1. September 5, 20031 Welcome to the Computer Science and Engineering Department at UTA! Behrooz A. Shirazi Professor and Chairperson The University of Texas at Arlington

2. September 5, 20032 Mission The mission of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering is to serve the needs of the north Texas region, the state, and the nation by providing high quality educational and innovative research programs in computer science and engineering. The department will strive to offer first-rate undergraduate, graduate, and continuing education opportunities; conduct research and develop technology in selected areas; and facilitate technology transfer for the betterment of the quality of life.

3. September 5, 20033 Degree Programs Offered BS in Computer Science and Engineering [ABET EAC and CAC accredited] – 127 hrs –Math/science/engineering –SW/HW balance –Communication skills –Senior design experience BS in Computer Science [under ABET review] – 121 hrs –Math/science emphasis –Software emphasis –Communication skills –Software-oriented senior design experience BS in Software Engineering [under ABET review] – 123 hrs –Software engineering emphasis –Software management and testing emphasis –Communication skills and senior project experience

4. September 5, 20034 Graduate Degrees Masters Degrees –MS in Computer Science or Computer Science and Engineering 31 hours (thesis); 38 (structured) –Master of Software Engineering – 37 hours (team project) –Masters degrees with Telecom Engineering Certificate Same as MSCS or MSCSE with emphasis in telecommunications Also available through the UT Telecampus online (CS/EE Online) Ph.D. in Computer Science or Computer Science and Engineering – Variable (dissertation)

5. September 5, 20035 CSE Teaching Laboratories Computer Logic Design Laboratory (121 NH) –Logic design trainers –Miscellaneous instruments and tools Embedded Systems Laboratory (122 NH) –Microprocessor trainers; many tools and instruments –Windows/Pentium-based systems Introductory Programming (123 NH) –Windows Pentium-based PCs Intermediate Programming (124 NH) –Windows Pentium-based PCs Multimedia and Networking (113 NH) Senior Design Laboratory (125 and 126 NH) –Windows and Linux Pentium-based systems –Numerous instruments and tools Software Engineering and Database Lab (233 NH)

6. September 5, 20036 Centers and Special Programs Center for Research in Wireless, Mobility, and Networking (CReWMaN) –Sajal Das, Director –Mohan Kumar, Kalyan Basu, Hao Che, Gergely Zaruba, Ramesh Yerraballi, David Levine Software Engineering Center for Telecommunications (SECT) –David C. Kung, Director –Arthur Reyes, Jeff Lei, Tom Rethard Institute for Research In Security (IRIS) –Behrooz Shirazi, Director –Ishfaq Ahmad, Associate Director Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) Distributed Smart Agents –Behrooz Shirazi and Manfred Huber, Directors

7. September 5, 20037 1966 – First computer science courses offered (through IE Department) 1973 – Master of Science in Computer Science degree established 1974 – First MS CS degrees awarded 1976 – Ph.D. program established 1977 – Computer Science Section of IE Department established 1978 – Bachelor of Science in CSE degree program established 1979 – First BS CSE degree awarded 1980 – Computer Science and Engineering Department established 1981 – First Ph.D. in CS awarded 1983 – CSE undergraduate program accredited by ABET, reaccredited in 1989 and 1995 (first accredited CS or CSE program in Texas) 1989 – Software Engineering Center for Telecommunications established 1990 – Honors Program in Parallel Processing (HiPP) established 1994 – Master of Software Engineering program established 1995 – CSE undergraduate program accredited by CSAB (first dual ABET/CSAB accredited program in Texas) Historical View of CSE@UTA

8. September 5, 20038 Historical View of CSE@UTA 1996 – UTA ranked 20th in the USA in computer science research expenditures [$8,641,000] in 1995 1997 – UTA ranked 9th in the USA in computer science research expenditures [$15,187,000] in 1996 1998 – First offerings of CSE courses at distance via the web 1999 – MS CSE degrees with Telecom Engineering Certificate 1999 – TeleCampus distance offering of the MS CSE degrees with Telecom Eng. Certificate 2000 – CReWMan established (Center for Research in Wireless, Mobility and Networking) 2000 – Industry Advisory Board Endowed Student Fellowship Fund established (goal of $1,000,000 in 10 years) 2001 – BSCS (B.S. in Computer Science) first offered in Spring 2001 2001 – BSSE (B.S. in Software Engineering) first offered in Fall 2001 2001 – BSCSE accredited by EAC and CAC of ABET 2001 – CSE@UTA Top 25 Initiative kicked off 2002 – Established IRIS: Institute for Research In Security 2003 – Established Bioinformatics research stem

9. September 5, 20039 Top 25 Initiative Developments Since 2001 Faculty recruiting: –9 Tenure track –4 Non-tenure track Number of PhD students has more than doubled Have met research funding goals each year Industry advisory board endowed scholarship established

10. September 5, 200310 Started fund raising campaign to build MavHome Smart House building on campus. Formed the new CSE@UTA Graduate Students Club. Support for student organizations provided by Sabre (more than $100K) in 2002 and 2003). CSE provided wireless network support for all of college of engineering. Established a new Networking and Multimedia teaching lab (NH 113). Established a new SE and DB teaching lab. Building a Bioinformatics research stem. Industry visits – Ericsson, Raytheon, Sabre. Top 25 Initiative Developments Since 2001

11. September 5, 200311 Recent Trends

12. September 5, 200312 Recent Trends

13. September 5, 200313 Recent Trends Source: UTA Office of Research Fiscal Year Reports. Top 25 Milestone

14. September 5, 200314 2002-03 Cumulative Active Funded Awards Office of Research: August 22, 2003

15. September 5, 200315 Recent Trends

16. September 5, 200316 University of Texas at Arlington –Sharma Chakravarthy: UTA Outstanding Research Achievement Award (2003) –Diane Cook: UTA Outstanding Research Award (2002) –Larry Holder: Chancellor’s Council Award for Excellence in Teaching (2000); Inducted into the UTA Academy of Distinguished Teachers (2002) –Jorge Ramirez: Provost’s Award for Excellence in Teaching (2000) –Bob Weems: Outstanding Academic Advisor (graduate programs 2000) –Linda Barasch: Outstanding Academic Advisor (under-graduate programs 2000) College of Engineering –College of Engineering Excellence in Teaching Award Bob Weems (1998); Larry Holder (1999). –College of Engineering Excellence in Research Award Behrooz Shirazi (1998), Sajal Das (2003). –College of Engineering Outstanding Young Faculty Award Krishna Kavi (1988); Bob Weems (1989); Diane Cook (1995); Lonnie Welch (1998); Larry Holder (2000). –Robert Q. Lee Award of Excellence in Engineering Teaching Lynn Peterson (1992); Bob Weems (1993); Behrooz Shirazi (1995); Farhad Kamangar (1997); Ramez Elmasri (1999); Diane Cook (2000); Piotr Gmytrasiewicz (2001); Ramesh Yerraballi (2002). –Fay Van Dam Outstanding Staff Award Bill Riess (1993); Marjorie Kohler (1997); Pamela McBride (1999). Faculty Awards and Recognition – College and University Levels

17. September 5, 200317 Faculty Awards and Recognition – National level Ahmad, Ishfaq: Video compression technology licensing; Best Paper Award, ICPP, 2001 Aslandogan, Y. Alp: US Patent (Pending); Best Student Paper Award, ACM Multimedia, 2000 Carroll, Bill D.: Fellow, IEEE; IEEE Third Millennium Medal, 2000; NASA Technology Innovation Awards, 1980,1982; NSF Professional Development Fellowship, 1979-80; Dow/ ASEE Outstanding Young Faculty Award, 1975 Cook, Diane: NSF Career Development Award, 1995; NSF Research Initiation Award, 1993; NASA Summer Research Faculty Fellow, Ames Research Center, 1991 Das, Sajal K.: 7 US Patents; Best Paper Awards: ESTC 2002, ICOIN ’02, ACM MSWIM 2000, Mobicom 1999, ACM/IEEE PADS 1997; Outstanding Service Recognition Award, ACM, 2000 and 2001; Appreciation Award for Professional Service, IEEE, 1998 Elmasri, Ramez: US patent, 1996 Kung, David: Object oriented software testing licensing; Internationally ranked as 11th Software Engineering Scholar by the Journal of Systems and Software, 1996 Peterson, Lynn: Academy of Distinguished Teachers, 1998 Reyes, Arthur A.: NASA Graduate Student Research Fellowship, 1993-96 Shirazi, Behrooz A.: PARSA software licensing; AFOSR Summer Research Faculty Fellow, 1990; Meritorious Service Award, IEEE Computer Society, 1998; Distinguished Visitors Program, IEEE Computer Society, 1993-96; Distinguished Lecturer, ACM Series, 1993-97 Yerraballi, Ramesh: NASA Fellowship, 1994, 1995 Walker, Roger: TxDOT Top Ten Research Innovation Awards, 2000 Zaruba, Gergely: Best Paper Award, 3rd ACM MSWIM, 2000

18. September 5, 200318 Department Research stems Database and Information Technology Embedded Systems High Performance Computing Intelligent Systems Software Engineering Telecommunications and Networking Multimedia and Video Processing Pervasive Computing Bioinformatics Security

19. September 5, 200319 Database and Information Technology Research areas –Data Warehousing/information integration –Data Mining/Knowledge Discovery –Web Databases –E-commerce –Active/push technology for large network- centric Information Management –Object-Oriented, Temporal & Heterogeneous databases. Faculty –Alp Aslandogan, Sharma Chakravarthy, Ramez Elmasri, Leo Fegaras, JungHwan Oh

20. September 5, 200320 Embedded Systems Research areas –Transportation –Robotics –Real-time embedded systems –Remote interfaces via the web Faculty –Farhad Kamangar, David Kung, Arthur Reyes, Roger Walker

21. September 5, 200321 High Performance Computing Research areas –Software tools for parallel systems –Distributed real-time systems –Clustered and global computing Faculty –Sajal Das, Mohan Kumar, David Levine, Behrooz Shirazi, Bob Weems

22. September 5, 200322 Intelligent Systems Research areas –Smart home technologies (MavHome) –Machine learning –Multi-agent systems –Planning –Parallel AI algorithm design –Robotics Faculty –Diane Cook, Larry Holder, Manfred Huber, Lynn Peterson

23. September 5, 200323 Multimedia and video processing Research areas –Digital video compression –Video over wireless devices –Scene recognition – Animation authoring tools Faculty –Ishfaq Ahmad, Hua-mei Chen, JungHwan Oh, Ramesh Yerraballi

24. September 5, 200324 Pervasive Computing Research areas –QoS and resource management –Community formation and interactions –Ad hoc networks –Mobile networks –Application to Telemedicine, military, office, … Faculty –Sajal Das, Farhad Kamangar, Mohan Kumar, David Levine, Behrooz Shirazi, Gergely Zaruba

25. September 5, 200325 Software Engineering Research areas –Object-Oriented Testing and Maintenance Environment –Software Process Modeling and Re-engineering –Concurrent Software Engineering for Cycle Time Reduction Faculty –Arthur Reyes, David Kung, Jeff Lei

26. September 5, 200326 Telecommunications and Networking Research areas –Mobile computing –Resource management –Wireless bandwidth and location management –Quality-of-Service provisioning for the third generation wireless multi-media systems Faculty –Kalyan Basu, Hao Che, Sajal Das, Mohan Kumar, David Levine, Gergely Zaruba

27. September 5, 200327 CSE Faculty Behrooz Shirazi, Professor and Chairman; Ph.D., Oklahoma, 1985. –Pervasive computing, Bioinformatics, software development tools, parallel and distributed processing, distributed real-time systems. Bob P. Weems; Associate Professor, Associate Chair, and Graduate Advisor; Ph.D., Northwestern, 1984. –Parallel algorithms, parallel processing, automated deduction, relational dependency theory. Tenure track faculty Ishfaq Ahmad, Professor; Ph.D., Syracuse, 1992. –Multimedia and Video Processing, Software Support for Parallel Processing, Design & Evaluation of High-Performance Architectures, Applications of High-Performance Architectures. Alp Aslandogan, Assistant Professor; Ph.D., University of Illinois at Chicago, 2001. –Image database, web data mining, internet computing.

28. September 5, 200328 CSE Faculty Bill D. Carroll, Professor and Dean of Engineering; Ph.D., The University of Texas at Austin, 1969. –Fault-tolerant computing, computer architecture, distributed computing. Sharma Chakravarthy, Professor; Ph.D., Maryland, 1985. –Database and information technology, distributed systems and information technology, networked database, and advanced database applications. Hao Che, Assistant Professor; Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin, 1998. –Networking, network processor design, network resource management. Hua-mei Chen, Assistant Professor; Ph.D., Syracuse, 2002. –Signal processing, image processing, security. Diane J. Cook, Professor; Ph.D., Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1990. –Machine learning, planning, parallel algorithms, robotics. Sajal K. Das, Professor; Ph.D., Central Florida, 1988. –Wireless networks and mobile computing, communication networks and protocols, performance modeling and simulation, parallel & distributed computing. Ramez A. Elmasri, Professor; Ph.D., Stanford, 1980. –Database, web modeling/ontology’s, temporal databases.

29. September 5, 200329 CSE Faculty Leonidas Fegaras, Assistant Professor; Ph.D., Massachusetts at Amherst, 1993. –Databases, programming languages. Jean Gao, Assistant Professor; Ph.D., Purdue University, 2002. –Multimedia systems, Video processing. Lawrence B. Holder, Associate Professor; Ph.D., Illinois at Urbana- Champaign, 1991. –Artificial intelligence, machine learning, distributed computing. Manfred Huber, Assistant Professor, M.S.C.S., Massachusetts at Amherst, 1993. –Robotics and machine learning. Farhad A. Kamangar, Associate Professor; Ph.D., UT Arlington, 1980. –Artificial intelligence, computer graphics, digital signal/image processing, neutral networks, time series analysis. Mohan Kumar, Associate Professor; Ph.D., Indian Institute of Science, 1992. –Mobile Computing, Wireless Networks, Parallel and Distributed Computing, Active Networks, Operating Systems, Algorithms.

30. September 5, 200330 CSE Faculty David C. Kung, Professor; Ph.D., Norwegian Institute of Technology, 1984. –Object-oriented software testing, object-oriented real-time systems, modeling and verification. Jeff (Yu) Lei, Assistant Professor; Ph.D., North Carolina State University, 2002. –Software engineering, distributed systems, networks. JungHwan Oh, Assistant Professor; Ph.D., University of Central Florida, 2000. –Video Database Management Systems, Image Database Management Systems, Medical Imaging, and Video Communications in Wired and Wireless Environments. Lynn L. Peterson, Professor and Associate Dean of Engineering; Ph.D., The University of Texas Health Science Center at Dallas, 1978. –Artificial intelligence, computer-based instructional systems, medical computer science.

31. September 5, 200331 CSE Faculty Nikola Stojanovic, Assistant Professor; Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University, 1997. –Bioinformatics, algorithms, data representation and visualization. Roger S. Walker, Professor; Ph.D., The University of Texas at Austin, 1972. –Real-time and embedded systems, signal processing, simulation and modeling. Gergely Zaruba, Assistant Professor; Ph.D., University of Texas at Dallas, 2001. –Telecommunications, wireless and mobile computing. Non-Tenure track faculty Kalyan Basu, Managing Director of CreWMaN and Senior Lecturer; MS, Indian Institute of Science, 1978. –Telecommunications, networking. Linda S. Barasch, Director of Undergraduate Programs; Ph.D., Oklahoma, 1988. –Programming languages, compilers, database systems.

32. September 5, 200332 CSE Faculty Gil Carrick, Lecturer, M.S., UT Arlington, 2000. –Networking, Computer systems, Operating systems. Kenneth Damrau, Lecturer, M.C.S., UT Arlington, 1999. –Systems. Bahram Khalili, Senior Lecturer and Graduate Advisor, Ph.D., Southern Methodist Univ., 1992. –Software engineering, Intelligence systems. Henry Kearny, Lecturer, M.S., UT Arlington, 1973. –Systems. David E. Levine, Visiting Assistant Prof.; M.S.C.S., UT Arlington, 1975. –Software engineering, operating systems, computer networks. Mike O’Dell, Senior Lecturer; M.S., Naval Postgraduate School, 1977. –Networking, Software Engineering. John Patterson, Associate Dean of Engineering, UT Austin. –Systems, Computer architecture, Digital systems. Thomas D. Rethard, jr., Director of Marketing and Development and Lecturer, M.S.C.S., UT Arlington, 1978 –Operating Systems, programming languages, software engineering.

33. September 5, 200333 CSE Faculty Arthur A. Reyes, Senior Lecturer; Ph.D., California at Irvine, 1999. –Software engineering, software specification and testing, avionics software. Carter Tiernan, Director of Outreach Programs and Lecturer, Ph.D., UT Arlington, 1992. –Artificial intelligence, Robotics. Ray Springston, Lecturer, M.S.C.S UT Arlington, 1991. –Programming languages. Ramesh Yerraballi, Senior Lecturer and Graduate Advisor; Ph.D., Old Dominion, 1996. –Real-time systems, operating systems, mobile computer, multimedia systems.

34. September 5, 200334 Key Points of Contact Chairperson –Behrooz Shirazi, 817-272-3605, shirazi@cse.uta.edushirazi@cse.uta.edu Associate Chairperson –Bob Weems, 817-272-2337, weems@cse.uta.eduweems@cse.uta.edu Graduate Advisors –Ramesh Yerraballi, 817-272-5128, ramesh@cse.uta.eduramesh@cse.uta.edu –Mike O’Dell, 817-272-3988, odell@cse.uta.eduodell@cse.uta.edu Undergraduate Advisors –Linda Barasch, 817-272-3603, barasch@cse.uta.edubarasch@cse.uta.edu –Carter Tiernan, 817-272-3588, Tiernan@cse.uta.eduTiernan@cse.uta.edu Director of SECT –David Kung, 817-272-3627, kung@cse.uta.edukung@cse.uta.edu Director of CReWMaN –Sajal Das, 817-272-7405, das@cse.uta.edudas@cse.uta.edu Department web site: http://www.cse.uta.eduhttp://www.cse.uta.edu