Post on 25-Dec-2015
Visit Day 2003Steve Vavasis
Professor & Chair of PhD Admissions
Schedule for the day
9:05-10:05 Introduction
10:05-11:00 PL, Systems, Security, Computer Engr., DB
11:05-12:05 Faculty Meetings I and II
12:05-1:30 Lunch
1:30-2:25 Theory, Logic, Comp. Bio, Information Sci, Numer. Ana.
2:25-2:35 Break
Schedule for the day
2:35-3:30 AI, NLP, Graphics and Vision
3:35-4:35 Faculty Meetings III & IV
4:35-4:50 Break
4:50-5:30 Wrap up
Presenters for this session
Bob Constable, Dean of Computing and Information
Science
Éva Tardos, Director of Graduate Studies
Charlie Van Loan, Chair of CS Department
Computer Science at Cornell
The Environment for PhD Students
Charlie Van LoanProfessor & Chair
The Lay of the Land
As a PhD student, your well-being will depend on
What life is like in the department
and
What life is like at Cornell.
JoeBartLillianClaireRichThorsten
TomTomSteve VCharlie
RaminKBSteve MDanDon
FredKenGunJeanna
EvaDexterJonJohnDavid S
BobTimGregAndrewKeshavRadu
DaisyDaveGraeme
BillJohannesAlJai
GolanRon
The Faculty
JoeBartLillianClaireRichThorsten
TomTomSteve VCharlie
RaminKBSteve MDanDon
FredKenGunJeanna
EvaDexterJonJohnDavid S
BobTimGregAndrewKeshavRadu
BillJohannesAlJai
GolanRon
The Graduate Field
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Computer SciencePrograms
Major/Minor (Engin.)
Major (Arts & Science)
Master of Engineering
Graduate Field
Other Academic Programs
Information Science Major*/Minor (Arts) Major*/Minor (Engin) Major*/Minor (Ag ) Graduate Field*
Computational Sci & Engin Graduate Minor Field*
Computational Biology A Track for Bio Majors
Digital Arts and Graphics
The Computing and Information Science (CIS) Initiative
School of Electrical and Computer Engineering Joint Curriculum, Space
School of Operations Research and Industrial Engineering Cooperation on Information Science Initiatives
Department of Communications Cooperation on Information Science Initiatives
Medical College in NYC Ramin’s joint appointment with the Dept of Radiology
The Johnson Graduate School of Management Dan’s joint appointment, e-business, courses
Some Cornell Connections
Nearby Graduate Fields
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Mechanical Engineering
Operations Research
Economics
Science and Technology Studies
Cognitive Studies (Psych, Linguistics, NeuroBio)
Information Science*
Applied Mathematics
Mathematics
Nearby Research Entities
The Information Assurance Institute
The Intelligent Information Systems Institute
The Program in Computer Graphics
The National Science Digital Library
The Computer Systems Laboratory
The Cornell Theory Center
Information Assurance Institute
Intelligent InformationSystems Institute
To perform andstimulate research incompute and data intensive methods forintelligent decisionmaking systems
A center of innovation in digital libraries.
A community center for groups focused on digital-library-enabled science education.
Funded by the National Science Foundation.
The National ScienceDigital Library
Computer architecture, Parallel computer architectureOperating systems and compilersComputer protocols and networksProgramming languages and environments Distributed systems VLSI design and fabricationSystem specification and verification
ComputerSystemsLaboratory*
*Speight, Myers, Burtscher, Sirer, Martinez, Morrisett, Manohar, Gehrke, McKee
Hosts the world's largest Windows-based high performance computing cluster.
Some concentrations of effort..
Computational Finance Computational Genomics Computational Materials Research
The Campus Environment(nearby research, related programs, etc)
and (of course)
The Local Environment(potential advisors, requirements, the culture, etc)
So, Take Into Consideration…
Computer Science at Cornell
The PhD Program
Éva TardosProfessor
Choosing an Advisor and a Research Area
Most students spend a semester or two “looking around”– taking a course with a faculty
member in their area of interest– asking about research projects– doing small projects– attend seminars
Possible AdvisorsThe CS faculty:
JoeBartLillianClaireRichThorsten
TomTomSteve VCharlie
RaminKBSteve MDan
FredKenGunJeanna
EvaDexterJonJohn
BillJohannesAlJai
GolanRon
Other field members:
• Faculty members in other department
• whose research overlaps with CS significantly,
• can advise CS students
Current field members fromECE, OR, Psychology, MAE,
Math, S&TS
Some senior researchers
BobTimGregAndrewKeshavRadu
Seminars
Computer Science Colloquium– Distinguished
speakers – interviews
Brown Bag Lunch– Faculty about
their research– Professional
development talks
Many area seminars:• Systems Lunch• Graphics Seminar • Natural Language
Processing• Artificial Intelligence • Theory Seminar• Information Science • PRL seminar• Database Seminar
CS Field Requirements:
Q exam– demonstrates “breadth” of background at the
undergraduate level.
– covers five areas: Theory, Languages, Systems, Artificial Intelligence, Scientific Computing
– Exam is diagnostic: may be replaced by courses
– Encourage you to try many (or all) after one semester
CS Field Requirements
• Graduate course work– You need to take six 600-level courses – 3 courses come from a list: one each in theory,
languages, systems. – Courses don’t have to be in Computer Science– Most students find this very easy and take many
more courses!
• Project requirement:– May use class project or a project done on a summer
job, or as undergrad.
Minor
• You will need to have a minor– A minor field is any graduate field
• Rules vary for the minor by fields– Usually, 3 courses but sometimes more or less, and
sometimes “other” requirements
• Typical choices: – Electrical Engineering, – (Applied) Mathematics,– Cognitive studies – and many others…
Exams
• “A” Exam: – take it once your research is underway– present your work and ideas for a thesis
topic– Usually taken after 2-3 years
• “B” exam = thesis defense– You take it when your work is finished and a
draft of your thesis is completed
Support
• TA positions – help in a course for max 15 hours week– You will have office hours and help grade., some teaching
• RA positions – faculty advisor pays for research
• Fellowships
• Summer– You can teach or TA for the department, have an RA– Many students work in industry to gain experience
Guaranteed financial support if you are in good standing –you’ll know long in advance if you are not
Where did our Graduates go?
Examples since 2000• Stephan Zdancewic (PL)
Univ. of Pennsylvania• Stephanie Weirich (PL)
Univ. of Pennsylvania• Amit Kumar (theory) Bell
Labs• Li Li (systems) Bell Labs• Yin Zhang (systems) AT&T• Rie Ando (NLP) IBM• Nick Howe (vision) Smith
College
• David Walker (PL) Princeton• Jia Wang (systems) AT&T• Xiaoming Liu (DB) Oracle• Adam Florence (NA) Bank of
America• Hickey Jason (logic) Caltech• Vera Kettnaker (vision) RPI• Dan Brown (comp.bio)
Waterloo• Chris Hawblitzel (systems)
Dartmouth