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
- Vipin Chaudhary (Professor)
- Russ Miller (Professor)
- Steve Ko (Assistant Professor)
- Bina Ramamurthy (Teaching and Research Associate Professor)
In Memoriam
- Herbert Hauptman (Nobel Laureate, Adjunct 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
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Research Spotlight
UBHacking 2013 Winners
GamePute won first prize in a field of 30 teams at UBHacking 2013. UBHacking organizers Joe Peacock and Nick DiRienzo pose with GamePute team Scott Florentino, Andrew Wantuch, Jen Cordaro, and Andrew Kopanon.
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CSE students win SEAS Grad Student Poster Competition
Ankur Upadhyay, Daniel Bellinger, and Sumit Agarwal's work on Laasie won first prize in the 2013 SEAS Graduate Student Poster Competition. They are advised by Luke Ziarek and Oliver Kennedy.
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Open House
CSE undergrads demonstrate technology from the Center for Socially Relevant Computing (CSRC) to newly-accepted students and their parents at the CSE Open House on Saturday, March 23.
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Student Research Poster Session
CSE graduate students and their faculty advisors present research posters in the Davis Atrium on March 7, 2013.
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Cyberdefenders
CSE and Management students compete in the Northeast Collegiate Cyberdefense Competition (NCCC) on Saturday, January 19. UB advanced to the next round of competition, to be held at the University of Maine in March.
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Cybersecurity
UB's Center of Excellence in Information Systems, Assurance, Research, and Education (CEISARE) received a $1.6 million NSF grant to train students to protect the United States from cyberattacks. »
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UB PhoneLab
Geoffrey Challen and Steven Ko are enlisting hundreds of students to build an unprecedented smartphone network to help scientists improve mobile computers and better understand how they're changing the world. »
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Davis Hall dedication
UB hosted Davis Hall's ribbon-cutting ceremony on May 12, 2012. Pictured (l to r) are: Kamlesh Tripathi, Margaret Jacobs, Jeremy Jacobs, Barbara Davis, Jack Davis, Rajan Batta, George Maziarz, and Harvey Stenger.
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Davis Hall southwest elevation
Davis Hall, CSE's new $75M headquarters, is designed to meet LEED "Gold" standards. The building is named for Barbara and Jack Davis. Davis is the founder of Akron-based I Squared R Element Co.
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Exposing chess cheats
Theoretician and International Master chessplayer Kenneth W. Regan devises algorithms to detect chess cheating. The New York Times recently profiled his work .
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Crystal clear
Nobel Laureate Herbert Hauptman, a CSE affiliated professor, developed an algorithm for determining crystal structure. Computing in Science and Engineering Magazine named it one of the top 10 algorithms of the 20th century.
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Handwriting recognition
Pursuing work on document verification and identification, CSE researchers use machine-learning algorithms to study handwriting variability.
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Structural determination
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.
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Image analysis
CSE professor Aidong Zhang is developing intelligent content-analysis programs to automatically analyze images, replacing human coding of semantic content.
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Davis Hall northwest elevation
This concept scheme shows Davis Hall, CSE's new $75M headquarters, viewed from the northwest. The edge of Ketter Hall is visible on the right, just east of Davis. UB held the ribbon-cutting ceremony on May 12, 2012.
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Algorithm therapy
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.
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Award-winning faculty
The CSE faculty includes NSF CAREER award holders; ACM, IEEE, and AAAI fellows; and editors of noteworthy journals.
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Working together
CSE faculty work with researchers in chemistry, the life sciences, the pharmaceutical sciences, media study, geography, and many other disciplines.
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Davis Hall northeast elevation
This concept scheme shows Davis Hall, CSE's new $75M headquarters, viewed from the northeast. Ketter and Furnas Halls can be seen on the left, just south of the new building. We broke ground in April 2009.
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Automated mail
CEDAR, a CSE-affiliated research center, developed the systems that postal agencies around the world use to automatically sort hand-addressed mail.
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High-performance
CSE's MultiStore Research Group is funded by a $1 million NSF grant for the development of high-performance online data-storage systems.
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Cutting-edge research facilities
CSE faculty are major participants in the new $200 million Buffalo Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics.
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Grants for research
CSE faculty average some $4.5 million annually in research grants. Our research areas range from high-performance computing to data mining.
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Calendar
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