Ph.D. Research Tracks – Fall 2014 or Earlier
Networks and Systems:
Faculty: Golubchik, Govindan, Heidemann, Krishnamachari, Massey, Neuman, Ozden, Psounis, Touch
- CS 530: Systems Security
- CS 551: Networks
- CS 555: Operating Systems
- CS 558: Networking and Distributed Systems
- CS 694a: Advanced Topics in Networking and Distributed Systems
- EE 652: Low-Power Wireless Networks
- EE 549: Queueing Theory for Performance Modeling
Databases:
Faculty: Ghandeharizadeh, Horowitz, McLeod, Shahabi, Zimmerman
- CS 585: Databases
- CS 586: Database Systems Interoperability
- CS 548: Information Integration on Web
- CS 685: Advanced Topics in Database Systems
- CS 567: Machine Learning
- CS 583: Computational Geometry
- CS 572: Information Retrieval and Web Search Engines
- EE 549: Queueing Theory for Performance Modeling
Software Engineering:
Faculty: Boehm, Horowitz, Medvidovic
- CS 577ab: Software Engineering
- CS 578: Software Architectures
- CS 510: Software Management and Economics
- CS 589: Software Engineering for Embedded Systems
- CS 511: Personal Software Management and Processes
- CS 588: Specification and Design of User-Interface Software
- CS 571: Web Technologies
Robotics:
Faculty: Howard, Mataric, Requicha, Schaal, Shen, Sukhatme
- CS 545: Robotics (3)
- CS 546: Intelligent Embedded Systems (new) (3)
- CS 547: Sensing and Planning in Robotics (3)
- CS 549: Nanorobotics (3)
- CS 584: Control and Learning in Mobile Robots and Multi-Robot Systems (3)
Intelligent Agents and Organizations:
Faculty: Koenig, Maheswaran, Rosenbloom, Tambe
- CS 541: Artificial Intelligence Planning (3)
- CS 567: Machine Learning (3)
- CS 543: Software Multiagent Systems (3)
- CS 569: Integrated Intelligent Systems (3)
Natural Language Processing:
Faculty: Hovy, Knight
- CS 561: Artificial Intelligence (3)
- CS 544: Natural Language Processing (3)
- CS 567: Machine Learning (3)
- CS 662: Advanced Natural Language Processing (3)
- LING 530: Generative Syntax (3)
- EE 519: Speech Recognition and Processing for Multimedia (3)
Graphics and Multimedia:
Faculty: Cohen, Debevec, Desbrun, Medioni, Pighin
- CS 520: Animation & Simulation (new) (3)
- CS 580: 3D Graphics & Rendering (3)
- CS 582: Geometric Modeling (3)
- CS 583: Computational Geometry (3)
Vision:
Faculty: Itti, Nevatia, Cohen
- CS 574: Computer Vision (3)
- CS 674a: Advanced Topics in Computer Vision (3)
- CS 674b: Advanced Topics in Computer Vision (3)
- CS 580: 3D Graphics and Rendering
- CS 545: Robotics
- CS 567: Machine Learning
Theory of Computation; Genomic, Molecular and Quantum Computation:
Faculty: Adleman, Brun, Chen, Huang, Kempe, Waterman
- CS 556: Introduction to Cryptography
- CS 570: Analysis of Algorithms
- CS 572: Information Retrieval and Web Search Engines
- CS 581: Logic and its Applications
- MATH 578ab: Computational Molecular Biology
Brain Theory and Neural Networks:
Faculty: Arbib, Blum, Itti, Schaal, von der Malsburg
- CS 542: Neural Computation with Artificial Neural Networks
- CS 564: Brain Theory and Artificial Intelligence
- CS 566: Neural Network Self-Organization
- CS 575: Neuroinformatics
- CS 664: From Action to Language
High Performance Computing and Parallel Computation:
Faculty: Blum, Hall, Kalia, Nakano, Prasanna, Reed, Vashishta
- CS 551: Computer Communication
- CS 580: 3D Graphics and Rendering
- CS 595: Advanced Compiler Design
- EE 657: Parallel and Distributed Computing
- MATH 501: Numerical Analysis and Computation
