Computer Science and Engineering Vision

1. Graduate Study at UNL CSEDepartment of Computer Science and EngineeringUniversity of Nebraska, Lincolnhttp://cse.unl.edu

2. Computer Science and Engineering Vision To be broadly recognized as a top program in the US that conducts state-of-the-art research in software engineering, systems, and informatics, and educates students with the skill, knowledge, creativity, and vision to be leaders in defining the future of computing and information technology. To be the “Innovators of the Cyberspace Age.” CSE celebrates its 40th Anniversary in 2007-08.

3. Computer Science and Engineering Vision This vision includes: Being a recognized leader in cyberinfrastructure research and cyberspace education, Achieving a top 5 national ranking in software engineering, Broadly integrating computing and information technology into education for all students and into research and scholarship for colleagues across the university, Providing students with world-class computing infrastructure coupled to an innovative curriculum, and An uncompromising pursuit of excellence.

4. CSE Graduate Programs • MS in Computer Science • Optional Bioinformatics Specialization • Optional Computer Engineering Specialization • PhD in Computer Science • Optional Bioinformatics Specialization • PhD in Engineering • Computer Engineering Specialization

5. CSE Core Areas Software Engineering Software Testing and Reliability, Methodology, Maintenance, Program Analysis Grid and Pervasive Computing Collaborative Technologies, Distributed Computing and Storage, Networking, Security, Embedded Systems, Sensors and Sensor Networks, Real-Time Systems Informatics Data Mining, Databases, Constraint Processing, GIS, Bioinformatics, Computer Vision, Image Analysis, Simulation and Modeling, Visualization Theory and AI Machine Learning, Languages, Semantic Modeling, Intelligent Agents, Computational Complexity, Constraint Satisfaction, Algorithms

6. CSEFaculty 24 Faculty • Full Professors = 9 • Associate Professors = 9 • Assistant Professors = 6 • Nine faculty have won NSF CAREER awards • Three UNL Edgerton Assistant Professor Awards • UNL Faculty Fellow Awards and other university awards • Three named professorships and one distinguished scholar • One ACM Distinguished Member

7. Graduate Student Information Graduate Students 100 Graduate Students 1/3 MS students 2/3 PhD students 27% domestic students Most students supported as teaching assistants or research assistants http://cse.unl.edu/grad/index.shtml

8. Average number of degrees awarded per year for the period 2002-03 through 2006-07 (5 years) is 27.8 BS Computer Engineering 48.4 BS Computer Science 32.0 MS Computer Science  8.0 PhD Computer Science (10.0 per year for the past 3 years) Student Graduation Information

9. Admission Requirements • Graduate Record Exam (general test) • Quantitative: 700 or higher; Verbal: 500 or higher; Analytical: 3.5 or higher • GPA: 3.0/4.0 • TOEFL (foreign students): minimum 600 (paper-based) 250 (computer-based) or higher. The IELTS exam can be taken in place of the TOEFL exam. • THREE Reference letters • Prerequisite courses • All core Math & CS for a BS in CS • Math106 – Analytical Geometry & Calc I • Math107 – Analytical Geometry & Calc II • CSCE155 – Intro to Computer Science I • CSCE156 – Intro to Computer Science II • CSCE230 – Computer Organization • CSCE235 – Intro to Discrete Structures • CSCE310 – Data Structures & Algorithms

10. Admission Requirements • Deficiency courses • E.g. Architecture, Operating Systems, Statistics, Numerical Analysis • Math314 – Matrix Theory • Math380 – Statistics & Applications • CSCE322 – Programming Language Concepts • CSCE340 – Numerical Analysis I • CSCE 430 – Computer Architecture • CSCE451 – Operating System Principles • Well-rounded CS background http://cse.unl.edu/grad/msadmisrequire.shtml

11. Financial Support • You can get paid to go to graduate school!!! ☺ • Teaching Assistantship • Teach, grade, etc. • You apply to department • Research Assistantship • Work on a research project • You apply to professor • External Fellowship • Sponsored by external sources (e.g. NSF) • You apply to agency • Competitive; helps if you have strong interest in research • Typically $15,500-18,000/year + tuition + health ins. • Depends on your status in the program (MS, PhD, etc.)

12. Awards and Fellowships • Awards: • Several departmental awards for graduate students and TAs • Graduate TA and RA Awards from the Nebraska Alumni Association • Folsom Distinguished Master's Thesis and Doctoral Dissertation Awards • UNL/CSE Fellowships: • Recruitment Fellowships: Othmer, Chancellor, Dohrmann, Klarner • Regents Tuition Fellowships (<9 hours) and Graduate Fellowships (>= 9 hours) + 1-year of residency in the US for international students • AAUW Fellowships for Graduate Women • GEM Fellowships for Minorities • GAANN: Graduate Assistance in Areas of National Need (US Dept. Ed.) • Also, visit UNL Graduate Studies Home Page: • http://www.unl.edu/gradstud/

13. Student Support and Activities • Student Mentoring and Resource Center • Colloquiums, seminars, visitors • ACM Programming Contest • Usually have a team in the world finals. • In 2007 (Tokyo), placed 26th. Only 3 U.S. teams placed ahead of UNL. • Association for Computing Machinery Student Chapter • Husker Linux User Group • UNL Game Developers Club • Honorary: Sigma Tau and Phi Beta Kappa

14. Placement • PhD: • Faculty Positions (50%) • Polytechnic University, New York • University of New Mexico • University of Maine • Purdue University at Indianapolis • … • Industry (50%) • Microsoft, Hewlett Packard, Google, Garmin • Cisco, Juniper, Sprint Nextel, Alcatel-Lucent • … • MS: • Graduate School (10%) • Industry (90%)

15. Some Unique Features of our Program • One of the few programs in the country that teach students how to • Design and implement microprocessors • Build and modify kernels • Modify virtual machines • Work with leading edge technologies • System-on-programmable-chips from Altera • Software reconfigurable processors from Stretch • MicroC-OSII real-time kernels • Wireless sensor nodes from Crossbow and Sun

16. Research • Research Summary Information • 2 journal and 6 conference publications average per faculty member • Numerous patents, books, book chapters, and essays • Grant expenditures of $2.675M for 2005-06 fiscal year

17. Selected Research Highlights

18. Selected Research Highlights (contd.) More department videos at http://cse.unl.edu/research_videos.shtml

19. PrairieFire Supercomputer • 256 processors all linked together via a high-speed network. • Peak performance – 888.5 GFLOPS • Upgraded April 2004 • Top500.org ranking • June 2002, 107th in world, 58th in US, 8th in academic institutions in the US. • February 2006, no longer on list but twice the speed. • Plan and need to upgrade to 10 TFLOPS

20. The University of Nebraska Tier 2 Computing Center for CMS • The Group: • Department of Physics and Astronomy • K. Bloom, D. Claes, A. Dominguez, J. Keller, C. Lundstedt, G. Snow, J. Tan, X. Xu • Department of Computer Science and Engineering • R. Sincovec, D. Swanson, S. Goddard, L. Xu, M. Furukawa • CMS Activities: • Tier 2 Computing, Luminosity Measurement, Forward Pixel Detector • Physics Interests: Jet Physics, Forward and Diffractive Physics, Top Physics, • Higgs Searches, Supersymmetry Searches

21. UC Davis UC San Diego UCLA Caltech UC Riverside UC Santa Barbara Fairfield Yale Florida Florida Tech Florida International Florida State Fermilab UI Chicago Northwestern Notre Dame Purdue Iowa Iowa State Kansas Kansas State Johns Hopkins Maryland Boston Northeastern MIT Minnesota Mississippi Nebraska Rutgers Princeton Rochester Ohio State Carnegie Mellon Brown Rice Texas Tech Virginia Tech Wisconsin The CMS Collaboration

22. Access Grid and Visualization • Group-to-group interaction system • Twelve panel visualization wall. • Ensemble of resources that support • Collaboration • Multimedia display • Presentation • Interactions • Strategic: Components in CI environments • PI: Dr. Byrav Ramamurthy

23. National Agricultural Decision Support System (NADSS) A Geospatial Decision Support System for Agricultural Risk Management Principal Investigator: S. Goddard, Co-Principals: J. Deogun, M.J. Hayes, K.G. Hubbard, S.E. Reichenbach, P.Z. Revesz, W.J. Waltman, and D.A. Wilhite Co-Investigators: M.E. Tooze, S.K. Harms, J.S. Peake, and T. Tadesse

24. The Partnership • National Science Foundation’s Digital Government Program • National Drought Mitigation Center, University of Nebraska--Lincoln • High Plains Regional Climate Center, UNL • Computer Science and Engineering, UNL • USDA Risk Management Agency, Natural Resources Conservation Service, National Agricultural Statistics Service, and the Farm Service Agency • USGS EROS Data Center • Nebraska Research Initiative on Geospatial Decision Support Systems • GIS Workshop

25. Current Tools • Our current tools apply risk analysis methodologies to the study of drought • Integration of basic models with data generates “information” for analysis by decision makers • Information can be gathered at any resolution for which we have data http://nadss.unl.edu

26. e2 ESQuaReD • The Laboratory for Empirically-based Software Quality Research and Development • Members • Ahyoung Sung, Gregg Rothermel, Lorin Hochstein, Matthew Dwyer, MyraCohen, Scott Henninger, Sebastian Elbaum, Witawas Srisa-an • Ranked 5th in the world as a software engineering group • Experimental program analysis • Several system and program analysis tools • Bandera • Bogor • Cadena • Sofya

27. Schorr Center for Computer Science and Engineering Research We moved into our new research center, The Schorr Center, in January 2008.

28. Conclusion • This is an exciting time to be in computing • You have an opportunity to be one of the innovators of the information age • Consider graduate school opportunities • Pursue a rewarding research experience with UNL CSE faculty • Join the POWER OF RED☺ APPLY NOW! http://cse.unl.edu/grad/appprocess.shtml

29. Faculty in Core Competency Areas Software Engineering Myra Cohen, Matt Dwyer, Sebastian Elbaum, Scott Henninger, Lorin Hochstein, Gregg Rothermel Don Costello, Jeremy Suing Grid and Pervasive Computing Jitender Deogun, Sebastian Elbaum, Steve Goddard, Hong Jiang, Byrav Ramamurthy, Sharad Seth, Richard Sincovec, Witawas Srisa-An, Vinod Variyam, Mehmet Can Vuran, Lisong Xu David Swanson Informatics Berthe Choueiry,Jitender Deogun, Steve Goddard,Hong Jiang,Byrav Ramamurthy,Steve Reichenbach,Peter Revesz,Ashok Samal,Stephen Scott,LeenKiat Soh Don Costello, Charles Riedesel, David Swanson Theory and AI Berthe Choueiry,Myra Cohen,Jitender Deogun, Scott Henninger, Ashok Samal, Stephen Scott, LeenKiat Soh, Al Surkan, Vinod Variyam Charles Riedesel

30. Questions?

31. Contacts • If you have any questions or need additional information about any of these programs. Please contact: • Gregg Rothermel, Graduate Chair • Computer Science & Engineering • 402-472-2184, grother@cse.unl.edu • Byrav Ramamurthy, Graduate Recruitment Chair • Computer Science & Engineering • 402-472-7791, byrav@cse.unl.edu • Or • LaRita Lang • Graduate Recruitment and External Relations • Computer Science & Engineering • 402-472-3826, llang@cse.unl.edu Computer Science & Engineering 256 Avery Hall Lincoln, NE 68588-0115 402-472-2401 http://www.cse.unl.edu