Computer Science DepartmentPhD Information Colloquium

Have you set your goals to:• Shape the computer industry of the future?• Be part of state of the art research in various

fields of computer science?• Take on leading Research & Development

positions?

If you answered YES to any of these questions

Then PhD might be for youToday:• Learn more about “What PhD is About”• Learn about some CS research groups– Computing– Computer Systems– Software Engineering

Will address the questions:

• What is a PhD?• Why pursue a PhD degree? • How can you get into our PhD program?

Let’s cut to the chase

• Show me the money:

starting salaries are upwards of $100,000 (more like $120,000), if you join the industry or academia with a Ph.D. in CS

Computing Group

• Hal Sudborough: sorting by reversals (genetics)• R. Chandrasekaran: combinatorics (genetics)• Ding-Zhu Du: theory everything (wireless nets)• Ovidiu Daescu: computational geometry (bio-med)• Sergey Bereg: computational geometry (struct-bio)• Balaji Raghavachari: algorithms (TSP, optimization) • D.T. Huynh: automata theory (the backbone of CS)

Geometric and Bio-Medical Computing Laboratory

• Dr. Ovidiu Daescu: Head of the laboratoryAssistant Professor, Computer SciencePhD: University of Notre Dame, USA

Associated Members

• Dr. Sergey Bereg, Associate Professor, Computer Science– PhD: Institute of Mathematics, Belarus

• Dr. R. Chandrasekaran, Ashbel Smith Professor, Computer Science– PhD: University of California Berkley, USA

Structural BiologyHow do proteins fold?How structure influences function?