CSE Committee Rosters
CSE discusses and sets departmental policies in departmental policy governance committees.
Committee members typically include CSE faculty, staff, and students.
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CSE Alumni and Community Outreach Committee
Email Alias: cse-alumni-community-outreach@buffalo.edu
- Chairs: David Doermann, Tooba S. Khilji
- Members: Alan M. Hunt, Ann Mangan, Chunming Qiao
CSE Colloquium + UpBeat Committee
One faculty member and two graduate students, schedules colloquia for the Department. The committee draws up speakers' schedules and makes arrangements, including social activities.
Email Alias: cse-colloquium@buffalo.edu
- Chair: Zhuoyue Zhao
- Members: Mingchen Gao, Andrew K. Hirsch, Kaiyi Ji, Haonan Lu, Chen Wang
CSE Distinguished Speaker Committee
Email Alias: cse-dss@buffalo.edu
- Chair: Atri Rudra
- Members: Changyou Chen, Hongxin Hu, Nalini Ratha, Jinjun Xiong
CSE Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Committee
Email Alias: cse-dei@buffalo.edu
- Chair: Kenneth A. Joseph
- Members: Ethan Blanton, Tevfik Kosar, Ifeoma O. Nwogu, Shamsad Parvin
CSE Executive Committee
Coordinates the administrative activities of the department. It consists of the Department Chair, the Associate Department Chairs, the Director of Graduate Admissions, the Director of Graduate Studies, the Director of Undergraduate Studies, the Director of Administration, the Director of Information Technology, and the immediate past Department Chair.
Email Alias: cse-exec@buffalo.edu
- Chair: David Doermann
- Members: Erin Huff, Oliver Kennedy, Tooba S. Khilji, Christian W. Miller, Ifeoma O. Nwogu, Kris D. Schindler, Rohini K. Srihari, Wenyao Xu, Jinhui Xu, Junsong Yuan, Lukasz Ziarek
CSE Explore Committee
CSE Explore youth program with the aims of providing students with exposure to diverse aspects of engineering and computing. CSE-xplore aims to support student confidence and interest to explore a future in computing and engineering fields.
Email Alias: cse-explore@buffalo.edu
- Chair: Lukasz Ziarek
- Members: Sai Roshan Ayyalasomayajula, Karthik Dantu, Maria-Rose Frisina, Kaiyi Ji, Haonan Lu, Chen Wang, Zhuoyue Zhao, Ziming Zhao
CSE Facilities Committee
The chair of the committee, the Director of Information Technology, all full-time technical-support staff, interested faculty members, one graduate student, and one undergraduate student. This committee organizes and supervises all departmental laboratories and personnel working in them. It also determines the policy on operating these laboratories and makes recommendations about facilities and services outside the Department. It serves as a liaison between the Department and the office of Computing and Information Technology.
Email Alias: cse-facilities@buffalo.edu
- Chair: Christian W. Miller
- Members: Tooba S. Khilji, Kris D. Schindler
CSE Faculty Evaluation and Awards Committee
Email Alias: cse-faculty-awards@buffalo.edu
- Chair: Wenyao Xu
- Members: David Doermann, Chunming Qiao, Nalini Ratha, Rohini K. Srihari, Shambhu J. Upadhyaya, Junsong Yuan
CSE Graduate Admissions Committee
Email Alias: cse-grad-adm@buffalo.edu
- Chair: Junsong Yuan
- Members: Changyou Chen, Karthik Dantu, Mingchen Gao, Thomas Hayes, Andrew K. Hirsch, Kaiyi Ji, Matthew Knepley, Haonan Lu, Ahmet Erdem Sariyuce, Chen Wang, Yaxiong Xie, Zhuoyue Zhao, Ziming Zhao
CSE Graduate Admissions Automation Committee
Email Alias: cse-grad-adm-auto@buffalo.edu
- Chair: Marina Blanton
- Members: Changyou Chen, David Doermann, Zhanpeng Jin, Christian W. Miller
CSE Graduate Affairs + Graduate Student Awards Committee
The Director of Graduate Studies (as chair), other faculty members (appointed by the Chairman of the Department), and graduate students (elected by the CSEGSA). The chairman of this committee supervises all graduate student programs and advisement, including monitoring degree progress, appointing doctoral committees, and promulgating policies about RA, TA, and GA duties. This committee establishes graduate degree and admissions requirements, graduate course offerings and content, and other related matters. It also reviews graduate applications and decides whom to admit.
Email Alias: cse-gac@buffalo.edu
- Chairs: Oliver Kennedy, Ifeoma O. Nwogu
- Members: Karthik Dantu, Sreyasee Das Bhattacharjee, Thomas Hayes, Russ Miller, Bina Ramamurthy, Nalini Ratha, Kenneth W. Regan
CSE Graduate Program Assessment Committee
Email Alias: cse-grad-pa@buffalo.edu
- Chair: Hongxin Hu
- Members: Oliver Kennedy, Matthew Knepley, Ifeoma O. Nwogu
CSE Grievance Committee
Email Alias: cse-grievance@buffalo.edu
- Chair: Kenneth W. Regan
- Members: Nasrin Akhter, Ziming Zhao
CSE Internships Committee
- Chair: Ahmet Erdem Sariyuce
CSE Ladder Faculty Search Committee
Email Alias: cse-faculty-search@buffalo.edu
- Chair: Junsong Yuan
- Members: Karthik Dantu, Hongxin Hu, Matthew Knepley, Shi Li, Ifeoma O. Nwogu, Wenyao Xu, Lukasz Ziarek, Jaroslaw Zola
CSE Personnel Committee
- Chair: David Doermann
- Members: Tooba S. Khilji
CSE Promoting Academic Integrity Committee
Email Alias: cse-pai@buffalo.edu
- Chair: Ethan Blanton
- Members: Carl Alphonce, Oliver Kennedy
CSE Public Relations and Communications Committee
Email Alias: cse-communications@buffalo.edu
- Chair: David Doermann
- Members: Tooba S. Khilji, Christian W. Miller, Edward Sobczak, Wenyao Xu, Junsong Yuan
CSE Strategic Planning Committee
Email Alias: cse-strategic-planning@buffalo.edu
- Chair: Chunming Qiao
- Members: Tooba S. Khilji, Russ Miller, Shambhu J. Upadhyaya, Jaroslaw Zola
CSE Student Engagement and Experiential Learning Committee
Email Alias: cse-seel@buffalo.edu
- Chairs: David Doermann, Jinjun Xiong
- Members: Hongxin Hu, Alan M. Hunt, Zhanpeng Jin, Kenneth A. Joseph, Shi Li, Kris D. Schindler, Rohini K. Srihari, Alina Vereshchaka, Wenyao Xu, Lukasz Ziarek
CSE Teaching Effectiveness + TA Training Committee
Email Alias: cse-teach@buffalo.edu
- Chair: Carl Alphonce
- Members: Oliver Kennedy, Russ Miller, Rohini K. Srihari, Lukasz Ziarek
CSE Teaching Load Task Force Committee
Email Alias: cse-tltf@buffalo.edu
- Chair: Carl Alphonce
- Members: Oliver Kennedy, Bina Ramamurthy, Alina Vereshchaka, Jaroslaw Zola
CSE Teaching Profs Search Committee
Email Alias: cse-teaching-profs-search@buffalo.edu
- Chair: Carl Alphonce
- Members: Matthew Hertz, Alan M. Hunt, Bina Ramamurthy, Kris D. Schindler
CSE Undergraduate Affairs + Undergraduate Student Awards Committee
The Director of Undergraduate Studies (as chair), other faculty members (appointed by the Chairman of the Department), and undergraduate students (elected by the Computer Science Undergraduate Student Association). The Director of Undergraduate Studies supervises all undergraduate students' programs and advisement, including monitoring degree progress and disseminating information about undergraduate study. The committee supervises undergraduate degree and admissions requirements and undergraduate course offerings and content. It also reviews undergraduate applications and decides whom to admit.
Email Alias: cse-ugac@buffalo.edu
- Chairs: Kris D. Schindler, Lukasz Ziarek
- Members: Carl Alphonce, Ethan Blanton, Sreyasee Das Bhattacharjee, Paul Dickson, Matthew Hertz, Kenneth A. Joseph, Oliver Kennedy, Michelle Neumaier, Atri Rudra, Ramalingam Sridhar
CSE Undergraduate Program Assessment Committee
Email Alias: cse-ug-pa@buffalo.edu
- Chairs: Matthew Hertz, Ramalingam Sridhar
- Members: Paul Dickson, Jesse L. Hartloff, Bina Ramamurthy, Kris D. Schindler, Lukasz Ziarek
SEAS Adjudication Committee
- Members: Shi Li, Russ Miller, Ramalingam Sridhar
SEAS Faculty Awards Committee
- Chair: Wenyao Xu
- Members: Atri Rudra
SEAS Promotion Committee
- Chair: Siwei Lyu
- Members: Junsong Yuan
SEAS Qualified Rank Promo Committee
- Chair: Nalini Ratha
- Members: Jinjun Xiong
SEAS Tenure Committee
- Chair: Marina Blanton
- Members: Karthik Dantu
UB Adjudication Pool Committee
- Members: Ramalingam Sridhar