Computer Science and Informatics PhD

The Department offers a Ph.D. in computer science and informatics. The Ph.D. is suitable for those wishing to pursue careers in academics or industry. Possible areas of research specialization include:

  • Data Management and Informatics: data modeling and reasoning, data privacy and security, information retrieval and extraction, computational and text data analysis, bio and medical informatics
  • Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science: graph theory, theory of computation, approximation algorithm, combinatorial optimization, mathematical programming, geometric algorithm
  • Distributed and High-Performance Computing: metacomputing, distributed systems, collaboration technologies, networking, high-performance computing
  • Scientific Computing: numerical linear algebra, image processing, iterative methods, optimization, partial differential equations, computational fluid dynamics

Requirements

Students admitted to the program, in full standing, should have the an undergraduate degree in computer science, mathematics, or a related science and engineering field that include basic and intermediate computer science courses. Students with insufficient preparation may be required to take courses beyond the minimum requirements.

Preliminary details of the program may be found here.