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Meet the new Watson School faculty for fall 2019

Three professors have joined the ranks at Binghamton University

The Innovative Technologies Center at Binghamton University's Thomas J. Watson School of Engineering and Applied Science. The Innovative Technologies Center at Binghamton University's Thomas J. Watson School of Engineering and Applied Science.
The Innovative Technologies Center at Binghamton University's Thomas J. Watson School of Engineering and Applied Science. Image Credit: Jonathan Cohen.
By Chris Kocher
October 16, 2019

Binghamton University’s Thomas J. Watson School of Engineering welcomes three new faculty members in the fall 2019 semester.

Ying Wang

Title and department

Assistant professor, biomedical engineering

Campus phone number

607-777-5781

E-mail address

yiwang@binghamton.edu

Hometown

Ningbo, China

Undergraduate institution and major

Zhejiang University, biomedical engineering

Graduate institutions and areas of study
  • Zhejiang University, biomedical engineering
  • University of California at Davis, biomedical engineering

Previous teaching/research position

Postdoctoral research associate at Cornell University

Specialty/research interests
  • Organ-on-a-chip / body-on-a-chip microphysiological systems
  • Brain cancer and degenerative diseases
  • Tissue engineering
  • Biosensing
  • Microfluidic tissue culture platforms

Honors/awards
  • 2018: Biotechnology & Bioengineering Gaden Award winning article
  • 2011: Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES) Graduate Student Design and Research Award
  • 2009-10: Howard Hughes Medicine Institute (HHMI) - Integrating Medicine into Basic Science Fellowship
Major publications
  • Wang, Y. I., & Shuler, M. L. (2018). UniChip enables long-term recirculating unidirectional perfusion with gravity-driven flow for microphysiological systems. Lab Chip, 18(17):2563 - 2574. This paper received exceptionally positive referee reports, and was selected into the “HOT articles” collection of the journal.
  • Wang, Y. I., Abaci, H. E., & Shuler, M. L. (2017). Microfluidic blood–brain barrier model provides in vivo-like barrier properties for drug permeability screening. Biotechnology and Bioengineering, 114(1), 184–194. This article won the 2018 Biotechnology & Bioengineering Gaden Award, voted best paper of the year, out of about 300 papers. It is rated as a highly cited paper, in the top 1% of the academic field of biology & biochemistry by Web of Science.

Course you are teaching

Spring 2020: Biofluid Mechanics

Hobbies

Hiking, skiing, playing badminton

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Jian Li

Title and department

Assistant professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Campus phone number

607-777-3363

E-mail address

lij@binghamton.edu

Hometown

Dalian, China

Undergraduate institution and major

Shanghai Jiao Tong University, computer engineering,

Graduate institution and area of study

Texas A&M University, computer engineering

Previous teaching/research position

Postdoctoral research associate, College of Information and Computer Sciences, University of Massachusetts Amherst

Specialty/research interests

Machine learning, online algorithms, data analytics, economics and game theory, with applications to computer networks and systems, edge and cloud computing systems, and the internet-of-things.

Honors/awards/major publications

https://sites.google.com/binghamton.edu/jianli

Courses you are teaching
  • Fall 2019: EECE 452/552 Computer Design
  • Spring 2020: EECE 580C Fundamentals of Reinforcement Learning

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Jeremy Blackburn

Title and department

Assistant professor, Department of Computer Science

Campus phone number

6070-777-4830

E-mail address

blackburn@cs.binghamton.edu

Hometown

Tampa, Fla.

Undergraduate institution and major

University of South Florida, computer science

Graduate institutions and areas of study
  • MS, University of South Florida, computer science
  • PhD, University of South Florida, computer science

Previous teaching/research positions
  • Assistant professor, Department of Computer Science, University of Alabama at Birmingham
  • Associate researcher, Telefonica Research, Barcelona, Spain

Specialty/research interests
  • Measurements
  • Data science
  • Social media
  • Social network analysis

Honors/awards/major publications
  • Distinguished Paper Award, ACM Internet Measurement Conference 2018, “On the Origins of Memes by Means of Fringe Web Communities”
  • Best Paper Award, CyberSafety 2019, “Disinformation Warfare: Understanding State-sponsored Trolls on Twitter and their Influence on the Web”
  • Best Reviewer Award, AAAI International Conference on Web and Social Media 2019
  • Best Reviewer Award, The Web Conference 2018

Courses you are teaching/expect to teach
  • Fall 2019: Data Science with Applications in Social Media
  • Spring 2020: Systems Programming

Hobbies/interests

Video games, motorsports/fast cars, football