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

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Opportunities for Employment and Graduate Study

The undergraduate programs are designed to prepare students for graduate study and careers in computing and information technology. Students who earn a bachelors' degrees in CS or CEN work in the computing industry, banking and finance, marketing, government, defense, aerospace, telecommunications, health care, education, and research. The CSE Department provide a solid foundation for its graduates so their knowledge will not become obsolete in the rapidly changing world of computing.

The Department encourages students to consider graduate studies after receiving their bachelor's degree. Students planning to apply to graduate school in CS should take the GRE Subject Test in Computer Science and should plan a program of study for the bachelor's degree in keeping with the requirements of this exam.

Waiving of Undergraduate Courses when Graduate Courses are Taken

Students with a Math and CSE GPA of 3.0 or above and an A or A- in the prerequisite course, can take the following graduate level courses for graduate credit and have the associated 400 or 300 level requirement waived from their B.A. or B.S. program. Note that if waiving the two 400 level electives the graduate courses must come from two different groups.

Undergraduate Course	Graduate Substitute	Area/Group
CSE 305, CSE 451	CSE 505, CSE 551, CSE 605	Programming Languages
CSE 421, CSE 422	CSE 521, CSE 622	Operating Systems
CSE 431	CSE 531, CSE 594, CSE 632, CSE 633	Analysis of Algorithms
CSE 437, CSE 438	CSE 537, CSE 538, CSE 637, CSE 638	Numerical Analysis
CSE 443	CSE 643	Compilers
CSE 462	CSE 562	Databases
CSE 472, CSE 473, CSE474	CSE 572, CSE 573, CSE 574, CSE 642, CSE 666, CSE 674, CSE 675, CSE 676	AI
CSE 480	CSE 580, CSE 665	Graphics
CSE 475	CSE 527	Minicomputer Systems
CSE 4xx	CSE 506, CSE 606	Architecture
CSE 4xx	CSE 541, CSE 641	VLSI
CSE 4xx	CSE 646	Networks
CSE 4xx	CSE 655, CSE 661, CSE 666, CSE 673	PR, IA, CV
CSE 4xx	CSE 596, CSE 681, CSE 682, CSE 695, CSE 696, CSE 697, CSE 698	Theory of Comp
CSE 4xx	CSE 515	Parallel Computing

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.