Department of Computer Science and Engineering

Computer Science and Engineering

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Chenyun Pan - Energy-Efficient Beyond-CMOS Nanoelectronic Device, Circuit, and System - ERB 228 Pizza

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PhD Defenses

Tue 10/29 09:00
Sheheryar Arshad - FEATURE EXTRACTION IN NOISE-DIVERSE ENVIRONMENTS FOR HUMAN ACTIVITIES RECOGNITION USING WI-FI - ERB 670

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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: 2626 students in Fall 2019 (1647 Bachelor’s, 835 Master’s, 144 Ph.D. students)

➢ R-1 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 2019]

➢ #1 in Texas for veterans [Military Times]

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

➢ Ranked #60 overall: #46 AI, #33 Databases, #15 High-Performance Computing, #14 OS, #44 Security, #45 Software Engineering [CSRankings.org, 2016-2019 publications in all venues including non-default ones, as of September 2019]

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, innovative, and 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 52 full-time faculty and over 2600 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 Abacus Cloud and Edge Systems Lab; Adaptive and Scalable Systems Lab; ASSIST Laboratory; Biomedical Computing and Intelligent Systems Lab (BioMeCIS); Data-driven Research for Security, Privacy, and Safety; Data Science Lab; Database Exploration Laboratory (DBXLAB); Digital Design Laboratory; Human-Centered Computing (Heracleia); Human Data Interaction Lab (HDIL); Information Security Lab; Information Technology Laboratory (IT Lab); Innovative Data Intelligence Research Laboratory (IDIR); Learning and Adaptive Robotics Laboratory (LEARN); Machine Learning and Medical Imaging Lab; Medical Imaging and Neuroscientific Discovery Laboratory (MIND); Mining and Analysis of Spatio-Temporal Data Laboratory (MAST); Mobile Computing and Security Lab (MobiSec); Multimedia Lab; Rigorous Design Lab (RiDL); Robotic Vision Laboratory (RVL); Scalable Modeling & Imaging & Learning Lab (SMILE); Software Engineering Research Center (SERC); Wireless Networks and Systems Lab (WINS); and the XML Lab.

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.

August 31, 2019
Cesar Torres, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor in the CSE Department with a courtesy appointment in the Art + Art History Department. He is an interdisciplinary interactive systems and design researcher working to re-imagine, invent, and support what creativity and making will look like 20 years from now. His mission is to move beyond the screen and mouse to instead leverage the wider gamut of physical, cognitive, and social capabilities of the human body and to diversify the creative sites, surfaces, and situations in which we encounter computation. His research interests within this space focus on Human-Computer Interaction, Design, Physical Computing, Digital Fabrication, and Augmented Environments. Find out more about Dr. Torres's story.

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Facts and Statistics

Overall

2626 students in Fall 2019 (1647 Bachelor’s, 835 Master’s, 144 Ph.D. students)
$6.1M research expenditure in 2019, up from $5.4M (2018) and $4.7M (2017)

National Rankings

Ranked #60 overall: #46 AI, #33 Databases, #15 High-Performance Computing, #14 OS, #44 Security, #45 Software Engineering [CSRankings.org, 2016-2019 publications in all venues including non-default ones, as of September 2019]
Computer Engineering #80, Computer Science #91 [U.S. News & World Report 2019]
UT-Arlington: R1 university [Carnegie Classification], Hispanic-Serving Institution [HACU], #3 public school in Texas for graduating with lowest average student debt [U.S. News & World Report 2019], #1 in Texas for veterans [Military Times], #6 in the U.S. for undergraduate diversity [U.S. News & World Report 2019]

Faculty and Student Achievements

33 tenure-track, 19 teaching faculty members
3 IEEE Fellows
7 current NSF CAREER awardees, 7 NSF CAREER, 1 AFOSR YIP, and 2 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 Maryland-College Park, 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

Research Areas

Degrees Offered

Computer Science & Engineering News

CSE's Li Working to Deliver Verifiably Credible Open-Knowledge Networks

Chengkai Li is leading a multi-institution, multi-disciplinary team in the first phase of a $998,870 NSF Convergence Accelerator Pilot program to deliver verifiably credible, open-knowledge networks.

Fresh Look at Pediatric Sleep Studies

CSE Professor Gautam Das was part of a team that found that the resolution of sleep apnea in children, as determined by sleep study results, did not correlate with improvements in behavior, cognitive performance, sleepiness and symptoms of attention deficit hyperactivity disorders.