CSE Faculty and Staff
- Aidong Zhang,
Department Chair; Professor; CSE Faculty Distinguished Teacher Award, UB Exceptional Scholar-Sustained Achievement Award, NSF CAREER Award, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Fellow, SUNY Chancellor's Research Recognition Award
- (Ph.D., Purdue University)
- Bioinformatics, Data Mining, Multimedia Database Systems
- Carl Alphonce,
Teaching Associate Professor; Undergraduate Advisor
- (Ph.D., University of British Columbia)
- Computational Linguistics, Computer Science Undergraduate Education, Natural Language Syntax, Parsing
- Laurence Boxer,
Research Professor
- (Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
- Computational Geometry, Digital Topology, Parallel Algorithms
- Michael F. Buckley,
Teaching Assistant Professor; Co-Director, Center for Socially Relevant Computing (CSRC); Undergraduate Advisor; Richard T. Sarkin Award for Excellence in Teaching, Milton Plesur Award for Excellence in Teaching
- (MSEE, Rochester Institute of Technology)
- Embedded Systems, Factory Automation, Software Engineering, Wireless Telecommunications
- Chang Wen Chen,
Professor; IEEE and SPIE Fellow Editor-in-Chief (2006-2009); IEEE Trans. Circuits and Systems for Video Technology; Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Fellow, Humboldt Foundation Senior Research Award, International Society for Optical Engineering (SPIE) Fellow
- (Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
- Collaborative Signal Processing and Data Aggregation for Sensor Networks, Distributed Image and Video Coding, Medical Image Analysis and Biomedical Information Processing, Mobile Multimedia Systems, Reliable and Secure Multimedia Streaming over P2P, Wireless and Ad Hoc Networks
- Kevin Cleary,
Senior Systems Programmer / Analyst / Administrator; Lecturer
- (MBA, University at Buffalo)
- Jason J. Corso,
Assistant Professor; NSF CAREER Award, Army Research Office Young Investigator Award, UB Exceptional Scholar-Young Investigator Award
- (Ph.D., The Johns Hopkins University)
- Biomedical Applications, Computer Vision, Medical Imaging, Perceptual User Interfaces, Smart Environments, Statistical Methods
- Murat Demirbas,
Associate Professor; UB Exceptional Scholar-Young Investigator Award, NSF CAREER Award
- (Ph.D., Ohio State University)
- Distributed Systems and Networks, Fault-Tolerant Computing, Self-Stabilization, Wireless Sensor Networks
- Daniel Fischer,
Associate Professor
- (Ph.D., Tel Aviv University, Israel)
- Bioinformatics, Computational Structural Molecular Biology, Protein Fold Recognition, Protein Structure Comparison
- Yun (Raymond) Fu,
Assistant Professor
- (Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
- Applied Machine Learning, Human-Centered Computing, Intelligent Vision Systems, Pattern Recognition
- Jing Gao,
Assistant Professor
- (Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign)
- Data Mining, Machine Learning
- Venugopal (Venu) Govindaraju,
SUNY Distinguished Professor of Computer Science and Engineering; Founding Director, CUBS; Associate Director, CEDAR; SUNY Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Scholarship and Creative Activities, IEEE Computer Society Technical Achievement Award, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Fellow, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Fellow, UB Exceptional Scholar-Sustained Achievement Award, Institution of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineers (IETE) Fellow, International Association of Pattern Recognition (IAPR) 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
- Kenneth R. Hoffmann,
Adjunct Associate Professor; Associate Professor of Neurosurgery; Adjunct Professor of Physics; Adjunct Professor of Physiology and Biophysics; Co-Director, Imaging Division
- (Ph.D., Brandeis University)
- Mechanical And Aerospace Engineering, Neurosurgery, Physiology And Biophysics, Radiology
- Helene Kershner,
Assistant Chair Emerita; Assistant Chair 1982-2009; Lecturer; Milton Plesur Award for Excellence in Teaching
- (M.S., University of Pennsylvania)
- Computer Science Undergraduate Education, Computers, Ethics and the Law, Software Engineering
- Thenkurussi Kesavadas,
Adjunct Associate Professor
- (Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University)
- CAD Applications, Human-Computer Interaction, Virtual Reality, Visualization
- Steven Ko,
Assistant Professor
- (Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
- Distributed Systems, Networking, Operating Systems
- Tevfik Kosar,
Associate Professor; NSF CAREER Award
- (Ph.D., University of Wisconsin)
- Data Clouds, Data-Intensive Computing, Petascale Distributed Systems, Storage and I/O Optimization
- Dimitrios Koutsonikolas,
Assistant Professor
- (Ph.D., Purdue University)
- Experimental Wireless Networking and Mobile Computing, High Performance Protocol Design and Implementation, Network Measurements, Performance Evaluation, Testbed Prototyping
- Elizabeth Lesny,
Special Projects Coordinator; Graduate Student Secretary; Notary Public
- Christian Miller,
Director of Information Technology
- (MBA, University at Buffalo)
- 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; Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Fellow
- (Ph.D., Binghamton University)
- High-Performance Computing, Parallel Algorithms and Architectures, Cyberinfrastructure, Grid and Cloud Computing, Computational Crystallography, Molecular Structure Determination, Computational Geometry
- Hung Ngo,
Associate Professor; UB Exceptional Scholar-Young Investigator Award, NSF CAREER Award
- (Ph.D., University of Minnesota)
- Algorithms, Combinatorics, Networks
- Robert Platt,
Research Assistant Professor
- (Ph.D., University of Massachusetts, Amherst)
- Robotics
- Chunming Qiao,
Professor; Adjunct Professor of Electrical Engineering; Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Fellow, UB Exceptional Scholar-Sustained Achievement Award
- (Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh)
- Future Generation Communication Systems, Optical Networks, Survivable/Resilient Protocols, Wireless and Mobile Networks (including Sensor Networks)
- Anthony Ralston,
Professor Emeritus; American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Fellow, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Fellow, RSA Fellow
- (Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
- Mathematics Education
- Bina Ramamurthy,
Teaching Associate Professor; Undergraduate Advisor
- (Ph.D., University at Buffalo)
- Cloud Computing, Computer Architecture, Data-Intensive Computing, Parallel Processing
- H. R. Rao,
Adjunct Professor of Computer Science; SUNY Distinguished Service Professor, Management Science and Systems
- (Ph.D., Purdue University)
- Decision Support Systems, E-Business, Emergency Response Management Systems, Information Assurance, Management Information Systems
- William J. Rapaport,
Associate Professor Emeritus; Member, Center for Cognitive Science; Affiliated Faculty, Linguistics; Affiliated Faculty, Philosophy; SUNY Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching
- (Ph.D., Indiana University)
- Artificial Intelligence, Cognitive Science, Computational Linguistics, Philosophical Issues in Computer Science
- Douglas Roland,
Affiliated Assistant Professor
- (Ph.D., University of Colorado)
- Computational Linguistics, Corpus Linguistics, Psycholinguistics
- Kris Schindler,
Teaching Assistant Professor; Co-Director, Center for Socially Relevant Computing (CSRC); Undergraduate Advisor
- (Ph.D., University at Buffalo)
- Computer Architecture, Networking, VLSI Systems
- Peter D. Scott,
Associate Professor Emeritus; 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; Fulbright Award, SUNY Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Scholarship and Creative Activities, UB Exceptional Scholar-Sustained Achievement Award, Humboldt Foundation Senior Research Award, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Fellow
- (Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University)
- Computational Complexity
- Stuart C. Shapiro,
Professor Emeritus; Affiliated Professor of Linguistics; Affiliated Professor of Philosophy; Department Chair 1984-1990, 1996-1999; Acting Department Chair 1978-1979; American Association for Articial Intelligence (AAAI) Fellow, UB Exceptional Scholar-Sustained Achievement Award, ACM Distinguished Scientist
- (Ph.D., University of Wisconsin)
- Artificial Intelligence, Cognitive Robotics, Cognitive Science, Computational Linguistics, Knowledge Representation, Natural Language Understanding and Generation, Reasoning
- Kenneth Smith,
Manager of Computer Operations; Lecturer
- (M.S., University at Buffalo)
- Marianne Sullivan,
Executive Officer; Undergraduate Advisor
- (Ph.D., University at Buffalo)
- Satish Tripathi,
University at Buffalo's President; Professor; Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Fellow
- (Ph.D., University of Toronto)
- Shambhu Upadhyaya,
Professor; Director, CEISARE
- (Ph.D., University of Newcastle, NSW, Australia)
- Computer Security, Distributed Systems, Fault-Tolerant Computing (Hardware/Software), Information Assurance
- Deborah Walters,
Associate Professor Emerita; Associate Dean in the College of Arts and Sciences; Adjunct Associate Professor of Psychology
- (Ph.D., Univ. of Birmingham, England)
- Cognitive Science, Computational Vision, Neural Networks, Parallel Processing, Visual Perception
- Jinhui Xu,
Associate Professor; Director of Graduate Admissions; NSF CAREER Award
- (Ph.D., University of Notre Dame)
- Algorithms, Combinatorial Optimizations, Computational Geometry, Geometric Applications in Biomedical Imaging, Networking, Treatment Planning
- Sheng Zhong,
Associate Professor; CSE Internship Coordinator; UB Exceptional Scholar-Young Investigator Award, NSF CAREER Award
- (Ph.D., Yale University)
- Applied Cryptography, Data Mining and Database Applications, Economics, Game Theory, Mobile Computing, Privacy and Security, Theoretical Computer Science, Wireless Networks
