Texas State's Department of Computer Science is known for cutting-edge curricula, a dedicated faculty, and well-equipped and remotely accessible laboratory facilities. Combined, these elements provide students with hands-on experience while implementing classroom concepts, providing the specialized training graduates need to land the best jobs. The mission of the Department of Computer Science is to advance the knowledge of computer science and technology through education, research and service for the betterment of industry, government and society. The department seeks to expand its depth and breadth in the research and study of applied computing and strives to provide graduate students with strong technical backgrounds and communication skills.
The department has both tenured and tenure-track faculty members actively pursuing research in artificial intelligence, bioinformatics, computer communication and networking, cyber security and trustworthy computing, database and information systems, distributed and parallel computing, high-performance computing, human-computer interaction, image retrieval, multimedia computing, software engineering, green/sustainable computing and social computing. Faculty research has received federal and industry funding support from NSF, NIST, DOD, DOE, IBM, Intel, AMD, and others. The faculty has obtained prestigious awards, including NSF CAREER awards and IBM and Google Faculty Fellowships.
The Master of Science (M.S.) degree with a major in Computer Science is designed to prepare students for doctoral research, college teaching, careers in computer science and software engineering, and careers in digital forensics.
Data science, which encompasses big data, employs machine learning, artificial intelligence (AI), statistical and other advanced models and techniques on big data. The work of data science can help identify valuable knowledge that is impossible or extremely difficult to obtain previously. Those knowledge and findings can help organizations understand their strengths and weakness and make meaningful and effective changes.
As such, data science has emerged as one of hottest areas in computer science and demand for computer science professionals with expertise in data science has been rising constantly and rapidly. Major tech companies all actively recruit computer science professionals with data science expertise. Students who graduate with the proposed concentration will work as data scientists, data science engineers, data analysts, big data system analysts, and software developers.
