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School of Computing, Informatics, and Decision Systems Engineering 2013-2014 school of computing, informatics, SCAN SCAN SCAN THIS PAGE SCAN THIS PAGE WITH WITH and WITHdecision LAYAR systemsWITH LAYAR LAYAR LAYAR engineering SCAN SCAN SCAN THIS PAGE SCAN THIS PAGE WITH WITH WITH LAYAR WITH LAYAR LAYAR LAYAR school of computing, informatics, Linking your online and decision systems and offline worlds engineering This year we have a special treat available to enhance your annual report experience. We've included multimedia digital content using the Layar App. Throughout the annual report the icon to the right will appear. INTERACTIVE PRINT Scan the page with the Layar App and the interactive content will play. Layar works with Google Play and Apple products. Google Play Store bit.ly/1bmqCNY Scan the QR code to go directly to the Apple App store or visit the links listed to go to the respective stores. Apple App Store We think this type of interaction will enhance bit.ly/1h1LhtU the experience and provide you with an extra level of information. Please enjoy through November 17, 2015. our school Director, Ronald Askin Computer Systems Engineering Industrial Engineering Software Engineering Program Chair Program Chair Program Chair Sandeep Gupta Esma Gel Tim Lindquist Computer (Systems) Computer Science Informatics Industrial Engineering Engineering Management Software Engineering Engineering B.S., M.C.S., M.S., Ph.D. B.S. B.S.E., M.S., Ph.D. B.S.E B.S., M.S. B.S.E., M.S., PhD Computer Science and Computer Science, Industrial Engineering Industrial Engineering and Software Engineering Software Engineering Computer Engineering Computer Systems Graduate Program Engineering Management Graduate Program Undergraduate Program Graduate Program Engineering, and Committees Undergrad Program Committees Committees Committees Informatics Undergraduate Committees Program Committees Faculty of Computer Faculty of Faculty of Science and Engineering Industrial Engineering Software Engineering welcome annual report contents dear friends Wow! We as a School and a profession must be doing welcome 1 something right because the demand for our programs continues to skyrocket. When we formed our School of at a glance 2 Computing, Informatics, and Decision Systems Engineering (CIDSE) five years ago by linking Computer Science and research themes 4 Engineering with Industrial Engineering, we had just over 1,500 students. We grew steadily to 2,850 students in fall 2013 and then again grew by over 40 percent this past faculty honors 12 year to reach our current fall 2014 level of 4,395 students. Accommodating such rapid growth has been a challenge. new research awards 14 But it’s great to see the high demand for our academic programs and this has afforded us an opportunity to test faculty news briefs 20 out new methodologies including flipped classrooms and hybrid and online courses. For the most part this has been software engineering 24 a resounding success. Students are pleased with the quality and variety of offerings and growth has allowed us new faculty 25 to expand and diversify the faculty and support staff. Our growth this past year was due in part to integrating the academic programs 26 Software Engineering program at our Polytechnic campus into CIDSE. That program had the foresight to create an undergraduate student research 28 online B.S. degree program that has proved to be wildly attractive to place-bound students. Enrollment grew to over doctoral degrees awarded 2014 29 400 new students this fall in only the program’s second year of operation. student news 30 Evidence of excellence continues to mount. The Shanghai Jiao Tong University rankings recently placed us as 22nd rd student news briefs 31 in the U.S. and 33 in the world for research impact in computer science based on citations, publications and Please take a few minutes and read through this report. awards. Our Industrial Engineering program continues to I’m sure you will agree that the present is exciting and the faculty directory 36 be ranked in the top 20 by USNWR. Two faculty members future is bright. And keep in mind that we’re always looking received National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER for partners to collaborate with, so drop me a line and let community outreach 48 Awards this year. Our students and faculty received a me know your interest. number of best paper awards at leading conferences such Now, back to carving out the future of computing, informing acknowledgements 49 as KDD. Externally-funded research awards increased and deciding. almost 10 percent to $17.2 million. Additionally, our students performed very well in international competitions earning, for example, a first-place award at the Intel Cup competition in Shanghai this past summer. We also had a very successful year in faculty recruiting, adding eight new tenure-track faculty to build upon our strengths in data mining, cyber security, personalized Ronald G. Askin, Director and Professor learning, cyberphysical systems and software engineering. School of Computing, Informatics, and You can learn more about these new faculty members from Decision Systems Engineering cidse.engineering.asu.edu their individual profiles later in this report. [email protected] computing, informatics and decision systems engineering | cidse.engineering.asu.edu 1 at a glance degree programs by the numbers 2010-2014 4325 computer engineering (M.S., Ph.D.) computer science (B.S., M.S., M.C.S., Ph.D.) computer systems engineering (B.S.E.) engineering management (B.S.E.) industrial engineering (B.S.E., M.S., Ph.D.) informatics (B.S.) software engineering (B.S., M.S.) 2871 research impact fall enrollment Computing data into information — secure and affordable, 2312 anytime, anywhere. It’s an ambitious goal. To deliver on this vision, we rely on the energy, ingenuity and knowledge of our faculty and students. They’re working to ensure that our 1861 data-hungry society gets what it demands: the information we live by, delivered as safe, as accurate, as fast, as cheap, 1603 and as accessible as possible. degrees granted research impact areas 565 computational intelligence and algorithms 336 334 356 400 data management and information assurance network science and systems five-year graduation rates at university software and systems engineering 39.1% 35.8% 50.9% 46.6% 54.2% research centers FTFT 2004 FTFT 2005 FTFT 2006 FTFT 2007 FTFT 2008 Advanced Technology Innovation Center (ATIC) ASU-Mayo Clinic Imaging Informatics and Analytics Laboratory (AMIIAL) Center for Cognitive Ubiquitous Computing (CUbiC) Center for Embedded Systems (CES) Center for Engineering Logistics and Distribution 170% 68% 124% (CELDi) enrollment increase increase in increase in degrees granted master’s degrees Information Assurance Center (IAC) granted Partnership for Research in Spatial Modeling (PRISM) at a glance degrees granted by program FY2014 enrollment by program fall 2014 bachelor’s master’s doctoral bachelor’s master’s doctoral computer (systems) engineering computer (systems) engineering 55 32 – 404 119 21 computer science computer science 129 182 8 1,339 591 162 engineering management engineering management 3 ! ! 275 ! ! industrial engineering industrial engineering 60 74 8 271 203 52 informatics informatics 7 ! ! 48 ! ! software engineering software engineering and computing studies 6 1 ! 770 70 ! Computer Engineering (Computer Systems), Engineering Management and ! Informatics were all established in FY2012. Engineering Management and Informatics do not offer graduate degrees. Software Engineering does not offer a doctoral degree. computing, informatics and decision systems engineering | cidse.engineering.asu.edu 3 research themes computational intelligence and algorithms Computational intelligence encompasses a collection of fundamental research SCAN SCAN areas dealing with the creation of knowledge from data, the development of SCAN THIS PAGE SCAN THIS PAGE algorithms for controlling computing decisions, and the effective approaches WITH WITH WITH LAYAR WITH LAYAR for interfacing computers and humans. The area focuses on enhancing human LAYAR LAYAR decision-making and learning and the automation of computing processes. specialty areas faculty contacts Artificial Intelligence Chitta Baral, SCAN SCAN Georgios Fainekos, SCAN THIS PAGE SCAN THIS PAGE Our researchers are addressing problems in automated WITH WITH WITH LAYAR WITH LAYAR planning and scheduling, constraint satisfaction, knowledge Joohyung Lee, LAYAR LAYAR representation and reasoning, natural language processing, Subbarao Kambhampati, multiagent systems, and the semantic web. Kurt VanLehn, Jieping Ye Theory and Algorithms Rida Bazzi, Understanding complexity and the theory of computation is Charles Colbourn, critical for developing efficient algorithms. Research in this Andrea Richa, group focuses on both fundamental theory for analyzing Muhong Zhang algorithms and on developing specific deterministic and randomized algorithms for solving classic problem formulations relevant to the emerging problems in society and technology. Data Mining and Machine Learning Jingrui He, Baoxin Li, As scientific and enterprise data sets grow with respect to Huan Liu, George Runger, data characteristics (volume, variety, velocity), it becomes Paulo Shakarian, imperative to develop new approaches to extract spatial Hanghang Tong, and temporal relationships, correlation patterns and Teresa Wu, Jieping Ye, knowledge. The faculty is actively engaged in developing Nong Ye new scalable methods for learning with big data. Imaging, Graphics and Visualization Gerald Farin, John Femiani,
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