Areas of Study

The various areas of study allows a graduate student to work closely with an advisor to arrange a custom-curated curriculum for the acquisition of a Master’s degree. Each specialization area, along with a full listing of its specific sub-disciplines, are given in the following table.

Next Steps

Admission Requirements

How to Apply

Degree Requirements

Non-Thesis Checklist & Rules

Thesis Checklist & Rules

Advisor: Dr. Minhaz Zibran

Categories for 'Areas of Study'

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Theoretical Computer Science and Programming Languages
- Computability
- Analysis of Algorithms and Complexity
- Formal Languages and Automata
- Combinatorics and Graph Theory
- Formal Semantics and Type Theory
- Logic
- Programming Languages
- Compiler Construction
Systems and Network
- Operating Systems
- Hardware Architecture
- Parallel and Distributed Systems
- Networks
- Protocols
Software Systems
- Algorithm Design
- Data Structures
- Programming Methodologies
Software Engineering
- Distributed Software Engineering
- Software Architectures
- Software Components
Cybersecurity
- Defense of information and information systems by ensuring their availability, integrity, authentication, confidentiality, and non-repudiation.
- Cryptology
- Computer Security
- Information Protection
- Secure Information Exchange
Database Systems and Distributed Applications
- Data Modeling
- Database Systems and Distributed Database Systems
- Data Query Languages
- Programming and Architectures for the Web
- Spatial Database Systems
- Data Mining
- Mobile Computing
Computer Graphics and Visual Computing
- Computer Graphics
- Image Processing
- Data Visualization
- Visual Programming Languages
- Computational Geometry
Artificial Intelligence
- Robotics
- Computer Vision
- Pattern Recognition
- Evolutionary Computing
- Expert Systems
- Machine Learning
- Data Mining

Mapping of Areas to CSCI Courses

An up-to-date detailed list of all course offerings included for each area is given below.