Graduate Admissions

Introduction

The Department of Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) offers two graduate degrees:

Admission

First-year students may be admitted into either the MS or the PhD program. Normally, students with a master's degree in computer science and engineering (and some other students upon the recommendation of the Graduate Admissions Committee) are admitted directly into the PhD program.

Advisor

Upon admission, you are assigned an advisor. This person is not necessarily your "major professor" for the MS project or thesis or the PhD dissertation (as defined for Masters Students or PhD Students). When you have come to an agreement with a major professor, that person will become your advisor as well. You may request a change of advisor at any time. All students and advisors are urged to meet at least once each semester to review the student's progress and course of study.

Why Choose CSE?

Research Funding

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Our faculty averages $4.5 million annually in external research awards. We were ranked 26th among 165 U.S. PhD-granting Computer Science Departments for annual research support, according to a recent survey conducted by the National Science Foundation.
Industry Connections

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Our industry partners include: Dell, IBM Corporation, IBM Digital, Kodak, Myricom, Praxair, Q-Chem, Sarnoff, Veridian Engineering Division, and Xerox.
Bioinformatics

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At UB, you can get into one of the hottest new research fields right at the beginning. Our faculty has direct involvement in UB’s new $200 million Buffalo Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics, particularly in the high-performance computing and computational science areas of this research.
Community

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148 PhD students from 14 nations create a supportive, diverse, and dynamic environment for your work.
Cutting-Edge Research

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Our research areas span artificial intelligence, systems, and theory; they are well-funded by federal, state, and industrial sources. Our faculty work in muliti-disciplinary and newly emerging fields, such as bioinformatics, computer vision, machine learning, and robotics.
Established and Growing

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Over the past three years, we have hired six new faculty members: in algorithms, databases, data mining, electronic commerce, natural language processing, and networks. Computer science was first organized as a department at UB in 1967—one of the first in the U.S.—and merged with computer engineering in 1998 to form the present department.
Career Moves

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A degree in Computer Science or Computer Engineering opens doors to exciting and rewarding careers that command high salaries. According to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics Occupational Outlook Handbook, the median income for all computing and information technology occupations was $82,860 in May 2016.
Supercomputing

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The Center for Computational Research is considered one of the nation's leading supercomputing centers and supports high performance computing for departmental research in the areas of bioinformatics, medical image processing, virtual reality, and geographic information systems.
Research Sponsors

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Numerous world-class agencies fund our departmental research.
Centers, Labs, and Groups

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Our centers, labs, and research groups provide abundant opportunities for exploring state-of-the-art research and working with sophisticated computing facilities.
Top-Notch Faculty

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Our faculty are experts in their fields. They include award-winning researchers and teachers, members of prestigious editorial boards, and fellows of the ACM, the IEEE, and the AAAI.
A Vibrant Community

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Our graduates are hired by the best companies and research laboratories.
Multidisciplinary

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Our research options could take you to new places. Our faculty work with researchers in chemistry, the life sciences, the pharmaceutical sciences, media study, geographic information science, and other disciplines where an interface with computer science is increasingly central.
"Super" Storage

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Our MultiStore Research Group, funded by a $1 million NSF grant, is creating a 20 terabyte high-performance online data storage system. The system will be used for basic research in large-scale data sets and information visualization, as well as for research in bioinformatics, pharmacogenomics, and geographic imaging.
Document Analysis

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Our affiliated Center of Excellence for Document Analysis and Recognition (CEDAR) is one of the world’s leading centers for research on interpreting scanned images. Among other accomplishments, CEDAR developed the systems that postal agencies around the world use for automatically sorting hand-addressed mail.

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Graduate Office

Director of Graduate Admissions
Dr. Roger He
318 Davis Hall
xinhe@buffalo.edu

Director of Graduate Studies
Dr. Murat Demirbas
313 Davis Hall
demirbas@buffalo.edu

Staff Assistant
Cathy English
338R Davis Hall
cse-gradinfo@buffalo.edu

Staff Assistant
Shelly Neumaier
338V Davis Hall
cse-gradinfo@buffalo.edu

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