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CSE Faculty and Staff

Aidong Zhang, Department Chair; UB Distinguished Professor
(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

Michael F. Buckley, Teaching Assistant Professor; Co-Director, Center for Socially Relevant Computing (CSRC); Undergraduate Advisor
(MSEE, Rochester Institute of Technology)
Embedded Systems, Factory Automation, Software Engineering, Wireless Telecommunications

Geoffrey Challen, Assistant Professor
(Ph.D., Harvard University)

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

Chang Wen Chen, Professor; Editor-in-Chief (2006-2009) 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

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

Kevin Cleary, Senior Systems Programmer / Analyst / Administrator; Lecturer
(MBA, University at Buffalo)

Jason J. Corso, Associate Professor
(Ph.D., The Johns Hopkins University)
Biomedical Applications, Computer Vision, Medical Imaging, Perceptual User Interfaces, Smart Environments, Statistical Methods

Murat Demirbas, Associate Professor
(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

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

Jill Fryzowski, Graduate Admissions Secretary

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

Oliver Kennedy, Assistant Professor
(Ph.D., Cornell University)

Helene Kershner, Assistant Chair Emerita; Assistant Chair 1982-2009; Lecturer
(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; Director of Graduate Admissions
(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 W. 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
(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; Director of Graduate Studies
(Ph.D., University of Minnesota)
Algorithms, Combinatorics, Networks

Robert Platt, Assistant Professor
(Ph.D., University of Massachusetts, Amherst)
Robotics

Kathleen Pohlman, Departmental Secretary

Chunming Qiao, Professor; Adjunct Professor of Electrical Engineering
(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
(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
(Ph.D., Indiana University)
Artificial Intelligence, Cognitive Science, Computational Linguistics, Philosophical Issues in Computer Science

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

Kui Ren, Associate Professor
(Ph.D., Worcester Polytechnic Institute)
Cloud Computing & Big Data Security, Wireless Security, Smart Grid Security

Atri Rudra, Associate Professor; Undergraduate Advisor
(Ph.D., University of Washington)
Algorithmic Game Theory, Approximation and Online Algorithms, Computational Complexity, Theoretical Computer Science, Theory of Error-Correcting Codes

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
(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
(Ph.D., University of Wisconsin)
Artificial Intelligence, Cognitive Robotics, Cognitive Science, Computational Linguistics, Knowledge Representation, Natural Language Understanding and Generation, Reasoning

Barry Smith, Adjunct Professor of Computer Science; Adjunct Professor of Neurology; SUNY Distinguished Professor of Philosophy; Director, National Center for Ontological Research; Director, Center for Brain and Behavior Informatics
(Ph.D., University of Manchester, UK)
Electronic Health Record technology and standards, Ontology, especially biomedical ontology and ontology for defense and security domains

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

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

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

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

Jaynee Straw, Undergraduate Advisor

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

Yijun Sun, Adjunct Assistant Professor
(Ph.D., University of Florida)
Machine Learning, Bioinformatics, Cancer Informatics and Metagenomics

Satish Tripathi, University at Buffalo's President; Professor
(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

Diane Vannatter, Secretary to the Chair

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

Jennifer Wojcik, Budget Manager

Jinhui Xu, Professor
(Ph.D., University of Notre Dame)
Algorithms, Combinatorial Optimizations, Computational Geometry, Geometric Applications in Biomedical Imaging, Networking, Treatment Planning

Lukasz (Luke) Ziarek, Assistant Professor
(Ph.D., Purdue University)
Concurrency/Parallelism, Real-Time Java, Session Types for Distributed Systems, Visual Debugging