People

Director

Venu Govindaraju, Ph.D.» Bio  » Home Page

Professor, Department Computer Science and Engineering
School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, University at Buffalo
UB Commons Suite 202, Amherst, NY 14228
Phone: 716-645-2356
Fax: 716-645-2377
Email:

Area: Pattern Recognition, Biometrics, Human Language Technologies

Advisory Board

Bharat Jayaraman, Ph.D.

Professor and Chair
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, University at Buffalo
201 Bell Hall, Amherst, NY 14260-2000
Phone: 716-645-3180 x 141 or 111
Fax: 716-645-3464
Email:

Area: Smart Environments

Frank V Bright, Ph.D.» Bio

UB Distinguished Professor, Department of Chemistry
College of Arts and Sciences, University at Buffalo
511 Natural Sciences Complex, Amherst, NY, 14260-3000
Phone: 716-645-6800 x 2162
Fax: 716-645-6963
Email:

Area: Biological and Chemical Sensors, Sensing Materials, Molecular Imprinting

Mark Frank, Ph.D.» Bio

Associate Professor, Communication Department
343 Baldy Hall, 101 Fargo Quad, University at Buffalo
Amherst, New York 14260
Phone: 716-645-6401 ext 1185
Fax: 716-645-6742
Email:

Area: Psychological Biometric Traits

Participating UB Faculty

Albert H. Titus, Ph.D.» Bio

Associate Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering
School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, University at Buffalo
201 Bonner Hall, Box 601900, Amherst, NY 14260
Phone: 716 645-3115 x 1205
Fax: 716-645-5964
Email:

Area: Packaging, VLSI, Smart Systems

Alexander Cartwright, Ph.D.» Bio

Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering
School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, University at Buffalo
201 Bonner Hall, Box 601900, Amherst, NY 14260
Phone: 716-645-3115 x 1205
Fax: 716-645-5964
Email:

Area: Lasers, Photonics, Biophotonics, Devices

Jason Corso, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering
School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, University at Buffalo
201 Bell Hall, Buffalo, NY 14260
Phone: 716-645-3180 x 154
Fax: 716-645-3464
Email:

Area: Computer and Medical Vision, Computational Biomedicine, Machine Intelligence, Statistical Learning, Perceptual Interfaces and Smart Environments

Murat Demirbas, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering
School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, University at Buffalo
201 Bell Hall, Buffalo, NY 14260
Phone: 716-645-3180
Fax: 716-645-3464
Email:

Area: Wireless Sensor Networks, Distributed Systems and Networks, Fault-tolerant Computing, Self-stabilization

Venkat N. Krovi, Ph.D.» Bio

Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering
School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, University at Buffalo
1011 Furnas Hall, Buffalo, NY 14260
Phone: 716-645-2593 x 2264
Fax: 716-645-3668
Email:

Area: Lifecycle treatment (design, modeling, analysis, control, implementation and verification) of smart, mechanical, mechatronic and robotic systems; Smart Environments; Tangible Human Machine Interfaces

UB Research Scientists

Philip Kilinskas
UB Commons Suite 202, Amherst, NY 14228
Phone: 716-645-6164 x 144
Email:
Projects: GUIs for AFIS; Biometric Access Systems

Sergey Tulyakov
UB Commons Suite 202, Amherst, NY 14228
Phone: 716-645-6164 x 119
Email:
Projects: Biometrics, Fusion

Zhixin Shi
UB Commons Suite 202, Amherst, NY 14228
Phone: 716-645-6164 x 226
Email:
Projects: Biometrics, Fusion

Visiting Research Scientists

G. Kim (2004)
Chair, CSE Department
Sogang University
South Korea
Projects: Handwritten Word Recognition

Tom Slowe
CUBRC, Amherst, NY
Email:
Projects: Intent Detection Systems

Vivek Menon
Amrita University, Coimbatore, India
Email:
Projects: Smart Environments

Graduate Students

Achint Oommen Thomas
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Topic: Handwritten CAPTCHAs
Email:

Anurag Bhardwaj
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Topic: Devanagiri OCR
Email:

Daekeun You
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Topic: Document Preprocessing
Email:

Ifeoma Nwogu
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Topic: Medical Imaging
Email:

Jianglai Li
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Topic: Fingerprint Matching using Correlation Filters
Email:

Ricardo N. Rodriguez
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Topic: Face Recognition
Email:

Manavender Reddy
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Topic: Hand Gesture Recognition
Email:

Xujun Peng
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Topic: Signature Verification
Email:

CUBS Alumni

Amalia Rusu
Fairfield University, CT

Amit Mhatre
Amazon Inc.

Candice Quadros

Chaohong Wu
CUBS, UB

David Bartnik
Ultrascan Inc., Amherst, NY

Damien Jose
Microsoft, WA

Faisal Farooq
Siemens Corp., Philadelphia

Hansheng Lei
University of North Texas, Texas

Huaigu Cao
BBN, Cambridge

Karthik Sridharan
PhD Candidate
Toyota Technological Institute, Chicago

Liana M. Lorigo

Praveer Mansukhani
L1 Biometrics, NJ

Robert Milewski
Become Japan Corp., Japan

Sankalp Nayak
Morgan Stanley, NY

Sarojini Ramakrishnan
Qualcomm, CA

Shamalee Deshpande

Sharat Chikkerur
PhD Candidate, MIT, Cambridge

Tsai-Yang Jea
IBM T.J. Watson Research Center

Vamsy Chodavarapu
McGill University, Canada

Xia Liu
Computing Center, UB

Zhi Zhang
IBM, NY

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