Chair’s and Directors’ Message
Arie E. Kaufman, Ph.D., Chair; Michael Kifer, Ph.D., Graduate Program Director;
and I.V. Ramakrishnan, Ph.D., Graduate Academic Director

With recent rapid advances in hardware and software technologies, Computer Science has become one of the most dynamic research areas and one that seems set to affect the lives of everyone. The Department of Computer Science at Stony Brook is one of the forces helping to advance the future of these technologies. Our graduate program is consistently ranked in the top quintile of research departments in the United States. The program has a faculty of more than 40 and growing, and our research funding is several million dollars annually and increasing rapidly. The department graduates several hundred students per year, including about 100 M.S. and Ph.D. students. Our graduates hold prominent professorships in such institutions as Cornell University, Stanford University, the University of Illinois, and Yale University. Some graduates continue into industry, and hold prominent positions with the research laboratories of AT&T, IBM, NEC, JPL-Cal Tech, Lucent, MERL, Microsoft, and Sony. Some have become leaders of professional societies, presidents of universities, and CEOs of successful companies. Read More...

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