Department of Computer Science and Engineering

Research Highlights

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Detecting Chess Cheats
6/22/21
Ken Regan develops algorithms that detect cheating in chess games. His software compares a player's moves to a database of the player's typical gameplay, then makes an assessment of the statistical likelihood of cheating. Dr. Regan frequently consults at international chess matches.
Smartphone hacks 3D printer by measuring ‘leaked’ energy and acoustic waves
6/21/21
Wenyao Xu leads an NSF-funded program that detects 3D printing data security vulnerabilities by using smart phones to analyze electromagnetic and acoustic waves. Kui Ren and Chi Zhou are co-authors.
Computer Vision for Robot Bees
6/22/21
Karthik Dantu owns the vision component of the RoboBee Initiative, led by the National Science Foundation and Harvard University. The "eyes" that Dr. Dantu is integrating are laser-powered sensors that enable the mechanical bees to orient themselves in space.
UB receives prestigious IBM award for ‘green internet’ collaboration
6/12/19
Proposed software solution could extend battery life, reduce energy consumption.
Safer Highways
6/22/21
Professor and Chair Chunming Qiao leads Instrument for Connected and Autonomous Vehicle Evaluation and Experimentation (iCAVE2)—a multidisciplinary academic-industrial partnership that's helping to make self-driving cars safer, cleaner, and more efficient.
The End of Sneakernet?
6/22/21
An article on PhysOrg reports UB has received a $584,469 grant from the National Science Foundation to create a tool designed to work with the existing computing infrastructure to boost data transfer speeds by more than 10 times, and quotes Tevfik Kosar, associate professor of computer science.
This Necklace Hears What You Eat
6/21/21
Wenyao Xu created AutoDietary—software that tracks the unique sounds produced by food as people chew it. AutoDietary, placed near the throat by a necklace delivery system developed at China's Northeastern University, helps users measure their caloric intake.

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Faces & Voices

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"My favorite part about the Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers is the amount of career opportunities that come with being involved with the club."
2/26/21
Sebastian Cisneros
Computer science student
"To the aspiring Black engineers, there is more than enough space in the industry for your knowledge and creativity and your input is needed, wanted and valued."
6/29/21
Kendra Claiborne
BS'15, computer science
"Research is a change process. From being scared at first to being interested in it."
4/4/17
Aosen Wang
PhD '18
"My pitch at open house is that UB is really big but our department's really small and you can find your way around."
4/3/17
Meg Arnold
Computer Science BS and Mathematics BA '17
"Getting to know my professors helped a lot. They're phenomenal."
4/3/17
Dominique Hickson
Computer Engineering BS '17
“Through student clubs I have found a sense of community with people that motivate me and inspire me every day. ”
2/18/21
Lisa Kanbur
Computer science student
“Students need to be exposed to basic, preliminary engineering concepts before high school. You've got to get them in the pipeline in middle school. Make it fun, creative, exciting.”
4/3/17
Lavone Rodolph
Computer Engineering BS '03, MS '05, PhD Candidate '19
"Here, there are different career opportunities, good opportunities in industry as well."
4/4/17
Luigi Di Tacchio
MS '19
"The atmosphere among professors to cooperate on joint projects is really good. It leads to very many top-tier papers and works."
4/4/17
Zhan Qin
PhD '17
“UB is such a big campus, but computer science is a well-knit community if you choose to be a part of it.”
4/3/17
Sanjee Choudhery
Computer Engineering BS '17
"Computer engineering can be directly applicable to real problems, and there's a strong job market.”
4/3/17
Jacob Condello
Computer Engineering BS '17
"The interesting thing is that UB had never published at this conference before."
4/4/17
Jerry Ajay
MS '15, PhD '19
"I have been involved with engineering clubs since my first semester and they have given me a sense of belonging here at UB."
11/13/19
Urjitha Muthiah
Computer science student
"I'm amazed by what I was able to do in CSE's student server room. I can bring up and manage a whole network infrastructure."
4/3/17
James Droste
Computer Science BS '17
“I enjoy how research-oriented the professors are, and how open they are to working with undergraduates.”
3/11/21
Alex Liu
Computer science student

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Research Areas

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High-Performance Computing
10/14/21
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.
Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning and Data Mining
10/15/21
Artificial Intelligence (AI) researchers now predict that computers will be able to perform tasks that were once considered the prerogative of human beings.
Human-Computer Interaction
10/18/21
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.
Computer Vision
10/15/21
Algorithms for computer vision have a close relationship to methods of pattern recognition and machine learning.
Algorithms and Complexity
10/15/21
Computer science theory assesses which problems are possible and feasible to solve through theories of computability, undecidability, complexity, reducibility, and approximability.
Computer Security and Cryptography
10/14/21
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.
Computing Education
10/14/21
Focuses on expanding approaches to teaching computing at all levels (K-12 and University) and the outreach to promote computing majors and careers.
Computer Architecture and Hardware
10/14/21
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.
Society and Computing
10/15/21
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.
Edge Computing and Embedded Systems and Robotics
10/15/21
Hardware and software co-design on embedded/ASIC computing performance optimization.
Mobile Computing
10/15/21
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.
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
10/14/21
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.
Natural Language Processing
10/15/21
Focuses on developing fundamental techniques, prototype systems and applications in natural language processing and information retrieval.
Distributed Systems and Networks
10/14/21
Research in networking and distributed systems focuses on enabling communication of and orchestrating coordination of a large number of computing nodes.
Operating Systems
10/15/21
Focuses on developing innovative system software and programming techniques to manage computer hardware, software resources, and common software-mediated services.
Programming Languages and Software Engineering
10/15/21
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
10/14/21
Focuses on developing fundamental techniques, prototype systems and applications in databases and information retrieval.

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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!

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CSE 50 1967-2017
3/20/19
Click here to see our entire timeline of the first 50 years of Computer Science and Engineering at UB.
Ridge Lea
3/20/19
UB assigns us our first home on the Ridge Lea Campus.
Milestone: 5 Faculty
3/20/19
The Computer Science Department at the University at Buffalo is formed within the Faculty of Engineering and Applied Sciences (FEAS).
Grad Programs at Inception
3/20/19
University course catalogs first describe our Master of Science and Doctor of Philosophy programs.
Milestone: 10 Faculty
3/20/19
We achieve the ten faculty member milestone.
Chess-Playing Graphical Computer
3/20/19
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
2/10/20
William J. Rapaport popularizes the grammatically-parsable phrase, "Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo".
Medical Image Processing Group
3/20/19
Gabor T. Herman develops a world-renowned Medical Image Processing Group from 1969 to 1981.
No More Punchcards
3/20/19
We buy a Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) VAX 11/750 minicomputer.
Bell Hall
3/20/19
We take up residence in Bell Hall, placing us in the center of North Campus activity and culture.
Milestone: 15 Faculty
3/20/19
We achieve the 15 (actually 16) faculty member milestone.
First Grad Conference
3/20/19
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
3/20/19
We achieve the 20 faculty member milestone.
CEDAR
3/20/19
Sargur (Hari) Srihari founds the Center of Excellence for Document Analysis and Recognition (CEDAR).
25th Anniversary
3/20/19
We celebrate our 25th anniversary with a banquet and a symposium.
CCS
3/20/19
The university establishes a multidisciplinary Center for Cognitive Science, uniting computer science with cognitive psychology disciplines.
Milestone: 25 Faculty
3/20/19
We achieve the 25 (actually 26) faculty member milestone.
CS + CE = CSE
3/20/19
The Department of Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) is born!
Milestone: 30 Faculty
3/20/19
The merger accelerates us past the 30 faculty member milestone. Between '97 and '98, we grow from 26 to 33 faculty.
CCR
6/22/21
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
3/20/19
We enter the 2000s with 36 faculty.
CEISARE
3/20/19
Shambhu Upadhyaya founds the Center of Excellence in Information Systems Assurance Research and Education (CEISARE).
CUBS
5/14/19
Venu Govindaraju founds the Center for Unified Biometrics and Sensors (CUBS).
40th Anniversary
3/20/19
We convened at the Ramada Hotel and Conference Center to celebrate our 40th anniversary.
Davis Hall
6/25/19
Davis Hall—Our brand-new, state-of-the-art departmental headquarters.
Milestone: 40 Faculty
3/20/19
We begin Fall 2015 with a strength of 40 faculty.
50th Anniversary
3/20/19
The Department of Computer Science and Engineering celebrates its 50th anniversary.