Union College welcomes 10 new faculty members this fall as part of the 2025-26 academic year. They are:
BIOLOGY
Dylan Klure - assistant professor
Degrees: B.A. from University of Redlands; Ph.D. from University of Utah
Research/teaching interests: Detoxification physiology, ecological toxicology, evolutionary genomics, plant-herbivore interactions
CIVIL & ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING
Sara Denison - assistant professor
Degrees: B.S. from University of Texas; M.S. and Ph.D. from Rice University
Research/teaching interests: Using advanced materials to revolutionize thermal and catalytic remediation techniques to address environmental challenges more sustainably
COMPUTER SCIENCE
Georgia Doing - visiting assistant professor
Degrees: B.A. from Bard College; Ph.D. from Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth
Research/teaching interests: Interpretable, unsupervised machine learning, mining gene expression data, microbiomes, genomic, bioinformatics, ML/AI, data analytics
ECONOMICS
Murilo Silva - visiting assistant professor
Degrees: B.S. and M.S. from Federal University of Ceara; Ph.D. from University of California, Riverside
Research/teaching interests: Macroeconomics, finance, applied econometrics, climate change
Thao Duong - assistant professor
Degrees: B.A. from Kalamazoo College; Ph.D. from Texas A&M University
Research/teaching interests: Industrial organization, applied microeconomics, energy and environmental economics
ELECTRICAL, COMPUTER AND BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING
Umair Mohammed - assistant professor
Degrees: B.S.E.E and M.S from King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals; Ph.D. from University of Idaho
Research/teaching interests: ML algorithm development, ML/AI-based bioinformatics, distributed ML at the edge, distributed edge architectures for big data
LIBRARY
Meghan Willis - records management librarian
Degrees: B.A. from Binghamton University; M.A. and M.S. from University at Albany
MECHANICAL ENGINEERING
Maahi Talukder - visiting assistant professor
Degrees: B.S. from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology; M.S. from Clarkson University; Ph.D. from Virginia Tech
Research/teaching interests: Computational modeling and simulation of biomechanical systems
Tengteng Tang - assistant professor
Degrees: B.Eng. from Hefei University of Technology; M.S. and Ph.D. from Arizona State University
Research/teaching interests: Biomimetic design and manufacturing, advanced functional composite materials, multi-physics simulation and machine learning analysis, multi-scale and multi-material electrically assisted 3D printing
PHYSICS AND ASTRONOMY
Pravini Fernando - assistant professor
Degrees: B.S. from University of Colombo; Ph.D. from Binghamton University
Research/teaching interests: Organic photovoltaics (OPVs)
