Computer Science

Mailing Address: 
Department of Computer Science (MC 152)
851 South Morgan Street
Chicago, IL 60607-7053

Contact Information: 
Student Affairs Office: SEO 905, Department Main Office: SEO 1120 
Phone: (312) 996-5940 or (312) 996-2290
 (students)
Website: 
https://cs.uic.edu

Administration: 
Head of the Department: Robert Sloan
Director of Graduate Studies: Barbara Di Eugenio

Program Codes: 
20FS0112MS (MS) 
20FS0112PHD (PhD)

The Department of Computer Science offers graduate programs leading to Computer Science degrees at the master’s and doctoral levels. The department offers a comprehensive range of courses in the field of computer science. Special emphases lie in the areas of artificial intelligence, machine learning, computational biology, databases, computer security, data science, graphics and human-computer interaction, networks, software engineering, theoretical computer science, virtual reality, and visualization. Consult the CS Graduate Student Manual for current requirements, policies, and regulations. Updated information about the faculty, staff, curriculum, and courses is found on the CS website.

The department maintains and provides full-time technical staff for several specialized research laboratories, many housed in the Engineering Research Facility. The laboratories contain over 300 workstations and servers and an extensive array of computer-based multimedia equipment. All departmental computing facilities are networked to general university computing resources and national networks, which permits high-speed access to such facilities.