These notable computer scientists and engineers are shining stars amongst our departmental alumni.

Their innovative, impactful scholarship, research, and entrepreneurship has bolstered our department's worldwide reputation and extended the state-of-the-art.

  • Russ Agrusa.
    1/25/22

    Russ Agrusa, BS '76

    ICONICS Founder and President; human-machine interface (HMI)/supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) expert, enterprise solutions for manufacturing and building automation industry leader

  • Victor Bahl.
    1/20/22

    Victor Bahl, BS/MS '88

    Microsoft Technical Fellow & Chief Technology Officer, Azure for Operators; Microsoft Distinguished Scientist

  • Mark Crovella.
    1/20/22

    Mark Crovella, MS '89

    Boston University Computer Science Department Chair, 2013-2018

  • Sung-Mo (Steve) Kang.
    1/20/22

    Sung-Mo (Steve) Kang, MS '72

    University of California Merced President Chancellor, 2007-2011; Korean Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) President, 2013-2017

  • Carl Kesselman.
    1/20/22

    Carl Kesselman, BA '82

    University of Southern California Industrial and Systems Engineering Professor; grid computing co-inventor

  • Robin Li.
    1/20/22

    Robin Li, MS '94

    Baidu.com Founder and CEO

  • Dan Magnuszewski.
    1/20/22

    Dan Magnuszewski, BS '05

    ACV Auctions Cofounder and CTO; Buffalo-based software and internet entrepreneur

  • C. L. Max Nikias.
    1/20/22

    C. L. Max Nikias, PhD '82

    University of Southern California President Emeritus

  • Bruce Shriver.
    1/20/22

    Bruce Shriver, PhD '71

    IEEE Computer Society President, 1992

  • Reid Simmons.
    1/20/22

    Reid Simmons, BA '79

    Carnegie-Mellon University Research Professor; renowned robotics expert

  • D. Sivakumar.
    1/25/22

    D. Sivakumar, PhD '96

    Google Research Director; theoretical computer science, information retrieval and discovery on the web, measurement and modeling for information systems expert

  • Thiru Vikram.
    1/25/22

    Thiru Vikram, BS coursework

    Buffalo Automation CEO