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Message From The Chair

January 1, 2008

Welcome to the Department of Computer Science & Engineering (CSE) on the web!

Following 30 years of excellence as a Computer Science department, the CSE department was formed in 1998 through a merger of the CS department with computer engineering from the former ECE department. Today, the department has 33 faculty members, over 500 undergraduate students and 250 graduate students, a third of whom are in the doctoral program. The department offers undergraduate degree programs in Computer Science and Computer Engineering, and masters and doctoral programs in Computer Science and Engineering.

Plans are afoot to create a new building for the CSE and EE departments. New York state has allocated nearly $50 million towards this building, which will provide over 130,000 square feet of space for faculty, students, laboratories, and administration. The architecture firm Perkins and Will has been chosen to design the building. A show-case "smart room" is being planned in the new building, featuring our research in pervasive computing technologies.

CSE faculty include several award-winning researchers and teachers, members of prestigious editorial boards, and Fellows of the ACM, IEEE, AAAI, and AAAS. The research activities of many of our faculty are carried out through several successful centers - Buffalo Center for Biomedical Computing (BCBC), headed by Dr. Aidong Zhang; Center for Cognitive Science, headed by Dr. Stuart Shapiro; Center of Excellence in Information Systems, Assurance, Research and Education (CEISARE), headed by Dr. Shambhu Upadhaya; Center for Unified Biometrics (CUBS), headed by Dr. Venu Govindaraju; Center of Excellence in Document Analysis and Recognition (CEDAR), headed by Dr. S. Srihari; and NY State Grid, headed by Dr. Russ Miller.

I am pleased to report that UB was ranked 21st in the category of funding in computer sciences, in a recent survey conducted by the National Science Foundation. We have been consistently ranked among the top 25-30 departments in the country in the category of funding. Faculty and student research has received media coverage at the national level, and several faculty have received honors for their research.

The department and the university continue to make significant changes within their infrastructure. Recently, the eminent computer scientist and engineer, Dr. Satish Tripathi, was appointed as the new provost. Dr. Tripathi was the Chair of the CS department of Maryland and more recently Dean of Engineering at the University of California at Riverside.

In closing, I wish to reiterate that the CSE Department is strongly committed to its tripartite mission of teaching, research, and service. We will strive to provide our students with excellent education at the bachelors, masters, and doctoral levels; to perform world-class research in our areas of expertise; and to serve as a valuable resource for the university, the region, and the state.

I hope you enjoy browsing our website, and I look forward to hearing from you.

Sincerely, and with best wishes,

Bharat Jayaraman

Professor and Chair

A new building is being planned for the CSE and EE departments. New York state has allocated nearly $50 million towards this building, which will provide over 130,000 square feet of space for faculty, students, laboratories, and administration. The architecture firm Perkins and Will has been chosen to design the building. A show-case "smart room" is being planned in the new building, featuring our research in pervasive computing technologies.

For Graduate Students we have available an online application and downloadable supporting forms.

Research Areas

• Algorithms and Theory

• Computer Networks and Distributed Systems

• Computer Security and Information Assurance

• Computer Vision and Information Visualization

• Databases and Data Mining

• High-Performance Computing and Computational Science

• Knowledge Representation and Computational Linguistics

• Multiagent Systems and Electronic Commerce

• Multimedia Databases and Information Retrieval

• Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning

• Programming Languages and Software Systems

• VLSI and Computer Architecture

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