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Research Areas

• Algorithms and Theory

• Augmentative Technology for the Handicapped

• Computer Networks and Distributed Systems

• Computer Science Education

• Computer Security and Information Assurance

• Computer Vision and Information Visualization

• Databases

• High-Performance and Grid Computing, Cyberinfrastructure, and Computational Science

• Knowledge Representation, Computational Linguistics, and Cognitive Science

• Medical Applications and Bioinformatics

• Multimedia Databases and Information Retrieval

• Pattern Recognition, Machine Learning, and Data Mining

• Programming Languages and Software Systems

• VLSI and Computer Architecture

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• Center for Unified Biometrics and Sensors

• Center of Excellence for Document Analysis and Recognition

• Center of Excellence in Information Systems Assurance Research and Education

• Bioinformatics Research Group

• Database and Multimedia Research Group

• Distributed Systems Research Group

• Knowledge Media Lab

• Laboratory for Advanced Network Design, Evaluation, and Research

• Language Research Group

• Logical Foundations of Databases Research Group

• Multimedia Information Retrieval

• MultiStore Research Group

• Security, Dependability, and Test Design Automation (SPIDER)

• SNePS Research Group

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Computer Networks and Distributed Systems

Research in networks involves both hardware and software, and spans both user space and operating systems. Topics include wide-area networks and local-area networks, wired technology and wireless/mobile technology, data and telephony communications as well as integrated services, and applications (e.g., Web browsing) and modem access. Networking includes enabling technologies for other systems in distance learning, multimedia systems, distributed super-computing, telemedicine, collaborative research, electronic commerce, and online entertainment. Distributed systems is the study of the communication and coordination patterns of components found in networked computers.

Faculty

• Chunming Qiao (Professor)
• Hung Q. Ngo (Assistant Professor)
• Murat Demirbas(Assistant Professor)
• Sheng Zhong (Assistant Professor)
• Bina Ramamurthy (Teaching Associate Professor)

Laboratories and Research Groups

• Laboratory for Advanced Network Design, Evaluation and Research (LANDER)
  Director: Chunming Qiao
  We conduct research on networking architectures, protocols, network control and management issues, and performance evaluation. The lab focuses on the convergence of computer communications and telecommunications in WDM optical networks, mobile/wireless networks, the internet, and other technologies like ATM, parallel, and distributed processing. Active projects include optical burst switching for IP over WDM, protection/ restoration at the WDM layer, multicasting in WDM, next generation wireless systems, cellular and mobile ad hoc networks.


• SUNY at Buffalo NETworking Group (SUBNET)
  Director: Hung Q. Ngo
  We focus on three main areas: switching networks (including multichannel networks), wireless networks, and interconnection networks. Related graph-theoretic and algorithmic issues are to be addressed, which have deep connections to many different areas of computer science and mathematics, such as boolean circuit complexity, probabilistic methods, wavelength division multiplexed networks, computational geometry, designs and analyses of algorithms and approximation algorithms, and combinatorics. Practical simulations and implementations of various network protocols are also of tremendous interests.


• University at Buffalo Ubiquitious Computing Lab (UBiComp)
  Director: Murat Demirbas
  Our research is on wireless sensor networks and distributed and dependable computing. Our work on wireless sensor networks focus on designing and implementing large-scale, locally-healing, and provably dependable services (e.g., tracking, routing, querying). Our work on distributed and dependable computing focuses on facilitating the design and verification of fault-tolerance for distributed systems. Active projects include monitoring of large public buildings with wireless sensor networks, building an active campus infrastructure, implementing collision-aware MAC protocols, and developing a toolkit for specification-based design of self-healing.


• Security, Privacy, EConomic Incentives & Applications Lab (SPECIAL)
  Director: Sheng Zhong
  We work on security, privacy, and economic problems in wireless networks and mobile computing. Current projects include economic analysis of ad hoc networks and hibrid networks, localization in wireless sensor networks, and benchmarking of cryptographic operations in mobile devices.


• Distributed Systems Research Group
  Director: Bina Ramamurthy
  Current research involves peer-to-peer alternatives to traditional client-server models, ubiquitous computing with location-based services at the application program level, mining for patterns in wireless and web, performance analysis of component models in application servers, and adaptive interfaces for collaborative systems.

	Did You Know

CSE faculty averages some $4.5 million annually in grants for research in areas that range from high-performance computing to data mining.

CSE faculty are major participants in the new $200 million Buffalo Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics.

CSE's MultiStore Research Group is funded by a $1 million NSF grant for the development of high-performance online data-storage systems.

A CSE-affiliated research center developed the systems that postal agencies around the world use for automatically sorting hand-addressed mail.

CSE faculty work with researchers in chemistry, the life sciences, the pharmaceutical sciences, media study, geography, and many other disciplines.

The CSE-affiliated Center for Computational Research is one of the leading academic supercomputing centers in the U.S.

The CSE faculty includes NSF CAREER award holders and ACM, IEEE, and AAAI fellows.

A geometric algorithm developed by CSE professor Jinhui Xu configures a set of radiation beams to destroy brain tumors in a form of computer-aided surgery.

CSE professor Aidong Zhang is developing intelligent content-analysis programs to automatically analyze images, replacing human coding of semantic content.

CSE professor Russ Miller is one of the authors of a program that can determine the structure of molecules as large as 2,000 atoms from X-ray diffraction patterns.

Pursuing work on document verification and identification, CSE researchers use machine-learning algorithms to study handwriting variability.