UB Hacking 2025
11/18/25

Davis Hall hums with activity on Saturday, November 8 as UB Hacking participants stay up all night designing, coding, and building.  Read More

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5/19/25

Share your photos from commencement with us, and help celebrate the experience! 

UB AI Institute for Exceptional Education
10/10/24

UB awarded $20 million to establish institute to create AI technologies to help children with speech, language disorders

We're Hiring!
10/10/24

CSE is actively recruiting qualified candidates for multiple faculty positions at all levels.

AI Institute Ribbon Cutting
4/5/24

Schumer, NSF director say UB is ready to lead nation in AI for social good

Give to CSE
5/4/22

Your gift will help bright, hard-working CSE students fulfill their dreams by funding their studies and extracurricular enrichment activities.  Read More

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We're hiring! Now recruiting faculty for Artificial Intelligence faculty positions.

Fast Facts
  • #32
    in the US
    Computer Science and Engineering Program 2020-2023 national ranking
    Source: CSRankings.org
  • #50
    in the US
    Computer Engineering Program 2022 national ranking
    Up from #66 in 2021 

    Source: U.S. News & World Report

  • 59
    Faculty members
  • 699

    Graduate student majors

  • 156

    PhD candidates

  • 536

    MS candidates

  • 1,672

    Undergraduate student majors

  • 53

    Nations represented by CSE students

  • 1967
    Established Since
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September 2024 Newsletter
CSE September 2024 Newsletter.

Computer Science and Engineering Research Areas

  • Interdisciplinary
    5/8/24
    Computer science and engineering research impacts different areas across several domains. Interdisciplinary researchers examine interactions between computers and humans, and explore ways computing can enhance health care and other industries. 
  • Artificial Intelligence
    8/11/25
    Artificial Intelligence is transforming our world, and can help solve complex problems in health care, manufacturing education and countless other industries. 
  • Theory
    4/19/24
    Theory researchers determine which problems can be solved through algorithms and complexity, and explore computer security. 
  • Systems
    4/19/24
    Our researchers make systems work better, and enhance the performance of mobile computing, robotics, networks, high-performance computing and several other areas. 

Computer Science [and Engineering] Timeline

Highlights from the Department of Computer Science (CS) and the Department of Computer Science and Engineering (CSE). See the full timeline!

  • CSE 50 1967-2017
    11/4/22

    Click here to see our entire timeline of the first 50 years of Computer Science and Engineering at UB.

  • Entry way to the Ridge Lea Campus.
    Ridge Lea
    11/4/22

    UB assigns us our first home on the Ridge Lea Campus. 

  • computer science students work on keypunches.
    Milestone: 5 Faculty
    11/4/22

    The Computer Science Department at the University at Buffalo is formed within the Faculty of Engineering and Applied Sciences (FEAS).

  • UB tuition and fees, Academic Year 1967-1968.
    Grad Programs at Inception
    11/4/22

    University course catalogs first describe our Master of Science and Doctor of Philosophy programs.

  • Faculty in 1970.
    Milestone: 10 Faculty
    11/4/22

    We achieve the ten faculty member milestone.

  • Playing chess on a computer in 1972.
    Chess-Playing Graphical Computer
    11/4/22

    Nick Findler buys a chess-playing graphical computer with NSF funds, beginning a long departmental tradition of incorporating games into our research.

  • image of Buffalo.
    Buffalo buffalo Buffalo
    11/4/22

    William J. Rapaport popularizes the grammatically-parsable phrase, "Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo".

  • processing medical images on a computer in 1975.
    Medical Image Processing Group
    11/4/22

    Gabor T. Herman develops a world-renowned Medical Image Processing Group from 1969 to 1981. 

  • Alt text for mini computer.
    No More Punchcards
    11/4/22

    We buy a Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) VAX 11/750 minicomputer. 

  • Bell Hall exterior.
    Bell Hall
    11/4/22

    We take up residence in Bell Hall, placing us in the center of North Campus activity and culture.

  • collage of CSE faculty in 1985.
    Milestone: 15 Faculty
    11/4/22

    We achieve the 15 (actually 16) faculty member milestone.

  • alt text for first grad conference.
    First Grad Conference
    11/4/22

    Jim Geller (PhD, '88) organizes our first annual grad conference to give our grad students a forum to show off their current research.

  • collage of CSE faculty in 1989.
    Milestone: 20 Faculty
    11/4/22

    We achieve the 20 faculty member milestone.

  • portrait of Dr. Sargur Srihari.
    CEDAR
    11/4/22

    Sargur (Hari) Srihari founds the Center of Excellence for Document Analysis and Recognition (CEDAR).

  • Newspaper article from 1992 describing CSE 25th Anniversary.
    25th Anniversary
    11/4/22

    We celebrate our 25th anniversary with a banquet and a symposium.

  • image of the brain courtesy of the Center for Cognitive Science.
    CCS
    11/4/22

    The university establishes a multidisciplinary Center for Cognitive Science, uniting computer science with cognitive psychology disciplines.

  • collage of CSE faculty in 1997.
    Milestone: 25 Faculty
    11/4/22

    We achieve the 25 (actually 26) faculty member milestone.

  • CSE logo from 1998.
    CS + CE = CSE
    11/4/22

    The Department of Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) is born!

  • collage of CSE faculty in 1998.
    Milestone: 30 Faculty
    11/4/22

    The merger accelerates us past the 30 faculty member milestone. Between '97 and '98, we grow from 26 to 33 faculty.

  • Russ Miller.
    CCR
    2/18/25

    Russ Miller founds the Center for Computational Research, the university supercomputer cluster that has the capability of processing 60 billion operations per second.

  • collage of CSE faculty in 2000.
    Milestone: 35 Faculty
    11/4/22

    We enter the 2000s with 36 faculty.

  • Shambhu Upadhyaya in his computer lab.
    CEISARE
    11/4/22

    Shambhu Upadhyaya founds the Center of Excellence in Information Systems Assurance Research and Education (CEISARE).

  • Ifeoma Nwogu, Ranga Setlur, Venu Govindaraju, Ricardo Rodriguez.
    CUBS
    11/4/22

    Venu Govindaraju founds the Center for Unified Biometrics and Sensors (CUBS).

  • CSE 40th Anniversary Logo.
    40th Anniversary
    11/4/22

    We convened at the Ramada Hotel and Conference Center to celebrate our 40th anniversary.

  • Davis Hall exterior.
    Davis Hall
    11/4/22

    Davis Hall—Our brand-new, state-of-the-art departmental headquarters.

  • CSE faculty outside Davis Hall in 2015.
    Milestone: 40 Faculty
    11/4/22

    We begin Fall 2015 with a strength of 40 faculty.

  • CSE 50th Anniversary logo.
    50th Anniversary
    11/4/22

    The Department of Computer Science and Engineering celebrates its 50th anniversary.

Faces & Voices
"Research is a change process.  From being scared at first to being interested in it."
4/4/17

Aosen Wang

PhD '18

"Here, there are different career opportunities, good opportunities in industry as well."
4/4/17

Luigi Di Tacchio

MS '19

"Getting to know my professors helped a lot. They're phenomenal."
4/3/17

Dominique Hickson

Computer Engineering BS '17

"My favorite part about the Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers is the amount of career opportunities that come with being involved with the club."
9/17/24

Sebastian Cisneros
Computer science student

“UB is such a big campus, but computer science is a well-knit community if you choose to be a part of it.”
4/3/17

Sanjee Choudhery

Computer Engineering BS '17

"Computer engineering can be directly applicable to real problems, and there's a strong job market.”
4/3/17

Jacob Condello

Computer Engineering BS '17

"My pitch at open house is that UB is really big but our department's really small and you can find your way around."
4/3/17

Meg Arnold

Computer Science BS and Mathematics BA '17

"To the aspiring Black engineers, there is more than enough space in the industry for your knowledge and creativity and your input is needed, wanted and valued."
4/17/23

Kendra Claiborne
BS'15, computer science

“Students need to be exposed to basic, preliminary engineering concepts before high school. You've got to get them in the pipeline in middle school. Make it fun, creative, exciting.”
4/3/17

Lavone Rodolph

Computer Engineering BS '03, MS '05, PhD Candidate '19

“I enjoy how research-oriented the professors are, and how open they are to working with undergraduates.”
9/17/24

Alex Liu
Computer science student

“Through student clubs I have found a sense of community with people that motivate me and inspire me every day. ”
9/17/24

Lisa Kanbur
Computer science student

"The atmosphere among professors to cooperate on joint projects is really good.  It leads to very many top-tier papers and works."
4/4/17

Zhan Qin

PhD '17

"I'm amazed by what I was able to do in CSE's student server room. I can bring up and manage a whole network infrastructure."
4/3/17

James Droste

Computer Science BS '17

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