Areas of Research Concentration

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

Research Centers, Labs, and Groups Home Pages

• 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

Facilities

• About Facilities

• Labs

• Special-Purpose Computing

• Research Computing

• Faculty/Staff Computing

• Infrastructure

Departmental Technical Reports

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• Technical Reports submission instructions

• CSE Library and Research Resources

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

Computational Science is an emerging discipline that unites computer science and mathematics with disciplinary research in biology, chemistry, physics, and other applied and engineering fields. It is already being called the third science, complementing theoretical as well as laboratory science. A major focus of computational science is the knowledge and techniques required to perform computer simulation. The importance of simulation can be found in “grand challenge” problems in areas such as structural biology, materials science, high-energy physics, economics, fluid dynamics, and global climate change, to name a few.

Faculty

• Herbert Hauptman (Adjunct Professor)
• Russ Miller (Professor)
• Vipin Chaudhary (Associate Professor)
• Bina Ramamurthy (Teaching Associate and Research Assistant Professor)

Laboratories and Research Groups

• Shake-and-Bake (direct methods in X-ray crystallography for determining molecular crystal structures)
  Director: Russ Miller
  
  

• CyberInstitute - Research on CyberInfrastructure and Grid Computing
  Director: Russ Miller
  The CyberInstitute integrates research in disciplinary domains, including science, engineering, and biomedicine, with research in enabling technologies and interfaces. The institute helps to support research, scholarship, education, and community outreach.
  

Projects

• SnB
  
• Peace Bridge
  
• Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus
  
• Alive on the Grid
  
• Factory Design
  
• Virtual Site Museum
  

	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.