Department of Computer Science and Engineering

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Fast Facts

#30
in the US
Computer Science and Engineering Program 2019-2022 national ranking
Source: CSRankings.org
#50
in the US
Computer Engineering Program 2022 national ranking
Up from #66 in 2021
Source: U.S. News & World Report
57
Faculty
136
PhD candidates
892
MS candidates
1,792
Undergraduate student majors
60
Nations represented by CSE students
1967
Established Since

Latest News

How Kourtney Brown balanced Hall of Fame athletics career with computer engineering
11/30/22
Kourtney Brown became the women’s basketball team’s all-time leader in points while earning a dual degree in computer science and engineering and electrical engineering.
UB to make cloud computing containers more secure with new federal grant
11/23/22
Researchers will try to make containers that are both efficient and secure with a two-year grant from the National Centers of Academic Excellence in Cybersecurity, located within the National Security Agency.
UB in Top 25 for international students
11/17/22
The Institute of International Education ranked UB No. 25 in its latest census, “The Open Doors 2022 Report on International Educational Exchange. UB ranked No. 27 on the list the previous two years.
Fact check: Image of Mars is digital rendering, not photograph
11/17/22
USA Today quoted Siwei Lyu, SUNY Empire Innovation professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, for a story about the ability of the Perseverance rover and the Ingenuity helicopter to capture high-resolution digital images from Mars.
Deepfake expert to present free talk at Buffalo Museum of Science
11/11/22
Siwei Lyu, one of the world’s leading experts on deepfakes, will present a free demonstration on how to detect fraudulent videos on Nov. 19 at 12 p.m. in the auditorium of the Buffalo Museum of Science.

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Computer Science and Engineering Research Areas

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Natural Language Processing
10/25/21
Focuses on developing fundamental techniques, prototype systems and applications in natural language processing and information retrieval.
Society and Computing
10/28/21
Computing is ubiquitous in society today. Computing touches all aspects of our lives and sometimes in ways that are not beneficial (even though the intent of the developer is not to cause harm). What has become clear is that we cannot develop systems for society without meaningful and deep collaborations with disciplines that have thought about society for much longer than computing. The challenge is to incorporate knowledge from humanistic studies from day one in the design of computing systems.
Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning and Data Mining
10/25/21
Artificial Intelligence (AI) researchers now predict that computers will be able to perform tasks that were once considered the prerogative of human beings.
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
10/25/21
Focuses on developing highly efficient algorithms and techniques for a wide range of problems (such as automatic analysis of biomedical images, computer-assisted diagnosis, treatment planning, protein-protein interaction network analysis, protein structure prediction, computational analysis and interpretation of Genomes, evolutionary studies of Genomic ORFans, and spatial positioning patterns of the cell nucleus) arising in smart hospital, smart healthcare, precision medicine, genomics, proteomics, and microarray analysis.
Edge Computing and Embedded Systems and Robotics
10/29/21
Hardware and software co-design on embedded/ASIC computing performance optimization.
Mobile Computing
11/4/22
Mobile systems research focuses on the design and implementation of next-generation systems for mobile devices. Research topics include mobile data management, wireless networks, sensing systems, static analysis and instrumentation for mobile apps, mobile image and video analytics, and secure and low-power hardware for mobile devices.
Computer Architecture and Hardware
10/25/21
Hardware and software issues from the circuit to the system have three main foci: Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) circuits and systems, computer architecture, and computer security.
Computer Security and Cryptography
10/27/21
Focuses on applied cryptography, authentication, software and system security, threat modeling, anomaly detection, wireless security, cloud security, human-centered security, differential privacy and empirical cyber security.
Computer Vision
10/25/21
Algorithms for computer vision have a close relationship to methods of pattern recognition and machine learning.
Computing Education
10/25/21
Focuses on expanding approaches to teaching computing at all levels (K-12 and University) and the outreach to promote computing majors and careers.
Human-Computer Interaction
10/25/21
Human-computer interaction (HCI) is a multidisciplinary field of study focusing on the design of computer technology, in particular, the interaction between humans (the users) and computers. HCI researchers observe the ways humans interact with computers and design technologies that allow humans to interact with computers in novel ways.
Operating Systems
10/25/21
Focuses on developing innovative system software and programming techniques to manage computer hardware, software resources, and common software-mediated services.
Algorithms and Complexity
10/25/21
Computer science theory assesses which problems are possible and feasible to solve through theories of computability, undecidability, complexity, reducibility, and approximability.
High-Performance Computing
10/25/21
Focuses on efficient experimental and theoretical solutions to problems on state-of-the-art computational systems consisting of large numbers of computational elements, including clouds, clusters, grids, networks-of-workstations, massively parallel supercomputers, and GPU-based systems.
Information Integrity
9/21/22
One of the biggest challenges we face in society today is ensuring that the information that we depend on in almost every facet of our lives is accurate and trustworthy. Wide-spread distortions of the truth, in the form of misinformation, disinformation, and malinformation, undermine public trust in critical democratic institutions and the validity of scientific evidence, and authentic communication. Information Integrity aims to restore trustworthiness by authenticating information and exposing manipulations and malicious intents.
Programming Languages and Software Engineering
10/25/21
Programming Language research focuses on type systems, program logics, language-based and differential privacy and security; language, compiler, and run-time design for reliable systems; static and dynamic analyses for real-time Android; run-time visualization and verification; adaptive memory management; language concepts for database programming; logic- and constraint-based systems.
Databases and Data Science
10/25/21
Algorithms for data mining have a close relationship to methods of pattern recognition and machine learning. Focuses on developing fundamental techniques, prototype systems and applications in databases and data science.
Distributed Systems and Networks
10/25/21
Research in networking and distributed systems focuses on enabling communication of and orchestrating coordination of a large number of computing nodes.

Computer Science [and Engineering] Timeline

Highlights from the Department of Computer Science (CS) and the Department of Computer Science and Engineering (CSE). See the full timeline!

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CSE 50 1967-2017
11/4/22
Click here to see our entire timeline of the first 50 years of Computer Science and Engineering at UB.
Ridge Lea
11/4/22
UB assigns us our first home on the Ridge Lea Campus.
Milestone: 5 Faculty
11/4/22
The Computer Science Department at the University at Buffalo is formed within the Faculty of Engineering and Applied Sciences (FEAS).
Grad Programs at Inception
11/4/22
University course catalogs first describe our Master of Science and Doctor of Philosophy programs.
Milestone: 10 Faculty
11/4/22
We achieve the ten faculty member milestone.
Chess-Playing Graphical Computer
11/4/22
Nick Findler buys a chess-playing graphical computer with NSF funds, beginning a long departmental tradition of incorporating games into our research.
Buffalo buffalo Buffalo
11/4/22
William J. Rapaport popularizes the grammatically-parsable phrase, "Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo".
Medical Image Processing Group
11/4/22
Gabor T. Herman develops a world-renowned Medical Image Processing Group from 1969 to 1981.
No More Punchcards
11/4/22
We buy a Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) VAX 11/750 minicomputer.
Bell Hall
11/4/22
We take up residence in Bell Hall, placing us in the center of North Campus activity and culture.
Milestone: 15 Faculty
11/4/22
We achieve the 15 (actually 16) faculty member milestone.
First Grad Conference
11/4/22
Jim Geller (PhD, '88) organizes our first annual grad conference to give our grad students a forum to show off their current research.
Milestone: 20 Faculty
11/4/22
We achieve the 20 faculty member milestone.
CEDAR
11/4/22
Sargur (Hari) Srihari founds the Center of Excellence for Document Analysis and Recognition (CEDAR).
25th Anniversary
11/4/22
We celebrate our 25th anniversary with a banquet and a symposium.
CCS
11/4/22
The university establishes a multidisciplinary Center for Cognitive Science, uniting computer science with cognitive psychology disciplines.
Milestone: 25 Faculty
11/4/22
We achieve the 25 (actually 26) faculty member milestone.
CS + CE = CSE
11/4/22
The Department of Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) is born!
Milestone: 30 Faculty
11/4/22
The merger accelerates us past the 30 faculty member milestone. Between '97 and '98, we grow from 26 to 33 faculty.
CCR
11/4/22
Russ Miller founds the Center for Computational Research, the university supercomputer cluster that has the capability of processing 60 billion operations per second.
Milestone: 35 Faculty
11/4/22
We enter the 2000s with 36 faculty.
CEISARE
11/4/22
Shambhu Upadhyaya founds the Center of Excellence in Information Systems Assurance Research and Education (CEISARE).
CUBS
11/4/22
Venu Govindaraju founds the Center for Unified Biometrics and Sensors (CUBS).
40th Anniversary
11/4/22
We convened at the Ramada Hotel and Conference Center to celebrate our 40th anniversary.
Davis Hall
11/4/22
Davis Hall—Our brand-new, state-of-the-art departmental headquarters.
Milestone: 40 Faculty
11/4/22
We begin Fall 2015 with a strength of 40 faculty.
50th Anniversary
11/4/22
The Department of Computer Science and Engineering celebrates its 50th anniversary.