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

Share your commencement memories!
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
  • 515

    Graduate student majors

  • 156

    PhD candidates

  • 355

    MS candidates

  • 1,656

    Undergraduate student majors

  • 54

    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

  • 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
“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

“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'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

"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

"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

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

Aosen Wang

PhD '18

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

Dominique Hickson

Computer Engineering BS '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

"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

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

Luigi Di Tacchio

MS '19

“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

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