Welcome to the Department of Computer Science
The Department of Computer Science has grown tremendously in the last several years. We have doubled the number of tenure and tenure-track faculty members to 25 and have steeply increased our research footprint. Faculty in the Department of Computer Science conduct numerous research projects with funding from a variety of federal and state funding agencies, including four prestigious National Science Foundation CAREER awards. Research is conducted in areas such as algorithms, bioinformatics, computer and information security, computer architecture, computer networks, databases, high performance computing, parallel and distributed systems, programming languages and compilers, and software engineering among others.
CS Professor Receives NSF CAREER Award
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has granted Jeffery von Ronne, an Assistant Professor of Computer Science, a $425,000 Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award. The award will support his research on new techniques for analyzing dynamically extensible software for a five year period beginning July 1, 2009.
Dr. von Ronne is the fourth CAREER award recipient in the Department Computer Science and the sixth at UTSA. Qing Yi received an award in 2008 to develop a multilayer code synthesis framework. In 2007, Carola Wenk received a CAREER award to study geometric shape handling. And Daniel Jiménez received a CAREER award to support his research on branch prediction in 2006. These awards epitomize the progress UTSA is making in its push to become a Tier I Research University. With this new award, computer science faculty are now the principal or co-principal investigators on 19 current NSF grants, and UTSA has a total of 49 current NSF grants.