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<div> <span property="dc:title" content="About" class="rdf-meta element-hidden"></span> </div> <div class="field-body"> <p><span data-preserver-spaces="true">Welcome to the website of the Department of Computer Science at the University of Pittsburgh. Our Department was established in 1966, making us one of the ten oldest CS Departments in the US. Our first Department Chair was Dr. <a href="https://history.computer.org/pioneers/taulbee.html" target="_blank">Orrin E. Taulbee.</a></span><a href="https://history.computer.org/pioneers/taulbee.html" target="_blank"><span data-preserver-spaces="true"></span></a></p> <p><span data-preserver-spaces="true">The Department has been a part of the <a href="https://www.as.pitt.edu/" target="_blank">Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts & Sciences</a> until June 2017. In July 2017, we joined forces with the School of Information Sciences to form the new <a href="https://sci.pitt.edu" target="_blank">School of Computing and Information</a> (SCI). In addition to the Department of Computer Science, SCI has two more departments </span><span data-preserver-spaces="true">(<a href="https://dins.pitt.edu" target="_blank">Department of Informatics and Networked Systems</a> and </span><span data-preserver-spaces="true"><a href="https://icds.pitt.edu" target="_blank">Department of Information Culture and Data Stewardship</a>) </span>and two programs (<a href="https://cmsp.pitt.edu/" target="_blank">Computational Modeling & Simulation PhD Program</a> and <a href="http://isp.pitt.edu/" target="_blank">Intelligent Systems Program</a>).</p> <h2>Degrees</h2> <p>We offer undergraduate degrees in <strong>Computer Science</strong> (<a href="/current-students/bs-computer-science">BS</a>聽and a <a href="/current-students/computer-science-minor">minor</a>) and <strong>Computational Biology</strong> (<a href="/current-students/bs-computational-biology">BS</a>), graduate degrees in <strong>Computer Science</strong> (<a href="/current-students/bsms-computer-science">BS+MS</a>, <a href="/current-students/ms-computer-science">MS</a>, and聽<a href="/current-students/phd-computer-science">Ph.D.</a>). We are also participating in the upcoming undergraduate degree in <strong>Data Science (BS)</strong>, joint with the Math and Stats Departments.</p> <h2><span data-preserver-spaces="true">Rankings</span></h2> <p><span data-preserver-spaces="true">We are consistently ranked among聽the top Computer Science Departments in the US:</span></p> <ul style="list-style-type:disc;"> <li><strong><span data-preserver-spaces="true">#56</span></strong><span data-preserver-spaces="true">聽for聽</span><a href="https://www.usnews.com/best-graduate-schools/top-science-schools/computer-science-rankings" target="_blank"><span data-preserver-spaces="true">graduate degrees</span></a>聽(out of 210聽programs),聽ranked in 2024<span data-preserver-spaces="true">,</span></li> <li><strong><span data-preserver-spaces="true">#63</span></strong><span data-preserver-spaces="true">聽for聽</span><a href="https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/rankings/computer-science-overall" target="_blank"><span data-preserver-spaces="true">undergraduate degrees</span></a>聽(out of 554聽programs), ranked in 2023,</li> <li><span data-preserver-spaces="true"><strong><span data-preserver-spaces="true">#58</span></strong><span data-preserver-spaces="true">聽in September聽2023聽</span><a href="https://csrankings.org/#/index?all&us" target="_blank"><span data-preserver-spaces="true">CSRankings.org</span></a>聽overall聽(out of 175聽universities)<span data-preserver-spaces="true">, which considers research productivity,</span></span> <ul> <li><strong>#50聽</strong><span data-preserver-spaces="true">in聽</span><a href="http://csrankings.org/#/index?all&us" target="_blank"><span data-preserver-spaces="true">CSRankings.org</span></a>聽<strong>for <a href="https://www.cs.pitt.edu/research/areas/artificial-intelligence">Artificial Intelligence</a></strong> (out of 175 universities), and</li> <li><strong>#53聽</strong><span data-preserver-spaces="true">in聽</span><a href="http://csrankings.org/#/index?all&us" target="_blank"><span data-preserver-spaces="true">CSRankings.org</span></a>聽<strong>for聽<a href="https://www.cs.pitt.edu/research/areas/computer-systems">Systems</a></strong>聽(out of 175 universities).</li> </ul> </li> </ul> <p>The University of Pittsburgh is ranked among top universities across the country:聽</p> <ul> <li><strong>#67</strong>聽for <strong><a href="https://www.pitt.edu/pittwire/features-articles/us-news-best-college-ranking-2024">national universities</a></strong>, ranked in 2023,</li> <li><strong>#15</strong> in <strong><a href="https://ncsesdata.nsf.gov/profiles/site?method=rankingbysource&ds=herd">research and development expenditures</a></strong>, based off of 2020 data, and</li> <li><strong>#21</strong> in <strong><a href="https://heartlandforward.org/case-study/research-to-renewal-advancing-university-tech-transfer/">technology transfer</a>,</strong> ranked in 2022.</li> <li>Other University of Pittsburgh聽<a href="https://www.analytics.provost.pitt.edu/rankings" target="_blank">rankings</a>.</li> </ul> <h2><span data-preserver-spaces="true">Faculty</span></h2> <p><span data-preserver-spaces="true">We currently have <strong>21聽tenured/tenure-stream faculty</strong> (with various <a href="/research/research-areas">research interests</a>) and <strong>nine (9) appointment-stream faculty</strong>. In the <strong>last three years</strong>, we hired:聽</span></p> <ul style="list-style-type:disc;"> <li><span data-preserver-spaces="true">Eight (8) tenure-track faculty (<a href="/people/former-faculty/malihe-alikhani">Malihe Alikhani</a>, <a href="/people/full-time-faculty/amy-babay">Amy Baby</a>, <a href="/people/full-time-faculty/jacob-biehl">Jacob Biehl</a>, <a href="/people/full-time-faculty/xiaowei-jia">Xiaowei Jia</a>, <a href="/people/full-time-faculty/stephen-lee">Stephen Lee</a>, <a href="/people/full-time-faculty/longfei-shangguan">Longfei Shangguan</a>,聽<a href="/people/full-time-faculty/xulong-tang">Xulong Tang</a>, and <a href="/people/full-time-faculty/erin-walker">Erin Walker</a>) and聽</span></li> <li><span data-preserver-spaces="true">Four (4) appointment-stream faculty (<a href="/people/full-time-faculty/wonsun-ahn">Wonsun Ahn</a>, <a href="/people/full-time-faculty/arjun-chandraesekhar">Arjun Chandrasekhar</a>, <a href="/people/full-time-faculty/timothy-hoffman">Tim 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