Department of Computer Science and Engineering

9/5/17

Calling all alumni! Visit Davis Hall to add your signature to our CSE 50th Anniversary banner. Claim your place among a half-century of distinguished friends and colleagues.

Help us celebrate our 50th anniversary!

9/5/17

Join us in Buffalo to reminisce, eat good food, tour the city and revitalized waterfront, and plan our future endeavors together. Your old friends can't wait to see you again.

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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.

Top-Notch Faculty

9/14/17

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.

CSE 50th Anniversary Banner Signing

9/5/17

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.

Donate to CSE

9/14/17

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

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.

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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Research Highlights

Detecting Chess Cheats

6/26/17

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.
This Necklace Hears What You Eat

6/26/17

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.
Smartphone hacks 3D printer by measuring ‘leaked’ energy and acoustic waves

6/29/17

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.
Safer Highways

6/26/17

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.
Computer Vision for Robot Bees

6/26/17

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.

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Faces & Voices

"I decided the future of libraries is in information technology."

4/3/17

Razie Fathi

PhD Candidate '20
"The interesting thing is that UB had never published at this conference before."

4/4/17

Jerry Ajay

MS '15, PhD Candidate '19
"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
"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 Candidate '17
"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
"Here, there are different career opportunities, good opportunities in industry as well."

4/4/17

Luigi Di Tacchio

PhD Candidate '18
"Getting to know my professors helped a lot. They're phenomenal."

4/3/17

Dominique Hickson

Computer Engineering BS Candidate '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
"Research is a change process. From being scared at first to being interested in it."

4/4/17

Aosen Wang

PhD Candidate '19
“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 '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

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Research Areas

Databases

6/28/17

The database group designs, studies, implements, and evaluates novel query interfaces and new query language constructs.
Computer Networks and Distributed Systems

6/28/17

Research in networks involves both hardware and software, and spans both user space and operating systems.
Multimedia Databases and Information Retrieval

6/28/17

The rapid expansion of the Web and the emergence of digital libraries have generated tremendous interest in multimedia information processing.
VLSI and Computer Architecture

6/28/17

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 Science Education

6/28/17

Computer Science Education is an area of research which focuses on curricular and pedagogic issues in the teaching of computer science, as well as related issues such as recruitment and retention of under-represented groups in the discipline.
Computer Security and Information Assurance

6/28/17

Computer security research focuses on cryptography, trust, privacy and information survivability issues such as threat modeling, intrusion detection, assessment and recovery in networked computers and wireless networks.
Programming Languages and Software Systems

6/28/17

The field of programming languages is concerned with concepts, notations, methodologies, tools, and environments for the construction of robust, efficient, maintainable, and evolvable software.
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.
Medical Applications and Bioinformatics

6/28/17

Research in medical applications focuses on developing efficient algorithms and techniques for automatic analysis of biomedical images, medical evaluation, computer assisted diagnosis and surgery, and treatment planning.
High Performance and Grid Computing, Cyberinfrastructure, and Computational Science

6/28/17

Computational Science is an emerging discipline that unites computer science and mathematics with disciplinary research in biology, chemistry, physics, and other applied and engineering fields.
Augmentative Technology for the Handicapped

6/28/17

Using computing technology to improve the quality of life of the disabled.
Knowledge Representation, Computational Linguistics, and Cognitive Science

6/28/17

Computational linguistics and knowledge representation and reasoning are core areas of classical artificial intelligence (AI) - the computational understanding of human-level cognitive abilities.
Computer Vision and Information Visualization

6/28/17

Computer vision is an interdisciplinary field drawing on concepts from signal processing, artificial intelligence, neurophysiology, and perceptual psychology.
Pattern Recognition, Machine Learning, and Data Mining

6/28/17

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)

CSE 50 1967-2017

6/26/17

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

6/26/17

UB assigns us our first home on the Ridge Lea Campus.
Milestone: 5 Faculty

6/26/17

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

6/26/17

University course catalogs first describe our Master of Science and Doctor of Philosophy programs.
Milestone: 10 Faculty

6/26/17

We achieve the ten faculty member milestone.
Chess-Playing Graphical Computer

6/26/17

Nick Findler buys a chess-playing graphical computer with NSF funds, beginning a long departmental tradition of incorporating games into our research.
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6/26/17

William J. Rapaport popularizes the grammatically-parseable phrase, "Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo".
Medical Image Processing Group

6/26/17

Gabor T. Herman develops a world-renowned Medical Image Processing Group from 1969 to 1981.
No More Punchcards

6/26/17

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

6/26/17

We take up residence in Bell Hall, placing us in the center of North Campus activity and culture.
Milestone: 15 Faculty

6/26/17

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

6/26/17

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

6/26/17

We achieve the 20 faculty member milestone.
CEDAR

6/26/17

Sargur (Hari) Srihari founds the Center of Excellence for Document Analysis and Recognition (CEDAR).
25th Anniversary

6/26/17

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

6/26/17

The university establishes a multidisciplinary Center for Cognitive Science, uniting computer science with cognitive psychology disciplines.
Milestone: 25 Faculty

6/26/17

We achieve the 25 (actually 26) faculty member milestone.
CS + CE = CSE

6/26/17

The Department of Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) is born!
Milestone: 30 Faculty

6/26/17

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

6/29/17

The Center for Computational Research houses supercomputers that can process 60 billion operations per second.
Milestone: 35 Faculty

6/26/17

We enter the 2000s with 36 faculty.
CEISARE

6/26/17

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

6/26/17

Venu Govindaraju founds the Center for Unified Biometrics and Sensors (CUBS).
40th Anniversary

6/26/17

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

6/26/17

Davis Hall—Our brand-new, state-of-the-art departmental headquarters.
Milestone: 40 Faculty

6/26/17

We begin Fall 2015 with a strength of 40 faculty.
50th Anniversary

6/26/17

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

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