School of Engineering and Applied Sciences

HereIS HOWWe make the future

Tremendous synergy and creative excitement

have pulled team members together from

the different disciplines across campus to focus

on topics that will have far-reaching

implications for society in the coming decades.

- Liesl Folks, PhD, MBADean, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences

Thank you engineering partners!

We are living in a veritable sea of data these days, allowing usto access information at unprecedented rates, and permittingbetter decisions to be made on a myriad of critical topics.

A quick survey of the new research and the new academicprograms that the School of Engineering and AppliedSciences has launched this year illustrates that everything we do now is informed by data and data analytics.

Knowing that this is the world that our students are launchinginto, we have developed new targeted graduate programsthat emphasize digital literacy. These programs have rapidlyfilled to capacity, indicating that our students know that theseskills are going to be highly valued in their lifetimes.

One of the great advantages of research and developmentthat incorporates data analytics is that it draws together new interdisciplinary teams. In these pages, you will readabout large teams working on autonomous transportation,innovative materials advances, and advanced manufacturing.

As we hire new faculty and staff, we are targeting those whoare excited to expand beyond their discipline boundaries tomake the largest impacts possible through partnerships.With this emphasis, we are confident that UB is well positioned to lead the way on high-impact topics.

To support these new ways of working, we need to be nimblein moving people and equipment into new configurations tosupport research and its active learning components. To thatend, we have engaged our many wonderful donors tosupport the renovations of labs and classrooms throughoutour school.

As we celebrate our first 70 years as New York State’s premierpublic school of engineering and applied sciences, we lookforward to graduating students who are equipped with theknowledge they will need to tackle the biggest problems we face, regionally, nationally and across the world.

S I LV E R P A R T N E R S

G O L D P A R T N E R S

FACULTY

Water Quality “My research focuses

on developinginnovative nanoscale

materials to deliversafe drinking water.”- Nirupam Aich PhD, Universityof Texas, Austin

Biotechnologies“My research work in

neurotechnology, motorrehabilitation, clinicalneurophysiology and

cerebrovascular medicine isfocused on developing

technologies to treat, cure and even prevent

neurological disorders.”- Anirban Dutta

PhD, Case Western Reserve University

Intelligent Systems “My research focuses on

computational methodologiesthat are inspired by the

wonders of nature, such asevolution, animal-swarm

behavior, and how birds learnto fly – targeted towards

designing complex intelligentsystems that overwhelmtraditional engineering-

design principles.” - Souma Chowdhury

PhD, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Cybersecurity and Privacy

“My research focuses ondeveloping methods and

software tools to enable thecollection and analysis of

data without compromisingthe privacy of the data

subjects.” - Marco Gaboardi

PhD, University of Torinoand National Polytechnic

Institute of Lorraine

Harnessing the Power of Stem Cells

“ I am investigating how toengineer organs from stem cells,

how to model and image thedisease processes with stem

cells, and how to image stem cell functions inside

the body – leading to engineered products that

will advance health and biomedicine.”

- Natesh ParashuramaMD, University at Buffalo,

Power Electronics “My research area is low-

power data conversionfrom analog to digital byusing time-based signal

processing. This isparticularly relevant for the Internet of Things.”- Arindam Sanyal

PhD, University of Texas at Austin

Sustainability“I’m interested in the

dynamics of flowand transport

processes inwaterway systems,

and how thesedynamics relate to

storm watermanagement.“- Zhenduo Zhu

PhD, University ofIllinois at Urbana-

Champaign

New Materials“ My research aims to fill the gapbetween flat electronic devicesand human body mismatches

by developing flexible, low-dimensional single crystalline

semiconductor nanosheets.”- Jung-Hun Seo

PhD, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Resilience“My work investigates

the behavior and designof buildings for fire

scenarios consideringuncertainties, and

resilience of a communityafter an extreme event

such as post-earthquakefires or wildfire.”- Negar Elhami Khorasani

PhD, Princeton University

GeoenvironmentalEngineering

“My goal is to develop tools andtechnologies to store seasonalenergy and water for domestic

use with minimalenvironmental impacts.”- Kamelia Atefi Monfared

PhD, University of Waterloo

NewDEPARTMENT OF CIVIL,

STRUCTURAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL

ENGINEERING

DEPARTMENT OF MATERIALS DESIGN AND INNOVATION

DEPARTMENT OFCOMPUTER SCIENCEAND ENGINEERING

DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING

DEPARTMENT OF CHEMICAL AND BIOLOGICAL

ENGINEERING

DEPARTMENT OFBIOMEDICALENGINEERING

DEPARTMENT OFMECHANICAL AND

AEROSPACE ENGINEERING

CleanWaterways

“I investigate thesources and fate

of bacterialcontaminants incoastal waters.”

- Lauren Sassoubre PhD, Stanford

University

Materials Informatics“ By extracting physics-based

correlations from largecomputational and experimental

data spaces, I develop high-throughput models that expand

the material knowledge base.”- Scott Broderick

PhD, Iowa State University

Nanomaterials“My research and innovationsto date have had great impact

on information andcommunication technologies,national security, and energy

conversion, transmission,and storage.”- Quanxi Jia

PhD, University at Buffalo

AREAS OF FOCUSS

Advancing the hunt for new materialsToyota Research Institute (TRI) has awarded UB’sDepartment of Materials Design and Innovation (MDI) $2.4 million for materials science research that is critical tomake next generation carbon-neutral autonomousvehicles. It complements other major grants MDI hasgarnered in its inaugural year that support its novelprograms in linking experimental and computationalmaterials engineering through the tools of materialsinformatics. This includes the Materials Data EngineeringLaboratory at UB (MaDE @UB), funded by the NationalScience Foundation last fall, which converts datarepositories into data “laboratories” to accelerate theprediction of new materials and processes. MDI is acollaboration between the College of Arts and Sciencesand the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.

Harnessing big data to improve transportationA new platform to test and evaluate self-driving andconnected cars is underway at UB with a $1.7 million grantfrom the National Science Foundation’s Major ResearchInstrument Program. In partnership with Carnegie MellonUniversity, Cisco and Southwest Research Institute, UBresearchers are developing an integrated five-in-oneinstrument for Connected and Autonomous VehicleEvaluation and Experimentation (iCAVE2). The instrumentis the first of its kind, bridging the gap between existingsimulators and road testing facilities. It is particularlysuitable for answering various “what-if” questions arisingfrom human-automation interactions with not-yet-available technologies and rare/extreme events such assevere weather or emergency situations. The project is ledby the Department of Computer Science and Engineeringand includes faculty from across UB.

Now

Advanced Manufacturing Advanced Graduate CertificateA collaboration between the Departments of Industrial and Systems Engineering and Mechanical and Aerospace Engineeringengineering.buffalo.edu/advanced-manufacturing

Computational Data-enabled Science and EngineeringPhD program A collaboration between the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, College of Arts and Sciences,School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences,School of Public Health and Health Sciences, and School of Management buffalo.edu/cdse

Data and Information Fusion Industrial Engineering ME (online)A collaboration between the Departments of Industrial and Systems Engineering and Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and the Center for Multisource Information Fusionengineering.buffalo.edu/data-fusion

Data Sciences Engineering Science MSA collaboration between the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and School of Public Health and Health Professionsengineering.buffalo.edu/data-sciences

Sustainable Transportation and Logistics MS program A collaboration between the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and School of Managementbuffalo.edu/istl

Educating the work force of the future In response to the need for engineers with specialized skills, we have created

several new graduate programs in high growth areas.

The best public universities have

the strongest private support.

889 Bachelor’s

Degrees Awarded

2015-2016

53%42%

5%

705 Master’s76 Doctorates

1,859 Graduate

Students2016-2017

67%

33%

3,746 Undergraduate

63rd bestundergraduate school61st best

graduate school(US News & World Report, 2016)

210Full-time faculty

$59,000,000in research expenditures

57 Fellowsamong current faculty;

7 named in 2016 and 2017

35National Science Foundation

CAREER awards among current faculty; 8 new awards in 2016 and 2017

146Delta Society members(Fiscal Year 2015-2016)

$3,700,000+ millionin gifts and pledges(Fiscal Year 2015-2016)

32,000+ alumni in 50 states and 70 countries

AT A GLANCENumbers

School of Engineering and Applied Sciences

208 Davis Hall, Buffalo, NY 14260

Phone (716) 645-2771 | ub-seas@buffalo.edu | engineering.buffalo.edu

Developing ourinfrastructure to

support educational and research experiences

SEAS undergraduatestudents have a new placededicated just for them.Named The Stevens Centerand designed to facilitateacademic collaboration, the vibrant new area inBonner Hall features amplework areas, white boards,large video monitors andconference room amenities.The transformation wasmade possible in part by a generous donation from UB alums Scott and ColeenStevens, who consider theircontribution to be “aninvestment in the educationof future generations ofstudents.” Funding was also provided by UB’sPresident’s Circle.