Welcome to the Department of Computer Science.
The department offers BS, MS, and PhD programs in Computer Science; MS programs in Software Engineering, Information Systems, and Information Security and Assurance; and a BS program in Applied Computer Science with various concentrations. 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.
Angelos Stavrou interviewed by CNN for article on secure Android phones (more)
Prof. Angelos Stavrou was extensively quoted in a CNN article on the use of secure Android phones by the US government and military.
Prof. Wechsler and students issued two patents (more)
Congratulations to Prof. Harry Wechsler and his students Shen-Shyang Ho, Hung Lai and Venkatesh Ramanathan, who have been issued two patents by the US PTO.
Summer 2012 MS CS Extended Online Offerings (more)
The Summer 2012 online course offerings have been posted. The Department offers courses leading to the MSCS degree through an innovative online approach that allows students to attend courses either in the classroom or over the Internet. To see them, and learn more about them and how to register, click 'more'.
PhD Student Joshua Church and Prof. Ami Motro receive Best Paper award at SOCA 2011 (more)
Congratulations to PhD student Joshua Church and his advisor Prof. Ami Motro who received the best paper award at the 2011 IEEE International Conference on Service Oriented Computing and Applications (SOCA 2011) for their paper "Learning Service Behavior with Progressive Testing".
Paper authored by CS PhD student Zhaohui Wang among finalists for 2011 NYU-Poly AT&T Best Applied Security Paper Award (more)
PhD student Bo Zhang and Professors Simon and Aydin receive best paper award at ACM MSWIM '11 (more)
The paper "Maximal Utility Rate Allocation for Energy Harvesting Wireless Sensor Networks" authored by CS PhD student Bo Zhang, Prof. Bob Simon, and Prof. Hakan Aydin received the best paper award at the 14th ACM International Conference on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Wireless and Mobile Systems (ACM MSWIM '11) held in Miami, Florida.
High School students mentored by Prof. Rangwala are regional finalists in Siemens Competition (more)
Congrats to Eric (Ye) Tao and Marvin Qian, high school students at Thomas Jefferson High School for Science & Technology who are in the Regional Finals for the Siemens Competition. The team is mentored by Professor Huzefa Rangwala of the Computer Science Dept. The project is related to the modeling of solenoid proteins using machine learning approaches.
The Department of Computer Science at George Mason University invites applications for a renewable term, non tenure-track Assistant Professor position beginning Fall 2012.
Open Tenure Track Faculty Position in Computer Game Design (more)
The Department of Computer Science at George Mason University invites applications for a tenure-track faculty position at the rank of Assistant Professor beginning Fall 2012.
The CS Dept welcomes Dr. Mark Snyder, who joins the department in Fall 2011. Dr. Damon McCoy and Dr. Avinash Srinivasan will join the department in Spring 2012.
