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CS @ Illinois

CS @ Illinois. Graduate Programs. Why CS @ Illinois to pursue your Graduate Degree?. CS @ Illinois is…. Top 5 national ranking Research faculty members: $28 million in sponsored research 57 faculty across 10 research areas 29 affiliated faculty Students: 450 graduate students.

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CS @ Illinois

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  1. CS @ Illinois Graduate Programs

  2. Why CS @ Illinois to pursue your Graduate Degree?

  3. CS @ Illinois is… • Top 5 national ranking • Research faculty members: • $28 million in sponsored research • 57 faculty across 10 research areas • 29 affiliated faculty • Students: • 450 graduate students

  4. Great Faculty…

  5. With Dynamic Students Highlights of Accomplishments… CS students head to World Programming Finals – 7 of last 8 years CS PhDs win 2 of 13 inaugural Google Fellowships CS student Finalist for CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Research Award – 4th CS student in past 3 years to be recognized CS PhD Joshua Hailpern wins Autism Speaks! Fellowship for speech visualization work aiding autistic children

  6. The Environment offers Grads… • Stimulation and challenge • Transition from student to world class researcher and leader in CS • Collaboration • Opportunities as faculty at leading universities • Opportunities in direct high-profile industry efforts

  7. Our Philosophy is to build Grads into a… • A SCHOLAR by absorbing large bodies of research literature and critically analyzing the state-of-the-art along with its shortcomings • An effective COMMUNICATOR by learning how to express ideas clearly in writings, individual meetings, and public seminars • An INNOVATOR by creating new theories, technologies, or paradigms that inspire people in research communities and industry

  8. Our Research Strengths…

  9. Trustworthy Systems • National Center of Excellence in Information Assurance Education and Research • Multidisciplinary approach focuses on: • Systems & Networking • AI • Theory • HCI • Languages • More

  10. Trustworthy Systems Centers • Information Trust Institute • Program in Arms Control, Disarmament, and Int’l Security • Boeing Trusted Software Center • Trustworthy Cyber Infrastructure for the Power Grid • Illinois Security Lab

  11. Trustworthy Cyberinfrastructure • $26.3 million effort through Information Trust Institute • CS faculty and students working on: • real-time availability, • integrity, • authentication, • confidentiality requirements

  12. Trustworthy Web Browsers • Developing new web browser to address systemic, security deficiencies in current browser architectures • Opus Palladianum browser borrows concepts typically seen in operating systems to securely manage web applications and data access Sam King Creating new models security in web browsers and hardware architectures

  13. Parallel Computing Illinois advances in parallelism cover the spectrum, from mainstream computing devices to the petascale

  14. Parallel Computing Topics • Parallel application frameworks and patterns, • New programming and metaprogramming languages, • Software engineering techniques, compilers and autotuners, • Runtime systems, • New hardware designs, • Formal methods to reason about the correctness of future parallel systems

  15. Parallel Computing Centers • Universal Parallel Computing Research Center • National Center for Supercomputing Applications • Institute for Advanced Computing Applications & Technologies • Joint Laboratory for Petascale Computing • Blue Waters

  16. Synergistic Research on Parallel Programming for Petascale Applications • Coordinated development of petascale parallel programming tools and petascale applications • Combines development of petascale applications with complementary CS research on the tools & technologies to support the development of these applications Adve, Johnson, and Padua

  17. Blue Waters • The world’s first sustained-petascale computer will come online at Illinois in 2011 • Blue Waters will sustain performance of at least 1 petaflop on many applications that are crucial to researchers. • Snir, Gropp, and Hwu are leading the effort to make sustained petascale computing a reality

  18. Large Scale Computing Efforts Parallelism GPUs as Next-Gen Platforms Extreme Scale Computing

  19. Cyber-Physical Computing When the NSF needed to define and launch this emerging area, it turned to Illinois to lead the effort.

  20. Cyber-Physical Computing Topics • Complex reduction and control architectures, co-stability of CPS • Distributed sensing systems • Knowledge discovery • Troubleshooting interactive complexity • Predictable integration of COTS-based cyber-physical systems • New abstractions at the confluence of sensing, actuation, and control • Verification of cyber-physical systems • More

  21. Cyber-Physical Computing Centers • Coordinated Sciences Laboratory • Advanced Digital Sciences Center • Beckman Institute • Information Trust Institute • Multi-Modal Information Access & Synthesis

  22. Civil Infrastructure Monitoring Led by Gul Agha Focus on cyberinfrastructure opportunitiesfor smart wireless sensor networks

  23. Green GPS • A novel navigation service to help drivers find fuel-efficient driving routes • System uses sensors installed on vehicles to track driving conditions, routes, traffic patterns, and fuel consumption • Develop mathematical models based on data collected to determine routes based on vehicle, driver, and road attributes • Better understand factors that contribute most to the fuel-efficiency of vehicles in everyday use  Tarek Abdelzaher Creating new models for computation in cyberphysical and pervasive computing environments

  24. Mobile Learning Communities • Enable students to share trusted educational services with each other via iPods, cell phones, and other handheld mobile devices • CS students are creating applications for educational content delivery Klara Nahrstedt Leads multidisciplinary team to tackle mobile learning challenge from every angle

  25. Data Sciences Home to unrivaled national assets in data-intensive computing, Illinois has a long and distinguished histort in data-intensive discoveries

  26. Data Sciences Excellence and leadership in: • data systems, • artificial intelligence, • systems and networking, • architecture and parallel computing

  27. Data Sciences Pursuing unprecedented applications in multi-modal intelligence information systems and data-intensive computing, and in new computing architectures to support a data-driven world

  28. Data Sciences Topics • Database Systems • Information Retrieval and Text Information Systems • Data Mining • Information Integration • Natural Language Understanding • Machine Learning • Knowledge Representation and Reasoning • Web Search and Mining 

  29. Data Sciences Centers • Multi-Modal Information Access & Synthesis Center • National Center for Supercomputing Applications • Cloud Computing Testbed • Institute for Genomic Biology • Institute for Advanced Computing Applications and Technologies • Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology • Coordinated Science Laboratory • Advanced Digital Sciences Center

  30. Cloud & Grid Computing @ Illinois • Focus on systems andapplications issues in cloud architectures • First and only cloud testbed with app and sys research in a single, Internet-scale microcosm • Characterized by real-world, multi-disciplinary approach

  31. Information Network Center • $16.75 million center funded by Army Research Lab • Led by Jiawei Han • Center to study info network challenges in complex, mobile,self-forming, rapidly-changing networks • Focus on real-world challenges of networks: heterogeneity, interactivity, and ability to evolve

  32. Inferential Text Reading & Understanding • Dan Roth leading Illinois effort in machine reading • Part of largest-ever DARPA grant for AI research • FAUST system will represent major leap in natural language understanding and current search capabilities

  33. Scanning the Genome • Saurabh Sinha developednew stats technique • Enables scientists to scangenome more efficiently, with less prior information • Research funded by NIH and Leukemia and Lymphoma Society

  34. With Many Research Area Disciplines Algorithms & Theory Architecture, Parallel Computing & Systems Artificial Intelligence Computer Science Scientific Computing Bioinformatics & Computational Biology Systems & Networking Programming Languages, Formal Methods & Software Engineering Databases & Information Systems Graphics, Visualization & HCI

  35. Combining Breadth & Depth

  36. With Research Collaboration… Cross Campus Initiatives & Multi-Disciplinary Research • Institute for Genomic Biology • Illinois Informatics Initiative • Top departments in • Library & Information Science • Psychology • Linguistics • Accounting & Finance Resources & IT Collaboration • NCSA • Beckman Institute • Grainger Engineering Library • Information Trust Institute • Coordinated Science Lab

  37. Solid Research Funding… Examples of some sponsored research funding… • $10M Microsoft/Intel • $9.7M NSF (projected) • $1.7M NIH • $1.5M NASA • $1.1M ONR • $600K DOE • $1.4M other agencies (projected)

  38. Exciting Research Facility Thomas M. Siebel Center offers… Interactive computing habitat and living laboratory • State of the art facility enables research • 15 research labs Open, collaborative environment • Flexible space, designed to enhance interaction • Meeting areas and public spaces • Proximity of faculty, labs, and student offices • All grad students receive office space in the building • 19 conference/seminar rooms • 21 informal meeting spaces • 5 instructional labs, 9 classrooms, 200-seat auditorium • Café, reading room, grad break rooms Interactive technologies

  39. Great Opportunities: Industrial Friends • The Corporate Connections Program is a strategic recruiting and research service for companies seeking CS and ECE students.

  40. How to Become a part of CS @ Illinois

  41. Choose a Program… MS (thesis) Ph.D. Computer Science Joint Programs MS Bioinformatics • M.S. or Ph.D. with Computational Science & Engineering (CSE) Option • M.C.S. /Master of Architecture • M.C.S./MBA • M.C.S./J.D. • Ph.D./MD I2CS MCS MCS (non-thesis, professional master’s) (professional master’s online) For more information, visit www.cs.illinois.edu/graduate/academics.

  42. Ph.D. Program: Flexible Program of Study Curriculum • Students are assigned a Program of Study Committee of 3 faculty advisors to design and approve curriculum • Stimulates faculty interaction and student independence • Advantage: breadth, depth, diversity of UIUC course offerings • Math offers 60+ grad courses • Interdisciplinary areas with ECE, Bio., Chem., Psy., Linguistics For more information, visit www.cs.illinois.edu/graduate/academics

  43. Ph.D. Program Requirements • Total number of hours required: 96(64 with an approved M.S.) • Coursework hours required: 48(16 with an approved M.S.) • Advanced Coursework hours required: 24(16 with an approved M.S) • Thesis Research (CS599) hours required: 32 • Qualifying Exam • Prelim Exam • Final Exam

  44. Tuition and Assistantships • The majority of M.S. and Ph.D. graduate students hold either a • Fellowship • Teaching Assistantship, or • Research Assistantship For more information on the University of Illinois graduate tuition and fees, visit www.illinois.edu/goto/gradtuition

  45. Apply to CS @ Illinois by… • Completing the online application • Paying the application fee • Submitting a “Statement of Purpose” • Submitting three “Letters of Recommendation” • Submitting a“CV/Resume” • Submitting TOEFL or IELTS scores (for international students only) • Submitting“Official”transcripts • Completing CS Interest form Complete outline of how applications are evaluated and GPA requirements are located at http://cs.illinois.edu/graduate/academics (click on “Admissions” tab).

  46. By the Applications Deadlines… • Ph.D., M.S., M.C.S. (on campus) – December 15, 2011 (fall term entrance only) • M.C.S. (online) and M.S. Bioinformatics – October 15, 2011 (spring term) and January 15, 2011 (fall term) • To complete an application and learn more about the process, visit www.cs.illinois.edu/graduate/academics

  47. Illinois Campus Tourhttp://uitours.ncsa.uiuc.edu/main.html

  48. Champaign/Urbana Offers… • Culture • Home to renowned Krannert Center for the Performing Arts • Division I college athletic events • More than 800 student organizations catering to wide range of interests: broomball to paragliding • Recreation • 2 recreational centers with aquatic center, spa, indoor track, indoor soccer, 24-hour roller hockey court, 10,000 sq. ft. fitness area with state-of-the-art cardio and weight • Outdoor pool and climbing wall • Quality of Life • Unique combination of big city amenities and small town traffic and cost of living • Among 10 Best Green Cities • Great Outdoors • Opportunities for hiking, camping, biking, canoeing, cross-country skiing, and more • Location • 135 miles from Chicago •180 miles from St. Louis • 125 miles from Indianapolis

  49. Champaign/Urbana…

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