Computer Science and Engineering

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The Department of Computer Science and Engineering is one of seven departments in the College of Engineering, the fourth-largest engineering college in Texas. Its mission is to serve the needs of the region, the state, and the nation by providing quality educational and innovative, relevant research programs in computer science and engineering. The department strives to offer first-rate undergraduate, graduate, and continuing education opportunities; conduct research and development technologies in selected areas, and facilitate technology transfer for the betterment of the quality of life. Its internationally recognized faculty members are engaged in breakthrough research across the leading areas of computer science and engineering.

The department was established in 1981, and it is one of the first departments in the nation to have an undergraduate program accredited by both the Engineering Accreditation Commission and the Computing Accreditation Commission of ABET. At this time, we offer undergraduate degrees in Computer Engineering, Computer Science and Software Engineering, Master’s in Computer Engineering, Computer Science and Software Engineering, and PhD degrees in Computer Engineering and Computer Science. Currently we have 36 full-time faculty and over 1500 undergraduate and graduate students. Our undergraduate programs Computer Engineering, Computer Science and Software Engineering are ABET accredited.

The department's graduates work at America's leading companies and governmental agencies and in other sectors. UT Arlington's location in the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex - one of the nation's two most influential technology corridors - and strong relationship with major technology companies such as Lockheed Martin, Nokia, L-3, BNSF, Fidelity, Sabre Holdings, American Airlines, and many others, provides students with outstanding opportunities for internships and jobs.

The department has a number of teaching and research laboratories, centers and other facilities that support its educational and teaching mission. These include the Biocomputing and Vision Laboratory (BioVIL), Computational Science Lab (CSL), Database Exploration Laboratory (DBXLAB), Distributed and Parallel Computing Lab, Embedded Systems and Instrumentation Lab, Health and Assistive Technology Laboratory (ASSIST), Heracleia Human-Centered Computing Laboratory, Information Security Lab (iSec), Information Technology Lab, Innovative Database and Information Systems Research Lab (IDIR), Learning and Adaptive Robotics Laboratory (LEARN), Multimedia Lab, Software Engineering Lab (SERC), Wireless Networks and Systems Lab (WINS), and the Vision-Learning-Mining Lab (VLM).

Faculty Highlight

August 1, 2014
Taylor Johnson, PhD is an Assistant Professor at the CSE Department. His research interests include cyber-physical systems: real-time, embedded control systems and software; hybrid and distributed systems; software engineering, formal methods, and verification; reliability and fault-tolerance; application areas including robotics, power and energy, aerospace. Find out more about Dr. Johnson's story.

February 5, 2015
Junzhou Huang, PhD is an Assistant Professor at the CSE Department. His major research interests include machine learning, computer vision and biomedical imaging informatics. The general goal of his research is to investigate scalable models and algorithms for data-intensive applications. To be more specific, he is working on statistical learning and imaging informatics with the focus on scalable algorithms and software systems. Find out more about Dr. Huang's story.

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Research Experiences for Undergraduates

Intelligent Environments for Healthy Living and Aging
Heracleia Human Centered Computing Laboratory

Facts and Statistics

Overall

867 Bachelor’s students, 571 Master's students, 96 Ph.D. students (Fall 2014)
Over $3M per year in research expenditures for the last few years

Faculty and Student Achievements

2 IEEE Fellows
4 NSF CAREER awardees
Authors with 10,000+ citations (source: Google scholar)
Author of one of the most popular database textbooks
ACM SIGKDD doctoral dissertation award, ACM TOSEM distinguished referee, ICDE 10-year best paper, HP innovation research awards, Microsoft Research faculty summit speaker, paper awards at ASE, CIDR, ICDM, ECMLPKDD, ISSRE, ISSTA, PPREW, PSIVT, VLDB
Recent graduates work at Apple, Google, HP, IBM, LinkedIn, Lockheed-Martin, Microsoft, NASA, Raytheon, Sabre-Holdings, Texas Instruments, and many other great companies
Multiple Ph.D. graduates accepted tenure-track faculty positions

National Rankings

Computer Engineering (Graduate) #83 (source: U.S. News, 2016)
Computer Science (Graduate) #90 (source: U.S. News, 2014)

Area Rankings

#19 Data Mining
#19 Machine Learning and Pattern Recognition
#29 Multimedia
#35 Databases
#46 Natural Language and Speech

Research Areas

Big Data and Large-Scale Computing
Biocomputing and Health Informatics
Computer Networks
Computer Vision and Multimedia
Database and Information Systems
Embedded Systems and Mobile Computing
Machine Learning and Data Mining
Robotics and AI
Security and Privacy
Software Engineering

Degrees Offered

B.S. in Computer Engineering
B.S. in Computer Science
B.S. in Software Engineering
M.S. in Computer Engineering
M.S. in Computer Science
Master of Software Engineering
Ph.D. in Computer Engineering
Ph.D. in Computer Science

Computer Science & Engineering News

Faculty, Staff and Alumni Honored

The College of Engineering recently celebrated the accomplishments of three faculty members, one staff member, and an alumnus.

UTA Opens California Office to Match Tech, Investors

UTA has a new partnership with a longtime Silicon Valley entrepreneur and alumna who will establish a strategic outpost to match technology developed within the University with investors and corporate partners.

UTA Unveils 'Smartcare' Apartment for Seniors

UTA nursing and engineering researchers unveil a model “Smart Care” apartment designed to reduce risks encountered by older adults and those with disabilities. See Video.

UTA-led iPerform Center Board Meets; New Industry Partners Still Welcome

Members of the National Science Foundation and the Industrial Advisory Board of the iPerform NSF Industry/University Cooperative Research Center met recently in Arlington.

CSE Doctoral Student Paper is Best at IEEE BIBE Conference

Ashis Biswas, a CSE doctoral student, was awarded Best Paper honors at the recent IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Bioengineering.

Mariottini Uses Robots to Inspire Youngsters About STEM

Gian-Luca Mariottini and his students are using assistive robots to spur the interest of local middle- and high-school students toward STEM.

Engineering Students Win 11 Awards in ACES Competition

Engineering students took three of the six President's Awards at the 2015 ACES competition.

NSF Program Director Hired as Computer Science and Engineering Chair

Dr. Hong Jiang, a National Science Foundation program director, was hired as new UT Arlington Computer Science and Engineering chair.

Graduate Ranking Makes Dramatic Improvement

The College of Engineering's graduate programs jumped 12 spots, to No. 90, in U.S. News & World Report’s Best Graduate Programs rankings for 2016.

Professor Emeritus France Meier Dies at Age 86

France Meier, an emeritus professor of Industrial, Manufacturing, and Systems Engineering, died February 17 in Arlington, TX. He was 86.

Huber Designing System to Reserve Vehicles, Remind Veterans of Appointments

CSE's Manfred Huber is designing a reservation/reminder software system as part of a project that will eventually transport veterans on military bases to doctors' appointments using driverless cars.

Engineering Enrollment Drives University Increase

Driven by a 22% increase in enrollment in the College of Engineering, UTA's enrollment surpassed 36,000 for the first time in spring 2015.

CSE's Makedon Working to Advance Human-Machine Interaction Research

Fillia Makedon has received a grant from the National Science Foundation to build a computational infrastructure that can greatly advance human-machine interaction research.

Happy New Year

Happy New Year from the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at The University of Texas at Arlington.

UTA-led iPerform Center Seeking Industry Partners

UT Arlington and UT Dallas have created a new NSF center called iPerform that focuses on assistive technologies to enhance human performance.

Students Finish Third in Spirit of Innovation Competition

A team of UTA engineering graduate students finished third in the U.S. India Chamber of Commerce’s Spirit of Innovation Competition on December 4.

Das's Research Looks to Unlock Connections Among Social Network Data

Computer Science and Engineering Professor Gautam Das has won a $450,000 Army Research Office grant to develop efficient analytic techniques for combining and understanding the data stored in online social networks.

CSE's Wright Wins NSF Grant to Bolster Online Privacy

Computer Science Associate Professor Matt Wright is studying smarter route selection and adaptive cover traffic as ways of protecting computer privacy.

CSE Students Win Challenge for Real-Time Traffic App

Three Computer Science and Engineering students have won a $10,000 prize in the NTx Apps Challenge for a smart traffic light network that adjusts traffic light schedules to make traffic flow more efficient.

CSE Researchers Win Award at VLDB Conference

A team of researchers from the Computer Science and Engineering Department recently won an award at the 40^thInternational Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB) in China.

University Fab Lab Opens

UTA opened the Fab Lab, a state-of-the-art Fabrication Laboratory featuring cutting-edge technology for research in digital fabrication and data visualization, on October 8 at the Central Library.

Big data analytics could yield better treatment for pain management

A UT Arlington multi-disciplinary team is optimizing and integrating volumes of data in a National Science Foundation research project to help physicians make better, more informed decisions about treating patients’ pain.

Forming better database queries at heart of NSF research project

CSE Associate Professor Chengkai Li is helping design a system that will ask better questions when querying databases and lead to improved decision-making in our data-driven society.

CSE Doctoral Student Wins Symantec Intern Competition

Shabnam Aboughadareh, a doctoral student in the Computer Science and Engineering Department, won her division in Symantec’s 7^th Annual Intern Showcase Competition.

UTA, College to Offer Online Intro to Engineering for High School Students

UTA and the College of Engineering are developing a two-part, 12-week “Introduction to Engineering and Engineering Mathematics” course as part of the edX program announced this week.

Genomic data-mining framework helping manufacturers discover materials

Junzhou Huang, an assistant professor of Computer Science has won a $250,000 NSF grant to develop a scalable data-mining framework to help manufacturers quickly discover materials for building products.

Research Team's Work Could Lead to Earlier Diagnosis, Treatment

A computer science and engineering associate professor and her doctoral student graduate are using a genetic computer network inference model that eventually could predict mental illness.

First Cohort of BUPT Students Earns Degrees

Thirteen students from Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications earned joint master's degrees in Computer Science and Engineering

Welcome Bash Will Greet New and Returning Students

Annual Welcome Bash will be held Wednesday, September 3, to welcome new students and greet returning ones.

CSE Students Win Project Competition at IRSS

Two CSE students won first prize at the IRSS conference in Greece in July.

CSE Alum Earns Honorable Mention Award in ACM Contest

Computer Science and Engineering alumna Mahashweta Das received Honorable Mention in the 2014 ACM SIGKDD Doctoral Dissertation Award competition.

Big Data Team Wins $600,000 NSF Grant for Gene Expression Database

CSE professor with an expertise in big data and bioinformatics to develop an interactive database of gene expressions of the fruit fly.

Prof. Huber representing UTA in "Regents' Outstanding Teaching Awards" competition.

Dr. Manfred Huber selected to represent UT Arlington in the 2014 "Regents' Outstanding Teaching Awards" competition.

Alum,Dr. Habib M. Ammari, Receives the Distinguished Research Award at University of Michigan-Dearborn.

CSE Alumnus, Dr. Habib M. Ammari, receives the Distinguished Research Award, at the University of Michigan-Dearborn.

More than 400 Students Participate in Commencement

More than 400 students will cross the stage at the College's spring commencement May 10.

Faculty Honored for Research, Teaching, and Mentoring

Several members of the Engineering faculty recently were honored with University awards for research, teaching, and mentoring.

College to Add UAV Certificate for Fall 2014

UTA has announced a new unmanned vehicle systems undergraduate certificate for students interested in careers in one of the nation's most exciting engineering fields.