Michigan State University has been advancing knowledge and transforming lives through innovative teaching, research and outreach for more than 150 years. MSU is known internationally as a major public university with global reach and extraordinary impact.
As part of the MSU tradition, our graduate research program emphasizes interdisciplinary collaboration and scholarship that transcends the traditional boundaries of the field. CSE is composed of over 100 MS and PhD students from around the globe. The Department is home to nine research laboratories, with annual research expenditures exceeding $3.5M.
Computer Science and Engineering participates in many interdisciplinary programs on campus. Our faculty and students are excited by the opportunities to influence the direction of both computer science and other disciplines.
Cognitive Science specialization
Quantitative Biology Initiative dual major PhD programs
Ecology, Evolutionary Behavior, and Biology
Serious Game Design certificate and MA program
Artificial Intelligence (Chai, Jin, Tan, Weng)
(Machine Learning, Robotics, Embodied Intelligence, Computational Linguistics, Information Retrieval)
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics (Brown, Chan, Chen, Feig, Kuhn, Ofria, Pramanik, Punch, Sun)
(Sequence Search, Protein Folding, Systems Biology, Integrative Genomics, Phylogeny Reconstruction)
Computer and Network Security (Dyksen, Enbody, Kulkarni, Liu, McKinley, Torng)
Computer Systems and Networks (Brown, Esfahanian, Kulkarni, Liu, McKinley, Mutka, Torng, Xiao, Xing)
(Distributed computing, wireless and mobile computing, sensor networks, operating systems)
Database Systems and Data Mining(Brown, Feig, Pramanik, Tan)
Digital Evolution and Evolutionary Computing (Cheng, Goodman, McKinley, Ofria, Pennock, Punch)
(Artificial Life, Genetic Algorithms, Autonomic Systems)
Human Computer Interaction and Graphics (Chai, Hale, Jackson, Owen, Weng)
(Natural Language Processing, Computational Linguistics, Multimedia, Augmented and Virtual Reality)
Pattern Recognition and Image Processing (Jain, Stockman, Weng)
(Biometrics, Image Processing, Computer Vision)
Software Engineering and Formal Methods (Brown, Cheng, Dillon, Kulkarni, McKinley, Stirewalt)
(Specification and analysis of software components, specification and analysis of software designs, software testing methodologies, software maintenance, model-driven software engineering and automated code generation, empirical studies, software fault tolerance, software security, sensor networks, autonomic and adaptive software systems)
Theoretical Computer Science (Esfahanian, Torng)
(Design and analysis of algorithms, graph theory, online algorithms, scheduling)
Other (Brown, Enbody, Jackson, Punch, Steinfeld, Sticklen, Torng)
CS Educational Pedagogy, Parallel Processing, High Performance Computing)
