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 six 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.
The CS Department Celebrates Its 6th Current NSF CAREER Award Winner, Clint Whaley
Clint Whaley, an assistant professor in UTSA's Department of Computer Science has recently become a recipient of a prestigious National Science Foundation (NSF) Early Career Development (CAREER) award. The five-year, $583,145 grant will support Dr. Whaleys research on “Empirical Tuning for Extreme Scale”. Including this award, Dr. Whaley has brought $3,302,311 in total research funding to UTSA since joining the department in 2005. For more information about Dr. Whaley’s research grants, see http://www.cs.utsa.edu/~whaley/research/grants.html.
The CAREER is the NSF's most prestigious award for junior faculty and is awarded to faculty members who embody the role of teacher-scholar by integrating outstanding research with excellence as an educator within the context of their institution. Dr. Whaley is now one of six recipients of current NSF CAREER awards at UTSA in the Department of Computer Science.
Our high number of CAREER recipients has help the department to grow and led to more success in funding, research, and teaching. Student enrollment has increased from 600 in 2006 to 827 in 2011. Papers published per year have increased from 75 in 2006 to 134 in 2011. The CS department’s expired grants come to approximately 11 million dollars, whereas active grants total approximately 32 million dollars (for details see: http://www.cs.utsa.edu/research/grants/). Thus, the CS department grows stronger each year and continues to make significant contributions towards UTSA’s tier one goal.