Our graduate curriculum prepares students for research and teaching. Regular courses are complemented with seminar courses, which allow students to investigate areas on the cutting edge of research. Multidisciplinary activities that strengthen Around 190 graduate students are enrolled in our graduate program. The graduate faculty consists of 48 members committed to experimental as well as theoretical research. Research Areas: Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, Computational Science and Engineering, Databases, Data Mining, Distributed Systems, Graphics and Visualization, Information Retrieval, Information Security and Assurance, Machine Learning, Networking and Operating Systems, Programming Languages and Compilers, Software Engineering, Theory of Computing and Algorithms. The department and its research groups are committed to providing state-of-the-art computing facilities for research and instructional use.