CSE students watch Super Bowl LIII in Davis 101
Super Bowl Viewing Party!
2/4/19

CSE graduate students and faculty gathered for the first annual Super Bowl viewing party, complete with expert commentary and explanation by SEAS undergraduate Alex, a die-hard Patriots fan.  The game was a little boring, but the pizza, wings, friends, and commercials made it a night to remember.

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SUNY Empire Innovation Professor (EIP)
11/6/18

Now recruiting prominent leaders in the fields of artificial intelligence or robotics systems (full professors or senior associate professors).  These positions are sponsored by the SUNY Empire Innovation Program.  See our complete position description and apply today!

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Excelsior!
11/6/18

Our research ranking is trending ever upward! In the last decade, we've risen from 50th in the nation to 29th.  See the ranking methodology here.

Group photo of Students from the Class of 2018 at the CSE Commencement Banquet
Congratulations to the Class of 2018!
6/4/18

The Department of Computer Science and Engineering held its Class of 2018 Commencement Dinner and Awards Ceremony on Friday, May 18, 2018.

CSE 50th Anniversary Banner Signing
CSE 50th Anniversary Banner Signing
10/13/17

A champagne toast kicks off our anniversary celebrations in high style! UB leadership gathers to sign our CSE 50th Anniversary banner.  Pictured are: CSE Department Chair Chunming Qiao, SEAS Dean Liesl Folks, UB Provost Chip Zukoski, and UB President Satish Tripathi.  See our commemorative web page and slideshow.

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Cutting-Edge Research
6/26/17
Our research spans artificial intelligence, systems, and theory, and it is well funded by federal, state, and industryl sources. Our faculty work in muliti-disciplinary and newly emerging fields. The possibilities are endless.
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Donate to CSE
10/9/17

Your support allows bright, hard-working students to fulfill their dreams and complete their degrees through scholarships.

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Established and Growing
6/26/17
We are hiring new faculty with in-demand expertise. Our enrollments are on the rise and we have grown into the largest department within the UB School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.
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Mayor Proclaims CSE Month
9/15/17

Buffalo Mayor Byron W. Brown proclaims October 2017 "Computer Science and Engineering Month" in the City of Buffalo.

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Top-Notch Faculty
9/13/18
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.
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Research Highlights

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Faces & Voices

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Research Areas

  • Computer Science Education
    Computing Education
    1/4/18
    Focuses on expanding approaches to teaching computing at all levels (K-12 and University) and the outreach to promote computing majors and careers. Addressing retention, diversity, and persistence in computing through educational approaches are targeted. Overall, the objective is developing a skilled and diverse workforce in computing for the future.
  • Theory and Algorithms
    Theory and Algorithms
    6/28/17
    Complexity theory is a mathematical discipline that classifies computational problems by relative difficulty and measures the computational resources needed to solve them.
  • Mobile Systems
    Mobile Systems
    1/5/18
    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.
  • Databases and Information Retrieval
    Databases and Information Retrieval
    1/4/18
    Focuses on developing fundamental techniques, prototype systems and applications in databases and information retrieval.
  • Medical Applications and Bioinformatics
    Medical Applications and Bioinformatics
    1/5/18
    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. Techniques used in this area are often from algorithms, computational geometry, computer vision, machine learning, data analytics, internet of things (IoT), and high performance computing.
  • Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
    Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
    1/5/18
    Artificial Intelligence (AI) researchers now predict that computers will be able to perform tasks that were once considered the prerogative of human beings.  They include tasks such as driving trucks,  translating languages, writing high school essays, creating art, analyzing forensic evidence, and even work as a surgeon.  Although some of these goals are predicted to happen over several decades, AI is concerned with  principles and algorithms that allow researchers to make such bold predictions.  Current methods focus on variants of deep learning-- such as convolutional nets, recurrent nets, autoencoders and adversarial networks-- as well as on the methods of probabilistic graphical models.
  • Distributed Systems and Networks
    Distributed Systems and Networks
    1/5/18
    Research in networking and distributed systems focuses on enabling communication of and orchestrating coordination of a large number of computing nodes. It spans the areas of cloud computing, big data computing, and wireless and mobile computing.
  • Programming Languages and Software Systems
    Programming Languages and Software Systems
    1/5/18
    Programmming 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.
  • Hardware and Architecture
    Hardware and Architecture
    1/8/18
    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 Information Assurance
    Computer Security and Information Assurance
    1/5/18
    Focuses on applied cryptography, authentication, threat modeling, anomaly detection, wireless security, cloud security, human-centered security, differential privacy and empirical cyber security.
  • Cyber-Physical Systems (Internet of Things)
    Cyber-Physical Systems (Internet of Things)
    1/5/18
    Focuses on the interplay between multiple elements of cyber technologies (such as sensing, computing, communications and control), and physical systems or processes (including infrastructures such as transportation and power) as well as human factors.
  • HPC and Computational Science
    High Performance Computing and Computational Science
    1/8/18
    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.  Efficient solutions are developed to solve fundamental operations, as well as large scientific problems that require expertise in computer science, mathematics, and scientific or engineering disciplines.
  • Data Mining and Data Science
    Data Mining and Data Science
    1/5/18
    Algorithms for data mining have a close relationship to methods of pattern recognition and machine learning.
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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!

  • CSE 50 1967-2017
    CSE 50 1967-2017
    7/17/18

    Click here to see our entire timeline of the first 50 years of Computer Science and Engineering at UB.

  • Entry way to the Ridge Lea Campus
    Ridge Lea
    7/17/18

    UB assigns us our first home on the Ridge Lea Campus. 

  • computer science students work on keypunches
    Milestone: 5 Faculty
    7/17/18

    The Computer Science Department at the University at Buffalo is formed within the Faculty of Engineering and Applied Sciences (FEAS).

  • UB tuition and fees, Academic Year 1967-1968
    Grad Programs at Inception
    7/17/18

    University course catalogs first describe our Master of Science and Doctor of Philosophy programs.

  • Faculty in 1970
    Milestone: 10 Faculty
    7/17/18

    We achieve the ten faculty member milestone.

  • Playing chess on a computer in 1972
    Chess-Playing Graphical Computer
    7/17/18

    Nick Findler buys a chess-playing graphical computer with NSF funds, beginning a long departmental tradition of incorporating games into our research.

  • image of Buffalo
    Buffalo buffalo Buffalo
    7/17/18

    William J. Rapaport popularizes the grammatically-parseable phrase, "Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo".

  • processing medical images on a computer in 1975
    Medical Image Processing Group
    7/17/18

    Gabor T. Herman develops a world-renowned Medical Image Processing Group from 1969 to 1981. 

  • Alt text for mini computer
    No More Punchcards
    7/17/18

    We buy a Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) VAX 11/750 minicomputer. 

  • Bell Hall exterior
    Bell Hall
    9/12/18

    We take up residence in Bell Hall, placing us in the center of North Campus activity and culture.

  • collage of CSE faculty in 1985
    Milestone: 15 Faculty
    7/17/18

    We achieve the 15 (actually 16) faculty member milestone.

  • alt text for first grad conference
    First Grad Conference
    7/17/18

    Jim Geller (PhD, '88) organizes our first annual grad conference to give our grad students a forum to show off their current research.

  • collage of CSE faculty in 1989
    Milestone: 20 Faculty
    7/17/18

    We achieve the 20 faculty member milestone.

  • portrait of Dr. Sargur Srihari
    CEDAR
    7/17/18

    Sargur (Hari) Srihari founds the Center of Excellence for Document Analysis and Recognition (CEDAR).

  • Newspaper article from 1992 describing CSE 25th Anniversary
    25th Anniversary
    7/17/18

    We celebrate our 25th anniversary with a banquet and a symposium.

  • image of the brain courtesy of the Center for Cognitive Science
    CCS
    7/17/18

    The university establishes a multidisciplinary Center for Cognitive Science, uniting computer science with cognitive psychology disciplines.

  • collage of CSE faculty in 1997
    Milestone: 25 Faculty
    7/17/18

    We achieve the 25 (actually 26) faculty member milestone.

  • CSE logo from 1998
    CS + CE = CSE
    7/17/18

    The Department of Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) is born!

  • collage of CSE faculty in 1998
    Milestone: 30 Faculty
    7/17/18

    The merger accelerates us past the 30 faculty member milestone. Between '97 and '98, we grow from 26 to 33 faculty.

  • Russ Miller
    CCR
    7/17/18

    Russ Miller founds the Center for Computational Research, the university supercomputer cluster that has the capability of processing 60 billion operations per second.

  • collage of CSE faculty in 2000
    Milestone: 35 Faculty
    7/17/18

    We enter the 2000s with 36 faculty.

  • Shambhu Upadhyaya in his computer lab
    CEISARE
    7/17/18

    Shambhu Upadhyaya founds the Center of Excellence in Information Systems Assurance Research and Education (CEISARE).

  • Ifeoma Nwogu, Ranga Setlur, Venu Govindaraju, Ricardo Rodriguez
    CUBS
    7/17/18

    Venu Govindaraju founds the Center for Unified Biometrics and Sensors (CUBS).

  • CSE 40th Anniversary Logo
    40th Anniversary
    7/17/18

    We convened at the Ramada Hotel and Conference Center to celebrate our 40th anniversary.

  • Davis Hall exterior
    Davis Hall
    7/17/18

    Davis Hall—Our brand-new, state-of-the-art departmental headquarters.

  • CSE faculty outside Davis Hall in 2015
    Milestone: 40 Faculty
    7/17/18

    We begin Fall 2015 with a strength of 40 faculty.

  • CSE 50th Anniversary logo
    50th Anniversary
    7/17/18

    The Department of Computer Science and Engineering celebrates its 50th anniversary.