• Who's Who in the Department
• Overview
• Computer Science Major
• Computer Science Minor

See also General Degree Information

Course-specific courses:
Computer Science (COSC)

Who's Who in the Department of Computer Science

Chair: Jaspal Subhlok

Professors:
Barbara Chapman, Marc Garbey, J. C. Huang (Emeritus), Shou-Hsuan Stephen Huang, Olin G. Johnson, Lennart Johnsson, Ioannis A. Kakadiaris, Willis K. King (Emeritus), Ernst L. Leiss, Ioannis Pavlidis, Jehan-François Pâris, Jaspal Subhlok, Rakesh Verma

Associate Professors:
Albert M. K. Cheng, Kam-Hoi Cheng, Christoph Eick, Yuriy Fofanov, Nikolaos V. Tsekos, Ricardo Vilalta

Assistant Professor:
Zhigang Deng, Edgar Gabriel, Victoria Hilford (Instructional), Carlos Ordonez, Nouhad Rizk (Instructional), Shishir Shah, Rong Zheng

Lecturer:
Robert N. Lea

Overview

Computer science is the systematic study of computing systems and computation. Numerous professional opportunities exist for graduates with computer science degrees including hardware development, software engineering, internet systems and technology, game design, computer graphics, animation, robotics, artificial intelligence, security, medicine, biotechnology, business management and consulting, modeling, as well as graduate study in computing-related fields.

The computer science program at the University of Houston is rigorous. All students majoring in computer science must take a substantial number of courses in mathematics. There is a strong correlation between the logical thinking needed in mathematics and computer science. Students considering majoring in computer science should thus have shown considerable ability in mathematics and logical reasoning. Students majoring in computer science also receive extensive instruction in state-of-the-art software engineering methods and practices. Therefore, they combine good mathematical background with the ability to design and develop quality software on a large scale.

Students majoring in computer science choose one of two options:

• the Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Computer Science with software design option, or
• the Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Computer Science with science option, or
• the Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Computer Science with business option.

Students planning to continue into graduate work are encouraged to pursue the B.S. with science option degree program.

The B.S. program in computer science has been accredited by the Computer Science Accreditation Commission of the Computing Science Accreditation Board since 1987.

The department's teaching and research fields of specialization include artificial intelligence, bioinformatics, biomedical image analysis, computer networks, computer vision, computer graphics, databases, video-on-demand, high performance computing, internet computing, operating systems, parallel and distributed computing, physics-based modeling and simulation, real-time systems, software engineering, scientific computing, and theory.

Several faculty members have interdisciplinary interests in chemistry and the biological/medical sciences.