Jayaraman Named Department Chair at UB

BUFFALO, N.Y. -- Bharat Jayaraman, Ph.D., professor and interim chair of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering in the College of Arts and Sciences and School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at the University at Buffalo, has been named department chair for a three-year term.

A UB faculty member since 1989 and coordinator of The Language Research Group (LRG) at UB, Jayaraman's research focuses on programming languages and software systems, with a special emphasis on languages that support high-level, declarative and visual modeling of complex systems. He is pursuing research projects with UB colleagues and students in the areas of object-oriented modeling, constraint-based design, interactive program visualization and domain-specific languages for applications in engineering and organizational modeling. This work has been funded by the National Science Foundation and the Xerox Foundation.

Jayaraman is a permanent member of the editorial board of the Journal of Functional and Logic Programming, and is listed in the "Directory of Distinguished Computer Professionals of India" and the "International Who's Who in Information Technology."

He received a bachelor's degree in electronics engineering and a master's degree in computer science, both with distinction from the Indian Institute of Technology, and a doctorate in computer science from the University of Utah.

He resides in East Amherst.