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

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Computer Security and Information Assurance

Computer security research focuses on cryptography, trust, privacy and information survivability issues such as threat modeling, intrusion detection, assessment and recovery in networked computers and wireless networks. Assessment of performance, reliability, availability, and security is a key step in the design, analysis, and redesign of computer systems.

Faculty

• Shambhu Upadhyaya (Associate Professor)
• Sheng Zhong (Assistant Professor)

Laboratories and Research Groups

• Security, Privacy and Dependability Research (SPIDER) Group
  Director: Shambhu Upadhyaya
  We work on various aspects of security and dependability that include user-level anomaly detection, insider threat modeling, event correlation and cyber attack recognition, security in mobile ad hoc networks, emergency sensor networks, malware detection, human-centered security and empirical cyber security.


• Security, Privacy, Economic Incentives & Applications Lab (SPECIAL)
  Director: Sheng Zhong
  We work on security, privacy problems in wireless networks and mobile computing. Current projects include privacy preserving data mining, distributed data anonymization, localization in wireless sensor networks, and benchmarking of cryptographic operations in mobile devices.

Projects

• Self-Verifiable Enterprise Server Design
• Secure and Reliable Routing and Reconfigurability in Mobile Ad-hoc Networks
• User-level Anomaly Detection with Emphasis on Insider Attack
• Insider Threat Modeling
• Event Correlation for Cyber Attack Recognition Systems
• Secure and Fault Tolerant Voting in Distributed Systems
• Protecting Documents from Insider Abuse
• Human-Centered Security
• Privacy Preserving Neural Network Learning
• Privacy Preserving Data Mining against Malicious Parties
• k-Anonymization over Distributed Data
• Robust Localization against Malicious Sensors
• Benchmarking of Cryptographic Operations on Hand-held Devices

	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.