UB - University at Buffalo, The State University of New York

Computer Science Education

Computer Science Education is an area of research which focuses on curricular and pedagogic issues in the teaching of computer science, as well as related issues such as recruitment and retention of under-represented groups in the discipline.

Research interests of faculty in this area include object-oriented pedagogy, the pedagogy of CS1-CS2 courses and rapidly emerging areas (such as grid computing and server-side programming), software tools which support course pedagogy, and student and community engagement through socially relevant projects.

Faculty

Bina Ramamurthy (Teaching Associate and Research Assistant Professor)
Carl Alphonce (Teaching and Research Assistant Professor, for M.S. students only)
Michael Buckley (Lecturer, for M.S. students only)
Adrienne Decker (Lecturer, for M.S. students only)

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New Building SW elevation

This concept scheme shows the new $75M Engineering building viewed from the southwest. A bridge connects the western face of the building to Ketter Hall. Jarvis Hall is seen on the right. In 2008, UB demolished the trailers that had occupied this site.
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Grants for research

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

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

This concept scheme shows the new $75M Engineering building viewed from the northeast. Ketter and Furnas Halls can be seen on the left, just south of the new building. Ground-breaking is scheduled for 2009.
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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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Supercomputing

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

The CSE faculty includes NSF CAREER award holders and ACM, IEEE, and AAAI fellows.
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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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New Building NW elevation

This concept scheme shows the new $75M Engineering building viewed from the northwest. The edge of Ketter Hall is visible on the right, just east of the new building. Ribbon-cutting is scheduled for 2011.
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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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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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Handwriting recognition

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

CSE Professor Russ Miller, along with Nobel Laureate Herbert Hauptman, developed an algorithm for crystal structure determination which is considered one of the top 10 algorithms of the 20th century by Computing in Science and Engineering Magazine.