Computer Science at Cornell

The Environment for PhD Students

Charlie Van LoanProfessor & Chair

The Lay of the Land

As a PhD student, your well-being will depend on two things:

1. What life is like in the Department.

2. What life is like at Cornell.

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ScientificComputing

Computer Vision &Graphics

Systems&

Networks

Theory &Algorithms

Programming Languages

Databases&

InformationScience

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Faculty Research Areas

The Cornell Environmen

tThe campus is alive with opportunitiesfor graduatestudents and theirresearch.

Electrical and Computer Engineering

Computational Science and Engineering

Operations Research and Industrial Engineering

Computational BiologyScience and Technology StudiesCognitive Studies (Psych,

Linguistics, NeuroBio)Information ScienceMathematics

Nearby Graduate Fields

IAI IISI

NSDL CTC LoL

Sources for thesis topics.

Vehicles for multiplying impact.

Nearby Institutes & Centers

Information Assurance Institute

Intelligent InformationSystems Institute

Research in compute intensive and data intensive methods forintelligent decisionmaking systems.

A center of innovation in digital libraries.

A community center for groups focused on digital-library-enabled science education.

Funded by the National Science Foundation.

The National ScienceDigital Library

The Library of Life

The Cornell Theory Centere

Parallel Computing on

very large clusters

Data-Centric

Applications from the

physical and biological

sciences

Advanced Visualization

Faculty of Computing and Information Science

Information Information ScienceScience

ComputerComputerScienceScience

ComputationComputationalal

Science & Science & EngEng

ComputationComputational Biologyal Biology

Medical Medical ImagingImaging

CIS

InformationInformationTechnology Technology

ManagementManagement

Digital Digital Arts & Arts &

GraphicsGraphics

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ScientificComputing

Computer Vision &Graphics

Systems&

Networks

Theory &Algorithms

Programming Languages

Databases&

InformationScience

CompBiology

Faculty Research Areas

CardieCaruanaGomesHalpernJoachimsLeeSelman

Van LoanVavasis

BalaGreenbergHuttenlocherMarschnerZabih

BirmanFrancis MyersSchneiderSirer

HopcroftKleinbergKleinbergKozenShmoysTardos

ConstableMyersPingaliRuginaTeitelbaum

ArmsGehrkeJai

ElberKeich The Faculty

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ScientificComputing

Computer Vision &Graphics

Systems&

Networks

Theory &Algorithms

Programming Languages

Databases&

InformationScience

CompBiology

Network Science/Eigenvalue Problems

(Google)

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ScientificComputing

Computer Vision &Graphics

Systems&

Networks

Theory &Algorithms

Programming Languages

Databases&

InformationScience

CompBiology Optimizing

Compilers/

Scientific Codes

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MachineLearnin

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ScientificComputing

Computer Vision &Graphics

Systems&

Networks

Theory &Algorithms

Programming Languages

Databases&

InformationScience

CompBiology Language-Based

Security

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MachineLearnin

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ScientificComputing

Computer Vision &Graphics

Systems&

Networks

Theory &Algorithms

Programming Languages

Databases&

InformationScience

CompBiology

On-line Databases

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ScientificComputing

Computer Vision &Graphics

Systems&

Networks

Theory &Algorithms

Programming Languages

Databases&

InformationScience

CompBiology

Classification andSearch in Genomics

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ScientificComputing

Computer Vision &Graphics

Systems&

Networks

Theory &Algorithms

Programming Languages

Databases&

InformationScience

CompBiology Making Sense of a

Terabyte Database

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MachineLearnin

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ScientificComputing

Computer Vision &Graphics

Systems&

Networks

Theory &Algorithms

Programming Languages

Databases&

InformationScience

CompBiology Looking for Anomalies

in an MRI Scan

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ScientificComputing

Computer Vision &Graphics

Systems&

Networks

Theory &Algorithms

Programming Languages

Databases&

InformationScience

CompBiology

Figuring OutHow Proteins Fold

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ScientificComputing

Computer Vision &Graphics

Systems&

Networks

Theory &Algorithms

Programming Languages

Databases&

InformationScience

CompBiology Semantics

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ScientificComputing

Computer Vision &Graphics

Systems&

Networks

Theory &Algorithms

Programming Languages

Databases&

InformationScience

CompBiology

Reflectance Modelsfrom Petabyte Data

CardieCaruanaGomesHalpernJoachimsLeeSelman

Van LoanVavasis

BalaGreenbergHuttenlocherMarschnerZabih

BirmanFrancis MyersSchneiderSirer

HopcroftKleinbergKleinbergKozenShmoysTardos

ConstableMyersPingaliRuginaTeitelbaum

ArmsGehrkeJai

ElberKeichThe Well-Connected Faculty

CardieCaruanaGomesHalpernJoachimsLeeSelman

Van LoanVavasis

BalaGreenbergHuttenlocherMarschnerZabih

BirmanFrancis MyersSchneiderSirer

HopcroftKleinbergKleinbergKozenShmoysTardos

ConstableMyersPingaliRuginaTeitelbaum

ArmsGehrkeJai

ElberKeich

The Faculty Turing Awards

Hartmanis Hopcroft

National Academy ofEngineering

HartmanisHopcroftGreenberg

American Academy ofArts and Sciences

HartmanisHopcroftTardos

The Faculty ACM Fellows

Birman, Constable, Gries, Halpern, Hartmanis, Hopcroft, Kozen, Schneider, Tardos

AAAS Fellows

Greenberg, Hartmanis, Hopcroft, Schneider, Halpern, Selman

AAAI Fellows

Halpern, Selman

The Faculty Gödel Prize

Halpern

Fulkerson Prize

TardosWilliamson

PackardTardosKleinberg

SloanLee, Kleinberg,

Selman, Gehrke, Myers, Marschner

Academy Award(for technicalachievement) SteveMarschner

The Faculty

Highly-Cited CS Texts: 3 in top 611547 Computers and Intractability: A Guide to the Theory of NP-Completeness Garey & Johnson

11049 Matrix Computations Golub & Van Loan

4980 Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools Aho, Sethi, & Ullman

4539 Introduction to Automata Theory, Languages, and Computation Hopcroft & Ullman

3866 Computer architecture (2nd ed.): a quantitative approach Hennessy and Paterson

3684 The Design and Analysis of Computer Algorithms Aho, Hopcroft, & Ullman

* Citations counts from Google Scholar

So Take Into Consideration…

The Department

Faculty, students, research,

connectivity, etc.

The Campus

Nearby research, related programs, etc.

So Take Into Consideration…

The Department

Faculty, students, research,

connectivity, etc.

The Campus

Nearby research, related programs, etc.

So Take Into Consideration…

The Department

Faculty, students, research,

connectivity, etc.

The Campus

Nearby research, related programs, etc.