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August 2025 Newsletter
CSE Links from August 2025. Kaiyi Ji is pictured next to headline about his 2025 National Science Foundation CAREER Award. Brief text introducing story, followed by a section break on Facutly News.

Computer Science and Engineering Research Areas

  • 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. 
  • 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. 
  • 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. 
  • Theory
    4/19/24
    Theory researchers determine which problems can be solved through algorithms and complexity, and explore computer security. 

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!

Faces & Voices
“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

“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

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

Aosen Wang

PhD '18

"My favorite part about the Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers is the amount of career opportunities that come with being involved with the club."
1/26/26

Sebastian Cisneros
Computer science student

"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

“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

"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

"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

"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

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

Dominique Hickson

Computer Engineering BS '17

“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

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

Luigi Di Tacchio

MS '19

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