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The University of Washington Founded in 1861, the University of Washington has 43,000 students (31,000 undergraduate and 12,000 graduate/professional) and 3,400 instructional faculty divided into 17 schools and colleges. The University's annual operating budget is roughly $2.7 billion, 15% 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. (Currently UW is second to Johns Hopkins, with Stanford, Michigan, and MIT in third through fifth positions. Currently UW ranks sixth among all universities nationally in industrial R&D support, fifth in the launching of startup companies, and fifteenth in private giving -- among all institutions, public and private.) The UW faculty includes more than seventy five members of the National Academies, nine MacArthur Foundation award winners, three winners of the National Medal of Science, and five recent Nobel Prize winners. A number of programs are ranked among the top dozen in their fields, including Atmospheric Sciences, Bioengineering, Cell and Developmental Biology, Computer Science & Engineering, Dentistry, Ecology Evolution & Behavior, Geography, Microbiology, Neurosciences, Nursing, Oceanography, Pharmacology, Physiology, Psychology, Public Health & Community Medicine, Sociology, Statistics/Biostatistics, and Zoology. The UW home page includes an official profile, photographic tour, and pictorial history. 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. CSE currently has roughly 50 faculty, 50 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 ranked among the top ten programs in the nation. Twenty seven current CSE faculty members have won Presidential/NSF Young Investigator Awards or NSF CAREER Awards. Six faculty members are ONR Young Investigator Award recipients. Six hold NSF Presidential Faculty Fellow or Presidential Early Career (PECASE) Awards. Fifteen (plus three Adjunct faculty) hold Sloan Research Fellowships. Three hold Packard Fellowships. Among the senior faculty are seven Fulbright recipients, two Guggenheim recipients, thirteen Fellows of the ACM, nine Fellows of the IEEE, two Fellows of the International Association for Pattern Recognition, three Fellows of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence, two Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, one Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, and two (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 four 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: Embedded Systems, VLSI Systems, and Reconfigurable Computing: Gaetano Borriello, Chris Diorio, Carl Ebeling, and Ted Kehl (emeritus) Computer Architecture: Jean-Loup Baer (emeritus), Carl Ebeling, Susan Eggers, Hank Levy, Mark Oskin, and Larry Snyder Systems and Networking: Tom Anderson, Magda Balazinska, Brian Bershad, Gaetano Borriello, Steve Gribble, Yoshi Kohno, Arvind Krishnamurthy, Ed Lazowska, Hank Levy, Alan Shaw (emeritus), David Wetherall, and John Zahorjan Security and Privacy: Tom Anderson, Josh Benaloh, Brian Bershad, Dave Dittrich, James Fogarty, Steve Gribble, Dan Grossman, Neal Koblitz, Yoshi Kohno, Brian LaMacchia, James Landay, Hank Levy, John Manferdelli, Radia Perlman, Radha Poovendran, Dan Suciu, and David Wetherall Programming Systems: Alan Borning, Craig Chambers, Susan Eggers, Dan Grossman, and Larry Snyder Data Management and Intelligent Internet Systems: Magda Balazinska, Pedro Domingos, Oren Etzioni, Mausam, Marina Meila, Dan Suciu, and Dan Weld Software Engineering: Gaetano Borriello, David Notkin, and Alan Shaw (emeritus) Computer Graphics, Computer Vision, and Animation: Brian Curless, Barbara Mones, Zoran Popovic, David Salesin, Steve Seitz, Linda Shapiro, and Steve Tanimoto Human Computer Interaction: Richard Anderson, Alan Borning, Gaetano Borriello, Oren Etzioni, James Fogarty, Richard Ladner, James Landay, Yoky Matsuoka, Zoran Popovic, Raj Rao, Steve Tanimoto, and Dan Weld Artificial Intelligence and Robotics: Pedro Domingos, Oren Etzioni, Dieter Fox, Henry Kautz, Yoky Matsuoka, Mausam, Marina Meila, Raj Rao, Steve Tanimoto, and Dan Weld Theory of Computation: Dave Bacon, Paul Beame, Venkatesan Guruswami, Anna Karlin, Richard Ladner, and James Lee Computing and Biology: Chris Diorio, Raj Rao, Larry Ruzzo, and Martin Tompa, in collaboration with adjunct and affiliate faculty Amir Ben-Dor, Joseph Felsenstein, Phil Green, Leroy Hood, Bill Noble, Maynard Olson, and Benno Schwikowski Technology in Education: Richard Anderson, Steve Tanimoto There are many research activities that cut across these areas, as well as a number of strong external interactions. See our graduate program poster (pdf). The Graduate Program
The department has roughly 150 students in the full-time graduate program. We typically award fifteen Ph.D. degrees and twenty-five Masters degrees each year. We offer admission to between 10% and 15% 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 Autumn 1996 we introduced 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 125 students from more than two dozen leading regional firms. 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. During the 1999-00 academic year, CSE major Chris Twigg received the President's Sophomore Medal (for the top student in the University of Washington's sophomore class) and CSE major Thomas Carlson received the President's Junior Medal. During the 2000-01 academic year, June 2000 CSE alumna Emma Brunskill (now an EECS graduate student at MIT) received a Rhodes Scholarship, and CSE major Kevin Zatloukal was named the nation's Outstanding Undergraduate by the Computing Research Association. (CSE majors Matt Rosencrantz and Steve Zhang received Honorable Mention.) 2003 alumna Erin Earl won the Arts & Sciences Dean's Medal for the Arts (she was also a Music major) and was a finalist in the Rhodes competition. This is just a snapshot -- every year, our students accomplish amazing things and are recognized accordingly. 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, and computing and allied areas of science and engineering.
Many of the central players in "digital convergence" are headquartered here, such as Microsoft, Nintendo of America, RealNetworks, and Teledesic. There is major activity in high performance computing (Tera Computer Company (now Cray); the Department of Energy Pacific Northwest National Laboratory), as well as a rapidly growing biotechnology industry (established industry leaders such as Immunex (now Amgen) and Zymogenetics, plus newer companies such as Rosetta (now Merck) stimulated by Leroy Hood's research which is currently housed in the Institute for Systems Biology). Seattle's Amazon.com defines e-commerce, and there is a burgeoning digital content industry, with CSE's Animation Research Labs integrally involved. Strong collaborations exist among these groups, and CSE seeks to play a major role in the University and the region. Integration is the key: we view research, education, outreach, and impact as seamlessly interconnected. (For examples, see The Impact of a Research University: An Information Technology Perspective.) 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 fact sheet (requires Adobe Acrobat Reader) |
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