Virginia Tech Graduate Program in Computer Science www.cs.vt.edu CS Graduate Program

Overview PhD Program: 11 courses plus dissertation. MS Program: Thesis option: 7 courses plus thesis Non-thesis option: 11 courses. Approximately 190 graduate students, over half of whom are PhD students. Over 75% of all students (over 95% of PhD students) are funded by CS Department or by other departments or companies CS Graduate Program

Research Particularly strong groups in … See www.cs.vt.edu/research Human Computer Interaction Systems & HPC Computational Biology & Bioinformatics Software Engineering See www.cs.vt.edu/research CS Graduate Program

Faculty Significant recent growth — 40 tenure-track faculty in Blacksburg, including: 20 new hires since 2002 4 joint appointments with the Virginia Bioinformatics Institute (VBI) Eight winners of NSF CAREER awards. CS Graduate Program

Space Significant recent growth in facilities: Seven labs in Torgersen Hall (2000) New 40,000 sq. ft. building (2006) New undergraduate teaching center (2006). CS Graduate Program

Funding Significant recent growth in research funding. Grants in Force CS Graduate Program

Graduates Recent PhD graduates working at … Recent MS graduates working at … Iowa State UT-Austin Sun Marquette Auburn Yahoo Villanova ATT Research IBM Microsoft Oracle Rand Corp. Amazon Lockheed Martin Eastman. Google MITRE Vanguard CS Graduate Program