Research
Our department emphasizes high quality research to prepare our undergraduate and graduate students for positions in the design and development of computer systems and applications in business and industry, and for scientific positions in industrial and academic computing research. Our strengths lie in the traditional mainstream areas of computer science: algorithms, programming languages, operating systems, distributed computing, networks, databases, and theory of computing. Our faculty serve on the editorial boards of a variety of journals, serve on program committees, publish books, and serve as fellows and chairs of organizations within the ACM and IEEE.
The most recent National Research Council rankings place the department 16th among public Ph.D.-granting institutions nationwide. It is ranked the best computer science department of its size (15-20 faculty) among publicly funded Universities, is ranked first in number of citations of papers per faculty member, and is ranked 17th overall in publications per faculty.
Research Clusters
Computer Science Department research is organized around five
clusters. These clusters build upon the excellence already present in
the department and in the university. Each cluster has three to eight faculty,
with each faculty member participating in an average of two clusters. The five
clusters cover existing research and provide a framework for excellence as we
move forward.
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Featured Research
Short blurbs about selected research projects often appear on
the front page of our web site.
These features are drawn from a collection of short articles.
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