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Computer Science Research

Grant Funding

MD2K
NDN

The Department is involved in three major national research initiatives: the Learner Data Institute with University of Colorado - Boulder, University of Wisconsin - Madison, University of North Carolina, University of Pittsburgh, 5 companies including Carnegie Learning, SoarTech, Aptima, WorkBay, and Gooru, and the Army's GIFT team; the MD2K Center of Excellence with Cornell, Georgia Tech, University of Michigan, Northwestern, Ohio State, University of Utah, UCLA, UCSD, UCSF, UMass Amherst, and West Virginia, along with Open mHealth; and Named Data Networking: Next-Phase with Colorado State, University of Arizona, UCLA, UCSD, UIUC, University of Michigan, and Washington University.

With millions in active grants, we have the highest per-capita research funding of any department on campus. We were recently ranked 55th among nationwide CS departments in federally funded research expenditures.

Interdisciplinary Institutes and Centers

Publications

Our faculty and students publish high-quality research in multiple areas of Computer Science. They have published in top-tier venues in:

  • Mobile Computing: ACM MobiCom, ACM UbiComp, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Mobile Computing
  • Networking: IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, IEEE INFOCOM
  • Sensors: ACM SenSys, ACM/IEEE IPSN, ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks
  • Bioinformatics: BMC Genomics, BMC Bioinformatics, ACM BCB
  • Human-Computer Interaction: ACM CHI, ACM UbiComp
  • Evolutionary Computing: ACM GECCO
  • Software Engineering: ACM/IEEE ICSE, IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology
  • Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence: AAAI, NIPS, ICML
  • Computational Linguistics: ACL, COLING
  • Theory: STOC, FOCS, SICOMP, SODA, SoCG, CCC, ITCS, ICALP, PODS
  • Computer Security: ACM CCS