Department of Computer Science (Graduate)

Website URL:

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

Department/School Head:

Sunil Prabhakar

Academic Programs:

Master’s and Ph.D. Programs

The Department of Computer Science offers MS and Ph.D. degrees. The master’s program prepares students for admission to a Ph.D. program or for work in the industry.  The doctoral program is designed to prepare students for a career in computer science research. Research areas include Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, Computer Architecture, Computational Science and Engineering, Databases and Data Mining, Distributed Systems, Graphics and Visualization, Human-Computer Interaction, Information Security and Assurance, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Natural Language Processing, Networking and Operating Systems, Programming Languages and Compilers, Software Engineering, Robotics and Computer Vision, Theory of Computing, Algorithms, and Quantum Computing.

• 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 and Cybersecurity (ISCY)
• Ph.D.
  • Computer Science
  • Concentration in Computational Science and Engineering (CSE)
  • Concentration in Computational Life Sciences (CLS)

Areas of Study:

• Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
• Computer Architecture
• Computational Science and Engineering
• Databases
• Distributed Systems
• Graphics and Visualization
• Human-Computer Interaction
• Information Security and Assurance
• Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Natural Language Processing
• Networking and Operating Systems
• Programming Languages and Compilers
• Robotics and Computer Vision
• Software Engineering
• Theory of Computing, Algorithms, and Quantum Computing

Online/Distance Programs:

• Non-thesis MS, Concentration in Information and Cybersecurity (ISCY)

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
Bedrick Benes
Elisa Bertino
Bharat Bhargava
Chris Clifton
Douglas Comer
Tamal Dey
Petros Drineas
Sonia Fahmy
David Gleich
Ananth Grama
Susanne Hambrusch
Suresh Jagannathan
Daisuke Kihara
Ninghui Li
Zhiyuan Li
Jennifer Neville
Alex Pothen
Sunil Prabhakar
Vernon Rego
Elisha Sacks
Eugene Spafford
Wojciech Szpankowski
Lin Tan
Dongyan Xu
Xiangyu Zhang

Associate Professor

Daniel Aliaga
Aniket Bera
Buster Dunsmore
Dan Goldwasser
Elena Grigorescu
Changhee Jung
Aniket Kate
Ryan Newton
Kihong Park
Chunyi Peng
Voicu Popescu
Xuehai Qian
Tiark Rompf
Xavier Tricoche
Paul Valiant
Vassilis Zikas

Assistant Professor

Antonio Bianchi
Jeremiah Blocki
Simina Branzei
Brian Bullins
Berkay Celik
Ben Delaware
Pedro Fonseca
Christina Garman
Wenbo Guo
Steve Hanneke
Sooyeon Jeong
Majid Kazemian
Rajiv Khanna 
Hemanta Maji
Anuran Makur
Alex Psomas
Kent Quanrud
Ahmed Qureshi
Bruno Ribeiro
Eric Samperton
Muhammad Shahbaz
Kazem Taram
Dave Tian
Jianguo Wang
Yexiang Xue
Raymond Yeh
Ming Yin
Ruqi Zhang
Tianyi Zhang
Yongle Zhang

Professor of Practice

George Adams
Hisham Benotman
Tony Bergstrom
Gustavo Rodriguez-Rivera
Sarah Sellke
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 50023 - Data Engineering I
• CS 50024 - Data Engineering II
• CS 50025 - Foundations Of Decision Making
• 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 55100 - Cloud Computing Fundamentals
• CS 55500 - Cryptography
• CS 55600 - Data Security And Privacy
• CS 56000 - Reasoning About Programs
• CS 56500 - Programming Languages
• CS 56900 - Introduction To Robotic Systems
• CS 57100 - Artificial Intelligence
• 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 58500 - Theoretical Computer Science Toolkit
• CS 58800 - Randomized Algorithms
• CS 59000 - Topics In Computer Sciences
• CS 59100 - Seminar
• CS 59200 - Computer Science Seminar
• CS 59300 - New Topics In CS
• CS 59799 - Graduate Professional Practice
• 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 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