Welcome to the Department of Computer Science
The Department of Computer Science has grown tremendously in the last several years. We have doubled the number of tenure and tenure-track faculty members to 25 and have steeply increased our research footprint. Faculty in the Department of Computer Science conduct numerous research projects with funding from a variety of federal and state funding agencies, including three prestigious National Science Foundation CAREER awards. Research is conducted in areas such as algorithms, bioinformatics, computer and information security, computer architecture, computer networks, databases, high performance computing, parallel and distributed systems, programming languages and compilers, and software engineering among others.
Funding Success Moves Computer Science Toward Top-Tier Research Status
The continuous success in receiving substantial research funding has moved the Department of Computer Science a big step towards top-tier research status. Faculty in the department have received 15 grants so far in 2008, totaling over $10 million. This is the all time high in external funding for the Department of Computer Science, despite a very competitive environment with extremely low funding rates of 10%-20% for federal research grants. Nearly half of the grants are funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) with a wide range of topics including, high performance computing, computer and information security, and wireless networks. With this record year the Department of Computer Science continues its rapid ascend in securing external grant funding, even surpassing its vast success in 2007 .