Henning Schulzrinne, ChairDepartment of Computer Science

December 1, 2005

Computer Science at Columbia University

Columbia CS

Computer Science Highlights• Comprehensive research, focusing on key

areas• Interdisciplinary:

– from architecture to journalism to medicine

• (Roughly) largest SEAS department:– in faculty, enrollment, external

research– distance learning via CVN– training non-CS SEAS and College

students in algorithmic thinking and introductory programming skills

• Only SEAS department that enrolls SEAS, College, GSAS & Barnard students

Columbia CS

CS in numbers• 37 faculty (incl. 2 joint appointments and 1 Dean)• About 120 PhD students• About 190 MS students (+ 30 CVN students)• Undergraduate majors:

SEAS, 100

College, 33

GS, 15

CompEng, 49

Columbia CS

Faculty: 35 (32 tenure track, 3 lecturers) + 3 joint

Aho Allen Carloni Feiner

Gravano Gross Grunschlag

McKeown

KenderKaiser

Nayar Ramamoorthi

Servedio Schulzrinn

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Ross Nowick

StolfoShortliffe

Keromytis

NiehMalkin

Hirschberg

Rubenstein

Yemini

Misra

Wozniakowski Unger

Stein

Jebara

Belhumeur Edwards

Traub Yannakakis

Cannon Galil

Grinspun

Bellovin

Columbia CS

Interacting withThe Physical World

(9)

Interacting with Humans

(5 faculty)

Systems(11)

Designing Digital Systems

(4)

Making Sense of Data

(7)

Computer Science Theory

(8)

Columbia Computer Science Researchgraphics, robotics,

vision

UI, NLP, collab work

networks, security, OS,

software eng

CAD, async circuits,

embedded systems

databases, data mining,

machine learning

quantum computing,

crypto, learning,

algorithms

Columbia CS

Columbia’s Growing Computer Science Research Impact

Technology impact through• start-ups

• security, network management, thin clients, VoIP, …• standardization

•VoIP, security, …• education

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Funding (M$)

governmentIndustrialresearch gifts