CNSE Spotlight: June 2024

This regular update for CNSE showcases accomplishments from faculty, students, and alumni for the University at Albany's College of Nanotechnology, Science and Engineering. 

Research Announcements & Partnerships

$1 Million Awarded to Md. Aynul Bari, Dr. Elias Dueker (Bard College), Dr. Brian Pavilonis (CUNY School of Public Health), and co-PIs Scott Miller and Sarah Lu for EPA Air Monitoring Projects throughout the Capital Region, Hudson Valley Region, and New York City. 

Awards

• Received $392,819 for "REU Site: Atmospheric Research and Engineering Solutions for Climate Change and Environmental Challenges," Md. Aynul Bari
• Received $319,556 for "HCC: Small: Toward Computational Modeling of Autism Spectrum Disorder: Multimodal Data Collection, Fusion, and Phenotyping," Xin Li
• Received $500,000 for "Creating an sxRNA Organoid Product for Advancing the Study, Prevention and Treatment of Alzheimer's disease (AD) and Alzheimer's-disease-related dementias (ADRD)," Scott Tenenbaum with Janet Paluh

Invited Talks & Conferences

• IEEE International Conference on Big Data: Wenting Qi, Charalampos Chelmis, "Robust Learning with Noisy Label Detection and Counterfactual Correction"
• IEEE International Conference on Big Data, Wenting Qi, Charalampos Chelmis, "Label Denoising and Counterfactual Explanation with A Plug and Play Framework"
• IEEE INFOCOM'24, Karyn Doke and Andrew Okoro (Students from University at Albany); Amin Zare (KU Leuven, Belgium); Mariya Zheleva (Faculty, Computer Science), "Establishing the link between spectrum sensor capabilities and data analytics performance"

Newsworthy

• "Advances in CHO Cell Line Development for Biotherapeutics" in Technology Networks features Susan Sharfstein (by Alison Halliday)
• Prof. Pradeep Atrey was recognized for outstanding contributions as Technical Program Chair at the 31st ACM Int. Conf. on Multimedia (ACMMM23) in Ottawa, Canada.

Journal Publications