Department of Computer Science

Graduate Recruiting Weekend

Dennis KafuraDepartment Head

Graduate Recruiting Weekend

Participation: Research

Graduate research assistant Part of a research group Author an M.S. thesis and

Ph.D. dissertation Conference participant Contributor to the discipline

Participation: Instruction

Graduate Teaching Assistant

Participation: Leadership

Graduate Council Advocacy Mentoring Travel fund administration Space allocation decisions

NSF CAREER Award Winners

Doug BowmanVirtual Environments

Naren RamakrishnanRecommender Systems

Eunice SantosParallel Computing

Srinidhi VaradarajanNetwork Simulation

Manuel Perez-QuinonezHuman-Computer Interaction

Adrian SanduComputational Science

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Research Areas

Human-Computer Interaction Computational Biology/Bioinformatics High-End Computing

• Systems/networking• Computational science and engineering

Software Engineering …and more

Mission: Advancing computing in the service of science, industry and society.

Human-Computer Interaction

Enabling effective interaction of people with information and each other using mechanisms mediated or enabled by computational devices and systems

• Virtual environments• Visualization• Gigapixel display• Education applications• Aware spaces

Gigapixel Display Project

Scalable Reconfigurable Multiple display technologies Diverse input devices Link to AwareLab, VICON

Computational Biology & Bioinformatics

Advancing the life sciences through computation• Cell cycle modeling• Experiment management tools• Biotic stress• DNA folding• Drug discovery• Systems biology

ExpressoA Next Generation Software Systems for Microarray

Experiment Management and Data Analysis

JigCell

Computational Biology & Bioinformatics

The emerging picture of a much more flexible DNA may change our understanding of how DNA interacts with other biomolecules, such as proteins. An ability to correctly describe these interactions is of fundamental importance to molecular biology and medicine.

• DNA strands believed to be rigid• Contradicted by recent experiments• System X used to simulate molecular dynamics

High-end Computing Systems

Building programming models, run-time environments, and architectures for next-generation high-performance computing systems.

Fastest US academic supercomputer

High-end ComputingComputational Science and Engineering

Working at the boundaries of science and engineering• Atmospheric modeling• Mathematical software• Numerical methods• Parallel computing algorithms

Modeling the physical and chemical processes that influence air quality over thousands of square miles (e.g., the computed concentration of a trace of interest over a large region in Asia).

Software Engineering

Inventing the next generation of software systems technology

• Requirements engineering• Software maintenance• Software testing and reuse• E-systems engineering

… and much more

Computational grids•Security•Scheduling•Fault tolerance

Laboratories and Centers

• Digital Library Research Laboratory• Laboratory for Advanced Scientific Computing and Applications• Center for Virtual Environments and Visualization

• Undergraduate Learning Center• Human-Computer Interaction Laboratory

Torgersen Hall

McBryde Hall

New Space

• 20+ faculty• 100+ graduate students• Two centers and associated laboratories:

• Center for Human-Computer Interaction (CHCI)• Center for High-End Computing Systems (CHECS)• Laboratory for Computation, Information and Distributed Processing (LCID)

• Main office, technical support, …

First Floor – HCI research

Faculty officesMeeting areas HCI labs

Administrative areaGraduate student workstations

Second Floor – Systems research

Faculty officesMeeting areas Lab areas

Technical supportGraduate student workstations E-commerce lab

Invitation

We invite you to join us …

… and grow with us