Center for Analytics Research and Applications (CARA)

Photographer: Douglas Levere

Jaroslaw Zola, an assistant professor, in a new lab, the SCoRe Group wth PhD students. Zola was awarded the NSF Career grant to continue work on scalable probabilistic graphical modeling with applications to biomedical informatics. Photographer: Douglas Levere

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CARA was founded in 2018 to promote both basic and applied big data related research, as well as multidisciplinary efforts to apply data analytics to all technology and engineering fields, natural sciences, medical sciences and health, social sciences as well as arts and humanities.

Affiliated Research Labs

Directors

Varun Chandola, PhD
PhD, University of Minnesota
213 Capen Hall
Phone: (716) 645-4747
chandola@buffalo.edu
Associate Professor
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
Research Topics: Big data analytics; anomaly detection
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213 Capen Hall
Phone: (716) 645-4747
chandola@buffalo.edu
Bharat Jayaraman, PhD
PhD, University of Utah
bharat@buffalo.edu
Department Chair, 2001—2009
Professor Emeritus
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
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bharat@buffalo.edu
Oliver Kennedy, PhD
PhD, Cornell University
211 Capen Hall
Phone: (716) 645-1597
okennedy@buffalo.edu
Associate Professor
Co-Director of Graduate Studies
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
Research Topics: Databases; programming languages; user interfaces for data science; scalable compilers; managing uncertainty in data; data structures; healthy and equitable food systems
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211 Capen Hall
Phone: (716) 645-1597
okennedy@buffalo.edu
Matthew Knepley, PhD
PhD, Purdue University
211A Capen Hall
Phone: (716) 645-0747
knepley@buffalo.edu
Professor
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
Affiliated Faculty
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
Research Topics: Scalable linear and nonlinear solvers for multiphysics problems; bioelectrostatics, classical density functional theory, and molecular modeling; geophysical modeling in crustal deformation, mantle convection, and magma dynamics; scientific library development and automated scientific computing; libraries and code generation for high performance computing and GPUs; FEM and BEM discretizations
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211A Capen Hall
Phone: (716) 645-0747
knepley@buffalo.edu
Lukasz (Luke) Ziarek, PhD
PhD, Purdue University
338E Davis Hall
Phone: (716) 645-1596
lziarek@buffalo.edu
Associate Professor
Co-Director of Undergraduate Studies
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
Research Topics: Concurrency/parallelism; real-time Java; session types for distributed systems; visual debugging
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338E Davis Hall
Phone: (716) 645-1596
lziarek@buffalo.edu
Jaroslaw (Jaric) Zola, PhD
PhD, Grenoble Institute of Technology, France
209 Capen Hall
Phone: (716) 645-3187
jzola@buffalo.edu
Associate Professor
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
Research Topics: Scalable computing; high performance and parallel computing; computational biology; data-driven scientific computing
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209 Capen Hall
Phone: (716) 645-3187
jzola@buffalo.edu

Getting Here

We're located at the University at Buffalo, on the North Campus, in Capen Hall, inside the Oscar A Silverman Science and Engineering Library.

Enter the Silverman Library main entrance or find the elevator bank next to 1Capen, ride the elevator to the 2nd floor, step off the elevator, and turn right.