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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.


Events    (More...)

CS Seminar: RISE Tool: A leveraging tool for competitive performance
Wednesday 1:00PM, October 15, 2008, ST2, 430A
K. B. Akhilesh, Professor,
Department of Management Studies,
Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India
GRAND Seminar: Geometric Algorithms for Biological Research: Everything is a Puzzle After All
Thursday Noon, October 16, 2008, ST2, 430A
Amarda Shehu, Assistant Professor,
Computer Science Department,
George Mason University
PhD Defense: Secure Data Aggregation in Wireless Sensor Networks
Friday 10:00AM-Noon, November 14, 2008, Research 1 Building Room 401
Sankardas Roy
Directors: Profs. Sushil Jajodia and Sanjeev Setia
SANG Seminar: A First Step Toward Live Botmaster Traceback
Friday 3:00-4:30 PM, October 17, 2008, ST2, 430
Xinyuan Wang, Assistant Professor,
Computer Science Department,
George Mason University
Joint GRAND/SANG Seminar: Self Cleansing Intrusion Tolerance – Next Generation Server Security
Thursday Noon, October 2, 2008, ST II, Room 430A
Arun Sood, Professor,
Computer Science Department,
George Mason University
PhD Defense: A Multi-channel Defense Against Communication Denial-of-Service Attacks in Wireless Networks
Wednesday 10:00AM, October 8, 2008, STII Room 430A
Ghada Matooq Alnifie
Director: Prof. Robert Simon
GRAND Seminar: Experimental Results on Alternative Strategies in Two Agent-Based Game Playing Systems
Thursday Noon, September 25, 2008, ST2, 430

Andrés Gómez de Silva Garza, Professor,
Computer Engineering Department,
Mexican Autonomous Technology Institute (ITAM)

PhD Defense: Towards Lower Bounds on Distortion in Information Hiding
Thursday 11:00AM, September 11, 2008, STII Room 430A

Younhee Kim
Co-Directors: Prof. Zoran Duric & Prof. Dana Richards

CS/GRAND Seminar: Automated Annotation of Drosophila Gene Expression Patterns Using a Controlled Vocabulary
Thursday 11:00AM , September 11, 2008, STII Room 330A

Jieping Ye, Assistant Professor, Computer Science and Engineering Department, Arizona State University

System and Networking Seminar: Clone Attack and Insider Attack Detection in Wireless Sensor Networks
Friday 3:00PM, September 12, 2008, STII, Room 430A

Xiuzhen Cheng, Associate Professor, Computer Science Department, George Washington University

News    (More...)

Computing News
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.
Washington Post Coverage of CS Students at GMU
Articles on Stephen Taylor's Plasma Pong; and Michael Gagnon's good experiences applying for job positions after graduating from the department.
Departmental Merger is Finalized
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.
Five New Faculty Join the Department
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.
GMU Robotics Club Wins National Robot Competition
"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.
BS in Applied Computer Science
For students interested in applying computer science to a specific field. Biology and Geography BSACS programs are offered at present.