Computer and Information Science and Engineering CISE

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Computer and InformationScience and
Engineering(CISE)

University of Virginia
Contact Jack Davidson Grad Director
jwd_at_virginia.edu 434-982-2209
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Importance of World-Class CISE

• Wholly new CISE technologies are emerging (with
  new business sub-sectors) partly from UVa
  research, e.g.,
• The next internet (confluence of wireless,
  embedded computing and wired networking)
• Grid computing
• Safer, survivable systems
• CISE enables other fields
• Bioinformatics
• Homeland defense
• Every business is dependent on CISE technology
• Failure to excel in this area can have serious
  consequences
• Slower growth of the economy
• Poorer services to our citizens
• Loss of jobs to other states

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CISE Overview

• Overall goal Excellence in education and
  research
• We have built a BASE in faculty, in working
  laboratories, in students, in curriculum in
  research funding
• Funding
• 10M/year CISE external research funding today
• 7M in computer science department
• Ranking 27th today (U.S. News World Report)
• Top 15 - Not ranked in 1988 ranked 36 in 1996
• No other Virginia CS department is close in
  ranking
• Leverages UVa as 1 public university

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CISE Outstanding Faculty

• Bill Wulf President of NAE
• Anita Jones Ran DoD ST Program, National
  Science Board member, NAE member
• Barry Horowitz Ex President of Mitre, NAE
  member
• Jack Stankovic First winner of IEEE Award for
  Outstanding Technical Contributions and
  Leadership in Real-Time Computing
• Gabriel Robins First UVa Packard Foundation
  Award
• Faculty NSF Career Awards (7 in CS alone)
• E-I-C of major journals (6)

CISE faculty are nationally recognized
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CISE Excels in Research

• Graduate Students
• Powell best 99 PhD thesis in Information
  Systems in U.S.
• More than 900 applicants for 30 slots
• Recent PhD grads went to Yale, Berkeley, CMU,
  Washington University, William and Mary, Utah,
• Best Paper Awards (4 in the last 6 months)
• Nominations - Best Paper Awards (3 in last 6
  months)
• Joint research projects with Carnegie Mellon,
  MIT, Berkeley, Illinois, Stanford, etc. were
  linked nationally

Archsplit Non-invasive Generation of Exploded
Views
CHEETAH Circuit-switched High-speed End-to-End
Transport ArcHitecture
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CISE Research with Impact

• Legion/Grid Computing
• Galileo (Fault Analysis Tool for NASA)
• Internet Engineering Lab copied by others
• Middleware for Wireless Sensor Networks (SOCOM)
• Data Mining used in Police Depts. in Virginia
  to solve and prevent crimes
• Linux adopted UVa code optimization for open
  source C compiler

Legion World-Wide Virtual Computer
Galileo An Advanced Fault Tree Analysis Tool
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Great Graduate Program

• 100 Graduate Students
• Close interaction Faculty and undergraduate
  students
• Research
• Professional development
• Exciting and state of the art research
  opportunities
• Wireless Sensor Networks (Professor Jack
  Stankovic)
• Security (Professor John Knight)
• Graphics (Professor Greg Humphreys)
• Students get attractive positions in industry,
  government and academia
• Sense of community that is life long - alumni

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CISE offers diverse types of careers

• Systems types careers
• Design and implementing systems
• Developing complicated, intriging software
• Artificial intelligence
• Graphics, 3D animation
• Communications networking, web
• Research Academia industry
• Applications of computer science
• E-commerce
• Banking and finance
• Health care - medical
• Design cars, buildings, clothes, jewelry.
• Art, Music

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CISE Future Plans

• Achieve World Class Research Leadership in 3
  Areas
• Grid computing, Embedded Computing and Wireless
  Sensor Networks, and Dependable (Safe) Software
  Systems
• Build on existing strengths
• Opportunistically address new areas
• Continue/Increase Transfer of Technology to
  Industry
• Attract industry to Charlottesville
• Spin-off new companies

Wireless Sensor Networks
Grid Computing