DONALD BREN SCHOOL OF INFORMATION AND COMPUTER SCIENCES
Debra J. Richardson, Dean
6210 Donald Bren
Hall
Academic Counseling: (949) 824-5156
http://www.ics.uci.edu/
Department of Computer Science
Faculty
James Arvo, Ph.D. Yale University, Associate Professor of Computer Science and of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Pierre Baldi, Ph.D. California Institute of Technology, Director of the Institute for Genomics and Bioinformatics and UCI Chancellor's Professor of Computer Science, Biomedical Engineering, Developmental and Cell Biology, and Biological Chemistry
Lichun Bao, Ph.D. University of California, Santa Cruz, Assistant Professor of Computer Science
Lubomir Bic, Ph.D. University of California, Irvine, Department Chair and Professor of Computer Science, and Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and of Biomedical Engineering
Elaheh Bozorgzadeh, Ph.D. University of California, Los Angeles, Assistant Professor of Computer Science
Michael Carey, Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley, Donald Bren Professor of Computer Science
Yunan Chen, Ph.D. Drexel University, Assistant Professor of Informatics
Rina Dechter, Ph.D. University of California, Los Angeles, Professor of Computer Science
Michael Dillencourt, Ph.D. University of Maryland, Professor of Computer Science
J. Paul Dourish, Ph.D. University College, London, Professor of Informatics and of Computer Science
Nikil Dutt, Ph.D. University of Illinois, UCI Chancellor's Professor of Computer Science and of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Magda El Zarki, Ph.D. Columbia University, Associate Dean of Research Development for the Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences and Professor of Computer Science, Informatics, and Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
David Eppstein, Ph.D. Columbia University, Department Co-Chair and Professor of Computer Science
Julian Feldman, Ph.D. Carnegie Institute of Technology, Professor Emeritus of Computer Science
Charless Fowlkes, Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley, Assistant Professor of Computer Science
Stephen Franklin, Ph.D. University of Chicago, Lecturer in Computer Science and Informatics
Michael Franz, D.Sc. Techn. Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich, Professor of Computer Science
Daniel Frost, Ph.D. University of California, Irvine, Lecturer in Computer Science and Informatics
Daniel L. Gillen, Ph.D. University of Washington, Associate Professor of Statistics
Tony Givargis, Ph.D. University of California, Riverside, Associate Professor of Computer Science and of Informatics
Michael T. Goodrich, Ph.D. Purdue University, Associate Dean for Faculty Development for the Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences and UCI Chancellor's Professor of Computer Science
Richard H. Granger, Ph.D. Yale University, Professor Emeritus of Computer Science
Ian G. Harris, Ph.D. University of California, San Diego, Associate Professor of Computer Science
Gillian Hayes, Ph.D. Georgia Institute of Technology, Assistant Professor of Informatics
Wayne Hayes, Ph.D. University of Toronto, Assistant Professor of Computer Science
Daniel Hirschberg, Ph.D. Princeton University, Professor of Computer Science and of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Alexander Ihler, Ph.D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Assistant Professor of Computer Science
Sandy Irani, Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley, Professor of Computer Science and of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Norman Jacobson, B.S. University of California, Irvine, Senior Lecturer in Computer Science
Ramesh C. Jain, Ph.D. Indian Institute of Technology, Donald Bren Professor of Information and Computer Sciences
Stanislaw Jarecki, Ph.D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Assistant Professor of Computer Science
Wesley O. Johnson, Ph.D University of Minnesota, Professor of Statistics
James A. Jones, Ph.D. Georgia Institute of Technology, Assistant Professor of Informatics
Scott Jordan, Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley, Director of the Graduate Program in Networked Systems and Professor of Computer Science and of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
David G. Kay, J.D. Loyola Law School, Los Angeles; M.S. University of California, Los Angeles, Senior Lecturer with Security of Employment, Informatics and Computer Science
Dennis F. Kibler, Ph.D. University of California, Irvine, and Ph.D. University of Rochester, Professor Emeritus of Computer Science
Alfred Kobsa, Ph.D. University of Vienna, Professor of Informatics and of Computer Science
Richard H. Lathrop, Ph.D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Professor of Computer Science and of Biomedical Engineering
Chen Li, Ph.D. Stanford University, Associate Professor of Computer Science
Cristina Videira Lopes, Ph.D. Northeastern University, Associate Professor of Informatics and of Computer Science
George S. Lueker, Ph.D. Princeton University, Professor of Computer Science
Aditi Majumder, Ph.D. University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Assistant Professor of Computer Science
Gloria Mark, Ph.D. Columbia University, Professor of Informatics
Gopi Meenakshisundaram, Ph.D. University of North Carolina, Associate Professor of Computer Science
Sharad Mehrotra, Ph.D. University of Texas at Austin, Professor of Computer Science
Eric D. Mjolsness, Ph.D. California Institute of Technology, Associate Professor of Computer Science and of Mathematics
Bonnie Nardi, Ph.D. University of California, Irvine, Professor of Informatics
Alexandru Nicolau, Ph.D. Yale University, Professor of Computer Science and of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Gary Olson, Ph.D. Stanford University, Donald Bren Professor of Informatics
Judy Olson, Ph.D. University of Michigan, Donald Bren Professor of Informatics
Donald J. Patterson III, Ph.D. University of Washington, Assistant Professor of Informatics
Richard Pattis, M.S. Stanford University, Senior Lecturer with Security of Employment, Computer Science and Informatics
Natasa Przulj, Ph.D. University of Toronto, Assistant Professor of Computer Science
Deva Ramanan, Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley, Assistant Professor of Computer Science
David F. Redmiles, Ph.D. University of Colorado, Department Chair and Associate Professor of Informatics
Amelia C. Regan, Ph.D. University of Texas, Austin, Associate Dean for Student Affairs for the Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences and Associate Professor of Computer Science and of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Debra J. Richardson, Ph.D. University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Ted and Janice Smith Family Foundation Dean of the Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences and Professor of Informatics
Isaac Scherson, Ph.D. Weizmann Institute of Science (Israel), Professor of Computer Science and of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Babak Shahbaba, Ph.D. University of Toronto, Assistant Professor of Statistics
Susan Elliott Sim, Ph.D. University of Toronto, Assistant Professor of Informatics
Padhraic Smyth, Ph.D. California Institute of Technology, Professor of Computer Science and of Biomedical Engineering
Thomas A. Standish, Ph.D. Carnegie Institute of Technology, Professor Emeritus of Informatics
Hal S. Stern, Ph.D. Stanford University, Department Chair and Professor of Statistics
Tatsuya Suda, Ph.D. Kyoto University, Professor of Computer Science and of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Shannon Tauro, M.S. University of California, Irvine, Lecturer in Computer Science
Richard Taylor, Ph.D. University of Colorado, Director of the Institute for Software Research and Professor of Informatics
Alex Thornton, B.S. University of California, Irvine, Lecturer in Computer Science and Informatics
Bill Tomlinson, Ph.D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology; M.F.A. California Institute of the Arts, Assistant Professor of Informatics
Gene Tsudik, Ph.D. University of Southern California, Professor of Computer Science
Jessica Utts, Ph.D. Pennsylvania State University, Professor of Statistics
André van der Hoek, Ph.D. University of Colorado, Boulder, Associate Professor of Informatics
David van Dyk, Ph.D. University of Chicago, Professor of Statistics
Alexander V. Veidenbaum, Ph.D. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Professor of Computer Science
Nalini Venkatasubramanian, Ph.D. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Professor of Computer Science
Max Welling, Ph.D. Utrecht University, Netherlands, Associate Professor of Computer Science
Xiaohui Xie, Ph.D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Assistant Professor of Computer Science
Xiaowei Yang, Ph.D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Assistant Professor of Computer Science
Yaming Yu, Ph.D. Harvard University, Assistant Professor of Statistics
Zhaoxia Yu, Ph.D. Rice University, Assistant Professor of Statistics
Hadar Ziv, Ph.D. University of California, Irvine, Lecturer in Informatics
Overview
The Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences (Bren ICS) embodies excellence, creativity, and collaborative innovation in computer science and information technology. From its inception 40 years ago to its current status as the only independent computing school in the University of California system, Bren ICS is well-positioned to continue its tradition of exploring and advancing the boundaries of a broad, multidisciplinary field on a national and international scale.
A $20-million endowment from The Irvine Company Chairman Donald Bren in 2004 drives the School's vigorous recruitment and retention of distinguished faculty scholars. The faculty have extensive training in traditional computer science, as well as engineering, mathematics, the arts, and the social sciences. The School's stand-alone structure, as opposed to being part of an engineering school, enables the faculty to take the broadest possible view of computer science and information technology studies. This breadth is reflected in the diverse set of academic degree options for undergraduates and graduates, some which are interdisciplinary and jointly administered with other academic units.
The School's three departments, Computer Science, Informatics, and Statistics, fuel a wide range of instructional and research efforts including: computer architecture and embedded systems; security, privacy, and cryptography; programming languages and compilers; artificial intelligence and machine learning; visual computing; biomedical informatics; scientific computing; theory of computing; statistics; information access and management; software and information systems design, and engineering; interactive and collaborative technology; ubiquitous computing; operations research and arts computation engineering. The vibrant Bren ICS community continues to explore innovative topics ranging from building complete computer systems on chips smaller than a human fingernail to developing user interface systems that allow engineers on opposite sides of the world to collaborate effectively. Bren ICS research continues to focus on how computing and information technology can be used to solve a broad set of real-world problems such as improving how first responders communicate during a crisis, optimizing transportation systems, analyzing data to expedite biological research, and improving network security.
Faculty are active participants and leaders of numerous research institutes spanning computer science, including the Ada Byron Research Center (ABRC); Institute for Genomics and Bioinformatics (IGB); Institute for Software Research (ISR); Center for Embedded Computer Systems (CECS); Center for Ethnography; Center for Interactive Knowledge and Design; California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2); Center for Machine Learning and Data Mining; Center for Organizational Research; Center for Research on Information Technology and Organizations (CRITO); Genetic Epidemiology Research Institute; Center for Pervasive Communications and Computing (CPCC); Laboratory for Ubiquitous Computing and Interaction (LUCI), and Secure Computing and Network Center (SCONCE); Institute for Mathematical Behavioral Sciences; Institute for Transportation Studies and Network Systems Center.
Faculty and student-driven research in the Bren School is supported through a variety of grants, gifts, and contracts from public and private institutions such as the State of California, the U.S. Department of Education, various U.S. defense agencies, the National Science Foundation, the National Institutes of Health, NASA, and various companies, including Apple, Boeing, Cisco, Conexant, Google, HP, IBM, Intel, Microsoft, Raytheon, Sun, Toshiba, and Unisys. Since 2001, ICS has received nearly $100 million in extramural funding, in addition to the recent $20-million endowment.
Faculty and alumni of the Bren School of ICS have contributed some of computing's most significant advancements, including revolutionizing computer-aided drafting techniques; the creation of the current Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP/1.1); development of the Internet standards for HTTP and Uniform Resource Identifiers (URI); the founding of the Apache HTTP Server Project that produces the software for over 60 percent of public Internet Web sites; and the creation of the Domain Name System (DNS) that translates Web and e-mail addresses into the numeric system used to route information along the Internet.
The Bren School is actively committed to increasing diversity in the computing and information technology fields. The Ada Byron Research Center was created in 2003 to address research and outreach topics aimed at increasing the participation of women and other underrepresented populations in computer science, engineering, digital media, and related information technology areas. Bren ICS is an active partner of the National Center for Women & Information Technology, whose overarching goal is parity in the professional information technology workforce. Bren ICS is also an official member of MentorNet, an award-winning nonprofit e-mentoring network which addresses the retention and success of those in the engineering, related science, technology, and mathematics fields, particularly but not exclusively women and other underrepresented groups.
FACILITIES AND COMPUTING RESOURCES
Donald Bren Hall, a six-story building completed in 2007, houses classrooms, research labs, meeting rooms and facilities, and faculty, graduate student, and administrative staff offices. The building's innovative use of space and technology is designed to promote faculty/student interactions and facilitate collaborative scholarly work.
The School offers a wide range of research and instructional computing equipment, including many advanced workstations, servers, and other specialized hardware and software. High-speed wireless networking is available in all Bren ICS buildings, classrooms, and labs.
DEGREES
| Business Information Management1 | B.S. |
| Computer Science | B.S., M.S., Ph.D. |
| Computer Science and Engineering2 | B.S. |
| Informatics | B.S. |
| Information and Computer Science | B.S., M.S., Ph.D. |
| Networked Systems2 | M.S., Ph.D. |
| Statistics | M.S., Ph.D. |
2Offered jointly with The Henry Samueli School of Engineering. See the Interdisciplinary Studies section of the Catalogue for information.