Prospective Students

• Why Choose CSE?

• Message from the Chair

• Mission

• The University at Buffalo

• The Buffalo area

• Faculty

• Research

• Assistantships

Academics

• Undergraduate General Information

• Graduate General Information

• Master's degree program

• Ph.D. degree program

• Ph.D. tracks in Cognitive Science

• Advanced Certificate in Computational Science

Admissions

• How to apply

• Apply online (Grads only)

• Graduate Admissions FAQs

• Graduate Director's Page

• Undergraduate Handbook

• Graduate Handbook

• Contact us

Facilities

• About Facilities

• Labs

• Special-Purpose Computing

• Research Computing

• Faculty/Staff Computing

• Infrastructure

Clubs

• CSE Undergraduate Student Assoc.

• CSE Grad Student Assoc.

• Association for Computing Machinery at UB

Why Choose CSE?

Top-Notch Faculty

Our faculty are experts in their fields. They include award-winning researchers and teachers, members of prestigious editorial boards, and fellows of the ACM, the IEEE, and the AAAI.

Cutting-Edge Research

Our research spans artificial intelligence, systems, and theory, and it is well funded by federal, state, and industrial sources. Several of our faculty work in interdisciplinary and newly emerging fields, such as bioinformatics.

A Vibrant Community

With 30 faculty members, 80 doctoral students, and 140 master of science students the department has an active and friendly research environment. Our graduates are hired by the best companies and research laboratories.

Centers, Labs, and Groups

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

Research Funding

Our faculty averages $4.5 million annually in external research awards. Despite our relatively small size, we were ranked 26th among 165 U.S. Ph.D.-granting Computer Science Departments for annual research support, according to a recent survey conducted by the National Science Foundation.

Established and Growing

Computer science was first organized as a department at UB in 1967—one of the first in the U.S. Our present Department of Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) was formed in 1998 through a merger of faculties in computer science and computer engineering. Over the past three years, we have hired six new faculty members: in algorithms, databases, data mining, electronic commerce, natural language processing, and networks.

“Super” Storage

Our MultiStore Research Group, funded by a $1 million NSF grant, is creating a 20 terabyte high-performance online data storage system for basic research in large-scale data sets and information visualization, as well as for research in bioinformatics, pharmacogenomics, and geographic imaging.

IT Friendly

UB is IT friendly: In 2001 we were rated the 10th most wired university by Yahoo! Internet Life.

Community

Eighty Ph.D. students create a supportive, diverse, and dynamic environment for your work.

Bioinformatics

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

Career Moves

Here are some of the labs where our recent graduates have gone to work:

Document Analysis

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.

Research Sponsors

Here are some of the agencies that fund research in the department:

Supercomputing

Our affiliated Center for Computational Research is considered one of the nation’s leading supercomputing centers. A key university resource, the center is supporting research in a variety of fields, including bioinformatics, medical diagnostic accuracy, cluster computing, environmental modeling and simulation, computational chemistry, computational physics, collaborative environments, visualization and virtual reality, mechanical engineering, photonics, and geographic information systems.

Industry Connections

Our industry partners include:

Multidisciplinary

We have research options that could take you to new places: 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.

UB computer science faculty/alumnus have served as presidents of the two major societies devoted to computing: Bruce Shriver (Ph.D. 1971) was president of IEEE-Computer Society, and Anthony Ralston (Founding Chair of the CS Department, 1967) was President of ACM.

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

An overview of why UB Computer Science and Engineering is right for you.

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