UB - University at Buffalo, The State University of New York

CSE Faculty and Staff

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• Carl Alphonce, Teaching Assistant Professor
• (Ph.D., University of British Columbia)
• Computational Linguistics, Computer Science Undergraduate Education, Natural Language Syntax, Parsing

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

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

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

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• 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)
• 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

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

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

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• Jason J. Corso, Assistant Professor; NSF CAREER Award 2009-2014
• (Ph.D., The Johns Hopkins University)
• Biomedical Applications, Computer Vision, Medical Imaging, Perceptual User Interfaces, Smart Environments, Statistical Methods

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

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• Murat Demirbas, Assistant Professor; NSF CAREER Award 2008-2013
• (Ph.D., Ohio State University)
• Distributed Systems and Networks, Fault-Tolerant Computing, Self-Stabilization, Wireless Sensor Networks

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

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

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• Venu Govindaraju, UB Distinguished Professor of Computer Science and Engineering; Founding Director, CUBS; Associate Director, CEDAR; IAPR Fellow, IEEE Fellow, IETE Fellow, SUNY Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Scholarship and Creative Activities
• (Ph.D., University at Buffalo)
• Pattern Recognition, Digital Libraries, Biometrics

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• Herbert A. Hauptman, Adjunct Professor; President, Hauptman-Woodward Institute; Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1985)
• (Ph.D., University of Maryland)
• X-Ray Crystallography

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

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• 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

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• Bharat Jayaraman, Professor; Department Chair 2002-2009; Interim Chair 2001-2002
• (Ph.D., University of Utah)
• Programming Languages and Software Systems

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• Helene Kershner, Assistant Chair Emerita; Assistant Chair 1982-2009; Lecturer; Milton Plesur Award for Excellence in Teaching (1984)
• (M.S., University of Pennsylvania)
• Computer Science Undergraduate Education, Computers, Ethics and the Law, Software Engineering

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

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• Elizabeth Lesny, Special Projects Coordinator; Graduate Student Secretary; Notary Public

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

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• 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)
• Computational Crystallography, Computational Geometry, Cyber Infrastructure, Grid Computing, High-Performance Computing, Molecular Structure Determination, Parallel Algorithms

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

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• Yvette Pardee, Graduate Admissions Secretary

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

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• Kathy Pohlman, Departmental Secretary

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

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

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

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

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• William J. Rapaport, Associate Professor; 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

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

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• Douglas Roland, Affiliated Assistant Professor
• (Ph.D., University of Colorado)
• Computational Linguistics, Corpus Linguistics, Psycholinguistics

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• Atri Rudra, Assistant Professor; NSF CAREER Award 2009-2014
• (Ph.D., University of Washington)
• Algorithmic Game Theory, Approximation and Online Algorithms, Computational Complexity, Theoretical Computer Science, Theory of Error-Correcting Codes

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• Kris Schindler, Teaching Assistant Professor
• (Ph.D., University at Buffalo)
• Computer Architecture, Networking, VLSI Systems

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• 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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• Jaynee Straw, Undergraduate Advisor

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

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

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• Jennifer Tworkowski, Budget Manager

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• Shambhu Upadhyaya, Professor
• (Ph.D., University of Newcastle, NSW, Australia)
• Computer Security, Distributed Systems, Fault-Tolerant Computing (Hardware/Software), Information Assurance

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• Diane VanNatter, Secretary to the Chair

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• 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

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

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• Aidong Zhang, Professor and Chair; IEEE Fellow, NSF CAREER Award 1998-2002, SUNY Chancellor's Research Recognition Award 2002
• (Ph.D., Purdue University)
• Bioinformatics, Data Mining, Multimedia Database Systems

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• Sheng Zhong, Assistant Professor; NSF CAREER Award 2009-2014
• (Ph.D., Yale University)
• Applied Cryptography, Data Mining and Database Applications, Economics, Game Theory, Mobile Computing, Privacy and Security, Theoretical Computer Science, Wireless Networks