1. UC IRVINE and BREN SCHOOL OVERVIEW Marios Papaefthymiou Ted and Janice Smith Family Foundation Dean
March 2017

2. UC IRVINE Founded in 1965 Fall 2016 numbers
33,467 students (27,331 undergraduate and 6,136 graduate)
1,232 faculty
10,434 staff
2nd largest employer in Orange County, CA
$5 billion annual economic impact on the county
Rankings
US News and World Report (2016)
Among the top 40 universities
Among the top 10 public universities!

3. UC IRVINE Information and Computer Sciences
Academic and professional schools
Arts
Biological Sciences
Business
Education
Engineering
Humanities
Information and Computer Sciences
Law
Medicine
Nursing Science
Pharmaceutical Sciences
Physical Sciences
Public Health
Social Ecology
Social Sciences

4. IRVINE Irvine, CA 5 miles to Pacific Ocean! 45 miles to LA
80 miles to San Diego

5. BREN SCHOOL FACTS
Founded in 1968 as Department of Information and Computer Science
Established in 2002 as an independent school, the Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences (ICS)
Only computing-focused school in UC system
Three departments:
Computer Science
Informatics
Statistics

6. ICS RANKINGS US News & World Report
Bren School rated 29th among U.S. computer science graduate programs (2017)
Recently added “Global University” rankings. The 2015 ranking places UCI 14th in the US (35th in the world) for computer science!
Huh???
U.S. ranking is based purely on reputation
Global ranking mixes objective (citation, publication) data and reputation
Some top subareas:
Artificial intelligence / Machine learning
Embedded computer systems
Human-computer interaction
Software engineering
Databases

7. Majors (data from Fall 2015)
1408 Computer Science
236 Computer Game Science (estab 2010)
170 Informatics
156 Computer Science & Engineering (joint with Engineering)
142 Business Information Management (joint with Business)
141 Software Engineering (estab 2012)
109 Miscellaneous (Undecided, obsolete majors)
4 Data Science (estab 2015)

8. Graduate Studies – data from Fall 2015
M.S. AND PH.D. DEGREE PROGRAMS IN:
PhD 130 MS Computer Science
PhD 42 MS Informatics
PhD 29 MS Statistics
PhD MS Networked Systems
PhD 16 MS Software Engineering

9. New Professional Master’s Programs
Master of Human-Computer Interaction & Design
Master of Computer Science
Master of Embedded & Cyber-Physical Systems (ICS & Engineering)

10. INFLUENTIAL FACULTY AND ALUMNI
Our faculty
1 member of the National Academy of Engineering
5 Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
13 Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
7 Fellows of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
3 Fellows of the American Statistical Association (ASA)
Our alumni
Roy Fielding (B.S. 1988, M.S. 1993, Ph.D. 2000) – Primary architect of HTTP/1.1
Paul Mockapetris (Ph.D. 1982) – Inventor of the Domain Name System (DNS)
Larry Rowe (B.S. 1970, Ph.D 1976) – Professor Emeritus, UC Berkeley

11. EXCELLENT FACULTY
Professor Michael Franz is perhaps best known for his invention, with a former Ph.D. student, of the “Trace Tree” compilation technique. Franz and his research group collaborated with Mozilla to incorporate this technique into the Firefox browser, where it became the basis of the “TraceMonkey” JavaScript engine, used by hundreds of millions of people every day. The IEEE Computer Society this year honored him with a Technical Achievement Award “for pioneering contributions to just-in-time compilation and optimization and significantly advancing Web application technology.” In addition to conducting truly extraordinary research, he’s also recognized in the classroom and has been voted by UCI seniors as “Outstanding Professor of the Year.”
Professor Judy Olson is the Athena Lecturer, an award given by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) to women researchers who have made fundamental contributions to computer science. Professor Olson is internationally acclaimed for her research on how teams that collaborate from remote locations succeed or fail.
Led by Professor Geoffrey Bowker, the Values In Design lab launched this year at the Bren School, bringing together researchers from computer science, engineering and the humanities in an effort to devise ways to design technology that is responsible and inclusive. Researchers in the lab focus on building values like privacy, community, trust, dignity, security, respect and freedom from bias into future technological systems. This summer, 36 doctoral students from North America and Europe came to UCI to work with Bren School faculty in a weeklong workshop on the subject. Pictured in the middle are two of those students working with our postdoctoral scholar, Garnet Hertz (the guy in the middle).
In June, Intel announced that UCI would lead a new $12.5 million national social computing research center. Informatics Professor Paul Dourish (far right) co-leads the center with a researcher from Intel Labs (Scott Mainwaring, far left) and UCI anthropology and law professor Bill Muarer (center). UCI will serve as the hub; other participants include Cornell, Indiana University, Georgia Tech and NYU.
And if you get a chance to check out the latest issue of Popular Science, out in newsstands now, our own Deva Ramanan, associate professor of computer science, has been named one of PopSci magazine’s “Brilliant 10” young scientists of 2012 for his work in bolstering the image recognition capabilities of computers. Current computer vision systems – such as the motion-capture technology used by animation studios or the Microsoft Kinect input device for game control – analyze movements of the human body and require special-purpose sensors, typically mounted on the body or near a television. Prof. Ramanan has devised a computational algorithm that allows similar analysis using only a single image or video of a person taken with a regular camera. He envisions this people-finding algorithms being used in self-driving cars.

12. ICS RESEARCH CENTERS CAMPUS CENTERS (headquartered in ICS)
Intel Science and Technology Center for Social Computing
Institute for Genomics and Bioinformatics
Institute for Software Research
Institute for Virtual Environments and Computer Games
SCHOOL CENTERS
Center for Algorithms and Theory of Computation
Center for Computer Games and Virtual Worlds
Center for Emergency Response Technologies
Center for Machine Learning and Intelligent Systems
Laboratory for Ubiquitous Computing and Interaction
Secure Computing and Networking Center

13. OTHER CAMPUS RESEARCH CENTERS
California Institute of Telecommunications and Information Technology
Center for Embedded Computer Systems
Center for Pervasive Communications and Computing
Center for Digital Transformation
Center for Organizational Research
Institute for Mathematical Behavioral Sciences
Institute of Transportation Studies
Institute for Clinical and Translational Science
Chao Family Comprehensive Cancer Center
Genetic Epidemiology Research Center

14. CORPORATE CONNECTIONS