Department of Computer Science and Engineering

How to spot deepfakes? Look at light reflection in the eyes

4/7/21

Prof. Siwei Lyu has developed a tool that identifies portrait-like deepfake images with 94% accuracy, but analyzing light reflections in the eyes. Read the full story.

UB CSE shines at NDSS 2021 with seven presentations

4/7/21

Four faculty and three alumni presented at this year’s virtual Network and Distributed System Security Symposium. Assistant Prof. Ziming Zhao also chaired part of the AutoSec Workshop. Read the full story.

Spring Welcome

2/3/21

Dr. Qiao welcomes the CSE community back for a happy, healthy, and successful Spring 2021. Click here to watch the video.

We're Hiring

10/29/20

UB CSE is now recruiting multiple faculty positions at all levels.

UB awarded $8.5 million to improve ‘hybrid’ space rockets

10/28/20

A UB research team has been awarded $8.5 million to study hybrid rockets, a technology that could provide a safer and less expensive way to explore outer space compared to conventional rockets.

PocketCare S - Empower Social Distancing in the Workplace

8/3/20

A new mobile phone application, developed by a team led by Dr. Chunming Qiao, is designed to report social distance information without collecting or revealing any personally identifiable information about any specific individual.

Special Topics

7/21/20

Special Topics courses cover some of our most innovative and promising research directions. They are often prototypes of new courses that we are developing. See our upcoming graduate and undergraduate Special Topics courses.

ACV Auctions is 2019 SEAS Corporate Partner of the Year

5/8/20

Congratulations to ACV Auctions, winner of the 2019 SEAS Corporate Partner of the Year Award. Pictured are ACV Research Engineering Manager Phil Schneider (EE PhD '18), SEAS Interim Dean Rajan Batta, ACV Co-founder and CTO Dan Magnuszewski (CS BS '05), ACV Technical Program Manager Wes Csendom (CS BS '17), ACV R&D Software Engineer Dennis Fedorishin (CEN BS '20 Candidate), and ACV Director of Special Projects Michael Pokora.

Tom Occhino is 2019 SEAS Outstanding Young Alumnus

5/8/20

Facebook Engineering Director Tom Occhino (CS BS '07) receives the 2019 SEAS Outstanding Young Alumni Award from SEAS Interim Dean Rajan Batta. While he was back in town, Tom shared 8 ways to think like an entrepreneur.

This Spring is the Perfect Time for a Fresh Start

9/4/19

Spring is a fine time to start a new academic program. Looking for a new beginning? Click here to find out how.

Donate to CSE

8/29/19

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

Want to design a computer vision app from scratch?

5/10/19

Get started as early as today with our series of online computer vision courses. Dive in to artificial intelligence's fastest-growing field.

Science Article

5/10/19

Congratulations to Kenny Joseph, whose article, "Fake news on Twitter during the 2016 U.S. presidential election", appeared in Science, one of the world's top academic journals.

SUNY Empire Innovation Professor (EIP)

5/9/19

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!

Excelsior!

5/9/19

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.

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Research Highlights

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This Necklace Hears What You Eat
6/12/19
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.
Safer Highways
6/12/19
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.
UB receives prestigious IBM award for ‘green internet’ collaboration
6/12/19
Proposed software solution could extend battery life, reduce energy consumption.
Computer Vision for Robot Bees
6/12/19
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.
The End of Sneakernet?
6/12/19
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.
Smartphone hacks 3D printer by measuring ‘leaked’ energy and acoustic waves
6/26/19
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.
Detecting Chess Cheats
6/12/19
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.

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Faces & Voices

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"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
“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
“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
"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
"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
"The interesting thing is that UB had never published at this conference before."
4/4/17
Jerry Ajay
MS '15, PhD '19
“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
"Getting to know my professors helped a lot. They're phenomenal."
4/3/17
Dominique Hickson
Computer Engineering BS '17
"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
"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
"Here, there are different career opportunities, good opportunities in industry as well."
4/4/17
Luigi Di Tacchio
MS '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
"Research is a change process. From being scared at first to being interested in it."
4/4/17
Aosen Wang
PhD '18

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Research Areas

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Data Mining and Data Science
6/27/19
Algorithms for data mining have a close relationship to methods of pattern recognition and machine learning.
Computer Security and Information Assurance
6/27/19
Focuses on applied cryptography, authentication, threat modeling, anomaly detection, wireless security, cloud security, human-centered security, differential privacy and empirical cyber security.
Hardware and Architecture
6/27/19
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.
Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
6/27/19
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.
Computing Education
6/27/19
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.
Programming Languages and Software Systems
2/10/20
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.
Distributed Systems and Networks
6/27/19
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.
Databases and Information Retrieval
6/27/19
Focuses on developing fundamental techniques, prototype systems and applications in databases and information retrieval.
High Performance Computing and Computational Science
6/27/19
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.
Mobile Systems
6/27/19
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.
Cyber-Physical Systems (Internet of Things)
6/27/19
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.
Medical Applications and Bioinformatics
6/27/19
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.
Theory and Algorithms
6/27/19
Computer science theory assesses which problems are possible and feasible to solve through theories of computability, undecidability, complexity, reducibility, and approximability. Research in algorithms involves the best ways to formulate computational tasks as well as solve them in various serial, parallel, streaming, and distributed environments.

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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
5/9/19
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.