The Department of Computing and Information Sciences is committed to excellence in scholarly activities and research; interdepartmental and interuniversity collaborative projects are particularly emphasized. Key research areas include: cooperative robotics, bioinformatics, computer and information security, distributed algorithms & systems, formal approaches to computation, machine learning and data mining, operating systems, real-time systems, scientific computing, information retrieval, sensor networks, and software engineering. More detailed research areas can be found on the application form.

Two Master's-level degrees, the Master of Science (M.S.) and Master of Software Engineering (M.S.E.), are offered. A Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) degree in Computer Science is also offered. The Department also offers the M.S.E. through distance learning and the Graduate Certificate in Embedded Systems.

The Department has 16 full-time and 2 part-time faculty and approximately 62 M.S., 37 M.S.E., and 21 Ph.D. students. (As of Fall 2007)

Forms for current graduate students