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UC Irvine Donald Bren School of ICS School Overview &Research Strengths
Hal SternTed and Janice Smith Family Foundation [email protected]
2.23.15
ICS Overview
Only computing-focused school in the UC system
Founded in 1968 as a department; became a School in 2002
Three departments: Computer Science, Informatics, Statistics
One of five such schools among AAU Universities (others are GaTech, CMU, Cornell, Indiana)
Our mission:Provide computer science and information technology
leadership for the 21st century through Research and development of emerging technologies Collaborations to address societal issues Innovative and broad computing curricula
Bren School Rankings Computer Science graduate program ranked 29th
nationally by US News & World Report (2014) 14th among public universities Almost identical to last ranking in 2010
NEW (Fall 2014) … US News & World Report added “Global University” rankings. UC Irvine is 23rd in the world for computer science!
The U.S. ranking above is purely based on reputation
The global ranking is primarily based on productivity
New European ranking effort (excellencemapping.net)
UC Irvine computer science faculty ranked 16th in U.S. for likelihood of producing highly cited work
Academic Analytics (2012 data): CS Department - top 25 of 230+ departments Informatics Department - top 5 of 40+
departments Statistics Department – top 3 of 80+
departments
Undergraduate Majors
Computer Science
Informatics
Software Engineering (established 2012)
Computer Game Science (established 2010)
Business Information Management (joint with The Paul Merage
School of Business)
Computer Science & Engineering (joint with The Henry Samueli
School of Engineering)
Data Science (proposal under campus review)
ICS Data and Trends
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Graduate Studies
M.S. AND PH.D. DEGREE PROGRAMS IN:
Computer Science
Informatics (new for Fall 2015 … formerly ICS with concentration in
Informatics)
Statistics
Networked Systems
Software Engineering (established 2012)
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ICS Diversity
Undergrad
Fall 2005
… Fall 2013
Fall 2014
Female 129 … 389 480
Total 1053 … 1676 2105
% Female
12.3% … 23.2% 22.8%
Undergrad
Fall 2005
… Fall 2013
Fall 2014
URM 85 … 227 319
Total 1053 … 1676 2105
% Female
8.1% … 13.5% 15.2%
Recent Achievements
Education
Graduated first-cohort of computer game science graduates • Significant participation from Blizzard in support of
senior projects ACM Computing Team finished 2nd in 2013 SoCal regional;
participated in international programming championship in Russia
Graduate students -- 3 NSF Graduate Research Fellowships Outreach / Access
Competitions: App Jam + (middle school), Med App Jam (ICS & Med students), Autism App Jam, Butterworth Product Development Competition
Summer App Camp for middle school students NSF-funded Alliance for California Computing Education for
Students and Schools (ACCESS) focused on K-12 CS education
Mentoring Program (Alumni/friends mentoring women/URM students)
Engr/ICS Corporate Partners Program
Recent Achievements
Research / Collaboration Faculty recognitions:
• Nik Dutt, Gene Tsudik – ACM Fellow• Alex Nicolau – IEEE Fellow• Eric Mjolsness – AAAS Fellow• Jessica Utts – Elected president of the American Statistical Association• Scott Jordan – Chief Technologist at the FCC (on leave 2014-2016)
Mike Carey / Chen Li - $1.1 million (NSF + companies) to support AsterixDB (big data management system)
Andre van der Hoek - $1.4 million (NSF) to study “crowdprogramming”
RWJ Foundation $1.9 million award to researcher Matt Beitz at UCI and colleagues at UCSD to study how personal health data can be used
Nalini Venkatasubramanian invited to White House to demonstrate SmartAmerica project on low-cost sensors for safe communities
Gillian Hayes named the initial Robert and Barbara Kleist Professor of Informatics to continue her research on health and technology
Padhraic Smyth named to head new Provost-funded “Data Science Initiative”
Current Year Activities
Data Science undergraduate major (statistics and computer
science Students take a combination of CS and Statistics courses
Professional M.S. degree programs Computer Science (CS Dept) Human-Computer Interaction and Design (Informatics
Dept) Software Engineering (Informatics Dept)
New Engineering/ICS Office for Access and Inclusion Large scale research proposals
Social impacts of computing (NSF Center proposal) Big data management system (seeking NSF and industry
support)
Research Areas of Excellence
Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning /
Statistics Algorithms / methods for analyzing large amounts of data
Faculty Pierre Baldi – bioinformatics/genomics, chemistry/drug
discovery Rina Dechter – automated reasoning for AI systems Padhraic Smyth – applications in climate science, web data Hal Stern – biostatistics, forensic science
Noteworthy New campus “Data Science Initiative” led by Padhraic
Smyth (datascience.uci.edu) Center for Statistical Consulting (M. Phelan, Interim
Director)
Research Areas of Excellence
Bioinformatics / Medical Informatics /
Computational Biology / Health & Technology Artificial intelligence and machine learning focused on fast-
growing datasets in biology, chemistry, medicine Software engineering to develop and apply medical records
systems Faculty
Pierre Baldi – bioinformatics/genomics, chemistry/drug discovery
Yunan Chen – human-computer interaction for health records sysems
Gillian Hayes – technology for autism and other diseases Rick Lathrop – computational biology / synthetic biology for
cancer Noteworthy
Institute for Genomics and Bioinformatics (Pierre Baldi, Director)
Endowed chair to support work of Gillian Hayes on technology and health
Recent successful efforts on p53 repair for cancer treatment (Lathrop)
Research Areas of Excellence
Computer Architecture and Embedded
Computer Systems Computers are integral part of all devices/machines (cars,
smartphone, appliances) Puts a premium on innovative architecture and power-
aware designs Faculty
Nikil Dutt – embedded systems, computer-aided design Alex Nicolau – parallelizing compilers, power-aware
computing Nalini Venkatasubramanian – low-cost sensors, middleware
Noteworthy Recognitions: Dutt (ACM Fellow), Nicolau (IEEE Fellow) SCALE project (Venkatasubramanian) demonstrated at the
White House as part of Smart America project
Research Areas of Excellence
Computer Games and Virtual Worlds
Great growth of computer game industry (initial focus on entertainment)
Increasing application of games to education and training, health (treatment of chronic diseases), business (marketing and behavior modification)
Faculty Yunan Chen – games for health Magda El-Zarki – use of sensors, video over IP Walt Scacchi – networked computer games, virtual worlds Josh Tanenbaum – game culture, wearable technology and
gaming Noteworthy
New research center, Institute for Virtual Environments and Computer Games (Magda El-Zarki, director)
Research Areas of Excellence
Databases and Information Systems
Database researchers continue to face new challenges: size of datasets, variety of data types, etc.
Faculty Michael Carey – database system architecture, information
integration Ramesh Jain – multimedia information systems, experiential
computing Chen Li – data cleaning, next generation search Sharad Mehrotra – emergency response technologies,
databases Noteworthy
AsterixDB – open source big data management system (initial release June 2013) with recent funding of $1.1 million (NSF and industry)
SRCH2 – startup from UCI search technology (Chen Li, CTO)
Research Areas of Excellence
Human-Centered Computing / HCI Technological innovation must account for the human element Social aspects include: user interfaces, computer-supported
collaboration, impact of technology Faculty
Paul Dourish – social analysis of people and technology Mizuko Ito – new media, cross-cultural comparisons of media
use Gloria Mark – technology in the workplace, impacts of email Gary and Judy Olson – technology for supporting long distance
collaboration Noteworthy
Six-year $1.5 million collaboration w/ Google on collaborative tools (Olsons)
Facebook’s new policy regarding death heavily influenced by Ph.D student Jed Brubaker’s research
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation funded Health Data Exploration Project ($1.9 million) co-led by research Matt Beitz
Research Areas of Excellence
Security and Privacy Security is focused on keeping computers and associated
information secure from intrusions/detection Privacy is concerned with legal rights and personal
expectations regarding the privacy of their data and information
Faculty Michael Franz – compiler technology, biological-motivated
software security Michael Goodrich – algorithms for information assurance Alfred Kobsa – modeling of user privacy behavior Gene Tsudik – computer and network security, privacy-
preserving communication Noteworthy
Automated software diversity research featured in The Economist (Franz)
Research Areas of Excellence
Software Engineering Software development is now an important part of many
industries Need for careful design and organization in
decentralized/distributed environments Faculty
Crista Lopes – large software systems David Redmiles – graphical user interfaces, user studies Richard Taylor (emeritus) – software architecture Andre van der Hoek – design tools for software, education in
software engineering Noteworthy
OpenSimulator open source tool for developing virtual environments (Lopes)
HTTP, DNS are key contributions of UCI alums to internet (Fielding, Mockapetris were students of Richard Taylor (emeritus))
Recent $1.4 million NSF award to study “crowd”-programming (van der Hoek)
Contact
Questions Hal Stern – [email protected]
Shana ChanceDirector of Corporate Relations (ICS & Engr)[email protected]
Nancy Kim YunDirector of Corporate and Research Collaborations (ICS & Engr)[email protected]