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Ph.D. required courses

Ph.D. required courses. Keith Marzullo University of California, San Diego Computer Science and Engineering. Overview. Why did we establish these requirements? What undergraduate courses do we expect? What core classes do we require? How do we ensure depth? How do we ensure breadth?.

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Ph.D. required courses

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  1. Ph.D. required courses Keith Marzullo University of California, San Diego Computer Science and Engineering

  2. Overview • Why did we establish these requirements? • What undergraduate courses do we expect? • What core classes do we require? • How do we ensure depth? • How do we ensure breadth? U.S. - China Computer Science Leadership Summit

  3. History • We revised our Ph.D. requirements in 2001 • Tension of what all Ph.D. students should know when field is broadening • Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Bioengineering • Recent growth (2x in faculty over last seven years) into vision, graphics, machine learning, networked systems, ... • Recognize students coming in with diverse backgrounds • Decrease time before starting research • Difficulty of triage U.S. - China Computer Science Leadership Summit

  4. Undergraduate courses • Either must have, or can take at UCSD, or can simply take the final and get a passing grade: • Theory of Computation • Algorithms • Architecture • Operating Systems • Programming languages or compilers ... some discussion about statistics U.S. - China Computer Science Leadership Summit

  5. Core Graduate Courses • Algorithms • Operating Systems • Architecture • One of: • Complexity (for CS) • Computing Circuitry (for CE) • Faculty Research Seminar U.S. - China Computer Science Leadership Summit

  6. CSE 221 - Graduate OS • Read two papers for each class • Historically important • Hard-to-understand pivotal • Currently important ... all loosely structured around operating systems • Taught solely through Q/A • Extensive benchmarking project U.S. - China Computer Science Leadership Summit

  7. Depth requirement • Three courses from specialty area • Theoretical Computer Science • Programming Languages, Compilers, and Software Engineering • Computer Systems • Database Systems • Computer Engineering • Artificial Intelligence • Graphics and Vision • Bioinformatics U.S. - China Computer Science Leadership Summit

  8. Breadth Requirement • Each student takes three non-seminar courses from at least two other specialty areas. U.S. - China Computer Science Leadership Summit

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