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Welcome to the Computer Science and Engineering Department at UTA!

Behrooz A. Shirazi

Professor and Chairperson

The University of Texas at Arlington

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Mission

• The mission of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering is to serve the needs of the north Texas region, the state, and the nation by providing high quality educational and innovative research programs in computer science and engineering. The department will strive to offer first-rate undergraduate, graduate, and continuing education opportunities; conduct research and develop technology in selected areas; and facilitate technology transfer for the betterment of the quality of life.

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Degree Programs Offered

• BS in Computer Science and Engineering [ABET EAC and CAC accredited] – 127 hrs– Math/science/engineering– SW/HW balance– Communication skills– Senior design experience

• BS in Computer Science [under ABET review] – 121 hrs– Math/science emphasis– Software emphasis– Communication skills– Software-oriented senior design experience

• BS in Software Engineering [under ABET review] – 123 hrs– Software engineering emphasis– Software management and testing emphasis– Communication skills and senior project experience

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Graduate Degrees

• Masters Degrees– MS in Computer Science or Computer Science and

Engineering• 31 hours (thesis); 38 (structured)

– Master of Software Engineering – 37 hours (team project)

– Masters degrees with Telecom Engineering Certificate• Same as MSCS or MSCSE with emphasis in

telecommunications• Also available through the UT Telecampus online (CS/EE

Online)

• Ph.D. in Computer Science or Computer Science and Engineering – Variable (dissertation)

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CSE Teaching Laboratories

• Computer Logic Design Laboratory (121 NH)– Logic design trainers– Miscellaneous instruments and tools

• Embedded Systems Laboratory (122 NH)– Microprocessor trainers; many tools and instruments– Windows/Pentium-based systems

• Introductory Programming (123 NH)– Windows Pentium-based PCs

• Intermediate Programming (124 NH)– Windows Pentium-based PCs

• Multimedia and Networking (113 NH)• Senior Design Laboratory (125 and 126 NH)

– Windows and Linux Pentium-based systems– Numerous instruments and tools

• Software Engineering and Database Lab (233 NH)

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Special Programs and Centers

• Center for Research in Wireless, Mobility, and Networking (CReWMaN)– Sajal Das, Director

– Mohan Kumar, Kalyan Basu, Hao Che, Gergely Zaruba, Ramesh Yerraballi, David Levine

• Software Engineering Center for Telecommunications (SECT)– David C. Kung, Director

– Arthur Reyes, Jeff Lei, Tom Rethard

• Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) Distributed Smart Agents– Behrooz Shirazi and Manfred Huber, Directors

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• 1966 – First computer science courses offered (through IE Department)• 1973 – Master of Science in Computer Science degree established• 1974 – First MS CS degrees awarded• 1976 – Ph.D. program established• 1977 – Computer Science Section of IE Department established• 1978 – Bachelor of Science in CSE degree program established• 1979 – First BS CSE degree awarded• 1980 – Computer Science and Engineering Department established• 1981 – First Ph.D. in CS awarded• 1983 – CSE undergraduate program accredited by ABET, reaccredited in

1989 and 1995 (first accredited CS or CSE program in Texas)• 1989 – Software Engineering Center for Telecommunications established• 1990 – Honors Program in Parallel Processing (HiPP) established• 1994 – Master of Software Engineering program established• 1995 – CSE undergraduate program accredited by CSAB (first dual

ABET/CSAB accredited program in Texas)

Historical View ofCSE@UTA

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Historical View ofCSE@UTA

• 1996 – UTA ranked 20th in the USA in computer science research expenditures [$8,641,000] in 1995

• 1997 – UTA ranked 9th in the USA in computer science research expenditures [$15,187,000] in 1996

• 1998 – First offerings of CSE courses at distance via the web• 1999 – MS CSE degrees with Telecom Engineering Certificate• 1999 – TeleCampus distance offering of the MS CSE degrees with

Telecom Eng. Certificate• 2000 – CReWMan established (Center for Research in Wireless, Mobility

and Networking)• 2000 – Industry Advisory Board Endowed Student Fellowship

Fund established (goal of $1,000,000 in 10 years)• 2001 – BSCS (B.S. in Computer Science) first offered in Spring 2001• 2001 – BSSE (B.S. in Software Engineering) first offered in Fall 2001• 2001 – CSE undergraduate program accredited by EAC and CAC of ABET• 2001 – CSE@UTA Top 25 Initiative kicked off

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Historical View ofCSE@UTA

• 2002 – Center in Multimedia and Video Processing Research – under development

• 2002 – MavHome Building – under development• 2002 – IRIS: Institute for Research In Security

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Developments in 2001-02

• Faculty recruiting:

– Fall 2001

• 3 Tenure track

• 1 Non-tenure track

– Spring 2002

• 1 Tenure track

• 1 Non-tenure track

– Fall 2002• 3 Tenure track

– Spring 2003• 1 Tenure track

• 1 Non-tenure track

8 NEW faculty Since Fall 2001

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Developments in 2001-02

• Improved teaching assistants salary structure.

• Newly furnished TA offices – new building later this year.

• New student lounge (NH314).

• Support for student organizations (more than $40K from Sabre) - to continue this year as well:– ACM/IEEE– NSBE– SWE– SHPE

• Starting fund raising campaign to build MavHome/CompUTAble Home.

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Developments in 2001-02

• Wireless network support for all of college of engineering.

• Established a new Networking and Multimedia teaching lab (NH 113).

• Establishing a new Software Engineering and Database teaching lab (NH 239).

• Establishing a new Multimedia and Video Processing Research Center.

• Formed the new CSE@UTA Graduate Students Club.

• Industry visits – Fall 01: Ericsson, Summer 02: Raytheon – visit to Sabre coming up in April.

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Recent Trends

Student Head Count

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Recent Trends

Degree Production

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Recent Trends

Research Funds Awarded and Gifts

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$500,000

$1,000,000

$1,500,000

$2,000,000

$2,500,000

$3,000,000

$3,500,000

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Recent Trends

Number of Faculty Members

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Fall '96 Fall '97 Fall '98 Fall '99 Fall '00 Fall '01 Fall '02

Tenure Track Faculty Non-Tenure Track Faculty

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Brag Sheet: 2001-02

• Patents:– Sajal Das, Supporing Fast Intra-Domain Handoffs and Paging in Wireless Cellular

Networks (jointly with Telcordia Tech, Inc., New Jersey), Docket # APP 1246-US.

– K. Basu, S. Das, et al., US Patent #6330451, “Selectively Delaying Data Communications in a Wireless Communication System to Provide Voice Communications Capacity.”

• Awards– S. Das, et al., Best Paper Award, ICOIN ’02, “Efficient Lightpath Routing in

Wavelength-routed Optical Networks.”– Diane Cook: UTA Outstanding Research Achievement Award.– Larry Holder: Inducted into the UTA Academy of Distinguished Teachers.– Damla Turgut: Best Overall Engineering Presentation at UTA Graduate Research

Symposium.– Soumya K. D. Bhaumik: Outstanding Senior Award from the Technical Club of Dallas.– Ramez Elmasri: Faculty Development Leave, Fall 2002.– Sajal Das: Faculty Development Leave, Spring 2003.– Ramesh Yerraballi: 2002 COE Robert Q. Lee Award for Excellence in Engineering

Teaching.

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Brag Sheet: Faculty Awards and Recognition

• Ahmad, Ishfaq: Video compression technology licensing; Best Paper Award, ICPP, 2001

• Aslandogan, Y. Alp: US Patent (Pending); Best Student Paper Award, ACM Multimedia, 2000

• Carroll, Bill D.: Fellow, IEEE; IEEE Third Millennium Medal, 2000; NASA Technology Innovation Awards, 1980,1982; NSF Professional Development Fellowship, 1979-80; Dow/ ASEE Outstanding Young Faculty Award, 1975

• Cook, Diane: NSF Career Development Award, 1995; NSF Research Initiation Award, 1993; NASA Summer Research Faculty Fellow, Ames Research Center, 1991

• Das, Sajal K.: 5 US Patents; Best Paper Award, 3rd ACM MSWIM, 2000; Best Paper Award, 5th ACM/IEEE Mobicom, 1999; Best Paper Award, 11th ACM/IEEE PADS, 1997; Outstanding Service Recognition Award, ACM, 2000 and 2001; Appreciation Award for Professional Service, IEEE, 1998

• Elmasri, Ramez: US patent, 1996

• Kung, David: Object oriented software testing licensing; Internationally ranked as 11th Software Engineering Scholar by the Journal of Systems and Software, 1996

• Peterson, Lynn: Academy of Distinguished Teachers, 1998

• Reyes, Arthur A.: NASA Graduate Student Research Fellowship, 1993-96

• Shirazi, Behrooz A.: US Patent (pending); PARSA software licensing; AFOSR Summer Research Faculty Fellow, 1990; Meritorious Service Award, IEEE Computer Society, 1998; Distinguished Visitors Program, IEEE Computer Society, 1993-96; Distinguished Lecturer, ACM Series, 1993-97

• Yerraballi, Ramesh: NASA Fellowship, 1994, 1995

• Walker, Roger: TxDOT Top Ten Research Innovation Awards, 2000

• Zaruba, Gergely: Best Paper Award, 3rd ACM MSWIM, 2000

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• University of Texas at Arlington– Larry Holder: Chancellor’s Council Award for Excellence in Teaching (2000)– Jorge Ramirez: Provost’s Award for Excellence in Teaching (2000)– Bob Weems: Outstanding Academic Advisor (graduate programs 2000)– Linda Barasch: Outstanding Academic Advisor (under-graduate programs

2000)

• College of Engineering– College of Engineering Excellence in Teaching Award

• Bob Weems (1998); Larry Holder (1999).

– College of Engineering Excellence in Research Award• Behrooz Shirazi (1998).

– College of Engineering Outstanding Young Faculty Award• Krishna Kavi (1988); Bob Weems (1989); Diane Cook (1995); Lonnie Welch (1998);

Larry Holder (2000).

– Robert Q. Lee Award of Excellence in Teaching• Lynn Peterson (1992); Bob Weems (1993); Behrooz Shirazi (1995); Farhad

Kamangar (1997); Ramez Elmasri (1999); Diane Cook (2000); Piotr Gmytrasiewicz (2001).

– Fay Van Dam Outstanding Staff Award• Bill Riess (1993); Marjorie Kohler (1997); Pamela McBride (1999).

Brag Sheet: Faculty Awards and Recognition

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Department Research stems

• Database and Information Technology

• Embedded Systems

• High Performance Computing

• Intelligent Systems

• Multimedia and Video Processing

• Pervasive Computing

• Software Engineering

• Telecommunications and Networking

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Database and Information Technology

• Research areas– Data Warehousing/information integration– Data Mining/Knowledge Discovery– Web Databases– E-commerce– Active/push technology for large network-

centric Information Management– Object-Oriented, Temporal & Heterogeneous

databases.

• Faculty– Alp Aslandogan, Sharma Chakravarthy, Ramez

Elmasri, Leo Fegaras, JungHwan Oh

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Embedded Systems

• Research areas– Transportation– Robotics– Real-time embedded systems– Remote interfaces via the web

• Faculty– Farhad Kamangar, David Kung, Arthur Reyes,

Roger Walker

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High Performance Computing

• Research areas– Software tools for parallel systems– Distributed real-time systems– Clustered and global computing

• Faculty– Sajal Das, Mohan Kumar, David Levine, Behrooz

Shirazi, Bob Weems

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Intelligent Systems

• Research areas– Smart home technologies (MavHome)– Machine learning– Multi-agent systems– Planning– Parallel AI algorithm design– Robotics

• Faculty– Diane Cook, Larry Holder, Manfred Huber, Lynn

Peterson

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Multimedia and video processing

• Research areas– Digital video compression– Video over wireless devices– Scene recognition– Animation authoring tools

• Faculty– Ishfaq Ahmad, Hua-mei Chen, JungHwan Oh,

Ramesh Yerraballi

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Pervasive Computing

• Research areas– QoS and resource management– Community formation and interactions– Ad hoc networks– Mobile networks– Application to Telemedicine, military, office, …

• Faculty– Sajal Das, Farhad Kamangar, Mohan Kumar,

David Levine, Behrooz Shirazi, Gergely Zaruba

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Software Engineering

• Research areas– Object-Oriented Testing and Maintenance

Environment– Software Process Modeling and Re-engineering– Concurrent Software Engineering for Cycle Time

Reduction

• Faculty– Arthur Reyes, David Kung, Jeff Lei

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Telecommunications and Networking

• Research areas– Mobile computing– Resource management– Wireless bandwidth and location management– Quality-of-Service provisioning for the third

generation wireless multi-media systems

• Faculty– Kalyan Basu, Hao Che, Sajal Das, Mohan Kumar,

David Levine, Gergely Zaruba

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CSE Faculty

• Behrooz Shirazi, Professor and Chairman; Ph.D., Oklahoma, 1985. – Software development tools, parallel and distributed processing, task

allocation and load balancing, distributed real-time systems, resource management in distributed systems.

• Bob P. Weems; Associate Professor, Associate Chair, and Graduate Advisor; Ph.D., Northwestern, 1984.

– Parallel algorithms, parallel processing, automated deduction, relational dependency theory.

• Tenure track faculty

• Ishfaq Ahmad, Professor; Ph.D., Syracuse, 1992. – Multimedia and Video Processing, Software Support for Parallel Processing,

Design & Evaluation of High-Performance Architectures, Applications of High-Performance Architectures.

• Alp Aslandogan, Assistant Professor; Ph.D., University of Illinois at Chicago, 2001.

– Image database, web data mining, internet computing.

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CSE Faculty

• Bill D. Carroll, Professor and Dean of Engineering; Ph.D., The University of Texas at Austin, 1969.

– Fault-tolerant computing, computer architecture, distributed computing.

• Sharma Chakravarthy, Professor; Ph.D., Maryland, 1985. – Database and information technology, distributed systems and information

technology, networked database, and advanced database applications.

• Hao Che, Assistant Professor; Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin, 1998.– Networking, network processor design, network resource management.

• Hua-mei Chen, Assistant Professor; Ph.D., Syracuse, 2002.– Signal processing, image processing, security.

• Diane J. Cook, Professor; Ph.D., Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1990.– Machine learning, planning, parallel algorithms, robotics.

• Sajal K. Das, Professor; Ph.D., Central Florida, 1988. – Wireless networks and mobile computing, communication networks and

protocols, performance modeling and simulation, parallel & distributed computing.

• Ramez A. Elmasri, Professor; Ph.D., Stanford, 1980.– Database, web modeling/ontology’s, temporal databases.

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CSE Faculty

• Leonidas Fegaras, Assistant Professor; Ph.D., Massachusetts at Amherst, 1993.

– Databases, programming languages.• Jean Gao, Assistant Professor; Ph.D., Purdue University, 2002.

– Multimedia systems, Video processing.• Lawrence B. Holder, Associate Professor; Ph.D., Illinois at Urbana-

Champaign, 1991. – Artificial intelligence, machine learning, distributed computing.

• Manfred Huber, Assistant Professor, M.S.C.S., Massachusetts at Amherst, 1993.

– Robotics and machine learning.• Farhad A. Kamangar, Associate Professor; Ph.D., UT Arlington, 1980.

– Artificial intelligence, computer graphics, digital signal/image processing, neutral networks, time series analysis.

• Mohan Kumar, Associate Professor; Ph.D., Indian Institute of Science, 1992.

– Mobile Computing, Wireless Networks, Parallel and Distributed Computing, Active Networks, Operating Systems, Algorithms.

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CSE Faculty

• David C. Kung, Professor; Ph.D., Norwegian Institute of Technology, 1984.

– Object-oriented software testing, object-oriented real-time systems, modeling and verification.

• Jeff (Yu) Lei, Assistant Professor; Ph.D., North Carolina State University, 2002.

– Software engineering, distributed systems, networks.

• JungHwan Oh, Assistant Professor; Ph.D., University of Central Florida, 2000.

– Video Database Management Systems, Image Database Management Systems, Medical Imaging, and Video Communications in Wired and Wireless Environments.

• Lynn L. Peterson, Professor and Associate Dean of Engineering; Ph.D., The University of Texas Health Science Center at Dallas, 1978.

– Artificial intelligence, computer-based instructional systems, medical computer science.

• Arthur A. Reyes, Assistant Professor; Ph.D., California at Irvine, 1999.– Software engineering, software specification and testing, avionics software.

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CSE Faculty

• Roger S. Walker, Professor; Ph.D., The University of Texas at Austin, 1972.

– Real-time and Embedded systems, signal processing, simulation and modeling.

• Gergely Zaruba, Assistant Professor; Ph.D., University of Texas at Dallas, 2001.

– Telecommunications, wireless and mobile computing.

• Non-Tenure track faculty

• Kalyan Basu, Managing Director of CreWMaN and Senior Lecturer; MS, Indian Institute of Science, 1978.

– Telecommunications, networking.

• Linda S. Barasch, Director of Undergraduate Programs; Ph.D., Oklahoma, 1988.

– Programming languages, compilers, database systems.

• Gil Carrick, Lecturer, M.S., UT Arlington, 2000.– Networking, Computer systems, Operating systems.

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CSE Faculty

• Kenneth Damrau, Lecturer, M.C.S., UT Arlington, 1999.– Systems.

• Bahram Khalili, Senior Lecturer and Graduate Advisor, Ph.D., Southern Methodist Univ., 1992.

– Software engineering, Intelligence systems.

• Henry Kearny, Lecturer, M.S., UT Arlington, 1973.– Systems.

• David E. Levine, Visiting Assistant Prof.; M.S.C.S., UT Arlington, 1975.– Software engineering, operating systems, computer networks.

• Mike O’Dell, Senior Lecturer; M.S., Naval Postgraduate School, 1977.– Networking, Software Engineering.

• John Patterson, Associate Dean of Engineering, UT Austin.– Systems, Computer architecture, Digital systems.

• Thomas D. Rethard, jr., Director of Marketing and Development and Lecturer, M.S.C.S., UT Arlington, 1978

– Operating Systems, programming languages, software engineering.

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CSE Faculty

• Carter Tiernan, Director of Outreach Programs and Lecturer, Ph.D., UT Arlington, 1992.

– Artificial intelligence, Robotics.

• Ray Springston, Lecturer, M.S.C.S UT Arlington, 1991.– Programming languages.

• Ramesh Yerraballi, Senior Lecturer and Graduate Advisor; Ph.D., Old Dominion, 1996.

– Real-time systems, operating systems, mobile computer, multimedia systems.

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Key Points of Contact• Chairperson

– Behrooz Shirazi, 817-272-3605, shirazi@cse.uta.edu

• Associate Chairperson– Bob Weems, 817-272-2337, weems@cse.uta.edu

• Graduate Advisors– Ramesh Yerraballi, 817-272-5128, ramesh@cse.uta.edu– Mike O’Dell, 817-272-3988, odell@cse.uta.edu

• Undergraduate Advisors– Linda Barasch, 817-272-3603, barasch@cse.uta.edu– Carter Tiernan, 817-272-3588, Tiernan@cse.uta.edu

• Director of SECT– David Kung, 817-272-3627, kung@cse.uta.edu

• Director of CReWMaN– Sajal Das, 817-272-7405, das@cse.uta.edu

• Department web site: http://www.cse.uta.edu