Z. Berkay Celik WINS NSF CAREER AWARD
Assistant Professor Z. Berkay Celik received a CAREER award from the National Science Foundation (NSF). Celik’s work is titled, “Compositional IoT Safety and Security in Physical Spaces.” His project integrates research activities aimed at designing and developing algorithms and tools that formally produce the composite behavior of an IoT system and a rigorous foundation for reasoning about an IoT environment's global safety and security.
Dave (Jing) Tian Wins NSF CAREER AWARD
Assistant Professor, Dave (Jing) Tian, received a CAREER award from the National Science Foundation (NSF). Tian’s work is titled, “A Model-Guided and Holistic Approach for Peripheral Security.” His project aims to systematically improve peripheral security by discovering and reducing vulnerabilities that could enable peripheral attacks ahead of time, detecting malicious tampering within peripheral devices once connected, and responding to peripheral attacks timely with assurance.
ALUMNA AMBER JOHNSON FEATURED ON PURDUE PODCAST
Amber Johnson (PhD ’19), was the first African American woman to graduate with a PhD in Computer Science from Purdue University. In the 50th episode of the This Is Purdue podcast, she shares her favorite experiences at Purdue, gives guidance on getting involved , volunteering, and reaching out to the Black community.
LEADING AND DEVELOPING HER NEXT GIANT LEAP
From moving past a rough start to co-founding an organization, Purdue CS senior, Victoria Liu, kept going. What she learned along the way will launch her next giant leap.
THREE PURDUE CS UNDERGRADS EARN HONORABLE RECOGNITION IN CRA COMPETITION
Simran Kadadi, Shangyin Tan, and Man To Tang pursued research as undergraduates in distinct areas; Kadadi in computational biology, Tan in programming languages, and Tang in graphics and visualization. Their efforts earned all an honorable recognition in the 2022 Computing Research Association (CRA) Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher competition.
FOCS 2021 ACCEPTED PAPER
Purdue CS Professors, Jeremiah Blocki and Elena Grigorescu's paper was accepted at the 62nd IEEE Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science (FOCS 2021), February 7-10, 2022.
Jeremiah Blocki, Kuan Cheng, Elena Grigorescu, Xin Li, Yu Zheng and Minshen Zhu. Exponential Lower Bounds for Locally Decodable Codes Correcting Insertions and Deletions.
SCIENCE | FEB 2022
Assistant Professor Yexiang Xue was a co-author on a large (25 academic and non-academic institutions from the U.S., Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, France and Peru) article in Science, using AI to enable strategic hydropower planning across Amazon basin.
Professor Chris Clifton | CSO Online
Professor Christopher W. Clifton explains how adding support for Python to Google's framework will broaden the community of interest in differential privacy. "It's targeting the people who are spending a lot of time looking at data and releasing information on data."
Assistant Professor Kamyar Azizzadenesheli | TWIML AI Podcast
Assistant Professor Kamyar Azizzadenesheli speaks with the TWIML AI Podcast about trends in Deep RL, the convergence of RL methodology with both robotics and control theory. Watch here.
Professor Eugene Spafford | WNIT | Politically Speaking
A guest on WNIT's Politically Speaking, Professor Eugene Spafford discusses cybersecurity issues for local governments and voting machine security.
GSB Ice Skating Event
Who wants to go ice skating? The Graduate Student Board (GSB) at Purdue CS held the annual ice skate party in February. No lutzes or salchows required, just fun with fellow grads, faculty and family.
Future students may visit Purdue's campus and tour the Department of Computer Science. Anyone wishing to visit Purdue's campus during the Spring 2022 semester should carefully review the Protect Purdue visitor guidelines prior to their visit for the latest information and protocols currently in place on campus.
The Department of Computer Science offers an information session which you can schedule in advance. Arrange a visit to Purdue's campus through the Office of Admissions.
undergraduate population
AN ERA OF GROWTH
In the profession of computer science, demand for our majors continues to grow - once again we have broken our own record for the number of applications for freshman admissions at 6,200. At the start of fall classes, 577 new computer science and data science students joined our previous classes for a total 2,207 undergraduates.
This year, freshman women students represent 25% of the undergraduate population and women are 23% among all undergraduate classes.
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GRADUATE POPULATION
Our graduate population has exploded with 496 MS and PhD students for the 2021-2022 year. This represents a 26% increase in growth from the previous year.
Purdue Computer Science graduate students work in any of the 11 research areas in the department.
Purdue Computer Science offers the traditional PhD and master's degree programs in addition to both an in-person and online professional master's degree in information security.
