Graduate Application for the Computer Science Degree: Specification of Research Areas of Interest

Graduate applicants to the Computer Science program will be asked to specify up to three areas of research interest in the online application form, from the list below. The primary topics of research currently being carried out in these areas by faculty members in the School of Computing are listed in the table below. Information about the areas of research of the faculty members may be found on the departmental faculty page and the departmental research page.

Research Areas Primary Research Topics
AI & Machine Learning Cognitive Systems; Computer Vision; Ethics in AI; ML & Data Analysis; ML Theory & Modeling; Natural Language Processing; Physics-informed Machine Learning
Algorithms & Theory Approximation Algorithms; External Memory Algorithms; Graph Algorithms; Parameterized Algorithms and Complexity; Resource-Efficient Data Structures; Theoretical Cryptography
Computational Science Computational Biology; Computational Inverse Problems; High-Performance Scientific Computing; PDE Solvers
Computer Architecture Accelerators; Architecture-Codesign; Coherence Protocols; Hardware Security; Memory Systems; Microarchitecture Synthesis; VLSI
Computational Geometry & Topology Applied and Computational Topology; Computational Geometry; Geometric Data Analysis; High-dimensional Geometry; Topological Data Analysis
Computer Graphics Real-Time Rendering; Computer Animation; Physics-Based Rendering; Physics-Based Simulation; Geometric Modeling; GPU Algorithms; Ray Tracing Hardware
CS Education Ethics in CS Courses; Code Structure
Computer Networks Internet of Things; Mobile & Wireless Networks; Networks & Systems; Network Security & Reliability
Computer Vision Vision and AI; Visual Perception
Data Management Algorithms for Data Analytics; Data Discovery; Data Quality; Data Usability; Ethical/Responsible Data Management; Large-Scale Data Analysis
Formal Verification Protocol Verification; Verification of Concurrent Programs; Verification Tools
High-Performance Computing Accelerators; Cloud Computing; Compiler Optimization; Distributed Systems; High-Performance Scientific Computing; Parallel Computing; Scalable Systems
Human-Computer Interaction Computer Games; Personal Data; Social Computing; Ubiquitous Computing
Imaging Medical & Biological Image Analysis; Deep Learning for Image Analysis; Statistical Machine Learning for Image and Shape Analysis;  Scalable Methods and Architectures for Image Analysis; Shape Modeling & Analysis; Computational Anatomy and Geometric Statistics
Natural Language Processing Information Extraction; Interpretability; Interactivity & Analysis of Models; Learning for NLP; Multimodality; Natural Language Understanding (NLU); Semantics; Sentiment Analysis
Operating Systems Distributed Operating Systems; Distributed Key-Value Stores; Fast Datacenter Stacks; Secure OS
Programming Languages Compiler Optimization; Design & Implementation of Programming Languages; Software Testing; Trustworthy Systems Software
Robotics Autonomous Systems and Learning; Human-Robot Interaction; Medical Robotics; Motion Planning
Security & Privacy Cryptography; Mobile Security; Human Aspects of Security & Privacy; Software & System Security
Visualization Data Visualization; Scientific Visualization; Topological Data Analysis