Department of Computer Science An Overview Gopal Gupta

Department of Computer Science: An Overview Gopal Gupta Erik Jonsson Professor and Department Head 1 ____________________________________ Department of Computer Science Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science

Computer Science at UTD: Past • • Founded in early 70 s: Part of math sciences Became an independent program in School of Natural Science and Mathematics in the 80 s Became part of the Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science in 1986 upon founding of the school Upper division BS CS added in the late 80 s; Lower division added in 1990 Rapid growth in MS population in 80 s, 90 s and 2000 s Significant growth in faculty and Ph. D population in the 2000 s Significant investment through Project Emmit 2 ____________________________________ Department of Computer Science Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science

Computer Science at UTD: Present • • • One of the largest departments in the country Largest Department at UT Dallas (11. 5 % of population) ~2, 900 students (1600 BS, 1150 MS, 150 Ph. D) 50 T/T faculty, 30 non-T/T fac. , 12 part-time lec. BS, MS, Ph. D degrees offered in CS, SE, CE & TE ~225 course sections offered each semester ~700 students graduated each year 21 st in Linked. In placement ranking Our faculty publish in top conferences & journals 8 to 9 Million in annual research expenditures $9 -10 Million in new funding each year (33 rd rank nationally) Many initiatives to lift the department even higher 3 ____________________________________ Department of Computer Science Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science

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CS Dept: Recent Accomplishments • 300 new students added to the student roster in Fall’ 15 – 500 new students added in Fall’ 14 – 400 new students added in Fall’ 13 • 2 Tenure-track and 8 Senior Lecturers in last 1 year: – Faculty size: 81 • $10+ Mn funding in the last academic year • 3 NSF CAREER Award Winners in last 1 year • Launched the new UT Dallas Institute for Interactive and Spatial Computing (UT DIISC) • CS Department organized first undergraduate research symposium in April 2015; 2 nd in Mar 2016 5 ____________________________________ Department of Computer Science Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science

Great Progress Continues … • Undergraduate education – new programs • Graduate education – new tracks, increased applicant numbers, stronger applicants • Research – increase in external funding, • Community Outreach – significant expansion, largest program in the nation? • Industry Interaction – significant increase • Faculty hiring – outstanding hires (T/T & SLs) • ____________________________________ Marketing – campaign launched, new website Department of Computer Science Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science

Recent Faculty Additions Dr. William Semper Networks, SW Engg Dr. Mehra Borazjani SW Engg Ms. Laurie Thompson Prog. Sequence Dr. Andrian Marcus Dr. Nicolas Ruozzi Dr. Lingming Zhang SW Maintenance Machine Learning Software Testing Dr. Richard Min AI, Prog. Languages Dr Ben Raichel Comp. Geometry Ms. Karen Doore 7 CS Education ____________________________________ Department of Computer Science Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science

Undergraduate Programs • BS in CS, SW Engg and Computer Engg – • Faculty heavily focused on students’ classroom success Many innovations to make us the best in the nation: – – – – – CS 2 Honors Program Living Learning Community CS Freshman Experience Computer Science Mentor Center UT Design Capstone Project Program Industry Internships Undergraduate Research Student Clubs Programming Competitions & Hackathons K-12 Outreach ____________________________________ Department of Computer Science Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science

Why UT Dallas CS? • CS Computing Scholars (CS 2) program: – Gifted Freshman CS students are invited to join this program (need to pass an exam) – Taught in a cohort of 30 max, by some of our best teachers – Scholars have their own lounge/lab – Many activities organized, and mentoring provided • Living Learning Community: – CS/SE majors can be part of the living learning community in newly built on-campus residence halls; – Year-round activities involving faculty are organized • Hackathon • Faculty Game Night ____________________________________ Department of Computer Science Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science

TUTORING CAPSTONE PROJECT SENIOR DESIGN BS SE BS CS Programming Sequence Discrete Mathematics Undergraduate Program UTDESIGN ____________________________________ Department of Computer Science Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science 10

Why UT Dallas CS? • Mentoring and Tutoring – Computer programming and Discrete Mathematics are foundations of computer science and software engineering – Round the clock tutoring and mentoring facilities provided to ensure students have adequate help outside the class. – Second Chance to Learn: highly successful way to engage students • UT Design Capstone Project Program – Every student completes a capstone team-project in their senior year – Almost all capstone projects are industry sponsored – Great chance for students to gain practical experience ____________________________________ Department of Computer Science Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science

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Why UT Dallas CS? • Undergraduate Research – Academically gifted students are expected to do research in their junior and senior year – Faculty advisors work with students to place them in appropriate faculty members’ labs • Industry Internships – UT Dallas is located in an area that is home to hundreds of telecom companies. – Large number of internship opportunities exist for CS Department students – We run the 4 th or 5 th largest internship program in the country ____________________________________ Department of Computer Science Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science

Why UT Dallas CS? • Student Clubs – Organized under the student chapter of the Association for Computing Machinery. – Many more student clubs, organized as special interest groups under student ACM exist: ü Linux Users’ Group ü Computer Security Group ü Women Who Compute ü. Net Group, ü Open Source Community ü Android Developer Group ü UTD Hackers Visit http: //www. utdacm. com/ ____________________________________ Department of Computer Science Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science

Why UT Dallas CS? • Programming competitions – There are many active groups that meet every so often to work on competitive programming problems. ü Codeburners group: experts focused on advanced problem solving ü Codewarmers group: beginners interested in competitive programming – Competitive Programming Team: Coached by Dr. Ivor Page • K-12 Outreach – UT Dallas Computer Science Department runs one of the largest university-based K-12 computer science outreach program in the nation (visit http: //www. utdallas. edu/k 12). – Students can join as an instructor or volunteer to help our outreach efforts ____________________________________ Department of Computer Science Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science

Computer Science Faculty • Highly distinguished faculty: – – • Faculty publish in top conferences and journals: – – – • 14 faculty hold the prestigious NSF CAREER award Three Airforce Young Research Investigators 20+ best paper awards in last few years More than 30 software systems developed and made available Intelligent Systems: AAAI/IJCAI, ACL, ICML, UAI, NIPS Cyber Security: NDSS, ACSAC, Usenix Security, CCS Networking: SIGCOMM, Info. Com, PODC, ICCPS Systems: Multimedia, SIGGRAPH, ISCA, VLDB, RTSS, ICLP SW Engineering: ICSE, FSE, POPL Computing Theory: SODA, CAV, So. CG ACM “Publications Rank” of 29 th in CS & 24 th in SE ____________________________________ Department of Computer Science Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science

Areas of Research • Wide variety of research areas covered: - Cyber Security - Computer Systems - Software Engineering - Intelligent Systems - Computer Science Theory - Computer Networking • Strategic areas of focus: - Machine Learning, Data Science, Cyber Security • Focus on Interdisciplinary Research - Computing Theory: Medical Image Proc. , Comp. Bio. , Mathematics - Computer Systems: Medicine, Rehabilitation, Image Proc. , Art & Tech. - Cyber Security: Mgmt and Math Sci (risk management), political sci. - Intelligent Systems: Medicine, Speech processing 17 ____________________________________ Department of Computer Science Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science

CS Department: Centers & Institutes § Cyber Security Education & Research Institute (CSERI) (Director: Dr. Thuraisingham) § Human Language Technology Institute (HLTRI) (Director: Dr. Sanda Harabagiu) § Inst. for Interactive & Spatial Computing (UT DIISC) (Director: Dr. B. Prabhakaran) § Institute for Data Analytics (IDA) (Director: Dr. Ron Bose) § Net-centric Software Center (Director: Dr. Farokh Bastani) § Center for Software Testing (Director: Dr. Eric Wong) § i. Perform: Center for Assistive Technology (Director: Dr. Ovidiu Daescu) § Center for CS Education and Outreach (Director: Dr. Jey Veerasamy) 18 ____________________________________ Department of Computer Science Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science

CS Department: Accomplishments • The Cyber Security Research Institute received 11 NSF Grants • New NSF Industry-University Cooperative Research Center on assistive technology established • New Center for SW Testing and Quality Assurance established with funding from NIST and industry • Dr. Murat Kantarcioglu received the Homer Warner best paper award of the American Medical Informatics Association • Ph. D. student Frederico Araujo runner-up in NYU-Poly AT&T best applied research paper competition • Dr. Eric Wong received “Engineer of the Year” award from IEEE Reliability Society • Grace Lecture Series to empower women CS students launched • Many hackathons organized; next major one in March 2016 19 ____________________________________ Department of Computer Science Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science

CS Department: Accomplishments • Ranked 14 th in the nation for number of women undergraduate students • Ranked 15 th in the nation for number of hispanic undergraduate students • Ranked 24 th in the nation for number of african american undergrad. students 20 ____________________________________ Department of Computer Science Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science

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Student Placement • An artifact of our location: ample internship opportunities: • Large number of alumni in top companies ____________________________________ 22 Department of Computer Science Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science

Advise: Industry Funding • Our federal/non-federal funding ratio profile is similar to a Tier One department • However, our industry funding is dismal, way below the national average of 13%; we need your advise to fix this. • Greater industry funding will help us improve our ranking, which in turn will attract even better students (who will turn out to be high-caliber employees) • This funding is not largesse, companies get R&D done in lieu or join one of the two IUCRC 23 ____________________________________ Department of Computer Science Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science

Advise: EMSE & IUCRC • Industry-University Cooperative Research Center Ø Net-centric Software Center Ø i. Perform Center for Assistive Technology • Executive Master’s in Software Engg. Ø MS program for working professional Ø No GRE Required; 3 years of experience in lieu Ø 4 th batch in progress; going extremely well How do we market these better? 24 ____________________________________ Department of Computer Science Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science

ü Women in Cyber. Security (Wi. Cy. S) 2016 will be held in Dallas, TX ü UTDallas Faculty are Program Chairs for 2016 ü Conference to be held at DFW Hyatt ü 700 attendees – half will be students at all levels nationwide ü Sponsorship partnerships available ü For more information contact Janell Straach (jstraach@utdallas. edu)

Women Who Compute (WWC) • Speed Mentoring Event • Evening of March 23 rd 2016 • Mentors needed • recent CS/SE UTD grads or executives in the field -- not recruiters • Contact Janell Straach (jstraach@utdallas. edu)

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