Alain E. Kaloyeros
Alain E. Kaloyeros (, , born 1956, Beirut) is an American physicist and was the founding president and chief executive officer of the SUNY Polytechnic Institute in Utica, New York. Early life and education. Kaloyeros was born in Beirut to a Lebanese mother and Greek father. His family is Greek Orthodox Christian. He attended Lebanese University and graduated with a License D’Enseignement in Mathematics and Physics with honors and left Lebanon in 1980 for graduate school in Florida at the University of Miami, and he transferred to the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Kaloyeros graduated from The University of  Illinois, Urbana-Champaign with a doctorate in Experimental Condensed Matter Physics in 1987 with a perfect grade point average of 5.000/5.000. Kaloyeros has authored and co-authored over 200 scientific articles in technical journals and contributed to 8 books on topics pertaining to the science and technology of nanotechnology, nanoelectronics, nano-optoelectronics, nano-medicine, and green energy. His technical focus was in ultrathin film materials and structures, atomic layer vapor phase deposition processes, and nanoscale x-ray, electron, and photon-based characterization and metrology. He advised more than 36 Ph.D. and over 100 Masters students. His work has been referenced  in over 4,700 citations by his peers in scientific and technical publications. He was awarded 14 U.S. and international patents. Career. Kaloyeros was a professor in the University at Albany's physics department from 1988 until 2009 when the nanotechnology research center was spun-off from the department into a separate SUNY college. He was a Professor of Nanoscience at the SUNY Poly Colleges of Nanoscale Science and Engineering (CNSE) at University at Albany, SUNY. In January 2015, he was appointed the founding president of SUNY Polytechnic Institute (SUNY Poly). He served as the Executive Director of the Center of  Excellence in Nanoelectronics, the Interconnect Focus Center – New York, the Energy/Environment Technologies Applications Center, and the New York State Center for Advanced Thin Film Technology. Legal issues. In September 2016, Kaloyeros was charged with felony bid rigging. He was then suspended from his job as SUNY Polytechnic Institute's President. On July 12, 2018, Kaloyeros was found guilty of wire fraud and conspiracy in a federal trial in Manhattan. The judge, Valerie E. Caproni, scheduled the sentencing dates in October. The case is being appealed to the U.S. second circuit. Following the verdict, the State University of New York  announced that it would seek his removal from his tenured faculty position. Personal life. Kaloyeros is separated from Paula Kaloyeros and they are undergoing an amicable divorce. They have two sons, Nicholas and Alexander. He lives in Slingerlands, New York, a suburb of Albany.