1. State of the Department
13 October 2008

2. Challenges facing URCS
Broadening undergraduate education
UR majors receive graduate-level instruction in core CS systems, theory, and AI
All go on to successful industrial & academic careers
But current CS program is not ideal for CS minors, or students interested in applications of computing to other disciplines
Non-traditional areas of CS growing rapidly nationwide
We have started broadening our course offering
HCI, robotics, medical applications
More diverse undergrad education can support growth of research

3. Challenges Facing URCS
Growing graduate research
Individual researchers in URCS are top-tier, but department is hampered by its small size relative to peers
15 faculty slots, versus average of 32 nationally
On the good side: Small size of UR makes it easier to form interdisciplinary collaborations
Center for Future Health, Brain & Cog Science, Linguistics, George Eastman House, …
Interdepartmental collaboration can support growth of research

4. New Course: HCI, Fall 2008

5. New Course: Robotics, Fall 2008
Hans Koomen

6. New Course: Computational Photography, Fall 2007
Chris Pal

7. New Course: Medical Applications of AI, Spring 2008

8. Collaborative Research: Center for Future Health
URCS: George Ferguson James Allen
ECE
Strong Medical Center

9. Collaborative Research: George Eastman House
URCS: Chris Pal, Randal Nelson, Chris Brown
Department of Art & Art History

10. CS Major Starting to Grow
Decline in size of CS major graduating class bottoms out this academic year
Rapid growth forecast for coming years
2007 24
2008 25
2009 18
2010 (estimate) 26
2011 (estimate) 36
2012 (stated interest) 57

11. Graduate Student Recruiting
PhD
Number of applications: 320
US: 42
Europe: 12
India: 34
PR China: 173
Other: 59
Offers Made: 18
Total Accepts: 9 (3 Female / 6 Male) MS
One 3/2 student applied & accepted

12. Grad Student Internships
R.I.T.
Kodak Research Laboratories
CareStream
Google Mountain View
Google Seattle
Google NYC
Adobe Systems
NVIDIA
VMWARE
Institute for Creative Technologies, USC
Intel, Santa Clara
SAP Labs, LLP
AGRONNE National Laboratories
Robert Bosch, LLC, Research and Technologies Center

13. PhDs Earned Manu Chhabra:
Advisor: Robbie Jacobs. Employer: Goldman Sachs, London
Ashwin Lall :
Advisor: Mitsu Ogihara. Postdoc at Georgia Tech
Chuanpeng Li:
Advisor: Kai Shen. Employer: Bloomberg L.P.
Virendra Marathe:
Advisor: Michael Scott. Employer: Sun Microsystems
Hao Zhang:
Advisor: Dan Gildea. Employer: Google

14. Faculty Honors Kai Shen: IBM Faculty Award
Chen Ding: IBM Center for Advanced Studies Faculty Fellow
Lane Hemaspaandra: ACM Distinguished Scientist

15. Publications Conference papers: 36 Journal articles: 16
Book chapters: 4
And the winner is:
Daniel Stefankovic
6 conference papers
5 journal articles

16. External Funding (Spending), 1994-2008

17. Brain & Cognitive Science
Mean = $175,000 Mean without top person: $140,000
Median = $156,000 Median without top person: $143,000
URCS
17 tenure track faculty members $10M annual external support
Mean = $588,000
Brain & Cognitive Science

18. Grants (July 2007 – June 2008) All Awards Non-REU, non-SGER Awards
39 proposals submitted
19 proposals awarded (49% success rate)
total awards $1,298,875
Non-REU, non-SGER Awards
33 proposals submitted
17 proposals awarded (51% success rate)
Total awards $1,176,172
Largest number of proposals: Chen Ding (7)
Largest number of awards: Chen Ding (5)

19. Telling the URCS Story

23. Discussion?