PhD - Doctor of Philosophy in Computer Science

The doctoral program in computer science prepares students for research and teaching careers in academia and for research and technical careers in industry and government. The primary areas of concentration of the program are: Computer and network security Information search and retrieval Machine learning and data mining Networking and distributed systems Parallel and distributed algorithms The department's faculty work in the areas of algorithms, artificial intelligence, bioinformatics, computer and network security, database systems, data mining, distributed algorithms, distributed systems, information assurance, information retrieval, machine learning, networking, non-standard parallel computing, and parallel algorithms.