Dennis Andrejko is chairperson of RIT’s new Master in Architecture program. His expertise includes environmental design, energy reduction, sustainable building technology and sustainable architecture.

Dr. Callie Babbitt is an assistant professor at RIT's Golisano Institute for Sustainability. Her research involves environmental engineering and life cycle assessment.

Amit Batabyal is an expert on microeconomic issues in general and international politics with particular reference to South Asia.

He can also speak on natural resources and the environment, international economic development and international trade, South Asian politics and economics, globalization and its impact on rich and poor nations, and corruption and bribery in developing countries. Also regional economic growth and development and the management of invasive species.

He has published more than 500 books, book chapters, refereed journal articles and book reviews. Batabyal has presented research at conferences and in universities in North America, South America, Europe, Asia and Australia and won numerous national and international awards for research.

At RIT, his primary responsibilities are research, teaching and service.

Batabyal earned his bachelor's in applied economics and business management from Cornell University (1987), master's in agricultural and applied economics from University of Minnesota (1990), and Ph.D. in agricultural and resource economics from University of California at Berkeley (1994).

Alex Bitterman, Master of Architecture, Ph.D., is an associate professor of Architecture in the Golisano Institute for Sustainability at Rochester Institute of Technology.

Dr. Bitterman is an internationally recognized expert in place branding and place-based identity systems. After several years of research Dr. Bitterman has developed a taxonomy of place brands which identifies the five main types of place brands but also provides a basis for testing the efficacy of place brands. This research forms the basis of many presentations and consulting relationships around the world. His most recent work on place branding will be published in The Journal of Town & City Management in 2013.

Dr. Bitterman is the founding editor and editor-in-chief of Multi: the Journal of Responsible Architecture and Design (http://www.multi-journal.org, ISSN 1942-3527) a refereed scholarly journal serving a global audience. Multi examines issues of social responsibility as it relates to design as well as societal impact in design practice and design education. He is also a member of the editorial boards of the International Journal of Business Anthropology, Critical Studies in Men’s Fashion, and Center Working Papers Press. Bitterman is the author of Buffalo is a Cool Place to Live (May 2006 k629 Press, ISBN-13: 978-1-4116-8751-6), as well as Design Survey: a Workbook Introduction to the Design Disciplines (November 2010, Pearson, ISBN 0-536-51736-3) now in its second edition.

Previously, as Fred R. Brunkow Fellow at the University at Buffalo, Dr. Bitterman was the editor-in-chief of Intersight and oversaw the development of its first digital edition.

Dr. Bitterman is the area chair for Material and Design Culture for the Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association. He maintains an active relationship with DIS, The Danish institute for Study Abroad, as a guest lecturer and visiting design critic. He was recognized by the New York State Council for the Humanities and was named a Council Fellow in 2006.

Dr. Bitterman also investigates the effectiveness, typology and functional usability of identity and wayfinding systems for public transit systems along with his research partner, Daniel Baldwin Hess who is a member of the faculty at the University at Buffalo. His work with Dr. Hess on the identity of Bus Rapid Transit systems was recognized with honors in 2005. The team has presented highlights of their innovative research around North America, Europe, and Japan. Scholarly articles stemming from their research have been published in Disability & Society and the Journal of Public Transportation. Drs. Bitterman and Hess work with various public transit agencies across North America to develop responsible and effective public transit brands.

Dr. Bitterman recently completed a three-year research program funded by the National Endowment for the Arts to design and test a brand to identify universally designed spaces, places, products, and systems. Bitterman developed a statistical model to test the effectiveness of the innovative system, and has since presented the design and testing methodologies at the Vision Plus 12 meeting of the International Institute of Information Designers in Schwarzenberg, Austria and to other industry and government leaders around the world. Prior to joining the architecture faculty at RIT, Dr. Bitterman was a member of the faculty in RIT's College of Imaging Arts and Sciences, home to the world renowned School for American Crafts and Vignelli Center for Design Studies. Prior to coming to RIT, Bitterman was a research assistant professor at the School of Architecture & Planning at the University at Buffalo and Director for Information Design and Dissemination at the Center for Inclusive Design and Environmental Access (IDEA). The IDEA Center is a multi-million dollar research center funded by the U.S. Department of Education focusing on developing public and industry awareness and academic pedagogy to underscore the many benefits of inclusive design.

Dr. Bitterman is the proud recipient of the prestigious Richard and Virginia Eisenhart Provost’s Award for Excellence in Teaching at RIT and the Buffalo State College President’s Award for Equity and Diversity in Teaching.

Dr. Bitterman has served on 15 institute committees at RIT and has been a member of the President’s Commission for Diversity and Pluralism, the RIT Architecture Program Study Group, Institute Curriculum Committee for Sustainability, Campus Aesthetics Committee and recently completed a term on the RIT President’s ad hoc Quarter-to-Semester Transition Study Group. Until 2011, he was also a member of the board of directors for St. John’s Grace Church in Buffalo, New York.

Bitterman earned his Ph.D. in American Studies at the University at Buffalo and his dissertation, Brandtopia, surveyed the phenomenon of place branding from 1975 until the present. Bitterman also earned a Masters in Architecture from University at Buffalo.

Over the past decade, Dr. Bitterman has made more than 30 conference presentations, and various media appearances including radio and television. Commentary and interviews with Prof. Bitterman have appeared in a number of newspapers, news weeklies, and online publications.

Dr. Bitterman resides in Buffalo, New York.

Vincenzo Buonomo is a senior program manager at the Center for Excellence in Lean Enterprise in RIT’s Golisano Institute for Sustainability. He is responsible for helping companies understand and apply Lean and Lean Six Sigma implementation techniques through assessments, training workshops, focused process improvement (kaizen) events, and projects.

Buonomo has over 10 years of training and consulting experience in lean manufacturing, quality system management, facility planning and ergonomics. He has worked with over 100 companies, including small, medium and Fortune 500 customers from a variety of industries, to improve their business. Prior to joining RIT, Buonomo was an engineer in the Aerospace Quality Department at Lord Corp. in Erie, Pa., where he was responsible for projects involving statistical studies and process improvements.

Buonomo holds a M.E. degree in manufacturing engineering and a B.S. degree in industrial engineering from RIT. He is an ASQ certified quality engineer and a member of the American Society of Quality.

Julius Chiavaroli is a professor at RIT's Golisano Institute for Sustainability. His expertise includes socially responsible design, urban design and architect as developer.

Timothy Engström's research interests include Internet privacy, art and culture, health care policy and political philosophy. He has taught at RIT for over two decades and is the former chair of the Department of Philosophy.

Engström is the co-editor of the books Health Care Reform: Ethics & Politics and Rethinking Theories and Practices of Imaging. He previously taught at the University of Hawaii and holds a Ph.D. from Edinburgh University.

Tracy Freas is a senior staff engineer and team leader for the Occupational Safety and Ergonomic Excellence Program in the Golisano Institute for Sustainability at RIT. Freas provides ergonomics assessments and training to companies in New York State and has performed ergonomic and health & safety assessments and training sessions for over 70 manufacturing, retail and health care facilities, training over 700 individuals. In addition, Freas manages the Workplace Ergonomics Lab at RIT, which provides ergonomics assistance and training for the RIT community. Through this program, she has developed an office ergonomics guidelines brochure, and has provided training to office workers, custodial staff, food service, grounds crew and printing staff. Prior to joining RIT, Freas served as an office ergonomics consultant for Eastman Kodak Company, conducting over 100 ergonomics consultations. Freas also assisted in writing the company’s chair purchasing standard. Freas holds an M.S. in manufacturing management leadership and a B.S. in industrial and systems engineering, both from RIT.

Gabrielle Gaustad currently conducts research exploring the environmental and economic trade‐offs of recycling and resource recovery at end‐of‐life. Specific projects include development of a methodology for a resource recovery hierarchy comparing remanufacturing and recycling, implications of large‐scale solar production and recycling on the Si and Al markets, evaluation of upgrading technologies for improving scrap streams and properly incentivizing collection. Her expertise includes materials recycling strategies and materials science.

Daniel Goodwin is an expert in packaging science issues including transport packaging, distribution environment measurement, product fragility testing (shock and vibration tests), environmental issues, packaging dynamics and packaging economics.

He has a bachelor's and master's in packaging science from Michigan State University and a Ph.D. in Agricultural Engineering Technology from Michigan State University.

Mike Haselkorn is a senior staff engineer and team leader for the Structural & Materials Analysis Team at the National Center for Remanufacturing and Resource Recovery at Golisano Institute for Sustainability. His responsibilities include material evaluation and developing and demonstrating new cost-effective processes for material salvage. Dr. Haselkorn holds over 30 patents and has over 25 years’ industrial experience in material evaluation, product design and component manufacturing focusing on developing new applications and cost-effective manufacturing methods for ceramic, carbon, high-strength and high-temperature super alloy compositions, and stainless and high-strength steels. His expertise includes material analysis, design for remanufacture and reverse engineering.

M. Ann Howard is a professor of public policy and urban and community studies, director of RIT's University-Community Partnership and former chair of the Department of Public Policy. She also currently serves as senior associate dean of the College of Liberal Arts.

Her areas of expertise include environmental policy, the Great Lakes and community service-learning. Howard is also an expert in asset-based community development and the role of the citizen in environmental decision-making, with an emphasis on democratic process and practice.

Prior to joining RIT, Howard served as director of planning for Monroe County, NY and as director of policy and planning for the City of Camden, NJ. She holds a bachelor's in human ecology from Cornell University and a J.D. from Rutgers University.

Satish Kandlikar is the associate director of RIT's Advanced Fuel Cell Research Laboratory.

He is an expert on flow boiling, critical heat flux, fluid flow and heat transfer in microchannels, contact line heat transfer, bubble dynamics, advanced cooling techniques for microelectronic and high-heat flux devices, fluid flow in micropassages and thermal analysis.

Kandlikar is the chief editor of Handbook of Phase Change: Boiling and Condensation (Taylor and Francis, 1999) and has authored more than 80 conference and journal publications and a chapter in Compact Heat Exchanger.

He holds a bachelor's from Marathwada University, and a master's and Ph.D. from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay.

John Kerekes is an expert in the general areas of Earth observation and remote sensing. He has worked on the design, modeling, and analysis of satellite and airborne remote sensing systems for weather monitoring, land cover classification, and small object detection applications. He is particularly knowledgeable about the emerging field of hyperspectral imaging.

After a 15-year career at MIT's Lincoln Laboratory performing research on environmental and military remote sensing technologies, Dr. Kerekes came to RIT's Center for Imaging Science in the summer of 2004. He is currently conducting research in his areas of interest and teaching courses in Pattern Recognition and Synthetic Aperture Radar. He has participated in Air Force Science Advisory Board, NASA, NSF, NOAA, and DARPA review panels and advisory boards. He is currently active as a journal associate editor, conference organizer, and reviewer in remote sensing technology.

Dr. Kerekes received his B.S. in Electrical Engineering (1983), M.S. in Electrical Engineering (1986), and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering (1989), all from Purdue University.

John Klofas is a professor of criminal justice and director of the Center for Public Safety Initiatives at RIT.

Klofas is an expert in crime reduction, urbanization and youth services and is currently leading a joint crime analysis research initiative between RIT, the City of Rochester, the County of Monroe and the U.S. Attorney’s Office. The project is designed to provide better analysis of current public safety initiatives and assist law enforcement agencies in reducing recidivism and improving community based policing.

Klofas has previously served as chair of the Mayor’s Public Safety Committee for the City of Rochester and as a member of the U.S. Assistant Attorney General’s Advisory Board and the U.S. Conference of Mayors’ Understanding Crime Rates Working Group.

Benjamin N. Lawrance holds the Barber B. Conable Jr. Endowed Chair in International Studies at Rochester Institute of Technology. A graduate of Stanford University and University College London, his research interests include comparative and contemporary slavery, child trafficking, globalization, human rights, and asylum. He has published five books, the most recent on trafficking in women and children with Ohio University Press. Professor Lawrance is also a consultant on the contemporary political, social and cultural climate in West Africa and has served as an expert witness for over 180 asylum claims of West Africans in North America and Europe. He is the recipient of national and international awards, including fellowships at Yale, Harvard, the University of Notre Dame, the Rotary Foundation, and the University of California President’s Fellowship in the Humanities.

Jim Myers focuses on challenges associated with the development of natural resources, infrastructure and the related impact on human health and welfare. He spends much of his time on project implementation in the developing world. He has worked extensively on energy, water and food-systems development in post-conflict environments in southeastern Europe.

In 1998, Myers led the implementation of academic programs at the American College of Management and Technology—an RIT affiliate—in Dubrovnik, Croatia. In 2002, he helped establish the American University in Kosovo and continues to lead the RIT programs at American University in Kosovo. He is a consultant to the World Bank’s Western Balkans Energy Efficiency Assessment team and has worked on numerous development projects in the Western Balkans. He also conducts research in Haiti and serves on the board of Haiti Outreach Pwoje Espwa (H.O.P.E), a non-profit organization that provides health care and basic infrastructure in Borgne, Haiti.

Myers teaches courses in natural resource economics, environmental accounting and finance, infrastructure development and appropriate technology. Since 2002, he has received grants, contracts and foundation awards totaling more than million. He is currently director of the Center for Multidisciplinary Studies and Global Outreach Education at Rochester Institute of Technology, where he supports RIT global initiatives in Southeastern Europe, Dubai and the Caribbean. He also serves as director of the Center for Energy and Natural Resource Development at the American University in Kosovo. He earned his Ph.D. in natural resource economics from Michigan State University and his M.S. and B.S. degrees from RIT.

Nabil Nasr is an expert in sustainable design, environmentally conscious manufacturing and remanufacturing.

Since 2007, Nasr has been Assistant Provost and Director of the Golisano Institute for Sustainability. The institute focuses on cutting edge research and education in sustainable design, alternative energy development and pollution prevention, and offers one of the world's first doctoral programs in sustainability.

For over a decade Nasr has been a leader in research and development efforts in environmentally benign manufacturing and industrial sustainability. He has developed strong ties to industry through efforts to implement and improve sustainable design processes at hundreds of companies from diverse sectors. He has also spoken at numerous international conferences, chaired a number of industry-wide panels and published numerous technical papers in the field. He has served as a member of the National Research Council’s Board on Manufacturing and Engineering Design and the National Science Foundation’s Environmentally Benign Manufacturing Team.

Nasr has a B.S. in Industrial Engineering from Helwan University in Cairo, Egypt, an M.S. in Industrial and Systems Engineering from Rutgers University, an M.Eng. in Manufacturing Engineering from Penn State University and a Ph.D. in Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering from Rutgers University.

Nenad Nedadic's responsibilities include researching and developing methodologies for visualization and analysis of data collected on light armor vehicles (LAVs); developing technologies for pattern recognition and for prognostics on LAV subsystems; supporting other research initiatives in analysis; and supporting research in sensors, micro-sensors and micro-systems. His expertise includes prognostics, micro-electromechanical systems and sensors development and analysis.

Ryne Raffaelle was appointed vice president of research and associate provost for outreach programs in July 2011. A national leader in solar energy and nanotechnology development, Raffaelle previously served, from 2009 to 2011, as director of the National Center for Photovoltaics, a component of the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory. In that role he provided technical vision, strategic leadership and personnel management and led efforts to advance solar-energy technology development and general knowledge on the importance of renewable energy alternatives.

Prior to joining the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Raffaelle spent 10 years at RIT as a professor of physics and microsystems engineering. He built the Nanopower Research Laboratory into an international leader in solar cell and battery research and served as the first academic director of the Golisano Institute for Sustainability.

Raffaelle has served as a visiting scientist with NASA-Glenn Research Center and Oak Ridge National Laboratory and as an associate professor of physics and space sciences at Florida Institute of Technology. He has a Ph.D. in physics from University of Missouri Rolla and bachelor’s of science and master’s of science degrees in physics from Southern Illinois University.

James Reilly is an international expert on archival preservation. His expertise is on the preservation of library and archive materials (photographic and cinema materials, institutional collection management and the history of imaging), 19th century photography and accelerated aging methods.

Reilly works with world-renowned museums on technology supporting optimal environmental conditions for the preservation of precious artifacts and historic photographs and documents.

He can speak knowledgeably on the subjects of photograph permanence, library and archive preservation, accelerated testing, ink-jet stability, environmental assessment in museums, stability and testing of images, museum environments and history of photographic technology.

Reilly is and the director of the Image Permanence Institute and a professor in the College of Imaging Arts and Sciences. He is the author of two books on 19th century photography, the winner of a Technical Achievement Award from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the winner of Silver Light Award from the Association of Moving Image Archivists and a frequent author and lecturer.

He holds a bachelor's degree and master's in English literature and is a Woodrow Wilson Fellow.

For over two decades, Wade Robison has served as RIT's Ezra A. Hale Professor in Applied Ethics, developing research and education programs that examine the ethical considerations involved in health care, politics and government, technology development and education. Through the professorship he also directs the annual Hale Ethics Lecture Series, which brings leading philosophers and ethicists to campus to discuss issues ranging from racism to the Iraq War to new advances in biotechnology.

Robison has also conducted numerous research projects in sustainability ethics, the philosophy of technology and ethics in government and is the author or editor of eight books, including Health Care Reform: Ethics and Politics released in 2006.

Prior to joining RIT, Robison served as the chair of the Department of Philosophy at Kalamazoo College. He holds a Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Wisconsin.

Sandra Rothenberg is an associate professor of management and the director of the Saunders College Institute for Business Ethics and Social Responsibility. She teaches organizational behavior and business, government and society. She is also a research affiliate with the Printing Industry Center at RIT, the International Motor Vehicle Program, and the Harvard Global Environmental Assessment Program.

Her primary areas of expertise include corporate social responsibility, environmental and sustainable management, business and government relations and business ethics.

Rothenberg’s research primarily focuses on corporate environmental strategy and management, lean manufacturing and environmental performance, government regulation and technical innovation, international environmental management, worker participation and environmental activism within firms.

Rothenberg earned her bachelor’s degree in bioengineering from Syracuse University (1990), her masters in technology and policy from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1992) and Ph.D. in organization studies from MIT’s Sloan School of Management (1999).

Dr. Thomas W. Smith researches design and synthesis of functional polymers (ion-binding polymers, block copolymers and liquid ionic polymers). He hopes to create intelligent, sensorial materials that exhibit significant electronic, photonic, magnetic, redox or ferroelectric response characteristics.

Paul Stiebitz is currently Interim Academic Director at Golisano Institute for Sustainability. Prior teaching responsibilities within the industrial and systems engineering department included graduate courses in design project management, systems engineering, systems architecture, integrated product and process design, systems simulation and linear and nonlinear optimization.

Michael Thurston's expertise includes life cycle engineering, asset health management and product design.

Thomas Trabold is Associate Research Professor and Co-Director of the Center for Sustainable Mobility. He conducts fundamental and applied research in solid oxide fuel cells (SOFCs), proton exchange membrane fuel cells (PEMFCs) and lithium-ion batteries for electric vehicle propulsion and auxiliary power units (APUs). He also investigates use of biofuels for vehicle propulsion, on-board power generation and stationary applications, including fuel reforming to produce feedstock for fuel cells. Thomas Trabold concentrates on partnering with New York state companies to identify opportunities for energy use reduction and pollution mitigation, through recovery of waste heat, waste-to-energy conversion processes (including anaerobic digesters) and separation processes. He also advises Ph.D. and undergraduate co-op students pursuing degrees in the Golisano Institute for Sustainability, and engineering departments. Thomas Trabold has been contributing to formulation of multi-year research plans within the Center for Sustainable Mobility and New York State Pollution Prevention Institute.

Anthony Vodacek is an expert in optical sensing of the earth environment. He has expertise in environmental applications of remote sensing, aquatic optics, remote sensing of water quality and water depth, remote detection and monitoring of fire, the use of lasers for remote sensing of the environment and hyperspectral imaging.

Vodacek has authored more than 19 peer-reviewed journal articles. He is the principal investigator for over million in externally funded research grants and is an instructor and advisor at the undergraduate and graduate levels.

He earned his bachelor's degree in chemistry from the University of Wisconsin-Madison (1981) and his master's (1985) and Ph.D. (1990) in environmental engineering from Cornell University.

Dr. Anahita Williamson is Research Faculty Director at the New York State Pollution Prevention Institute at RIT's Golisano Institute for Sustainability. Her expertise include manufacturing process modification for improved material recovery and reuse, design for the environment and life-cycle assessment.

James Winebrake conducts research to determine the environmental impacts of transportation and energy use in society. He applies quantitative models to assess environmental impacts primarily related to air quality and global climate change.

Winebrake is an expert on energy technology, global warming, transportation and energy and environmental policy.

At RIT, he is dean of the College of Liberal Arts and co-director of the Lab for Environmental Computing and Decision Making. Winebrake is also director of the National Parks Service's University-National Park Energy Partnership Program.

Winebrake is the author of The Alternative Energy Reference Book and Dynamic Modeling of Environmental Systems, as well as numerous articles on transportation, energy and the environment.

Winebrake earned his B.S. in Physics from Lafayette College, his M.S. in Technology and Policy from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and his Ph.D. in Energy Management and Policy from the University of Pennsylvania.