Department of Computer Science (Graduate)

Website URL:

https://www.cs.purdue.edu/graduate/index.html

Department/School Head:

Susanne E. Hambrusch, Interim Head

Academic Programs:

Master’s and Ph.D. Programs

The Department of Computer Science offers MS and PhD degrees. The master’s program prepares students for admission to a Ph.D. program or for work in industry.  The doctoral program is designed to prepare students for a career in computer science research.  Research areas include bioinformatics and computational biology, computational science and engineering, distributed systems, databases and data mining, graphics and visualization, information security and assurance, machine learning and information retrieval, networking and operating systems, software engineering, programming languages and compilers, and theory of computing and algorithms.

• M.S.
  • Computer Science (thesis or non-thesis)
  • Concentration in Statistics and Computer Science
  • Concentration in Computational Science and Engineering (CSE)
  • Concentration in Computational Life Sciences (CLS)
  • Concentration in Information Security for Computing Professionals (ISCP)
• Ph.D.
  • Computer Science
  • Concentration in Computational Science and Engineering (CSE)
  • Concentration in Computational Life Sciences (CLS)

Areas of Study:

• Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
• Computational Science and Engineering
• Databases
• Data Mining
• Distributed Systems
• Graphics and Visualization
• Information Retrieval
• Information Security and Assurance
• Machine Learning
• Networking and Operating Systems
• Programming Languages and Compilers
• Software Engineering
• Theory of Computing and Algorithms

Online/Distance Programs:

• Non-thesis MS in CS via distance learning - no longer admitting students

Combined Degree Programs (Undergraduate Degree / Master’s Degree):

• Fifth-Year Combined BS/MS in Computer Science

Regular Graduate Faculty by Rank:

Professor

Walid Aref
Mikhail Atallah
Saugata Basu
Elisa Bertino
Bharat Bhargava
Chris Clifton
Douglas Comer
Sonia Fahmy
Ananth Grama
Susanne Hambrusch
Chris Hoffmann
Suresh Jagannathan
Daisuke Kihara
Ninghui Li
Zhiyuan Li
Aditya Mathur
Alex Pothen
Sunil Prabhakar
Vernon Rego
Elisha Sacks
Eugene Spafford
Wojciech Szpankowski
Samuel Wagstaff
Dongyan Xu
Xiangyu Zhang

Associate Professor

Daniel Aliaga
Petros Drineas
Buster Dunsmore
David Gleich
Elena Grigorescu
Jennifer Neville
Kihong Park
Voicu Popescu
Lin Tan
Xavier Tricoche

Assistant Professor

Elias Bareinboim
Jeremiah Blocki
Simina Branzei
Ben Delaware
Pedro Fonseca
Christina Garman
Dan Goldwasser
Jean Honorio
Aniket Kate
Majid Kazemian 
Byoungyoung Lee
Hemanta Maji
Mathias Payer
Chunyi Peng
Bruno Ribeiro
Tiark Rompf 
Roopsha Samanta
He Wang
Yexiang Xue
Ming Yin
Ying Zhu
 

Professor of Practice

George Adams
Tony Bergstrom
Gustavo Rodriguez-Rivera
Jeff Turkstra

Programs

• Computer Science, PHD

• Computer Science, MS

Courses

• CS 50010 - Foundational Principles Of Information Security
• CS 50011 - Introduction To Systems For Information Security
• CS 50100 - Computing For Science And Engineering
• CS 50200 - Compiling And Programming Systems
• CS 50300 - Operating Systems
• CS 50500 - Distributed Systems
• CS 51000 - Software Engineering
• CS 51400 - Numerical Analysis
• CS 51500 - Numerical Linear Algebra
• CS 51501 - Parallelism In Numerical Linear Algebra
• CS 52000 - Computational Methods In Optimization
• CS 52300 - Social, Economic, And Legal Aspects Of Security
• CS 52500 - Parallel Computing
• CS 52600 - Information Security
• CS 52700 - Software Security
• CS 52800 - Network Security
• CS 52900 - Security Analytics
• CS 53000 - Introduction To Scientific Visualization
• CS 53100 - Computational Geometry
• CS 53500 - Interactive Computer Graphics
• CS 53600 - Data Communication And Computer Networks
• CS 54100 - Database Systems
• CS 54200 - Distributed Database Systems
• CS 54300 - Introduction To Simulation And Modeling Of Computer Systems
• CS 54701 - Information Retrieval
• CS 55500 - Cryptography
• CS 56000 - Reasoning About Programs
• CS 56500 - Programming Languages
• CS 56900 - Introduction To Robotic Systems
• CS 57300 - Data Mining
• CS 57700 - Natural Language Processing
• CS 57800 - Statistical Machine Learning
• CS 57900 - Bioinformatics Algorithms
• CS 58000 - Algorithm Design, Analysis, And Implementation
• CS 58400 - Theory Of Computation And Computational Complexity
• CS 59000 - Topics In Computer Sciences
• CS 59100 - Seminar
• CS 59799 - Graduate Professional Practice
• CS 60300 - Advanced Topics In Distributed Systems
• CS 61400 - Numerical Solution Of Ordinary Differential Equations
• CS 61500 - Numerical Methods For Partial Differential Equations I
• CS 62600 - Advanced Information Assurance
• CS 63500 - Capturing And Rendering Real-World Scenes
• CS 63600 - Internetworking
• CS 63800 - Multimedia Networking And Operating Systems
• CS 64100 - Multimedia Database Systems
• CS 65500 - Advanced Cryptology
• CS 66100 - Formal Compiling Methods
• CS 66200 - Pattern Recognition And Decision-Making Processes
• CS 69000 - Seminar On Topics In Computer Sciences
• CS 69800 - Research MS Thesis
• CS 69900 - Research PhD Thesis

• CSR 60300 - Advanced Writing For Consumer And Public Health