Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Computer Science

University of Illinois Chicago

The Department of Computer Science offers graduate programs leading to Computer Science degrees at the master’s and doctoral levels. The department offers a comprehensive range of courses in the field of computer science. Special emphases lie in the areas of artificial intelligence, computational biology, databases, data science, graphics and human-computer interaction, networks, security, software engineering, theoretical computer science, virtual reality, and visualization. Consult the CS Graduate Student Manual for current requirements, policies, and regulations. The department maintains and provides full-time technical staff for several specialized research laboratories, many housed in the Engineering Research Facility. The laboratories contain over 300 workstations and servers and an extensive array of computer-based multimedia equipment. All departmental computing facilities are networked to general university computing resources and national networks, which permits high-speed access to such facilities.

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