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.
Record PhD Enrollment in Computer Science
The past year has brought remarkable growth to the computer science programs at UTSA. With strong employment prospects for graduates, it is no surprise that in the current environment, the number of students interested in computer science is increasing. The computer science PhD program in particular has experienced phenomenal growth. For the Spring 2010 semester, enrollment in the department's PhD program has grown to a new record of 59 students (an increase of 28% over Spring 2009). The PhD program in Computer Science is the largest research PhD program at UTSA, and the department is anticipating strong gains in enrollment again for Fall 2010.
The enlarged PhD program marks the Computer Science Department's transformation over the past 10-years into a productive research-oriented department that is advancing the state of the art in computer science and blazing the trail for UTSA's emergence as a premier research university.