Department of Computer Science

UBC's Department of Computer Science is one of the top two Computer Science departments in Canada. UBC is ranked as one of the world’s top 25 universities for Computer Science.

The department was established in May 1968 by six founding UBC faculty members. Recognized internationally for excellence in research and teaching with a conscious focus on interdisciplinary programs, the Department encourages diversity both within its community and areas of study. It plays a leadership role in research, teaching and outreach activities to champion the understanding and integration of Computer Science within all aspects of society.

205
Master's Students
129
Doctoral Students
46
Graduate Degrees Awarded

Research Supervisors

Name Research Interests
Achermann, Reto Computing systems; Computer systems engineering; Systems software; resilient and efficient systems; intersection of operating systems, applied formal methods and hardware models.
Allen, Kelsey complex behaviors in humans
Beschastnikh, Ivan Computer and information sciences; software engineering; distributed systems; cloud computing; software analysis; Machine Learning
Bowman, William Computer and information sciences; Programming languages and software engineering; Programming languages; Compilers; programming languages
Carenini, Giuseppe Natural language processing
Clune, Jeff
Conati, Cristina artificial intelligence, human-computer interaction, affective computing, personalized interfaces, intelligent user interfaces, intelligent interface agents, virtual agent, user-adapted interaction, computer-assisted education, educational computer games, computers in education, user-adaptive interaction, Artificial intelligence, adaptive interfaces, cognitive systems, user modelling
Condon, Anne Algorithms; Molecular Programming
Ding, Jiarui Bioinformatics; Basic medicine and life sciences; Computational Biology; Machine Learning; Probabilistic Deep Learning; single-cell genomics; visualization; Cancer biology; Computational Immunology; Food Allergy; neuroscience
Evans, William Computer and information sciences; Algorithms; theoretical computer science; Computer Sciences and Mathematical Tools; computational geometry; graph drawing; program compression
Feeley, Michael Distributed systems, operating systems, workstation and pc clusters
Friedlander, Michael numerical optimization, numerical linear algebra, scientific computing, Scientific computing
Friedman, Joel Computer and information sciences; Algebraic Graph Theory; Combinatorics; Computer Science Theory
Garcia, Ronald Programming languages; programming languages
Greenstreet, Mark Dynamic systems, formal methods, hybrid systems, differential equations
Greif, Chen Numerical computation; Numerical analysis; scientific computing; numerical linear algebra; numerical solution of elliptic partial differential equations
Gujarati, Arpan Computer and information sciences; Systems
Harvey, Nicholas randomized algorithms, combinatorial optimization, graph sparsification, discrepancy theory and learning theory; algorithmic problems arising in computer networking, including cache analysis, load balancing, data replication, peer-to-peer networks, and network coding.
Hoang, Nguyen Phong networking; security & privacy; network security; online privacy; Internet measurement
Holmes, Reid Computer and information sciences; computer science; open source software; software comprehension; software development tools; software engineering; software quality; software testing; static analysis
Hu, Alan Computer and information sciences; formal methods; formal verification; model checking; nonce to detect automated mining of profiles; post-silicon validation; security; software analysis
Hutchinson, Norman Computer and information sciences; Computer Systems; distributed systems; File Systems; Virtualization
Kiczales, Gregor MOOCs, Blended Learning, Flexible Learning, University Strategy for Flexible and Blended Learning, Computer Science Education, Programming Languages, Programming languages, aspect-oriented programming, foundations, reflections and meta programming, software design
Lakshmanan, Laks data management and data cleaning; data warehousing and OLAP; data and text mining; analytics on big graphs and news; social networks and media; recommender systems
Lecuyer, Mathias Machine learning systems; Guarantees of robustness, privacy, and security

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