms to develop self-learning adaptive systems which progressively get better with applications in business like fraud detection and target marketing. Soft Computing (Genetic Algorithms, Optimization algorithms)

Dr. Bassill received his PhD in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, with a research focus in ensemble and parameterization studies. Afterward, he worked as a Post-Doctoral researcher at the University of Utah, where he studied aspects of Hurricane Sandy’s unusual track (including what led some models to make an incorrect forecast). Afterward he was hired as a Post-Doctoral researcher with the New York State Mesonet to begin building an operational analysis system that would utilize mesonet observations. Concurrently, he is actively involved in building meteorological products for and doing basic research with the New York State Mesonet. Currently, Nick predominantly spends his time working with the Center of Excellence on a variety of projects.

Specialization: Information Technology Management

Mila Gasc贸-Hernandez is the Research Director at the Center for Technology in Government and an Associate Professor in the Department of Public Administration and Policy at Rockefeller College. Before joining the University at Albany, Dr. Gasc贸 served as a senior researcher at the Institute of Governance and Public Management (currently known as ESADEgov - Center for Public Governance) and the Institute of Innovation and Knowledge Management, both at ESADE Business & Law School in Spain. Prior to that, she was a senior analyst at the International Institute on Governance of Catalonia and a professor in the Rovira Virgili University and the Pompeu Fabra University, both in Spain.

Mila has considerable consulting experience in the areas of information and knowledge society. In this respect, she has worked for a wide variety of organizations such as the United Nations Development Program, the Mayor鈥檚 Office in Valencia (Venezuela), the Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation, the City Council and the Provincial Council of Barcelona, the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance, the Latin American Centre on Management for Development (for whom she co-developed the Ibero-American Interoperability Framework), the World E-Governments Organization of Cities and Local Governments (she was the leading judge for the WeGo Awards), the Inter-American Development Bank, and Google.

Her areas of research are mainly related to information and technology in government and, among other, they include electronic and open government, e-governance, public sector innovation, smart cities, telework, and artificial intelligence in government.

Dr. Gasc贸 holds a MBA and a PhD in public policy evaluation.  She was awarded the Enric Prat de la Riba award for the best PhD thesis on public management and administration, given by the School of Public Administration of Catalonia in Barcelona, Spain.

Dr. Berglund began studying biochemistry in 1990 with a focus on the structures that RNA can adopt and their role in biology. His interests expanded to determining the mechanisms through which RNA binding proteins recognize RNA motifs in pre-mRNA splicing. As a graduate student he was the first to show that proteins conserved from yeast to humans specifically recognize an RNA motif that is essential for the recognition and removal of introns in pre-mRNA splicing. In his own laboratory, he and his group began studying the molecular mechanisms of myotonic dystrophy. This led to his laboratory solving the first crystal structure of CUG repeats, the toxic RNA that causes myotonic dystrophy type 1. They have solved additional structures of CUG repeats leading to a better understanding of the dynamics of the repeats and insights into the toxicity of the repeats. One of the mechanisms through which the CUG repeats and CCUG repeats for myotonic dystrophy type 2 (DM2) are toxic is the sequestration of the muscleblind-like (MBNL) family of RNA binding proteins. The sequestration of MBNL proteins leads to many changes in splicing, which are implicated in causing the symptoms in DM. His laboratory, along with several other groups in the field, have identified some of the mechanisms through which the MBNL family of proteins regulate splicing providing a better framework for understanding the mis-splicing in myotonic dystrophy. For many years the group has investigated using small molecules to target the toxic CUG and CCUG repeats of DM. These efforts have led to the identification of molecules that rescue the mis-splicing in DM1 cell and mouse models. Recently the group has shown that targeting the production of the toxic RNA shows promise as a potential approach to identify lead compounds for developing therapeutics.

 

Specialization: Health Policy

Erika Martin is a Professor of Public Administration and Policy. She is a faculty affiliate in the Department of Health Policy, Management & Behavior, the Center for Collaborative HIV Research in Practice and Policy, and the Center for Technology in Government. Her research focuses on infectious disease policies and programs, the allocation of scarce public health resources, the adoption and impact of public health policies, public health infrastructure and data systems, and translating evidence-based research into practice. She applies diverse research approaches, including program evaluation, modeling, analysis of administrative and survey data, key informant interviews, and economic analysis.

She directs the Coalition for Applied Modeling and Prevention (CAMP), a multi-institution consortium funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. CAMP is dedicated to creating models that improve public health decision-making at the national, state, and local levels in the areas of HIV, viral hepatitis, sexually transmitted infections, tuberculosis, and school/adolescent health. For more information, please visit the CAMP website.

At Rockefeller College, she teaches courses on research design and program evaluation.

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Specialization: International Relations, Human Rights, International Organization

Personal Page: https://briangreenhill.com/

Brian Greenhill is an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science. His research and teaching focuses on the ways in which economic and political globalization affects human rights, conflict, and environmental outcomes. Dr. Greenhill's book Transmitting Rights: International Organizations and the Diffusion of Human Rights Practices was published by Oxford University Press in 2015. He has published articles in the American Political Science Review, International Studies Quarterly, and the American Journal of Political Science. Before joining Rockefeller College he had taught in the Government Department at Dartmouth College. Dr. Greenhill holds a PhD in Political Science from the University of Washington, an MA in International Relations from the University of Chicago, and a BA (Hons.) in Biochemistry from the University of Oxford. At Rockefeller College he will be teaching courses on global governance, human rights, international relations, and quantitative methods.

Research Seminar in United States and International History
Human Rights, the United States, and International History
The Cold War at Home and Abroad
Public Policy and Politics of the New Deal Era
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I am interested in mentoring graduate and undergraduate students who would like to study and research 20th century United States political and public policy history. Additionally, I will supervise projects that explore the links between domestic political history and America鈥檚 role in the world. Because of my own research agenda, I am happy to work with students interested in the histories of refugees, immigration, and human rights.

In recent years, I have worked with graduate students studying under Prof. Hamm, Prof. Smith Howard, Prof. Fogarty, Prof. Kizenko, Prof. Gauss, and Prof. White.

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Professor Koslowski's primary teaching and research interests are in the field of international relations dealing with international organization, European integration, international migration, information technology, and homeland security. He is the author of Migrants and Citizens: Demographic Change in the European States System (Cornell University Press, 2000); editor of International Migration and the Globalization of Domestic Politics (Routledge, 2005) and co-editor (with David Kyle) of Global Human Smuggling: Comparative Perspectives (John Hopkins University Press, 2001). His articles have appeared in International Organization, International Studies Quarterly, The Journal of European Public Policy, Journal of Common Market Studies, The Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, The Cambridge Journal of International Studies and The Brown Journal of World Affairs. Prior to arriving at the University at Albany, Professor Koslowski taught at Rutgers University, Newark. He has held fellowships at the German Marshall Fund, the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, the Center of International Studies at Princeton University and the Center for German and European Studies at Georgetown University. His research has been supported by grants from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation and the National Science Foundation.

Benjamin Yankson joined the College of Emergency Preparedness, Homeland Security and Cybersecurity at the University at Albany in 2019 as assistant professor, Cybersecurity.

Dr. Yankson holds more than 15 years鈥� experience in various technical leadership roles in information technology security within the healthcare and education industries. He is the former application manager, Critical Care Information System for the province of Ontario鈥檚 (CritiCall Ontario), Canada. His research focuses on IoT Security, Privacy, Cybersecurity Threat and Risk Assessment, Security Auditing/Compliance, and Digital Forensics. In addition, he has served as a reviewer and TPC member of several conferences.

Matt joined the School of Criminal Justice in the fall of 2019. His research examines the complex ways in which neighborhood processes influence adolescent development and behavior. His recent work focuses the consequences of residential mobility for youth offending, the spatial dimensions of the effect of neighborhood inequality on adolescent behavior, and the relationship between population dynamics and crime. In addition to his work in these areas, Matt regularly assists local agencies with data and evaluation needs. Some of his ongoing collaborations include an assessment of racial representation on capital juries in Missouri, a longitudinal evaluation of a school-based violence reduction program, and the implementation of a police-hospital collaboration to help address retaliatory violence in St. Louis. Prior to joining the faculty at UAlbany, Matt was on the faculty in the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of Missouri 鈥� St. Louis.

Justin joined the faculty at the School of Criminal Justice in the fall of 2012. He is the 2015 recipient of the American Society of Criminology鈥檚 Ruth Shonle Cavan Young Scholar Award.

Justin is currently involved in several research projects exploring diverse topics. In one project, he is examining public opinion about protest policing and about how to sanction officers who use excessive force.  In another project, Justin is exploring the asymmetric effects of positive versus negative contact with police on police legitimacy.  Justin also has a working study that tests a theory of how the public responds emotionally to crime victims versus victims of criminal injustice. Additionally, he is beginning a study to investigate the extent and correlates of attitudes toward terrorism in the U.S. 

Courtney D'Allaird is the Assistant Director for Intercultural Student Engagement and the founding coordinator of the GSRC. They have done extensive work with college campuses across New York State in order to expand initiatives for LGBT* student inclusion.

Courtney is  a nationally certified peer educator and trainer for NCBI (National Coalition Building Institute), DASA (Dignity for All Students Act) and Safe Space/Zone development. Courtney served 10 years on the board of the Northeast LGBT College Conference and as the 2014-2016 Northeast Regional Rep for the Consortium of LGBT Higher Education Professionals.