Graduate Study
at UNL CSE
Department of Computer
Science and Engineering
University of Nebraska,
Lincoln
http://cse.unl.edu
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.
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.
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
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
CSE Faculty
24 Faculty
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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
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
Student Graduation Information
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)
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
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
Financial Support
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• 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.)
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/
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
Placement
• PhD:
– Faculty Positions (50%)
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Polytechnic University, New York
University of New Mexico
University of Maine
Purdue University at Indianapolis
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– Industry (50%)
• Microsoft, Hewlett Packard, Google, Garmin
• Cisco, Juniper, Sprint Nextel, Alcatel-Lucent
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• MS:
– Graduate School (10%)
– Industry (90%)
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
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
Selected Research Highlights
Selected Research Highlights
(contd.)
More department videos at
http://cse.unl.edu/research_videos.shtml
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
The University of Nebraska Tier 2
Computing Center for CMS
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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
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CMS Activities:
Tier 2 Computing, Luminosity Measurement, Forward Pixel Detector
Physics Interests: Jet Physics, Forward and Diffractive Physics, Top Physics,
Higgs Searches, Supersymmetry Searches
The CMS Collaboration
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
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
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
The Partnership
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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
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
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
Schorr Center for Computer Science
and Engineering Research
We moved into our new research center, The Schorr Center, in
January 2008.
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!
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http://cse.unl.edu/grad/appprocess.shtml
Faculty in Core Competency
Areas
Software Engineering
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Myra Cohen, Matt Dwyer, Sebastian Elbaum, Scott Henninger, Lorin Hochstein, Gregg
Rothermel
Don Costello, Jeremy Suing
Grid and Pervasive Computing
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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
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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
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Berthe Choueiry, Myra Cohen, Jitender Deogun, Scott Henninger, Ashok Samal, Stephen
Scott, LeenKiat Soh, Al Surkan, Vinod Variyam
Charles Riedesel
Questions?
Contacts
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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