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UC Irvine Donald Bren School of ICS
School Overview &
Research Strengths
Hal Stern
Ted and Janice Smith Family Foundation Dean
[email protected]
2.23.15
ICS Overview
Only computing-focused school in the UC system
Founded in 1968 as a department; became a School in 2002
Three departments: Computer Science, Informatics, Statistics
One of five such schools among AAU Universities
(others are GaTech, CMU, Cornell, Indiana)
Our mission:
Provide computer science and information technology leadership for the 21st
century through
Research and development of emerging technologies
Collaborations to address societal issues
Innovative and broad computing curricula
Bren School Rankings
Computer Science graduate program ranked 29th nationally by
US News & World Report (2014)
14th among public universities
Almost identical to last ranking in 2010
NEW (Fall 2014) …
US News & World Report added “Global University” rankings.
UC Irvine is 23rd in the world for computer science!
The U.S. ranking above is purely based on reputation
The global ranking is primarily based on productivity
New European ranking effort (excellencemapping.net)
UC Irvine computer science faculty ranked 16th in U.S. for
likelihood of producing highly cited work
Academic Analytics (2012 data):
CS Department - top 25 of 230+ departments
Informatics Department - top 5 of 40+ departments
Statistics Department – top 3 of 80+ departments
Undergraduate Majors
Computer Science
Informatics
Software Engineering (established 2012)
Computer Game Science (established 2010)
Business Information Management (joint with The Paul Merage School of Business)
Computer Science & Engineering (joint with The Henry Samueli School of Engineering)
Data Science (proposal under campus review)
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Undergraduate Enrollment
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ICS Data and Trends
Freshman Enrollment
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Graduate Studies
M.S. AND PH.D. DEGREE PROGRAMS IN:
Computer Science
Informatics (new for Fall 2015 … formerly ICS with concentration in Informatics)
Statistics
Networked Systems
Software Engineering (established 2012)
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PhD
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Graduate Enrollment
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ICS Data and Trends
Total Student Credit Hours
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ICS Diversity
Undergrad
Fall 2005 … Fall 2013
Fall 2014
Female
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% Female
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Undergrad
Fall 2005 … Fall 2013
Fall 2014
URM
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Recent Achievements
Education
Graduated first-cohort of computer game science graduates
• Significant participation from Blizzard in support of senior projects
ACM Computing Team finished 2nd in 2013 SoCal regional;
participated in international programming championship in Russia
Graduate students -- 3 NSF Graduate Research Fellowships
Outreach / Access
Competitions: App Jam + (middle school), Med App Jam (ICS & Med
students), Autism App Jam, Butterworth Product Development Competition
Summer App Camp for middle school students
NSF-funded Alliance for California Computing Education for Students and
Schools (ACCESS) focused on K-12 CS education
Mentoring Program (Alumni/friends mentoring women/URM students)
Engr/ICS Corporate Partners Program
Recent Achievements
Research / Collaboration
Faculty recognitions:
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Nik Dutt, Gene Tsudik – ACM Fellow
Alex Nicolau – IEEE Fellow
Eric Mjolsness – AAAS Fellow
Jessica Utts – Elected president of the American Statistical Association
Scott Jordan – Chief Technologist at the FCC (on leave 2014-2016)
Mike Carey / Chen Li - $1.1 million (NSF + companies) to support AsterixDB (big
data management system)
Andre van der Hoek - $1.4 million (NSF) to study “crowdprogramming”
RWJ Foundation $1.9 million award to researcher Matt Beitz at UCI and colleagues
at UCSD to study how personal health data can be used
Nalini Venkatasubramanian invited to White House to demonstrate SmartAmerica
project on low-cost sensors for safe communities
Gillian Hayes named the initial Robert and Barbara Kleist Professor of Informatics to
continue her research on health and technology
Padhraic Smyth named to head new Provost-funded “Data Science Initiative”
Current Year Activities
Data Science undergraduate major (statistics and computer science
Students take a combination of CS and Statistics courses
Professional M.S. degree programs
Computer Science (CS Dept)
Human-Computer Interaction and Design (Informatics Dept)
Software Engineering (Informatics Dept)
New Engineering/ICS Office for Access and Inclusion
Large scale research proposals
Social impacts of computing (NSF Center proposal)
Big data management system (seeking NSF and industry support)
Research Areas of Excellence
Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning / Statistics
Algorithms / methods for analyzing large amounts of data
Faculty
Pierre Baldi – bioinformatics/genomics, chemistry/drug discovery
Rina Dechter – automated reasoning for AI systems
Padhraic Smyth – applications in climate science, web data
Hal Stern – biostatistics, forensic science
Noteworthy
New campus “Data Science Initiative” led by Padhraic Smyth
(datascience.uci.edu)
Center for Statistical Consulting (M. Phelan, Interim Director)
Research Areas of Excellence
Bioinformatics / Medical Informatics / Computational Biology /
Health & Technology
Artificial intelligence and machine learning focused on fast-growing
datasets in biology, chemistry, medicine
Software engineering to develop and apply medical records systems
Faculty
Pierre Baldi – bioinformatics/genomics, chemistry/drug discovery
Yunan Chen – human-computer interaction for health records sysems
Gillian Hayes – technology for autism and other diseases
Rick Lathrop – computational biology / synthetic biology for cancer
Noteworthy
Institute for Genomics and Bioinformatics (Pierre Baldi, Director)
Endowed chair to support work of Gillian Hayes on technology and health
Recent successful efforts on p53 repair for cancer treatment (Lathrop)
Research Areas of Excellence
Computer Architecture and Embedded Computer Systems
Computers are integral part of all devices/machines (cars, smartphone,
appliances)
Puts a premium on innovative architecture and power-aware designs
Faculty
Nikil Dutt – embedded systems, computer-aided design
Alex Nicolau – parallelizing compilers, power-aware computing
Nalini Venkatasubramanian – low-cost sensors, middleware
Noteworthy
Recognitions: Dutt (ACM Fellow), Nicolau (IEEE Fellow)
SCALE project (Venkatasubramanian) demonstrated at the White House as
part of Smart America project
Research Areas of Excellence
Computer Games and Virtual Worlds
Great growth of computer game industry (initial focus on entertainment)
Increasing application of games to education and training, health (treatment
of chronic diseases), business (marketing and behavior modification)
Faculty
Yunan Chen – games for health
Magda El-Zarki – use of sensors, video over IP
Walt Scacchi – networked computer games, virtual worlds
Josh Tanenbaum – game culture, wearable technology and gaming
Noteworthy
New research center, Institute for Virtual Environments and Computer Games
(Magda El-Zarki, director)
Research Areas of Excellence
Databases and Information Systems
Database researchers continue to face new challenges: size of datasets,
variety of data types, etc.
Faculty
Michael Carey – database system architecture, information integration
Ramesh Jain – multimedia information systems, experiential computing
Chen Li – data cleaning, next generation search
Sharad Mehrotra – emergency response technologies, databases
Noteworthy
AsterixDB – open source big data management system (initial release June
2013) with recent funding of $1.1 million (NSF and industry)
SRCH2 – startup from UCI search technology (Chen Li, CTO)
Research Areas of Excellence
Human-Centered Computing / HCI
Technological innovation must account for the human element
Social aspects include: user interfaces, computer-supported collaboration, impact
of technology
Faculty
Paul Dourish – social analysis of people and technology
Mizuko Ito – new media, cross-cultural comparisons of media use
Gloria Mark – technology in the workplace, impacts of email
Gary and Judy Olson – technology for supporting long distance collaboration
Noteworthy
Six-year $1.5 million collaboration w/ Google on collaborative tools (Olsons)
Facebook’s new policy regarding death heavily influenced by Ph.D student Jed
Brubaker’s research
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation funded Health Data Exploration Project ($1.9
million) co-led by research Matt Beitz
Research Areas of Excellence
Security and Privacy
Security is focused on keeping computers and associated information secure
from intrusions/detection
Privacy is concerned with legal rights and personal expectations regarding the
privacy of their data and information
Faculty
Michael Franz – compiler technology, biological-motivated software security
Michael Goodrich – algorithms for information assurance
Alfred Kobsa – modeling of user privacy behavior
Gene Tsudik – computer and network security, privacy-preserving
communication
Noteworthy
Automated software diversity research featured in The Economist (Franz)
Research Areas of Excellence
Software Engineering
Software development is now an important part of many industries
Need for careful design and organization in decentralized/distributed
environments
Faculty
Crista Lopes – large software systems
David Redmiles – graphical user interfaces, user studies
Richard Taylor (emeritus) – software architecture
Andre van der Hoek – design tools for software, education in software
engineering
Noteworthy
OpenSimulator open source tool for developing virtual environments (Lopes)
HTTP, DNS are key contributions of UCI alums to internet (Fielding, Mockapetris
were students of Richard Taylor (emeritus))
Recent $1.4 million NSF award to study “crowd”-programming (van der Hoek)
Contact
Questions
Hal Stern – [email protected]
Shana Chance
Director of Corporate Relations (ICS & Engr)
[email protected]
Nancy Kim Yun
Director of Corporate and Research Collaborations (ICS & Engr)
[email protected]