Director of Research for the Forensic and National Security Sciences Institute (FNSSI) in the College of Arts and Sciences, Marciano recently contributed to the National Institute of Justice May 2022 Forensic Technology Center of Excellence report, "A Landscape Study Examining Technology and Automation for Differential Extraction and Sperm Separation for Sexual Assault Investigations." A subject matter expert who earned his doctorate at Syracuse, Marciano authored a section called "Syracuse University Examined the Use of the DEPArray System to Assess Challenging Sexual Assault Kit Samples."