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The Department of Computer Science and Engineering is one of seven departments in the College of Engineering, the fourth-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).

Overall

• 1,270 Bachelor’s students, 634 Master's students, 110 Ph.D. students (Fall 2017)
• Over $4M per year in research expenditures for the last 3 years
• $7.6M research grants in FY17, growing from $3.1M in FY16

Faculty and Student Achievements

• 3 IEEE Fellows
• 4 current NSF CAREER awardees, 6 NSF CAREER, 1 AFOSR YIP, and 1 NSF CRII awardees since 2006
• Authors with 10,000+ citations (source: Google scholar)
• Author of one of the most popular database textbooks
• General/Program Chairs of SIGMOD, DaWaK, DEBS, PerCom, BIBM, IPCCC
• ACM SIGKDD doctoral dissertation award, ACM TOSEM distinguished referee, HP innovation research awards, ICDE 10-year best paper, Microsoft Research faculty summit speaker, Outstanding Associate Award of NIST, paper awards at paper awards at ASE, APSys, CIDR, ICDM, ECMLPKDD, IUI, ISSRE, ISSTA, PPREW, PSIVT, SIGMOD, VLDB
• Recent graduates work at Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google, HP, IBM, Intel, LinkedIn, Lockheed-Martin, Microsoft, NASA, Pivotal, Raytheon, 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, Texas State University, Univ. of Colorado at Denver, Univ. of Mississippi, Univ. of Texas Rio Grande Valley, and researcher positions at HP Labs, Huawei, IBM Research India, QCRI, Visa Research

National Rankings

• Computer Engineering #64 (source: U.S. News, 2018)
• Computer Science #90 (source: U.S. News, 2014); #39 (source: csrankings.org by average count of publications in 2017)

Area Rankings (source: csrankings.org by average count of publications in 2016 and 2017)

• #4 in Artificial Intelligence
• #10 in Operating Systems
• #19 in Databases
• #21 in High-Performance Computing
• #46 in Machine Learning and Data Mining

Research Areas

• Big Data and Large-Scale Computing
• Biocomputing and Health Informatics
• Computer Networks
• Computer Vision and Multimedia
• Database and Information Systems
• Embedded Systems and Mobile Computing
• Machine Learning and Data Mining
• Robotics and AI
• Security and Privacy
• Software Engineering
• Sustainable Computing

Degrees Offered

• B.S. in Computer Engineering
• B.S. in Computer Science
• B.S. in Software Engineering
• M.S. in Computer Engineering
• M.S. in Computer Science
• Master of Software Engineering
• Ph.D. in Computer Engineering
• Ph.D. in Computer Science

CSE's Athitsos Teams With Industry to Provide Facial Recognition Software

Vassilis Athitsos is working with Macnica Americas to evaluate existing deep learning methods for face detection and facial recognition to determine how to make better technology available to the company’s customers.

CSE's Huang Earns Grant to Combine Methods for Better Brain Data Analysis

Junzhou Huang will use a National Science Foundation to develop a method to combine topology and machine learning to make analysis of brain image data faster and more complete.

CSE's Das Earns Grant to Allow Third-Party Users to Use Location-Based Data

Gautam Das will use a $199,346 Early-concept Grant for Exploratory Research, or EAGER, from the National Science Foundation to show that it is possible to perform data analytics with only local views of location-based services.

UTA, DART Partner to Offer Transformational Learning Experience

UTA and Dallas Area Rapid Transit today launched a first-of-its-kind partnership offering select undergraduate students valuable experiential learning opportunities in engineering and other fields.

CSE's Li Works to Refine Automated Fact-checking System

A team of UTA researchers and their collaborators at Duke University, led by CSE's Chengkai Li, recently earned a three-year, $500,000 NSF grant to expand ClaimBuster, a tool they developed to verify facts reported in the media.

Researchers Designing Robot-Based Vocational Assessment, Training

Fillia Makedon, a professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, is leading a team of researchers who will use a $999,638 NSF grant to develop iWork, a smart, robot-based system that assesses workers’ skills.

Jeff Smith, CSE Alumnus and Entrepreneur, Follows His Passion

Jeff Smith has been on the leading edge of technology for his entire life. His passion lies in robotics and artificial intelligence and the experience gained in a wide-ranging career helps him pursue that passion.

CSE Researchers Ensure Data Center Optimization, Quality of Experience

Hao Che and Hong Jiang believe they can allow outstanding user experiences while balancing computing and network resource allocation and will use a National Science Foundation grant to prove that it works. 

Jones Named Associate Dean for Graduate Studies

Erick Jones, a professor in the Industrial, Manufacturing and Systems Engineering Department, has been named the College’s new associate dean for graduate studies, effective September 1.

UTA-led Team to Construct Computer Program to Identify Fake News

A UTA-led team is building computer tools to detect social bots within the worldwide web that create and spread fake news.

CSE's Li, Jimenez Win Awards at ACM SIGMOD

CSE associate professor Chengkai Li and his undergraduate student, Damian Jimenez, won awards at the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) SIGMOD conference held in Chicago May 14-19.

CSE Team Wins Best Student Paper Award at IUI Conference

A team of computer science students and their advisors won the Best Student Paper Award at the 22^nd Intelligent User Interfaces Conference in Cyprus March 13-16.

College Celebrates Faculty-Staff Awards

Several College of Engineering faculty and staff were honored for achievements in the previous year at the College’s annual faculty/staff awards luncheon March 28.

UTA Leading in Cancer Research

UTA is harnessing expertise from across campus to discover new ways to find, treat, and prevent cancer. View the Cancer Crusaders video.

Happy New Year from the Computer Science and Engineering Department

The Department of Computer Science and Engineering at The University of Texas at Arlington wishes everyone a happy new year.

222 Students Named to Dean's List

Fifty-seven undergraduate engineering students earned perfect 4.0 grade-point averages and 222 were named to the dean’s list for the recently completed fall semester. 

#MavGrad 2016: Mayank Jain

Mayank Jain says UTA transformed his life. He came to UTA to study under Professor and Associate Chair of Computer Science and Engineering Ramez Elmasri, whose research he had admired for years.

15 New Engineering Faculty Hired

The College of Engineering has experienced unprecedented growth since 2013, and has hired 15 new faculty to meet the challenges and opportunities of the future.

CSE's Heng Huang Working to Better Predict Clinical Outcomes

Professor's $1.32 million NSF grant will lead to data mining tools that will integrate multiple modalities of very large, complex patient data to allow scientists and doctors to better predict clinical outcomes and work toward cures for diseases.

Student Teams Earn Multiple Awards at Hackathons

Students from the Computer Science and Engineering and Electrical Engineering Departments have taken home top prizes lately in several “hackathons” across the state.

Researchers Use AI to Assess, Enhance Cognitive Abilities in Children

Professor Fillia Makedon and Associate Professor Vassilis Athitsos received $1.27 million of a total $2.7 million NSF grant for the project, which will use an advanced computational approach in compiling the data.

Computer Scientist Developing Model to Help Data Center Service Providers

Hao Che earns three-year, $799,950 NSF grant to develop a model for service providers to guarantee service-level objectives without unneeded resources.

Engineer Will Use Data Mining to Improve Diagnosis, Treatment of Depression

Heng Huang, a CSE, won a $500,000 NSF grant to use data mining to efficiently catalog and track depression patients’ “thought records” so that doctors and therapists can better identify patients’ treatment needs.

CSE's Junzhou Huang Earns CAREER Award

Junzhou Huang is the fourth engineering faculty member to earn an NSF CAREER Award this year, the most ever earned at UTA in one year.

Peter Crouch Named Dean of Engineering

Peter E. Crouch, dean of engineering for the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa and the former dean of Arizona State University’s Ira A. Fulton School of Engineering, has been named dean of the nationally ranked College of Engineering.

More Than 230 Engineering Students Earn Dean's List Honors

More than 230 undergraduate engineering students were named to the dean’s list for the recently completed fall semester. Sixty-one earned perfect 4.0 grade-point averages.

CSE Professor Measures Microtexture of Aggregates in Pavement with Lasers

Roger Walker is is leading the two-year, $671,011 project to assess whether scanning lasers can accurately measure microtexture of aggregates, which are used in asphalt and concrete mixtures.

Legislature Approves Design of SEIR Building

The UT System Board of Regents has approved the design for UTA's new Science and Engineering Innovation and Research building. 

Engineering Students Win Awards in ACES Competition

Engineering graduate students four awards at the 2016 ACES competition.

UTA, L-3 Partnership Leads to Master's Degrees

UTA’s longstanding relationship with L-3 yielded a cohort of the company’s employees who earned master of software engineering degrees.

College Mourns Passing of CSE's Donggang Liu

Donggang Liu, an associate professor in the Computer Science and Engineering Department, passed away March 20 after a long battle with brain cancer.

College Moves Up 8 Spots in US News Grad Rankings

U.S. News and World Report's 2017 Best Graduate Schools list marked a steady rise for UTA graduate engineering programs, now ranked No. 82 among 215 doctoral-granting engineering schools surveyed. 

Alumni Receive NSF Grant to Spur K-12 STEM Interest

A team of UTA engineering and business school graduates is designing a hands-on, reconfigurable Build-Teach-Play Robots package to stimulate STEM learning in kindergarten through 12th grades. 

AT&T CTO Prabhu Named to Hall of Achievement, Will Join Faculty

Krish Prabhu, president of AT&T Labs and chief technology officer, has been named to The College’s Hall of Achievement and appointed a research professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering.

Lonestar 3D Wins E-Week Challenge, Futurista is Fan Favorite

Lonestar 3D won the third-annual E-Week Student Challenge for their 3D food printer system, and Futurista was voted "Fan Favorite."

UTA Named Elite Research - 1 University in Carnegie Classification

The University of Texas at Arlington was named today in the elite group of R-1: Doctoral Universities - Highest Research Activity by the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education.

Happy New Year from the Computer Science and Engineering Department

The Department of Computer Science and Engineering at The University of Texas at Arlington wishes everyone a happy new year.

Nearly 200 Engineering Students Earn Dean's List Honors

Nearly 200 undergraduate engineering students were named to the dean’s list for the recently completed fall semester. Thirty-two earned perfect 4.0 grade-point averages.

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