Department of Computer Science and Engineering

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The CSE department at UTA values faculty candidates who can contribute to the college’s and the department’s diversity initiatives. We further welcome experience with teaching or mentoring diverse groups of students, including first-generation college students, low-income students, racial and ethnic minorities, veterans, and women.

UTA features:

➢ Strong enrollment growth: 2242 students in Fall 2018 (1363 Bachelor’s, 747 Master’s, 132 Ph.D. students)

➢ R1 university [Carnegie Classification]

➢ A Hispanic-Serving Institution [HACU]

➢ #1 public school in the US for graduating with lowest average student debt [U.S. News & World Report 2018]

➢ #1 in Texas for veterans [Military Times]

➢ #10 in the U.S. for undergraduate diversity [U.S. News & World Report 2019]

➢ Ranked #61 overall: #46 AI, #20 Databases, #20 High-Performance Computing, #17 OS, #54 Security, #40 Software Engineering [CSRankings.org, 2015-2018 publications in all venues including non-default ones, as of September 2018]

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The Department of Computer Science and Engineering is one of seven departments in the College of Engineering, the third-largest engineering college in Texas. Its mission is to serve the needs of the region, the state, and the nation by providing quality educational and innovative, relevant research programs in computer science and engineering. The department strives to offer first-rate undergraduate, graduate, and continuing education opportunities; conduct research and development technologies in selected areas, and facilitate technology transfer for the betterment of the quality of life. Its internationally recognized faculty members are engaged in breakthrough research across the leading areas of computer science and engineering.

The department was established in 1981, and it is one of the first departments in the nation to have an undergraduate program accredited by both the Engineering Accreditation Commission and the Computing Accreditation Commission of ABET. At this time, we offer undergraduate degrees in Computer Engineering, Computer Science and Software Engineering, Master’s in Computer Engineering, Computer Science and Software Engineering, and PhD degrees in Computer Engineering and Computer Science. Currently we have 36 full-time faculty and over 1500 undergraduate and graduate students. Our undergraduate programs Computer Engineering, Computer Science and Software Engineering are ABET accredited.

The department's graduates work at America's leading companies and governmental agencies and in other sectors. UT Arlington's location in the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex - one of the nation's two most influential technology corridors - and strong relationship with major technology companies such as Lockheed Martin, Nokia, L-3, BNSF, Fidelity, Sabre Holdings, American Airlines, and many others, provides students with outstanding opportunities for internships and jobs.

The department has a number of teaching and research laboratories, centers and other facilities that support its educational and teaching mission. These include the Biocomputing and Vision Laboratory (BioVIL), Computational Science Lab (CSL), Database Exploration Laboratory (DBXLAB), Distributed and Parallel Computing Lab, Embedded Systems and Instrumentation Lab, Health and Assistive Technology Laboratory (ASSIST), Heracleia Human-Centered Computing Laboratory, Information Security Lab (iSec), Information Technology Lab, Innovative Database and Information Systems Research Lab (IDIR), Learning and Adaptive Robotics Laboratory (LEARN), Multimedia Lab, Software Engineering Lab (SERC), Wireless Networks and Systems Lab (WINS), and the Vision-Learning-Mining Lab (VLM).

Faculty Highlight

January 31, 2017
Jia Rao, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor at the CSE Department. His research interests lie in the broad area of operating systems, distributed and parallel computing, and machine learning. His research focuses on improving the quality-of-service (QoS) of multi-tenant systems, including cloud systems and BigData analytics. Find out more about Dr. Rao's story.

January 30, 2017
Jiang Ming, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor of CSE Department. His research focuses on security, especially software security and malware defense, including secure information flow analysis, software plagiarism detection, malicious binary code analysis, and software analysis for security issues.Jiang Ming has extensive academic and industry experience in computer security. Find out more about Dr. Ming's story.

September 30, 2017
Dajiang Zhu, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor at the CSE Department. His research focuses on Brain Imaging Computing, Computational Neuroscience and Big Data solutions for medical data analysis through computational modeling and machine learning methods. A major goal of his research is to understand the organizational architecture of human brain functions. Find out more about Dr. Zhu's story.

March 31, 2018
Won Hwa Kim, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor at the CSE Department. His research is focused on developing novel methods in Machine Learning and Computer Vision in the context of their applications in neuroimaging, neuroscience and healthcare. Specifically, he is interested in multi-resolution analysis of data that live in non-Euclidean spaces. Find out more about Dr. Kim's story.

August 31, 2018
Ming Li, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor at the CSE Department. Her research interests include privacy and security, crowd and social sensing, Internet of things, and mobile computing. A major goal of her research is to model, incentivize, and secure the crowd and ubiquitous devices in participating collaborative computation. Such commercialized systems include Google Maps, Waze, Facebook, Yelp, Amazon Mturk etc. Find out more about Dr. Li's story.

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Facts and Statistics

Overall

2242 students in Fall 2018 (1363 Bachelor’s, 747 Master’s, 132 Ph.D. students)
$5.4M research expenditure in 2018, up from $4.7M (2017) and $4.2M (2016)
$7.6M research grants in FY17, growing from $3.1M in FY16

National Rankings

Ranked #61 overall: #46 AI, #20 Databases, #20 High-Performance Computing, #17 OS, #54 Security, #40 Software Engineering [CSRankings.org, 2015-2018 publications in all venues including non-default ones, as of September 2018]
Computer Engineering #80, Computer Science #91 [U.S. News & World Report 2019]
UT-Arlington: R1 university [Carnegie Classification], Hispanic-Serving Institution [HACU], #1 public school in the US for graduating with lowest average student debt [U.S. News & World Report 2018], #1 in Texas for veterans [Military Times], #10 in the U.S. for undergraduate diversity [U.S. News & World Report 2019]

Faculty and Student Achievements

31 tenure-track, 15 teaching faculty members
3 IEEE Fellows
4 current NSF CAREER awardees, 6 NSF CAREER, 1 AFOSR YIP, and 1 NSF CRII awardees since 2006
5 authors with 10,000+ citations
Author of one of the most popular database textbooks
Recent graduates work at Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google, HP, IBM, Intel, LinkedIn, Lockheed-Martin, Microsoft, NASA, Pivotal, Raytheon, RedHat, Sabre, Salesforce, Teradata, Texas Instruments, Uber, and many other great companies
Recent Ph.D. graduates secured tenure-track faculty positions at Colorado School of Mines, Kennesaw State University, NJIT, Penn State Abington, Texas State University, Univ. of Colorado at Denver, UIC, Univ. of Mississippi, UT-Rio Grande Valley, Utah State University, researcher positions at HP Labs, Huawei, IBM Research India, QCRI, Walmart Labs, Visa Research, and post-doctorate research positions at Microsoft Research, Michigan, and Stony Brook University