At UB, you can get into one of the hottest new research fields right at the beginning. Our faculty has direct involvement in the new $200 million New York State Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics and Life Sciences, particularly in the high-performance computing and computational science areas of this research.

Our research areas span artificial intelligence, systems, and theory; they are well-funded by federal, state, and industrial sources. Our faculty work in multi-disciplinary and newly emerging fields, such as bioinformatics, computer vision, machine learning, and robotics.

Our affiliated Center of Excellence for Document Analysis and Recognition (CEDAR) is one of the world’s leading centers for research on interpreting scanned images. Among other accomplishments, CEDAR developed the systems that postal agencies around the world use for automatically sorting hand-addressed mail.

Our faculty work with researchers in chemistry, the life sciences, the pharmaceutical sciences, media study, geographic information science, and other disciplines where an interface with computer science is increasingly central.  Learn more about our collaborative research areas.

Our research centers, labs, and groups provide abundant opportunities for exploring state-of-the-art research and working with sophisticated computing facilities.

Our faculty average $4.5 million annually in external research awards. We were ranked 26th among 165 U.S. PhD-granting Computer Science Departments for annual research support, according to a recent survey conducted by the National Science Foundation.

Numerous world-class agencies fund our departmental research initiatives.