The SyracuseCoE Faculty Fellows Program provides seed funding for research in SyracuseCoE’s core technical areas of clean and renewable energy, indoor environmental quality and water resources.
The program promotes new research that will lead to future opportunities, including funding from federal agencies or commercial sources. Beginning in 2015, the program has supported 59 researchers with 87 awards with approximately $923,500 in project funding. Members are appointed to a three-year term as a SyracuseCoE Faculty Fellow and have opportunities to engage with cross-disciplinary faculty or industry members.
The Faculty Fellows Program is open to full-time faculty members at SyracuseCoE’s current academic Partner institutions: Syracuse University, SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry (SUNY-ESF), SUNY Upstate Medical University and SUNY Oswego.
The following faculty members have been closely engaged in research with SyracuseCoE and have been designated as Faculty Fellows. Click on a Researcher’s name to learn more about their projects and areas of focus.
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Click on a name to learn more about their research, projects and areas of focus.
Jeongmin Ahn
Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, College of Engineering & Computer Science, Syracuse University
Focus Areas: Advanced energy conversions; fuel cells; batteries; combustion; thermal management; powerMEMS
Ben Akih-Kumgeh
Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, College of Engineering & Computer Science, Syracuse University
Focus Areas: Combustion physics and chemistry; fuel technology; thermodynamic analysis of energy systems
Amber Bartosh
Assistant Professor, School of Architecture, Syracuse University
Focus Areas: Resilient architecture; integrated façade systems; responsive environment simulation via virtual and augmented reality
Tristan Brown
Associate Professor, Forest and Natural Resources Management, SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry
Focus Areas: Sustainable energy law & policy; bioenergy systems analysis; techno-economic analysis; climate policy
Biljana Bujanovic
Associate Professor and Associate Chair, Paper and Bioprocess Engineering, SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry
Focus Areas: Lignocellulosics in pulp, paper and biorefinery industry; lignin isolation, characterization and valorization
Tomislav Bujanovic
Associate Teaching Professor, College of Engineering & Computer Science, Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, Syracuse University
Focus Areas: Sustainable microgrid infrastructure with renewable energy sources; microgrid secure communication and cybersecurity
Don Carr
Professor, College of Visual and Performing Arts, School of Design, Syracuse University
Focus Areas: Biomimicry; biophilia
Elizabeth Carter
Assistant Professor, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, College of Engineering & Computer Science, Syracuse University
Focus Areas: Disaster response and mitigation; hydrometerology and hydroclimatology; detection of water from space; space/time statistics; machine learning; high-performance computing
Jiajue Chai
Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry
Focus Areas: Indoor air quality; optical spectroscopy and mass spectroscopy; reactive nitrogen cycling; wildfire smoke chemistry and urban air quality
David Chandler
Associate Professor, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, College of Engineering & Computer Science, Syracuse University
Focus Areas: Hydrology; climate change; green infrastructure; sustainable development
Heather Coleman
Associate Professor, Biology, Biotechnology, College of Arts & Sciences, Syracuse University
Focus Areas: Genetic and environmental control of cell wall formation; xylogenesis; plant biotechnology; molecular farming; functional genomics
Judy Crawford
Visiting Researcher, SUNY Upstate Medical University
Focus Areas: Air sampling; atmospheric pollution; environmental analysis; health risk assessment
Paul Crovella
Assistant Professor, Forest and Natural Resources Management, SUNY College of Environmental Science & Forestry
Focus Areas: Sustainable construction; environmental performance measure for buildings; sustainable energy systems for buildings; historic preservation
Thong Dang
Professor, Graduate Affairs Committee Chair, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Graduate Program Director, College of Engineering & Computer Science, Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, Syracuse University
Focus Areas: Fluid Mechanics; aerodynamics; propulsion; turbomachine; energy and indoor environmental quality
Cliff Davidson
Thomas C. and Colleen L. Wilmot Professor of Engineering, Environmental Engineering Program Director, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, College of Engineering & Computer Science, Syracuse University
Focus Areas: Factors influencing municipal government decisions to adopt or reject green infrastructure for stormwater management; monitoring the performance of green infrastructure; deposition of atmospheric particles onto urban hardscape such as building roofs
Jason Dedrick
Professor, School of Information Studies, Syracuse University
Focus Areas: Smart grid adoption by electric utilities; economic impacts and job creation in the wind energy industry
Theodore S. Dibble
Professor, Chemistry, SUNY College of Environmental Science & Forestry
Focus Areas: Chemistry of the atmosphere; combustion; irradiation; atmospheric mercury
Bing Dong
Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, College of Engineering & Computer Science, Syracuse University
Focus Areas: Grid-interactive efficient buildings; buildings-to-grid integration; intelligent building operation; modeling occupant behavior in buildings
Charles Driscoll
University Professor of Environmental Systems and Distinguished Professor, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, College of Engineering & Computer Science, Syracuse University
Focus Areas: Aquatic chemistry; acid rain; biogeochemistry; climate change science and engineering; ecosystem restoration; stormwater management; health impacts of climate change
Sara Eftekharnejad
Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, College of Engineering & Computer Science, Syracuse University
Focus Areas: Integration of renewable energy into power systems; power system stability and control; power system reliability and security
Nosa Egiebor
Environmental Resources Engineering, SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry
Focus Areas: Environmental science and engineering in energy and natural resources exploitation, processing and utilization
John Hassett
Professor, Chemistry, SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry
Focus Areas: Behavior of organic chemicals in the environment
Gregory Hoke
Assistant Professor, Department of Earth Sciences, College of Arts and Sciences, Syracuse University
Focus Areas: Tectonic geomorphology; interactions between landscapes; climate and tectonics; isotopic records of terrestrial surface conditions
Ian Hosein
Assistant Professor, Department of Biomedical& Chemical Engineering, College of Engineering & Computer Science, Syracuse University
Focus Areas: Materials synthesis and processing; sustainable energy production and storage; environmental remediation and water resource protection; stimuli-responsive and smart materials
Mohammad Islam
Associate Professor, Physics, SUNY Oswego
Focus Areas: Nanoparticle synthesis; electrodeposition; spectroscopy
Chris Johnson
Associate Provost for Academic Affairs, Professor, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, College of Engineering & Computer Science, Syracuse University
Focus Areas: Soil chemistry; biogeochemical processes in terrestrial ecosystems; chemistry of natural organic matter; trace metals in the environment
H. Ezzat Khalifa
NYSTAR Distinguished Professor, Department of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, College of Engineering & Computer Science, Syracuse University
Focus Areas: Personalized environmental control systems; transport in microenvironments; distributed energy-efficient control of indoor environments; cooling and energy supply systems for high-efficiency data centers
Meng Kong
Research Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, College of Engineering & Computer Science, Syracuse University
Focus Areas: Building environmental and energy management and control
Bess Krietemeyer
Assistant Professor, School of Architecture, Syracuse University
Focus Areas: Urban energy visualization and design decision-making tools; building envelope technologies and simulations for human interaction and design; virtual and augmented reality energy simulations
Deepak Kumar
Assistant Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry
Focus Areas: Bio-based circular economy; novel fermentation technologies; enzyme application and kinetics; modeling and multi-objective optimization of biological and chemical processes; techno-economic analysis (TEA) and life cycle assessment (LCA)
Gyu Leem
Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry, SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry
Focus Areas: Photoelectrocatlaysis; chemoselective C-C/C-O bond cleavage; degradation of hazardous chemicals in wastewater/drinking water; novel synthetic polymerization methods
Zunli Lu
Associate Professor, Department of Earth Sciences, College of Arts & Sciences, Syracuse University
Focus Areas: Freshwater quality; hydrological tracers; climate change; geochemistry
Robert W. Malmsheimer
Professor and Associate Chair, Forest and Natural Resources Management, SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry
Focus Areas: Land-use policies; energy policy
Shalabh Maroo
Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, College of Engineering & Computer Science, Syracuse University
Focus Areas: Energy and thermal management; water desalination and filtration; bio-mechanical systems
Jaime Mirowsky
Assistant Professor, Chemistry, SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry
Focus Areas: Health effects of air pollutants and non-pollutant stressors
Daekwon Park
Assistant Professor, School of Architecture, Syracuse University
Focus Areas: The intersection of design, material technology and environmental science, and its impact on the built environment
Zhao Qin
Assistant Professor, Civil & Environmental Engineering, College of Engineering & Computer Science, Syracuse University
Focus Areas: Developing advanced computational modeling methods; designing new materials of advanced mechanical functions
Quinn Qiao
Professor, Department of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, College of Engineering & Computer Science, Syracuse University
Focus Areas: Solar cells; batteries; biomedical sensors; precision agriculture; micro/nano fabrication
Roxanne Razavi
Assistant Professor, Environmental Biology, SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry
Focus Areas: Ecotoxicology; limnology; environmental toxicology; mercury
Suresh Santanum
Associate Professor, Director of Industrial Assessment Center, Department of Biomedical & Chemical Engineering, College of Engineering & Computer Science, Syracuse University
Focus Areas: Built environment energy and indoor air quality (IAQ) improvement studies; health effects due to indoor air contaminants; indoor-outdoor contributions to IAQ
Usha Satish
Professor, Psychiatry and Behavior Sciences, SUNY Upstate Medical University
Focus Areas: Indoor air quality (IAQ), human factors, productivity and evaluation of cognition; complexity theory; stimulation technology
Fritz H. Schlereth
Associate Research Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, College of Engineering & Computer Science, Syracuse University
Focus Areas: Instrumentation; FPGA applications; software-defined radio
Ralf Schneider
Assistant Professor, Industrial and Interaction Design, College of Visual and Performing Arts, Syracuse University
Focus Areas: Applying design thinking in solving complex problems with interdisciplinary teams; exploring opportunities in virtual, augmented and mixed reality technology
James Spencer
Laura J. and L. Douglas Meredith Professor, Department of Chemistry, College of Arts & Sciences, Syracuse University
Focus Areas: Inorganic chemistry; organometallic chemistry; materials chemistry and solid-state science; new sensor development; forensic science
Art Stipanovic
Professor Emeritus, Chemistry, SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry
Focus Areas: Conversion of renewable “woody” biomass for the production of fuels, chemicals and biodegradable materials
Wendong Tao
Associate Professor, Environmental Resources Engineering, SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry
Focus Areas: Ecological engineering and sustainable wastewater treatment; environmental engineering and resource recovery from bioresidues
Svetoslava Todorova
Professor of Practice and Environmental Engineering Program Director, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, College of Engineering & Computer Science, Syracuse University
Focus Areas: Transport, cycling, and bioaccumulation of metals in aquatic environments; sustainable engineering practices in built and natural environments; urban stormwater management; smart sensing for monitoring water and air quality; science for policy formation and effective implementation
Senem Velipasalar
Associate Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, College of Engineering & Computer Science, Syracuse University
Focus Areas: Computer vision; video/image processing; embedded smart cameras; multi-camera multi-object tracking
Tim Volk
Senior Research Associate and Associate Chair, College of Forest and Natural Resources Management, SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry
Focus Areas: Biomass; sustainable energy; environmental science; short-rotation forestry systems; bioenergy; agroforestry; phytoremediation; international forestry
Peter Wilcoxen
Ajello Professor in Energy and Environmental Policy, Laura J. and L. Douglas Meredith Professor for Teaching Excellence, Director for Center for Environmental Policy and Administration, Senior Reseach Associate for Center for Policy Research, Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University
Focus Areas: Climate change; energy policy; environment and development; environmental economics and policy; indoor air quality; international trade and the environment
Nina Wilson
Assistant Professor, School of Architecture, Syracuse University
Focus Areas: Design technologies for resilience in buildings and infrastructure; net-zero deep energy retrofit systems; modular environmental controls design, simulation and visualization tools
Yaqi You
Assistant Professor, Environmental Resources Engineering, SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry
Focus Areas: Environmental microbiology and biotechnology; antibiotic resistome and mobilome; environmental health and pathogen exposure; sustainable food-energy-water nexus; sustainable nanotechnology
Teng Zeng
Assistant Professor, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, College of Engineering & Computer Science, Syracuse University
Focus Areas: Fate and transformation of emerging organic contaminants; formation and control of disinfection byproducts; harmful algal blooms; water quality; physical and chemical treatment processes; environmental impacts of energy production
Jianshun “Jensen” Zhang
Professor, Department of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, College of Engineering & Computer Science, Syracuse University
Focus Areas: Material emissions; indoor environmental quality; air purification; indoor air quality; hygrothermal performance of building materials and enclosure systems; combined heat, air, moisture and pollutant simulations (CHAMPS)
Weiwei Zheng
Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry, College of Arts & Sciences, Syracuse University
Focus Areas: Nanomaterials; solid state chemistry; inorganic chemistry; physical chemistry; biophysics; photocatalysis
SyracuseCoE is a unit of Syracuse University’s Office of Research. Awards under the Faculty Fellows Program are made possible by funding to support SyracuseCoE activities awarded by Empire State Development’s Division of Science, Technology and Innovation (NYSTAR).