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Tenure-Track Faculty

Vipin Chaudhary: Associate Professor; (Ph.D., UT Austin); High performance Computing, Computer Assisted Surgery, Medical Image Processing, Embedded and Pervasive Systems

Chang Wen Chen: Professor; IEEE and SPIE Fellow; Editor-in-Chief, IEEE Trans. Circuits and Systems for Video Technology; (Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign); Reliable and secure multimedia streaming over P2P, wireless and ad hoc networks, Mobile multimedia systems, Distributed image and video coding, Medical image analysis and biomedical information processing, Collaborative signal processing and data aggregation for sensor networks

Jan Chomicki: Associate Professor; (Ph.D., Rutgers University); Databases: Logical Foundations, Query Languages, Integrity Constraints, New Applications

Jason J. Corso: Assistant Professor; (Ph.D., The Johns Hopkins University); Computer and Medical Vision, Computational Biomedicine, Machine Intelligence, Statistical Learning, Perceptual Interfaces and Smart Environments.

Murat Demirbas: Assistant Professor; (Ph.D., Ohio State University); Wireless Sensor Networks, Distributed Systems and Networks, Fault-tolerant Computing, Self-stabilization

Daniel Fischer: Associate Professor; (Ph.D., Tel Aviv University, Israel); Bioinformatics, Computational Structural Molecular Biology, Protein Fold Recognition, Protein Structure Comparison

Venugopal Govindaraju: Professor; IAPR, IEEE Fellow; (Ph.D., University at Buffalo); Pattern Recognition, Digital Libraries, Biometrics

Xin (Roger) He: Professor; (Ph.D., Ohio State University); Graph Algorithms, Graph Drawing, Graph Theory

Bharat Jayaraman: Professor and Chair; (Ph.D., University of Utah); Programming Languages and Software Systems

Russ Miller: UB Distinguished Professor of Computer Science and Engineering; Adjunct Professor of Electrical Engineering; Adjunct Professor of Structural Biology; Senior Research Scientist at the Hauptman-Woodward Medical Research Institute; (Ph.D., Binghamton University); Cyber Infrastructure, Grid Computing, High-Performance Computing, Parallel Algorithms, Computational Geometry, Computational Crystallography, Molecular Structure Determination

Hung Quang Ngo: Associate Professor; NSF CAREER Award 2004-2009; (Ph.D., University of Minnesota); Networks, Algorithms, Combinatorics

Michalis Petropoulos: Assistant Professor; (Ph.D., University of California, San Diego); Database Management Systems, Data and Schema Integration, User-Oriented and Agent-Oriented Database Interfaces, Web and Databases

Chunming Qiao: Professor; Adjunct Professor of Electrical Engineering; Director of Undergraduate Studies; (Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh); Wireless and Mobile Networks (including Sensor Networks), Optical Networks, Survivable/Resilient Protocols, and Future Generation Communication Systems

William J. Rapaport: Associate Professor; Affiliated Faculty, Linguistics; Affiliated Faculty, Philosophy; Member, Center for Cognitive Science; SUNY Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching; (Ph.D., Indiana University); Artificial Intelligence, Computational Linguistics, Cognitive Science, Philosophical Issues in Computer Science

Kenneth W. Regan: Associate Professor; (Ph.D., Oxford University); Theoretical Computer Science, Mathematical Logic

Atri Rudra: Assistant Professor; (Ph.D., University of Washington); Theoretical Computer Science. In particular, theory of error correcting codes, algorithmic game theory, approximation and online algorithms, computational complexity.

Peter D. Scott: Associate Professor; Adjunct Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering; Adjunct Associate Professor of Physiology and Biophysics; (Ph.D., Cornell University); Signal Processing and Computer Vision

Alan L. Selman: Professor; Adjunct Professor of Mathematics; ACM Fellow; Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Scholarship and Creative Activities; Humboldt Foundation Senior Research Award; Fulbright Award; (Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University); Computational Complexity

Stuart C. Shapiro: Professor; Affiliated Professor of Linguistics and Philosophy; AAAI Fellow; ACM Distinguished Scientist; (Ph.D., University of Wisconsin); Artificial Intelligence, Computational Linguistics, Cognitive Science, Knowledge Representation, Reasoning, Cognitive Robotics, Natural Language Understanding and Generation

Ramalingam Sridhar: Associate Professor; Adjunct Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering; (Ph.D., Washington State University, Pullman); VLSI Circuits and Systems, Wireless Networks and Security, Embedded Technologies, Computer Architecture.

Rohini K. Srihari: Associate Professor; Adjunct Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering; (Ph.D., University at Buffalo); Text Mining, Information Retrieval, Information Extraction, Multimedia IR

Sargur N. Srihari: SUNY Distinguished Professor; IAPR, IEEE, IETE Fellow; (Ph.D., Ohio State University); Pattern Recognition, Machine Learning, Data Mining, Handwriting Processing

Satish Tripathi: Professor; IEEE and AAAS Fellow; University at Buffalo's Provost; (Ph.D., University at Toronto)

Shambhu Upadhyaya: Professor; Adjunct Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering; (Ph.D., Univ. of Newcastle, NSW, Australia); Fault-Tolerant Computing (Hardware/Software),VLSI Testing, Distributed Systems, Computer Security

Jinhui Xu: Associate Professor; Director of Graduate Admissions; NSF CAREER Award 2005-2010; (Ph.D., University of Notre Dame); Algorithms, Computational Geometry, Combinatorial Optimizations, and Geometric Applications in Biomedical Imaging, Treatment Planning, and Networking

Aidong Zhang: Professor; SUNY Chancellor's Research Recognition Award, 2002; NSF CAREER Award 1998-2002; (Ph.D., Purdue University); The Distributed Database System, Multimedia Database Systems, Digital Libraries, Data Mining, Bioinformatics

Sheng Zhong: Assistant Professor; (Ph.D., Yale University); Economics, Privacy, and Security, particularly in Mobile Computing, Wireless Networks, Data Mining and Database Applications; Applied Cryptography; Game Theory; Theoretical Computer Science

Teaching Faculty

Carl Alphonce: Research Assistant Professor; Teaching Associate Professor; (Ph.D., University of British Columbia); Computational Linguistics, Parsing, Natural Language Syntax, CS Undergraduate Education

Michael F. Buckley: Lecturer; Richard T. Sarkin Award for Excellence in Teaching (2008); Milton Plesur Award for Excellence in Teaching (2008); (MSEE Rochester Institute of Technology); Software Engineering, Embedded Systems, Factory Automation, Wireless Telecommunications

Adrienne Decker: Teaching Assistant Professor; Milton Plesur Award for Excellence in Teaching (2007); (Ph.D., University at Buffalo); Computer Science Education

Helene Kershner: Assistant Chair and Lecturer; Milton Plesur Award for Excellence in Teaching (1984); (M.S., University of Pennsylvania); Software Engineering, Computer Science Undergraduate Education, Computers, Ethics and the Law

Bina Ramamurthy: Teaching Associate Professor; (Ph.D., University at Buffalo); Computer Architecture, Parallel Processing

Kris Schindler: Teaching Assistant Professor; (Ph.D., University at Buffalo); Computer Architecture, VLSI systems, Networking

Affiliated Faculty

Laurence Boxer: Research Professor; (Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign); Parallel Algorithms, Computational Geometry, Digital Topology

Herbert A. Hauptman: Adjunct Professor; Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1985); (Ph.D., University of Maryland); X-ray Crystallography

Kenneth R. Hoffmann: Co-Director, Imaging Division; Associate Professor of Neurosurgery; Adjunct Professor of Physics, Physiology, and Biophysics; (Ph.D., Brandeis University); Radiology, Neurosurgery

T. Kesavadas: Adjunct Associate Professor; (Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University); Virtual Reality, Human-Computer Interaction, Visualization, CAD Applications

H.R. Rao: Adjunct Professor; (Ph.D., Purdue University); Decision Support Systems, E-Commerce, Information Assurance

Emeritus Faculty

Anthony Ralston: Professor Emeritus; AAAS, ACM, RSA Fellow; (Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology); Mathematics Education

Deborah Walters: Associate Professor Emerita; Adjunct Associate Professor of Psychology; Associate Dean in the College of Arts and Sciences; (Ph.D., Univ. of Birmingham, England); Computational Vision, Cognitive Science, Neural Networks, Visual Perception, Parallel Processing

Staff

Kevin Cleary: Systems Administrator; (MBA, University at Buffalo)

Maria-Rose Frisina: Senior Systems Administrator; (M.S. CIS, University of Phoenix)

Christian Miller: Director of Information Technology; (MBA, University at Buffalo)

Elizabeth Lesny: Graduate Secretary / Project Coordinator

Yvette Pardee: Graduate Admissions Secretary

Kathy Pohlman: Search Secretary

Ken Smith: Manager of Computer Operations; (M.S., University at Buffalo)

Jaynee Straw: Undergraduate Advisor

Marianne Sullivan: Executive Officer; (Ph.D., University at Buffalo)

Jennifer Tworkowski: Budget Secretary

Diane VanNatter: Secretary to the Chair

In Memoriam

Patricia J. Eberlein (July 15, 1923 - August 11, 1998): Professor Emerita; (Ph.D., Michigan State University)

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