Welcome to the new Department of Computer Science. The merger of the Department of Information and Software Engineering with the Department of Computer Science is now complete. The former ISE graduate programs and certificates remain intact and will continue to operate under the administration of the new department.
The department offers BS, MS, and PhD programs in Computer Science; MS programs in Software Engineering, Information Systems, Information Security and Assurance, and E-Commerce; and a BS program in Applied Computer Science with various disciplines. The department also offers three concentrations in the PhD Program in Information Technology (in Information Systems, Information Security, and Software Engineering) and several graduate certificates.
Faculty in the department have research interests in networking, architecture, parallel and distributed computing, performance evaluation, software engineering, multimedia, graphics and visualization, databases, software engineering, data mining, security, information systems, artificial intelligence, computer vision, and robotics.
Wednesday 1:00PM, October 15, 2008, ST2, 430A K. B. Akhilesh, Professor,
Department of Management Studies,
Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India
The Computer Science Department publishes its first issue of the Computing News Newsletter.
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Professor Carlotta Domeniconi receives the 2008 Mason Emerging Researcher, Scholar, Creator Award.
Professor Carlotta Domeniconi, Associate Professor of Computer Science, is one of the three recipients of the 2008 Mason Emerging Researcher, Scholar, Creator Award.
The award comes with a monetary cash prize of $3,000. Dr. Domeniconi's areas of expertise include machine learning, data mining, pattern recognition, classification, clustering, feature relevance estimation, text mining, and bioinformatics. She is also a recipient of an NSF's CAREER award. The CS Department extends its congratulations to Dr. Domeniconi for this prestigious award.
Two New Faculty Join the Department
The Department is pleased to welcome Amarda Shehu and Huzefa Rangwala as new assistant professors in computer science with an emphasis in bioinformatics and computational biology.
Visiting Faculty Member in Security
Michael Locasto, a Fellow of the Institute for Information Infrastructure Protection at Dartmouth College, is a visiting faculty member of the Department. His research explores methods for applying machine intelligence to a variety of security mechanisms, especially ways to make intrusion defense systems automatic, correct, and adaptive. His current work focuses on methods of structured fault injection, threat modeling, and debugging patterns.
Visiting Faculty Member in Game Design
Graham Morgan, a Lecturer in the School of Computing Science at Newcastle University, Great Britain, is a visiting faculty member with our department this year. He specializes in distributed systems, physics modeling, and game design and development.
Prof. Songqing Chen Receives NSF CAREER Award
Prof. Chen received the National Science Foundation's CAREER award for his project entitled "Internet Resource Management to Deliver High Quality Live and On-demand Streaming for Wireless Clients." The award is for $450K for five years.
Undergraduate Teaching Assistant Jobs Available
The department has open positions for paid Undergraduate Teaching Assistants (UTAs) starting this Fall semester. A UTA assists a professor in teaching a class, provides an unusual opportunity to be involved in various aspects of teaching, and is a great mark on your resume! Hours and amount of time is very flexible. It helps if you're a CS major, but we often have UTAs beyond CS students.
For more information, see the UTA jobs page.
The merger of the Departments of Computer Science and of Information and Software Engineering is final. The new department name will be the George Mason University Department of Computer Science. The new department will have 37 tenured or tenure-track faculty and four instructors.
The official date for the merger is January 2008; but the two departments already operate as one in most aspects.
The joint recruitment efforts of the merged CS and ISE departments have resulted in five new faculty joining the department. Fei Li, Angelos Stavrou, and Sam Malek have joined the department as assistant professors. Ricci Heishman and Daniel Fleck have joined the department as instructors.
"Big Foot", a humanoid robot designed and built by PhD student
Keith Sullivan, placed first in the Humanoid Division of the Trinity
College Firefighting Robotics Competition. The two other GMU robots,
"George" (by Joel Chenette) and "Blue Bot" (by Brian Davidson) each
qualified in their respective divisions.
