Computer Science and Engineering: A Retrospective

Department of Computer Science and Engineering University at Buffalo, The State University of New York

April 25, 2009

Computer Science and Engineering at UB

•  1967: CS Department formed in FEAS •  1972: CS moves into FNSM •  1998: CSE formed in FEAS

•  with 13 CS and 6 CE (from former ECE) faculty

•  2029: ??

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•  Founding Chair: Anthony Ralston

•  5 Faculty Members •  22 students

– 10 BA – 12 MS – 0 PhD

1967: Computer Science starts at UB

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CS Dept at the Ridge Lea Campus (1967-1983)

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Faculty during 1967-77

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1977 – 1987: Faculty Members

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1987-1990 Faculty Members

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1984: CS moves into Bell Hall

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CS Faculty (15 in 1997) 1.  Artificial Intelligence (Information & Intelligent Systems)

Rapaport, Shapiro, S. Srihari, R. Srihari, Walters 2.  Systems (Software and Hardware)

Jayaraman, Shu, Wu, Zhang 3.  Algorithms/Theory (Computational Science):

Cai, Garg, He, Miller, Regan, Selman

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CSE T-Track Faculty (19 to 26 1999-2009)

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CSE Faculty (2009)

  26 Tenure-track, 6 Lecturers (teaching)  Newest (11 in last nine years)

–  2008: Chen, Mobile Computing, Image Processing –  2007: Rudra, Algorithms and Theory

Corso, Medical Image Processing, Computer Vision –  2006: Chaudhary, HPC, Life Science Apps –  2005: Demirbas, Wireless Sensor Networks

Petropoulos, Databases –  2004: Zhong, Security and Mobile Computing –  2003: Fischer, Bioinformatics –  2001: Ngo, Networks and Algorithms –  2000: Chomicki, Databases

Xu, Algorithms & Comp Geometry 11

Degrees Conferred (1969-1997)

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Degrees Awarded (1998-2008)

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UG enrollments rise/fall with “dot coms” Increase with economic downturn

•  B.A. and B.S. in CS •  B.S in CE

–  Since 1998 •  M.S. and Ph.D. in CSE

CSE Students Year Grad

Enrolled PhDs Graduated

MS Graduated

Bachelor’s Graduated

1977 48 1 16 31 1987 135 8 40 96 1997 135 8 26 104 2002 212 10 55 143 2007 231 14 84 72 2009

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Increasing trends in first three columns

CS Research Expenditures: 1978-88

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CSE Res Expenditures: 1996-2008

16 UB ranked #21 for CS Research Funding

Major Research Impact Areas (involving large research groups/funding)

•  1980s: Numerical Methods (Computed Tomography) – SNARK: Image Reconstruction

•  1990s: Artificial Intelligence (Postal Automation) – HWAI: Handwritten Address Interpretation

•  2000s: Computational Science (Crystallography) – SnB: Shake and Bake

•  2010s: ??

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Some Notable Alumni •  Bachelor’s

– Reid Simmons, Research Professor, CMU – Carl Kesselman, Research Professor, ISI-USC

•  Master’s – Gina Hammond, Founder, CSC – Sharad Tak, Enterpreneur – Steve Kang, Dean, Santa Cruz

•  Doctoral (industry) – Andre van Tilborg, Undersecretary, DST – Tin Kam Ho, Head-Learning/Statistics, Lucent Bell Labs – Bin Zhang, Lead Scientist (Bioinformatics), Merck 18

CS Alum Enterpreneur (China)

•  Robin Li is founder and CEO of baidu.com –  leading Chinese internet

search engine

•  Baidu valued at $1 billion at IPO in 2006 –  Attributes success to

foundation of research at CEDAR Yanhong (Robin) Li

M.S., Computer Science 1994

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PhD Alumni in Academe

•  In 42-year history of CS-CSE – Over 200 PhDs granted – About 175 with current faculty as

supervisor – 24 (12%) with tenured/track positions at

PhD granting positions in the US

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PhDs in US Doctoral Academe Case (Advisor) 1.  Smith, UMd 2.  Royer, Syr 3.  Fulk, URoch

Ralston 4. Shriver, LA-Lafa 5. Eckhse, UMa-B Shapiro 6. Hexmoor, So Ill 7. Geller, NJIT

S. Srihari 8. Xiang, CUNY 9. Govindaraju, UB

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Rapaport 10. Wiebe, UPitt 11.  R Srihari, UB Xin He 12. Zhang, AL-Hunt 13.  Huang, U Conn

A. Zhang 14. Aygun, AL-Hunt 15.  Cho, Baylor ‘09

C. Qiao 16. Wu, LA-Lafayet 17.  Cao, Georg St

P.Scott 18. Nikias, USC

Selman 19. Aduri, Iowa St

Upadhyaya 20. Zhao, LA-Lafa Jayaraman 21. Gestwicki, Ball St Rohini Srihari 22. WJin, N Dakota St Govindaraju 23. Yamolskiy, Louisvl J. Xu 24. Singh, UWisc

Theory/Algorithms (4 faculty): 7 AI (5): 9 SW/HW Systems(6): 8

Doctoral Alumni in Silicon Valley •  Google

– Sivakumar, X. Wu, D-S Lee •  Yahoo!

– Z. Zheng, Shekhawat •  CISCO

–  Srikantan, •  Oracle

– A. Zhao •  Ricoh

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Local Jobs Created (3 Types) 1.  Through UB, e.g.,

– Russ Miller’s CCR Enabled $450M to WNY, most to UB

2. Faculty-created, e.g., – Rohini Srihari Founded Cymfony and Janya Inc

•  Market Leader in Brand Analytics •  Over 30 IT professionals in Buffalo for over 10 years

~10 PhDs recruited from around US

3. Through Students, e.g., – Upadhyaya student M Demjanenko, founded

Vocal Technologies 23

Summary and Future •  Departmental strengths

– Theory, AI: Placements in Academe – AI/Pattern Recognition: Research Funding – Computational Science: Research Funding – Systems and Apps: Future

•  Growing faculty reputation – Most hires: NSF Career Awards –  Increasing Paper Citations

•  Key role for alumni – Shaping department’s future

•  Jobs for local economy –  Increased value of your degree 24

For Further Information: www.cse.buffalo.edu

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