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Welcome to the Computer Science and Engineering Department at UTA!

Behrooz A. Shirazi

Professor and Chairperson

The University of Texas at Arlington

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Mission

• The mission of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering is to serve the needs of the north Texas region, the state, and the nation by providing high quality educational and innovative research programs in computer science and engineering. The department will strive to offer first-rate undergraduate, graduate, and continuing education opportunities; conduct research and develop technology in selected areas; and facilitate technology transfer for the betterment of the quality of life.

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• 1966 – First computer science courses offered (through IE Department)• 1973 – Master of Science in Computer Science degree established• 1974 – First MS CS degrees awarded• 1976 – Ph.D. program established• 1977 – Computer Science Section of IE Department established• 1978 – Bachelor of Science in CSE degree program established• 1979 – First BS CSE degree awarded• 1980 – Computer Science and Engineering Department established• 1981 – First Ph.D. in CS awarded• 1983 – CSE undergraduate program accredited by ABET, reaccredited in

1989 and 1995 (first accredited CS or CSE program in Texas)• 1989 – Software Engineering Center for Telecommunications established• 1990 – Honors Program in Parallel Processing (HiPP) established• 1994 – Master of Software Engineering program established• 1995 – CSE undergraduate program accredited by CSAB (first dual

ABET/CSAB accredited program in Texas)

Historical View ofCSE@UTA

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Historical View ofCSE@UTA

• 1996 – UTA ranked 20th in the USA in computer science research expenditures [$8,641,000] in 1995

• 1997 – UTA ranked 9th in the USA in computer science research expenditures [$15,187,000] in 1996

• 1998 – First offerings of CSE courses at distance via the web• 1999 – MS CSE degrees with Telecom Engineering Certificate• 1999 – TeleCampus distance offering of the MS CSE degrees with

Telecom Eng. Certificate• 2000 – CReWMan established (Center for Research in Wireless,

Mobility and Networking)• 2000 – Industry Advisory Board Endowed Student Fellowship

Fund established (goal of $1,000,000 in 10 years)• 2001 – BSCS (B.S. in Computer Science) first offered in Spring 2001• 2001 – BSSE (B.S. in Software Engineering) first offered in Fall 2001• 2001 – BSCSE accredited by EAC and CAC of ABET• 2001 – CSE@UTA Top 25 Initiative kicked off• 2002 – Established IRIS: Institute for Research In Security• 2003 – Established Bioinformatics research stem

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Top 25 Initiative Developments Since 2001

• Faculty recruiting:

– 9 Tenure track

– 4 Non-tenure track

• Number of PhD students has more than doubled

• Have met research funding goals each year

• Industry advisory board endowed scholarship established

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• Started fund raising campaign to build MavHome Smart House building on campus.

• Formed the new CSE@UTA Graduate Students Club.

• Support for student organizations provided by Sabre (more than $100K) in 2002 and 2003).

• CSE provided wireless network support for all of college of engineering.

• Established a new Networking and Multimedia teaching lab (NH 113).

• Established a new SE and DB teaching lab.

• Building a Bioinformatics research stem.

• Industry visits – Ericsson, Raytheon, Sabre.

Top 25 Initiative Developments Since 2001

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Recent Trends

Student Head Count

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Recent Trends

Degree Production

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Recent Trends

Yearly External Research Awards

$1,634,229 $1,671,474$1,332,486

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Source: UTA Office of Research Fiscal Year Reports. Top 25 Milestone

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2002-03 Cumulative Active Funded Awards

Department AmountComputer Science Engineering 5,808,905.00$ Chemistry 3,838,364.00$ School of Social Work 3,664,709.00$ Electrical Engineering 3,562,263.16$ Physics 3,086,038.00$ Biomedical Engineering 2,440,582.88$ Biology 2,421,646.00$ Student Affairs 2,063,744.00$ School of Education 2,004,865.00$ Mechanical & Aerospace Eng. 1,563,949.00$ Civil Engineering 1,408,549.00$ School of Urban/Public Affairs 989,096.00$ Psychology 788,434.00$ Mathematics 652,354.49$ School of Nursing 468,324.00$ Geology 433,453.00$ Curriculum & Instruction 256,422.00$ Materials Science & Eng. 238,887.00$ Industrial & Manufacturing Sys. 231,994.00$ Political Science 39,945.00$ Kinesiology 19,480.00$ Art & Art History 12,362.00$ Marketing 10,309.26$ Office of Research: August 22, 2003

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Recent Trends

Number of Faculty M embers

18 1720

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• University of Texas at Arlington– Sharma Chakravarthy: UTA Outstanding Research Achievement Award (2003)– Diane Cook: UTA Outstanding Research Award (2002)– Larry Holder: Chancellor’s Council Award for Excellence in Teaching (2000); Inducted

into the UTA Academy of Distinguished Teachers (2002)– Jorge Ramirez: Provost’s Award for Excellence in Teaching (2000)– Bob Weems: Outstanding Academic Advisor (graduate programs 2000)– Linda Barasch: Outstanding Academic Advisor (under-graduate programs 2000)

• College of Engineering– College of Engineering Excellence in Teaching Award

• Bob Weems (1998); Larry Holder (1999).– College of Engineering Excellence in Research Award

• Behrooz Shirazi (1998), Sajal Das (2003).– College of Engineering Outstanding Young Faculty Award

• Krishna Kavi (1988); Bob Weems (1989); Diane Cook (1995); Lonnie Welch (1998); Larry Holder (2000).

– Robert Q. Lee Award of Excellence in Engineering Teaching• Lynn Peterson (1992); Bob Weems (1993); Behrooz Shirazi (1995); Farhad

Kamangar (1997); Ramez Elmasri (1999); Diane Cook (2000); Piotr Gmytrasiewicz (2001); Ramesh Yerraballi (2002).

– Fay Van Dam Outstanding Staff Award• Bill Riess (1993); Marjorie Kohler (1997); Pamela McBride (1999).

Faculty Awards and Recognition – College and University Levels

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Faculty Awards and Recognition – National level

• Ahmad, Ishfaq: Video compression technology licensing; Best Paper Award, ICPP, 2001• Aslandogan, Y. Alp: US Patent (Pending); Best Student Paper Award, ACM Multimedia, 2000 • Carroll, Bill D.: Fellow, IEEE; IEEE Third Millennium Medal, 2000; NASA Technology Innovation

Awards, 1980,1982; NSF Professional Development Fellowship, 1979-80; Dow/ ASEE Outstanding Young Faculty Award, 1975

• Cook, Diane: NSF Career Development Award, 1995; NSF Research Initiation Award, 1993; NASA Summer Research Faculty Fellow, Ames Research Center, 1991

• Das, Sajal K.: 7 US Patents; Best Paper Awards: ESTC 2002, ICOIN ’02, ACM MSWIM 2000, Mobicom 1999, ACM/IEEE PADS 1997; Outstanding Service Recognition Award, ACM, 2000 and 2001; Appreciation Award for Professional Service, IEEE, 1998

• Elmasri, Ramez: US patent, 1996• Kung, David: Object oriented software testing licensing; Internationally ranked as 11th Software

Engineering Scholar by the Journal of Systems and Software, 1996• Peterson, Lynn: Academy of Distinguished Teachers, 1998 • Reyes, Arthur A.: NASA Graduate Student Research Fellowship, 1993-96 • Shirazi, Behrooz A.: PARSA software licensing; AFOSR Summer Research Faculty Fellow, 1990;

Meritorious Service Award, IEEE Computer Society, 1998; Distinguished Visitors Program, IEEE Computer Society, 1993-96; Distinguished Lecturer, ACM Series, 1993-97

• Yerraballi, Ramesh: NASA Fellowship, 1994, 1995 • Walker, Roger: TxDOT Top Ten Research Innovation Awards, 2000• Zaruba, Gergely: Best Paper Award, 3rd ACM MSWIM, 2000

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Department Research stems

• Database and Information Technology

• Embedded Systems

• High Performance Computing

• Intelligent Systems

• Software Engineering

• Telecommunications and Networking

• Multimedia and Video Processing

• Pervasive Computing

• Bioinformatics

• Security

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Database and Information Technology

• Research areas– Data Warehousing/information integration– Data Mining/Knowledge Discovery– Web Databases– E-commerce– Active/push technology for large network-

centric Information Management– Object-Oriented, Temporal & Heterogeneous

databases.

• Faculty– Alp Aslandogan, Sharma Chakravarthy, Ramez

Elmasri, Leo Fegaras, JungHwan Oh

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Embedded Systems

• Research areas– Transportation– Robotics– Real-time embedded systems– Remote interfaces via the web

• Faculty– Farhad Kamangar, David Kung, Arthur Reyes,

Roger Walker

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High Performance Computing

• Research areas– Software tools for parallel systems– Distributed real-time systems– Clustered and global computing

• Faculty– Sajal Das, Mohan Kumar, David Levine, Behrooz

Shirazi, Bob Weems

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Intelligent Systems

• Research areas– Smart home technologies (MavHome)– Machine learning– Multi-agent systems– Planning– Parallel AI algorithm design– Robotics

• Faculty– Diane Cook, Larry Holder, Manfred Huber, Lynn

Peterson

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Multimedia and video processing

• Research areas– Digital video compression– Video over wireless devices– Scene recognition– Animation authoring tools

• Faculty– Ishfaq Ahmad, Hua-mei Chen, JungHwan Oh,

Ramesh Yerraballi

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Pervasive Computing

• Research areas– QoS and resource management– Community formation and interactions– Ad hoc networks– Mobile networks– Application to Telemedicine, military, office, …

• Faculty– Sajal Das, Farhad Kamangar, Mohan Kumar,

David Levine, Behrooz Shirazi, Gergely Zaruba

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Software Engineering

• Research areas– Object-Oriented Testing and Maintenance

Environment– Software Process Modeling and Re-engineering– Concurrent Software Engineering for Cycle Time

Reduction

• Faculty– Arthur Reyes, David Kung, Jeff Lei

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Telecommunications and Networking

• Research areas– Mobile computing– Resource management– Wireless bandwidth and location management– Quality-of-Service provisioning for the third

generation wireless multi-media systems

• Faculty– Kalyan Basu, Hao Che, Sajal Das, Mohan Kumar,

David Levine, Gergely Zaruba

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Key Points of Contact

• Chairperson– Behrooz Shirazi, 817-272-3605, shirazi@cse.uta.edu

• Associate Chairperson– Bob Weems, 817-272-2337, weems@cse.uta.edu

• Graduate Advisors– Ramesh Yerraballi, 817-272-5128, ramesh@cse.uta.edu– Mike O’Dell, 817-272-3988, odell@cse.uta.edu

• Undergraduate Advisors– Linda Barasch, 817-272-3603, barasch@cse.uta.edu– Carter Tiernan, 817-272-3588, Tiernan@cse.uta.edu

• Director of SECT– David Kung, 817-272-3627, kung@cse.uta.edu

• Director of CReWMaN– Sajal Das, 817-272-7405, das@cse.uta.edu

• Department web site: http://www.cse.uta.edu