PhD, Computer Science and Engineering, University of Washington, 2007
MS, Computer Science and Engineering, The University of Washington, 2005
B Tech, Computer Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, India, 2000
Awards
SUNY Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching, 2022
UB Teaching Innovation Award, 2021
SEAS Senior Teacher of the Year, 2020
CSE Outstanding Service, 2016
IBM Faculty Award, 2013
Best Paper award at the 31st ACM SIGMOD-SIGACT-SIGART Symposium on Principles of Database Systems (PODS), 2012
UB Exceptional Scholars - Young Investigator award, 2011
Best Paper award at the 18th Annual European Symposium on Algorithms (ESA), 2010
HP Labs Open Innovation Award, 2010
NSF CAREER Award, 2009
William Chan Memorial Dissertation Award, 2007. Awarded annually to the best doctoral thesis from the department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Washington.
Best Student Paper award at the 1st Workshop on Internet and Network Economics, 2005
Dean’s Excellence Award from the College of Natural Science, The University of Texas at Austin, 2002–2003
IBM First Patent Application Invention Achievement Award, 2001
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.
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.
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.
An article on PhysOrg reports UB 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.
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.