honavar@iastate.edu (Honavar Vasant) (01/18/91)
GRADUATE PROGRAMS IN COMPUTER SCIENCE AT IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY
The department of Computer Science at Iowa State University
offers graduate programs leading to M.S and Ph.D degrees in
Computer Science.
Areas of Specialization
Computer Architecture, Switching Theory & Logic Design
Complexity Theory & Automata Theory
Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning & Neural Computation
Operating Systems, Computer Networks & Performance Evaluation
Database and Knowledge-base Systems
Programming Languages & Compilers
Software Engineering
Design and Analysis of Algorithms and Data Structures
The Faculty and Their Research Areas
Albert L. Baker, Associate Professor; Ph.D., Ohio State
University. Program Complexity, Software Engineering,
Text Analysis.
Harrington C. Brearly, Professor; Ph.D., University of
Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Computer Architecture,
Switching Theory.
David Fernandez-Baca, Assistant Professor; Ph.D.,
University of California-Davis. Design and Analysis of
Algorithms, Combinatorial Optimization, Scheduling,
Parallel Computation.
Shashi K. Gadia, Associate Professor; Ph.D., University
of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Databases, Temporal
Databases, Logic Programming.
Dale D. Grosvenor, Associate Professor; Ph.D., Iowa
State University. Mathematical Programming, Operating
Systems.
Vasant Honavar, Assistant Professor; Ph.D., University
of Wisconsin-Madison. Artificial Intelligence, Cogni-
tive Science, Neural Computation, Machine Learning,
Machine Perception, Parallel Computation.
Suresh C. Kothari, Associate Professor; Ph.D., Purdue
University. Computer Architecture, Parallel and Distri-
buted Computation, Performance Analysis of Computer
Systems, Neural Networks.
Gary T. Leavens, Assistant Professor; Ph.D., Mas-
sachusetts Institute of Technology. Programming
Language Design and Semantics, Object-oriented
languages, Programming Methodology, Program Specifica-
tion and Verification, Distributed Systems.
Jack H. Lutz, Assistant Professor; Ph.D., California
Institute of Technology. Computational Complexity,
Algorithmic Information, Randomness and Pseudorandom-
ness.
Leslie L. Miller, Associate Professor; Ph.D., Southern
Methodist University. Information Retrieval, Database
Semantics, Parallel Searching and Sorting Schemes,
Database Design.
Kelvin D. Nilsen, Assistant Professor; Ph.D., Univer-
sity of Arizona. Design and Implementation of High-
level Programming Language Features; Concurrent Pro-
gramming; Operating Systems; Real-time Applications.
Arthur E. Oldehoeft, Professor & Chairman; Ph.D., Pur-
due University. Operating Systems, Computer Security,
Parallel and Distributed Processing.
Wayne Ostendorf, Associate Professor. Applied Systems
Technology, Large Databases, Interactive Systems.
Gurpur M. Prabhu, Associate Professor; Ph.D., Washing-
ton State University. Parallel Processing Architec-
tures and Algorithms.
Giora Slutzki, Professor; Ph.D., University of Tel-Aviv
(Israel). Combinatorial Algorithms, Computational Com-
plexity, Formal Languages, Automata Theory, Relational
Database Theory.
George O. Strawn, Associate Professor; Ph.D., Iowa
State University. Expert Systems.
Johnny S. K. Wong, Assistant Professor; Ph.D., Univer-
sity of Sydney (Australia). Integrated Services Digital
Networks, Distributed Systems, Communication Protocols,
Operating Systems, Performance Evaluation, Network and
Multi-level Database Security.
Computing Facilities
Instruction at the undergraduate as well as the graduate
level is supported by excellent computing resources in the
form of numerous workstations and personal computers.
Faculty and graduate students take advantage of a range of
high-performance workstations that are part of a
university-wide MIT-Athena-like network environment (Project
Vincent), several parallel computers at the Scalable Comput-
ing Laboratory on campus, as well as supercomputing facili-
ties at national laboratories such as the one at Argonne.
Research Opportunities
Ample opportunities for research exist not only in active
research programs in the Computer Science department, but
also in a number of research laboratories across the campus
as well as in the department of electrical and computer
engineering.
Admission Requirements
Students with strong undergraduate credentials in Computer
Science or in a related field (e.g., mathematics, electrical
engineering) are encouraged to apply. The department
requires the submission of GRE general test scores and
recommends the submission of GRE subject test scores for
admission. In addition, foreign students are required to
submit TOEFL scores.
Financial Support
Financial support in the form of teaching and research
assistantships in in the Computer Science department and in
the form of research assistantships in several laboratories
on campus is available to exceptionally well-qualified
applicants.
The University
Iowa State University was founded in 1858 as one of the
first land-grant institutions in the United States. It is
housed in a beautiful 1000-acre campus at Ames. It has
several strong undergraduate and graduate programs in
Liberal Arts, Sciences, and Engineering. Excellent sports
and recreational facilities are available on campus.
Currently, over 20,000 undergraduates and 4,000 graduate
students are enrolled at the university.
Ames is a city with a population of about 50,000 and is
located about 300 miles west of Chicago, 200 miles south of
Minneapolis-St. Paul, and about 35 miles north of Des
Moines.
Information and Application Material
Requests for additional information about the graduate pro-
gram in Computer Science and application materials should be
directed to:
Dr. Arthur E. Oldehoeft
Department of Computer Science
226 Atanasoff Hall
Iowa State University
Ames, IA 50011, U.S.A.
or, by e-mail to: stolfus@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu
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