CISE IAB Meeting Oct. 25, 2007

Overview Degree programs & students. Faculty & staff. Research areas. Future hiring.

Degrees Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering Bachelor of Science in Computer Science Bachelor of Science in Computer Information Science Bachelor of Science in Digital Arts and Sciences Master of Science in Digital Arts and Sciences Master of Science in Computer Engineering Master of Science in Computer Science Master of Engineer Degree of Engineer Ph.D.

Fall 2007 Faculty Number Tenure Track 34 Non-Tenure Track 6 Staff Office 7 Student Services 6 Systems 5

Distinguished Professor … 1 Professor … 8 Associate Professor … 8 Assistant Professor … 17 Senior Lecturer … 1 Lecturer … 5 Senior Scientist …1 Scientist … 1

External Awards 4 IEEE Fellows + 2 AAAS + 1 each ACM, SPIE, SCS. 2 Members, European Academy of Sciences. 1 each IEEE Taylor Booth Award, IEEE Wallace McDowell Award, ACM Karl Karlstrom Award. Many keynotes and best paper/poster awards. 8 NSF CAREER Awards. 2 Fulbright scholars.

CISE Majors (Undergrads) –College of Engineering Computer Engineering: 286 (250) Computer Science: 80 (75) Digital Arts and Science: 87 (79) –College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Computer Science: 68 (62) –Business School Computer Information Science: 34 (30)

CISE Majors (Graduates) –480 (70) MS: 290 PhD: 190 –Plan to reduce to about 130 PhD

06-07 Output –BS: 130 –MS: 90 –PhD: 15

New Faculty 1.Alireza Entezari … Assistant Professor PhD Simon Fraser, 2007 Computer graphics, scientific visualization, image and video processing, multimedia 3 jr, 1 book chapter, 6 conference

Research Areas

Computer Graphics, Modeling & Art Entezari, Fishwick, Lok, Peters –3D modeling –HCI –Digital arts –Simulation

Computer Networks & Security Shigang Chen, Chow, Helal, Helmy, Liu, Newman, Xia –Wired and wireless networks –Network protocols –QoS –Routing

Computer Systems Bermudez, Chow, Helal, Mishra, Peir, Sanders, Thebaut Architecture, languages & compilers, operating systems. Pervasive computing, successful aging, safe-driver technology. Biologically-inspired architectures, molecular computing (DNA and protein devices). Distributed multimedia systems.

Computer Vision & Intelligent Systems Banerjee, Dankel, Gader, Ho, Rangarajan, Ritter, Vemuri, Wilson Medical imaging, face recognition, land mine detection. Processing and interpretation of multi-sensor data. Data fusion. Machine learning. Neural networks.

Database & Information Systems Su-Shing Chen, Dobra, Hammer, Jermaine, Kahveci, Schneider Database management, distributed objects, artificial intelligence, knowledge management, data mining. E-commerce, electronic marketplaces, decision-support tools. Multimedia digital libraries. Decentralized query processing in sensor networks.

High-performance Computing/Applied Algorithms Davis, Fu, Ranka, Sahni, Sitharam, Thai, Ungor Development of time and memory efficient algorithms and associated software. Parallel, distributed, and grid computing. Medical algorithms. Algorithms for wired and wireless networks, distributed sensor networks, QoS. Bioinformatics and computational biology. Data mining.

Current Hiring No hiring planned for Budget cuts.

Career Development Workshop Held for first time Oct. 23, 2007 Civil and Coastal Engineering as well as Chemical Engineering have been doing this.

Career Development Workshop Participating Companies: Artificial Studios Barr Systems Inc Brighthouse Citrix Systems Harris Innovative Scheduling, Inc. Lockheed Martin McKesson Provider Technologies Raytheon Sage Software Healthcare Division Silverscape Tech.-352 Media Group Symantec

Career Development Workshop Targeting juniors, seniors and grad students. Objectives Enhance exposure of students to internship and job opportunities Find out what skills employers seek Increase student-company interaction Raise funds for CISE