Welcome to the new Department of Computer Science. The merger of the Department of Information and Software Engineering with the Department of Computer Science is now complete. The former ISE graduate programs and certificates remain intact and will continue to operate under the administration of the new department.
The department offers BS, MS, and PhD programs in Computer Science; MS programs in Software Engineering, Information Systems, Information Security and Assurance, and E-Commerce; and a BS program in Applied Computer Science with various disciplines. The department also offers three concentrations in the PhD Program in Information Technology (in Information Systems, Information Security, and Software Engineering) and several graduate certificates.
Faculty in the department have research interests in networking, architecture, parallel and distributed computing, performance evaluation, software engineering, multimedia, graphics and visualization, databases, software engineering, data mining, security, information systems, artificial intelligence, computer vision, and robotics.
Prof. Chen received the National Science Foundation's CAREER award for his project entitled "Internet Resource Management to Deliver High Quality Live and On-demand Streaming for Wireless Clients." The award is for $450K for five years.
Open Tenure-Track Positions in Computer Game Development and in Bioengineering
The department is recruiting for a tenure-track assistant professor position in computer game development and for a tenure-track position at any level in bioengineering. Both positions are open to a wide range of fields related to these respective areas.
Undergraduate Teaching Assistant Jobs Available
The department has open positions for paid Undergraduate Teaching Assistants (UTAs) starting this Fall semester. A UTA assists a professor in teaching a class, provides an unusual opportunity to be involved in various aspects of teaching, and is a great mark on your resume! Hours and amount of time is very flexible. It helps if you're a CS major, but we often have UTAs beyond CS students.
For more information, see the UTA jobs page.
The merger of the Departments of Computer Science and of Information and Software Engineering is final. The new department name will be the George Mason University Department of Computer Science. The new department will have 37 tenured or tenure-track faculty and four instructors.
The official date for the merger is January 2008; but the two departments already operate as one in most aspects.
The joint recruitment efforts of the merged CS and ISE departments have resulted in five new faculty joining the department. Fei Li, Angelos Stavrou, and Sam Malek have joined the department as assistant professors. Ricci Heishman and Daniel Fleck have joined the department as instructors.
"Big Foot", a humanoid robot designed and built by PhD student
Keith Sullivan, placed first in the Humanoid Division of the Trinity
College Firefighting Robotics Competition. The two other GMU robots,
"George" (by Joel Chenette) and "Blue Bot" (by Brian Davidson) each
qualified in their respective divisions.
