Computer Science Department

In just three years, Ayusha Bhandari transformed from a newly arrived international student from Pokhara, Nepal, into a summa cum laude graduate earning both bachelor’s and master’s degrees from SUNY Oswego.

International student graduates in three years with master’s, undergraduate degrees

August 5, 2025 | 3 minutes to read

In just three years, Ayusha Bhandari transformed from a newly arrived international student from Pokhara, Nepal, into a summa cum laude graduate earning both bachelor’s and master’s degrees from SUNY Oswego.

Graduate student pushes the boundaries of breast cancer research

May 8, 2025 | 4 minutes to read

Manideep Reddy Pothula, a graduate student at SUNY Oswego, is pioneering breast cancer research by using machine learning and genetic data to enhance survival predictions and improve patient care.

The Shineman Center is an environmentally friendly building that both teaches and showcases science

Two informative panels among highlights for Engineering Week

March 25, 2024 | 2 minutes to read

A pair of informative panel presentations, spotlighting many alumni in the field, are among the highlights of SUNY Oswego’s Engineering Week events, April 1 to 5.

Animator Tim Allen, top, speaks with computer science faculty member and podcast host Ryan Zlomek

Faculty member’s podcast attracts renowned guests, supports student learning

January 8, 2024 | 5 minutes to read

A computer science faculty member’s podcast, “Meditations with Ryan Zlomek,” includes conversations with an interesting variety of guests while also supporting his students’ creativity and skills.

James Early in his recording studio

Professor provides free services to record Porchfest performers

September 1, 2023 | 3 minutes to read

Oswego’s eighth annual Porchfest will feature more than 70 acts around the Port City on Sept. 17, plus an increased spotlight on performers thanks to SUNY Oswego computer faculty member James Early’s continued offer to record sets free of charge.

Oswego students, Marquardt Switches team up on software projects

February 3, 2023 | 3 minutes to read

SUNY Oswego students collaborated with Marquardt Switches in Cazenovia on a variety of projects supporting the company's efficiency and their own problem-solving skills.

Master's in human-computer interaction student Phoenix Boisnier shows how the team's augmented reality programming will show up for a display at the H. Lee White Marine Museum in Oswego

Faculty-student project bringing history alive in local museum

May 3, 2022 | 4 minutes to read

Students working with computer science faculty member Qing Zhang are bringing the community’s maritime heritage to life at the H. Lee White Marine Museum.

Jane Okada, left, with other summer interns at Ancestry.com

International student finds career path through Oswego

April 28, 2022 | 2 minutes to read

Jane Okada, a SUNY Oswego student from Japan, earned academic and professional achievements – and a job with a well-known website – through her college years.

Computer science major Dominic Altamura sits in front of a computer, wearing a black t-shirt and black glasses. He has mid-length brown hair.

Campus grant supports student's research of computing concepts

March 8, 2022 | 3 minutes to read

SUNY Oswego computer science major and logic minor Dominic Altamura recently received a Student Scholarly and Creative Activity Grant for research that he hopes will help demystify computer science concepts and applications for users of the general public.

Ravi Teja (TJ) Manchi, a master’s in human-computer interaction student from India, came to Oswego for the renowned and distinctive program. He’s since found helpful and knowledgeable professors, an active international community and the skills to pursue future success.

Ravi Teja Manchi

Isabelle Bichindaritz teaches in an advanced classroom

Awards honor faculty for scholarly, creative activities

September 13, 2021 | 8 minutes to read

Three faculty members earned campus awards recognizing outstanding achievements in scholarly and creative activities.

Bastian Tenbergen meets with his class virtually from his office in the Shineman Center

Collaboration with IBM, Oswego alumnus provides student opportunities

June 9, 2021 | 5 minutes to read

For SUNY Oswego software engineering students, an ongoing collaboration with IBM and a successful alumnus has provided valuable experience within the professional realm of their prospective careers.

Kamal Morales recently released a new EP, Cycles of Love

Oswego students sweep top awards for elevator-pitch competition

April 28, 2021 | 5 minutes to read

Three SUNY Oswego students swept the top awards in anelevator-pitch contest for Central New York college students.

Screen capture of scene from Yoga video game, which won a hackathon award

Oswego senior, recent graduate earn first prize at hackathon

November 23, 2020 | 2 minutes to read

Recent SUNY Oswego graduate Tonia Sanzo and senior Wyatt Matt earned the top prize at DandyHacks 2020 tournament in late October.

SUNY Oswego team members who won award at hackathon for their inclusive TRANSition app

Student team wins hackathon prize with inclusive app

April 20, 2020 | 3 minutes to read

A SUNY Oswego student team of Alexis Indick, Anisha KC, Bharati Mahajan and Tonia Sanzo won Best User Interface at the WiCHacks competition earlier this year for their app “TRANSition,” which promotes inclusion and connectedness for the LGBTQ+ community.

Ian Cummins and Theo Johnson with Blinks game pieces

SUNY Oswego lessons help students win competition, earn deal with startup

April 13, 2020 | 3 minutes to read

For Ian Cummins and Theo Johnson, winning the Global Game Jam competition months ago in New York City was just the beginning of an adventure that includes their game’s inclusion in a startup’s new system.

Laptop open to SUNY Oswego Quest page

Computer science department plugs into virtual Quest

April 2, 2020 | 4 minutes to read

Even with Quest -- the college’s annual celebration of scholarly and creative activities -- not taking place in person, the show goes on virtually, with the computer science department kicking off festivities on the originally planned April 1 date.

Cedric Hansen, a senior software engineering major from Ottawa and a goaltender for the Laker men's hockey team, said Oswego's combination of academics, location, facilities and athletics made it the perfect spot for him. He's already lined up a job with IBM after his May 2020 graduation.

Video Spotlight: Cedric Hansen

SRC Inc. presents a $1 million gift to SUNY Oswego to establish an endowed professorship in engineering

$1 million gift from SRC Inc. establishes endowed professorship in engineering

November 25, 2019 | 3 minutes to read

SUNY Oswego’s engineering program received a $1 million gift from SRC Inc., a Syracuse-based research and development company, to establish an endowed professorship, strengthening the internationally accredited engineering program.

Fort Ontario's Paul Lear and SUNY Oswego graduate student Theo Johnson demonstrate an app that uses historical photos as reference points

Graduate student helps bring Fort Ontario history alive

September 5, 2019 | 4 minutes to read

Visitors to Oswego’s historic Fort Ontario will get to see past and present merge, thanks to an augmented reality project by a SUNY Oswego graduate student.

SUNY Oswego’s engineering programs earn ABET accreditation

September 3, 2019 | 4 minutes to read

Global accreditation recognizes Oswego’s electrical computer engineering and software engineering programs

Damian Schofield directs SUNY Oswego's graduate human-computer interaction program

2 faculty honored for scholarly and creative activity

May 23, 2019 | 7 minutes to read

Damian Schofield, director of SUNY Oswego's graduate program in human-computer interaction (HCI), has earned the 2019 President's Award for Scholarly and Creative Activity at the college, while composer Paul Leary of the music department received the Provost's Award for Scholarly...

Kenny Roffo showing off his puzzle design

Alumnus, NASA engineer to speak Oct. 23 about Mars mission

October 11, 2018 | 2 minutes to read

Kenny Roffo, a 2017 SUNY Oswego graduate who is now a NASA software engineer, will return to his alma mater to discuss “InSight: The Next Mars Lander” at 4 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 23, in Room 132 of the Shineman Center.

Daniel Schlegel with his research

Grant supports professor's artificial-intelligence effort to improve healthcare

October 1, 2018 | 3 minutes to read

Thanks to a grant from the National Institutes of Health, computer science faculty member Daniel Schlegel plans to apply artificial intelligence (AI) to an immensely complex problem: the automated interpretation of guidelines for medical treatment of diseases.

Students with virtual reality goggles

Students learn, share insights while in Vietnam

September 25, 2018 | 5 minutes to read

Seven SUNY Oswego human-computer interaction students spent part of their summer in Vietnam working on advanced technology, making new connections and sharing their knowledge.

Faculty member Caglar Yildrim researches smartphone dependency

July 17, 2018 | 2 minutes to read

Computer science faculty member Caglar Yildrim researches nomophobia (fear of being without a smartphone) and related technology questions.

Gilian and Bastian Tenbergen met at Oswego, graduated, returned to teach

Oswego to Germany and back: Love and teaching unite faculty alumni couple

June 1, 2018 | 3 minutes to read

Two SUNY Oswego alumni are living proof that love -- of each other and of teaching -- can span distance and time apart.

Students work on computer programming project

Oswego students to boost programming project at Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics

February 22, 2018 | 3 minutes to read

Two SUNY Oswego undergraduates have accepted internship offers to work this summer at Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on a programming project for a molecular spectroscopy database.

Student service award winner Abhishek Rauniyar, at right, with nominator Sharona Ginsberg

Library network award recognizes student's 'above and beyond' service

July 20, 2017 | 2 minutes to read

Going "above and beyond" for those looking to use the college's Maker Services offerings has earned Abhishek Rauniyar SUNY Oswego’s 2017 Northern New York Library Network Outstanding Student Employee award.

New partnership advances virtual reality research at SUNY Oswego

September 29, 2016 | 4 minutes to read

A German virtual reality software developer recently announced a partnership with SUNY Oswego, helping push VR research and learning opportunities forward in the college’s graduate program in human-computer interaction.

Isabelle Bichindaritz

MOOC pilot bioinformatics class to become online open course pilot

August 22, 2016 | 4 minutes to read

This fall, a new “Big Data, Genes and Medicine” course will represent Oswego’s pilot project in the evolving world of mass open online courses (MOOCs) while preparing learners for an in-demand job field.

Isabelle Bichindaritz

SUNY Oswego online learning initiatives supported by SUNY grants

August 17, 2016 | 3 minutes to read

Two SUNY Oswego projects are among the promising initiatives supported by the SUNY system’s 2016-17 Innovative Instruction Technology Grants.Oswego initiatives earning awards are proposals by Isabelle Bichindaritz to support developing online courses in biomedical informatics and by Casey Raymond for...

Student using data to find causes for psychiatric readmissions

April 1, 2016 | 3 minutes to read

A SUNY Oswego graduate student will present at the college’s Quest symposium on April 13 his data analysis project to assist SUNY Upstate Medical University in determining how to support patients who often seek costly hospital psychiatric readmissions

Applied learning: Students build mobile air-quality sensors

November 18, 2015 | 1 minute to read

Students of SUNY Oswego computer science professor James Early (left) work with mobile air-quality sensors they assembled for use on a study-travel experience in London.From left are Anne Reynolds, a sophomore information science and cognitive science dual major; Melissa King,...

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Labs to Jobs Consortium includes SUNY Oswego biomedical labs

October 5, 2015 | 4 minutes to read

The new SUNY Labs to Jobs Consortium will establish a “Smart Health” Biomedical and Health Informatics Research Lab and a Biomedical Instrumentation Teaching Lab for SUNY Oswego as well as provide additional equipment for the college’s Advanced Wireless Systems Research...

Human development professor and student discussing program

High Needs 2015 SUNY grants fuel development of health and human services programs

September 4, 2015 | 2 minutes to read

The college has earned three SUNY High Needs grants totaling $197,000 to expand programs in human development, health services administration, and biomedical and health informatics.The SUNY-wide Office of Academic Affairs and the Provost approved proposals for:* Expansion and extension of...

Fulbright to send Oswego professor to Finland for teaching, research

March 12, 2015 | 4 minutes to read

The Fulbright Scholar program has awarded Christopher Harris of the SUNY Oswego computer science faculty an opportunity to travel to Finland this August for nearly a year to explore cross-cultural user experience and user design, plus a variety of other...