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