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The University of Washington Founded in 1861, the University of Washington has 47,000 students (34,000 undergraduate and 13,000 graduate/professional) and 3,900 full-time faculty divided into 16 schools and colleges. The University's annual operating budget is roughly $3.7 billion, less than 10% of which comes from the State.
The University of Washington is one of the nation's premier research universities. Every year since 1974, UW has ranked among the top five institutions in annual Federal research obligations. The UW faculty includes more than 120 members of the National Academies, fourteen MacArthur Fellows, five winners of the National Medal of Science, and six Nobel Prize winners; four UW students have won Rhodes Scholarships in the past decade. Programs from across the campus are ranked among the best in their fields. Computer Science & Engineering at UW Computer Science & Engineering was established at the University of Washington as an inter-college graduate program in 1967. In 1975 an undergraduate program in Computer Science was added and departmental status was conferred. A second undergraduate program, in Computer Engineering, was added in 1989 when CSE moved to the College of Engineering, and a Professional Masters Program was added in 1996, and a combined Bachelors/Masters program in 2008. CSE currently has roughly fifty faculty, fifty staff members, 300 graduate students (165 in the full-time program and 135 in the Professional Masters Program), and 500 undergraduate students (160 Bachelors graduates per year).
CSE is widely regarded as among the top ten programs in the nation. Twenty-nine current CSE faculty members have won Presidential/NSF Young Investigator Awards or NSF CAREER Awards. Five faculty members are ONR Young Investigator Award recipients. Three (plus three former faculty) have held NSF Presidential Faculty Fellow or Presidential Early Career (PECASE) Awards. Seventeen have held Sloan Research Fellowships. Two have held Packard Fellowships. Among current and emeritus senior faculty are eight Fulbright recipients, two Guggenheim recipients, fifteen Fellows of the ACM, twelve Fellows of the IEEE, two Fellows of the International Association for Pattern Recognition, four Fellows of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence, two Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, one Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, one MacArthur Fellow, and three (plus six Adjunct/Affiliate) Members of the National Academies. Within the University, three faculty members have received the College of Engineering Faculty Achievement Award, and five have received the University of Washington Distinguished Teaching Award. In 1996, Ed Lazowska became the first member of the College of Engineering to be named the University of Washington Annual Faculty Lecturer, and in 1998 he received the University of Washington Outstanding Public Service Award.
We strive to maintain a highly effective graduate program, two strong undergraduate programs, and an "open" culture with minimal partitioning either vertically (between faculty ranks or between faculty and students) or horizontally (between research areas). A Research Overview We are active in most of the principal areas of computer science and computer engineering. Particular strengths include: Computer Architecture: Jean-Loup Baer (emeritus), Luis Ceze, Carl Ebeling, Susan Eggers, Hank Levy, Mark Oskin, Larry Snyder (emeritus), in collaboration with affiliate faculty Doug Burger, Jim Larus, Karin Strauss, Shaz Qadeer. Systems and Networking: Tom Anderson, Magda Balazinska, Gaetano Borriello, Luis Ceze, Steve Gribble, Yoshi Kohno, Arvind Krishnamurthy, Ed Lazowska, Hank Levy, Alan Shaw (emeritus), David Wetherall, John Zahorjan, in collaboration with affiliate faculty Brian Bershad, Ben Greenstein, Jayeon Jung, Gary Kimura, Anthony LaMarca, Ratul Mahajan, Venkat Padmanabhan, Feng Zhao. Security and Privacy: Tom Anderson, Michael Ernst, James Fogarty, Steve Gribble, Dan Grossman, Yoshi Kohno, Arvind Krishnamurthy, James Landay, Hank Levy, Dan Suciu, David Wetherall, in collaboration with affiliate faculty Josh Benaloh, Ben Greenstein, Jaeyeon Jung, Brian LaMacchia. Programming Systems and Software Engineering: Luis Ceze, Susan Eggers, Michael Ernst, Dan Grossman, David Notkin, Alan Shaw (emeritus), Larry Snyder (emeritus), in collaboration with affiliate faculty Craig Chambers, Rob DeLine, Andy Ko, Jim Larus, Shaz Qadeer, Wolfram Schulte. Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Magda Balazinska, Gaetano Borriello, James Fogarty, Bruce Hemingway, Yoshi Kohno, James Landay, Richard Ladner, Shwetak Patel, Josh Smith, David Wetherall, in collaboration with adjunct and affiliate faculty Julie Kientz, Patrick Baudisch, Tanzeem Choudhury, Beverly Harrison, Henry Kautz, Anthony LaMarca, Matthai Philipose. (Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems in CSE is part of dub, a cross-campus HCI & Design institute.) Human Computer Interaction: Richard Anderson, Alan Borning, Gaetano Borriello, Oren Etzioni, James Fogarty, Richard Ladner, James Landay, Yoky Matsuoka, Shwetak Patel, Zoran Popovic, Raj Rao, Steve Tanimoto, Dan Weld, in collaboration with adjunct faculty Cecelia Aragon, Batya Friedman, Julie Kientz, Andrew Ko, Jacob Wobbrock, and many others, including affiliate faculty from Microsoft Research and elsewhere. (HCI in CSE is part of dub, a cross-campus HCI & Design institute.) Computer Graphics, Computer Vision, and Animation: Brian Curless, Barbara Mones, Zoran Popović, Steve Seitz, Linda Shapiro, in collaboration with adjunct and affiliate faculty Aseem Agarwala, Sameer Agarwal, David Baker, Michael Cohen, Aaron Hertzmann, Jovan Popovic, David Salesin, Rick Szeliski. Data Management: Magda Balazinska, Pedro Domingos, Mike Ernst, Oren Etzioni, Mausam, Dan Suciu, Dan Weld, in collaboration with adjunct and affiliate faculty Phil Bernstein, Jim Brinkley, Surajit Chaudhuri, Alon Halevy, Bill Howe, Marina Meila, Peter Tarczy-Hornoch. Artificial Intelligence and Robotics: Pedro Domingos, Oren Etzioni, James Fogarty, Dieter Fox, Su-in Lee, Yoky Matsuoka, Mausam, Raj Rao, Steve Tanimoto, Emo Todorov, Dan Weld, Luke Zettlemoyer, in collaboration with adjunct and affiliate faculty Emily Bender, Jeff Bilmes, Eric Horvitz, Marina Meila, Bill Noble, Matthai Philipose, Xiaofeng Ren. Theory of Computation: Dave Bacon, Paul Beame, Aram Harrow, Anna Karlin, Richard Ladner, James R. Lee, Anup Rao, in collaboration with affiliate faculty Yuval Peres, Kamal Jain. Computational & Synthetic Biology: Su-In Lee, Yoky Matsuoka, Zoran Popovic, Raj Rao, Larry Ruzzo, Georg Seelig, Linda Shapiro, Martin Tompa, in collaboration with adjunct and affiliate faculty David Baker, Jeff Bilmes, Jim Brinkley, Joe Felsenstein, Phil Green, Leroy Hood, Ira Kalet, Eric Klavins, Bill Noble, Maynard Olson, Benno Schwikowski, Peter Tarczy-Hornoch. Computing for Development: Richard Anderson, Tom Anderson, Gaetano Borriello, Ed Lazowska, in collaboration with adjunct and affiliate faculty Batya Friedman, Sherrilynne Fuller, Beth Kolko, David Lubinsky, Tapan Parikh, Judy Wasserheit. (Computing for Development in CSE is part of Change, a cross-campus group working on information and communication technologies for development (ICTD).) The Graduate Program
The department has roughly 165 students in the full-time graduate program. We typically award fifteen to twenty Ph.D. degrees and thirty Masters degrees each year. We are able to offer admission to roughly 10% of those who apply to our graduate program. Our recent Ph.D. graduates have received offers from essentially every top academic department and industrial research laboratory, and dozens of our recent graduates populate these strong programs. In addition, we offer an "accessible" Professional Masters Program (involving a mix of distance learning and evening courses) designed for fully-employed professionals in the region's burgeoning information technology industry. This program enrolls roughly 135 students from more than two dozen leading regional firms, and grants an additional 40 Masters degrees per year. There is an interdisciplinary Ph.D. program in Computational Molecular Biology involving several departments in the biological and mathematical sciences, including Computer Science & Engineering. The Undergraduate Program
CSE offers two Bachelors degrees: a Computer Science degree offered through the College of Arts & Sciences, and a Computer Engineering degree offered through the College of Engineering. Together, these programs graduate approximately 160 students each year. Why do UW's best students choose CSE? Watch these videos! We additionally participate in the Applied and Computational Mathematical Sciences program with our colleagues from Applied Mathematics, Mathematics, and Statistics. As well, our intensive two-quarter introductory course sequence, CSE 142 / CSE 143, enrolls more than 2500 students annually from across the campus. Because the demand for our undergraduate major programs exceeds the capacity, students are admitted on a competitive basis upon completion of prerequisite courses. Our undergraduates are wonderfully strong, classes are small, and interaction with the faculty is high. Undergraduate participation in research is common. Intensive "capstone design courses" are a hallmark of our undergraduate major programs; several recent offerings are highlighted in these videos. UW CSE is among the top suppliers of students in the nation to leading high-tech firms such as Microsoft, Amazon.com, and Google. We are the leading supplier to many regional firms. UW CSE students have received the Rhodes Scholarship, Goldwater Scholarship, Marshall Scholarship, Gates Cambridge Scholarship, and Google Anita Borg Scholarship. Within the University of Washington, our students have dominated the University Medals and Dean's Medals -- 17 medal winners in the past decade. In the past decade, 33 of our students have been recognized in the Computing Research Association Undergraduate Research Award competition -- the most of any program in the nation. Because Washington State has a vibrant computing industry, more than two-thirds of our graduates remain in-state. In the course of their education, the vast majority of our undergraduates participate in co-ops or internships, which we feel enhance the effectiveness of an undergraduate engineering education. The Puget Sound Region The Puget Sound region is increasingly prominent as a national and international technology center. Key strengths of the University of Washington include medicine, biotechnology, the physical sciences, the marine and environmental sciences, and computing and allied areas of science and engineering.
Adjacent to the University of Washington are a number of major R&D facilities with which we have close ties, such as Microsoft Research, Intel Labs Seattle, Google Seattle and Google Kirkland, Amazon.com, Adobe Advanced Technology Labs, Lee Hood's Institute for Systems Biology, and the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center. Strong collaborations exist among these groups, with CSE playing a major role in the University and the region. Our annual Affiliates Meeting is a forum for interaction among 75 leadership companies from the region and the nation. Our professional Masters degree program and our colloquium series (broadcast on UWTV and live on the Internet) play significant roles in keeping the region's leading-edge workforce current. Working with UW Educational Outreach, we offer more than a dozen "Extension Certificate Programs" that generated roughly 5,000 course enrollments during the most recent year.
Seattle, consistently acclaimed as one of the most livable cities in the nation, is a terrific place to be. Seattle is a cosmopolitan city situated in the midst of the beauty and diversity of the Pacific Northwest. The University of Washington is located on Lake Washington, a few miles east of Puget Sound. The Cascade Mountains are one hour to the east; the Olympic Peninsula and Olympic Mountains are two hours to the west. The Paul G. Allen Center for Computer Science & Engineering
In Autumn 2003, UW CSE moved to the new Paul G. Allen Center for Computer Science & Engineering. The Allen Center is a true public/private partnership, funded by the State of Washington, the University of Washington, and more than 250 friends and alumni. The six-story (plus basement) building increases CSE's total space by a factor of 2.5, and our laboratory space by a factor of 3; it affords sweeping views of Lake Washington, the Cascade Mountains, Mount Rainier, and the Space Needle. With the dedication of the Allen Center, we shift to the endowment phase of the Campaign for CSE. View our printable department overview (pdf) |
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