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Director

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

Professor, Department Computer Science and Engineering
School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, University at Buffalo
113 Davis Hall, Buffalo NY 14260-2500
Phone: 716-645-1558
Fax: 716-645-2377
Email:

Area: Pattern Recognition, Biometrics, Human Language Technologies

Advisory Board

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

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

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

Participating UB Faculty

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, Device

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

Yun (Raymond) Fu, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering
School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, University at Buffalo
241 Bell Hall, Buffalo, NY 14260
Phone: 716-645-2670
Fax: 716-645-3464
Email:

Area: Applied Machine Learning, Pattern Recognition, Human-Centered Computing, Intelligent Vision System

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

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

Full Time Staff

UB Research Scientists

Srirangaraj (Ranga) Setlur
Principal Research Scientist
113 Davis Hall, Buffalo NY 14260-2500
Phone: 716-645-1568
Email:
Projects: Document Analysis, Biometrics, Pattern Recognition

Philip Kilinskas
113 Davis Hall, Buffalo NY 14260-2500
Phone: 716-645-1565
Email:
Projects: GUIs for AFIS; Biometric Access Systems

Zhixin Shi
113 Davis Hall, Buffalo NY 14260-2500
Phone: 716-645-1566
Email:
Projects: Biometrics, Fusion

Sergey Tulyakov
113 Davis Hall, Buffalo NY 14260-2500
Phone: 716-645-1564
Email:
Projects: Biometrics, Fusion

Administrative Staff

Mary Jane Gallo
Project Administrative Officer
113 Davis Hall, Buffalo NY 14260-2500
Phone: (716) 645-1562
Fax: (716) 645-6176
Email:

Amal Harb
Communications Specialist
113 Davis Hall, Buffalo NY 14260-2500
Phone: (716) 222-0645
Fax: (716) 645-6176
Email:

Eugenia H Smith
Project Administrative Officer
113 Davis Hall, Buffalo NY 14260-2500
Phone: (716) 645-1577
Fax: (716) 645-6176
Email:

Edward Sobczak
Senior Programmer / Analyst
113 Davis Hall, Buffalo NY 14260-2500
Phone: (716) 645-1560
Fax: (716) 645-6176
Email:

Visiting Research Scientists

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

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

Ifeoma Nwogu 2009-current
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Topic: Medical Imaging
Email:

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

Graduate Students

Xi Cheng

Shounak Gore

Shardul Jain

Gaurav Kumar

Utkarsh Porwal

Chetan Ramaiah

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

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

Arti Shivaram

Safwan Wshah

Daekeun You

Yingbou Zhou

CUBS Alumni

Achint Oommen Thomas
Yahoo Inc.
Email:

Anurag Bhardwaj
Ebay Inc.
Email:

Daekeun You
National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, Maryland
Email:

Jianglai Li
University of Tennesee at Memphis
Email:

Xujun Peng
BBN Technologies
Email:

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
Google, Pittsburgh

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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