UC Irvine Donald Bren School of ICS School Overview & UCI
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UC Irvine Donald Bren School of ICS
School Overview
&
UCI Industry / University Relations
Hal Stern
Ted and Janice Smith Family Foundation Dean
[email protected]
3.12.15
ICS Overview
Only computing-focused school in the UC system
Founded in 1968 as a department; became a
School in 2002
Three departments: Computer Science,
Informatics, Statistics
One of five such schools among AAU Universities
(others are GaTech, CMU, Cornell, Indiana)
Our mission:
Provide computer science and information
technology leadership for the 21st century through
Research and development of emerging
technologies
Collaborations to address societal issues
Innovative and broad computing curricula
Bren School Rankings
Computer Science graduate program
ranked 29th nationally by US News & World
Report (2014)
14th among public universities
Almost identical to last ranking in 2010
NEW (Fall 2014) …
US News & World Report added “Global
University” rankings.
UC Irvine is 23rd in the world for computer
science!
The U.S. ranking above is purely based
on reputation
The global ranking is primarily based
on productivity
Undergraduate Majors
Computer Science
Informatics
Software Engineering (established 2012)
Computer Game Science (established 2010)
Business Information Management (joint with The Paul
Merage School of Business)
Computer Science & Engineering (joint with The Henry
Samueli School of Engineering)
Data Science (proposal under campus review)
ICS Data and Trends
Undergraduate Enrollment
Freshman Enrollment
2500
600
500
2000
UGEnroll
1000
Applications
1500
300
Fresh_Enroll
200
500
100
2014
2011
2008
2005
2002
1999
1996
1998
2000
2002
2004
2006
2008
2010
2012
2014
0
0
1996
Applications
400
Graduate Studies
M.S. AND PH.D. DEGREE PROGRAMS IN:
Computer Science
Informatics
Statistics
Networked Systems
Software Engineering (established 2012)
ICS Data and Trends
Graduate Enrollment
Total Student Credit Hours
600
90000
80000
500
Grad_Enroll
300
PhD
MS
200
60000
50000
Tot_SCH
40000
30000
20000
100
10000
2014
2011
2008
2005
2002
1999
96-97
98-99
00-01
02-03
04-05
06-07
08-09
10-11
12-13
0
0
1996
Students
400
Student Credit Hours
70000
ICS Diversity
Undergr
ad
Fall …
2005
Fall
2013
Fall 2014
Female
129
…
389
480
Total
1053 …
1676
2105
%
12.3% … 23.2%
Female
Undergr
Fall … Fall
ad
2005
2013
22.8%
Fall 2014
URM
85
…
227
319
Total
1053
…
1676
2105
%
Female
8.1%
… 13.5%
15.2%
Recent Achievements
Education
Graduated first-cohort of computer game science graduates
• Significant participation from Blizzard in support of senior
projects
ACM Computing Team finished 2nd in 2013 SoCal regional;
participated in international programming championship in
Russia
Graduate students -- 3 NSF Graduate Research Fellowships
Outreach / Access
App Development Competitions:
AppJam+ (middle school), MedAppJam (ICS & Med), Autism
AppJam
Butterworth Product Development Competition
Summer App Camp for middle school students
Mentoring Program (Alumni/friends mentoring women/URM
students)
Engr/ICS Corporate Partners Program
Recent Achievements
Research / Collaboration
Faculty recognitions:
• Nik Dutt, Gene Tsudik – ACM Fellow
• Alex Nicolau – IEEE Fellow
• Jessica Utts – Elected president of the American Statistical
Association
• Scott Jordan – Chief Technologist at the FCC (on leave 2014-2016)
Mike Carey / Chen Li - $1.1 million (NSF + companies) to support
AsterixDB (big data management system)
Andre van der Hoek - $1.4 million (NSF) to study “crowdprogramming”
RWJ Foundation $1.9 million award to researcher Matt Beitz at UCI and
colleagues at UCSD to study how personal health data can be used
Nalini Venkatasubramanian invited to White House to demonstrate
SmartAmerica project on low-cost sensors for safe communities
Current Year Activities
Data Science undergraduate major (statistics and computer science
Students take a combination of CS and Statistics courses
Professional M.S. degree programs
Computer Science (CS Dept)
Human-Computer Interaction and Design (Informatics Dept)
Software Engineering (Informatics Dept)
New Engineering/ICS Office for Access and Inclusion
Large scale research proposals
Social impacts of computing (NSF Center proposal)
Big data management system (seeking NSF and industry
support)
Research Areas of Excellence
Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning / Statistics
Bioinformatics / Medical Informatics / Computational Biology /
Health & Technology
Algorithms / methods for analyzing large amounts of data
New campus “Data Science Initiative” led by Padhraic Smyth
(datascience.uci.edu)
Machine learning focused on fast-growing datasets in biology, medicine
Software engineering to develop and apply medical records systems
Computer Architecture and Embedded Computer Systems
Design of computers used in other devices (cars, smartphone, appliances)
SCALE project (Venkatasubramanian) demonstrated at the White House
shows how low-cost sensors can provide resilient, secure emergency
response
Research Areas of Excellence
Computer Games and Virtual Worlds
Databases and Information Systems
Great growth of computer game industry (initial focus on
entertainment)
Increasing application of games to education and training, health
(treatment of chronic diseases), business (marketing and
behavior modification)
Database challenges: size of datasets, variety of data types, etc.
AsterixDB – open source big data management system (initial
release June 2013) with recent funding of $1.1 million (NSF and
industry)
Human-Centered Computing / HCI
Social aspects of computing include: user interfaces, computersupported collaboration, impact of technology
Six-year $1.5 million collaboration w/ Google on collaborative
tools
Facebook’s new policy regarding after death management of
pages
Research Areas of Excellence
Security and Privacy
Security - keeping computers and information secure
from intrusions/detection
Privacy - legal rights and personal expectations
regarding privacy of data
Example: Automated software diversity research
featured in The Economist
Software Engineering
Software development is now an important part of many
industries, increasingly in decentralized/distributed
environments
HTTP, DNS are key contributions of UCI alums
Recent $1.4 million NSF award to study “crowd”programming
Interactions with Industry
ICS and Engineering want to partner with
industry
Corporate Partners Program – concierge
service for:
talent acquisition
student projects
internships
Research connections
Collaborations with faculty/students
Sponsorship of relevant research
Consulting with faculty
16
Student Projects
Senior students work in
teams on sponsorgenerated projects
Can be 1-quarter, 2quarter, 3-quarter projects
Faculty supervision
Regular interaction with
sponsor
Examples:
UCI Police – ZOTfinder
Google (Analytics) – EZ
Dashboard
SavvyMoney.com –
Gamification
MIRTH – Plug-ins for
open source healthcare
integration engine
Contact
Questions
Hal Stern – [email protected]
Shana Chance
Director of Corporate Relations (ICS & Engr)
[email protected]
Nancy Kim Yun
Director of Corporate and Research Collaborations (ICS
& Engr)
[email protected]