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Dong Xu
Department Chair
The Department of Computer Science is a fast-growing and research-active entity at the University of Missouri-Columbia. In fact, it is the hub of all campus computer science activities that involve well established research programs in cyber-security, multimedia communications and networking, sensor network and nonlinear optimization, computational biology and bioinformatics, spoken language processing and human-machine interfaces, large dataset scientific visualization, distributed computing, geospatial information mining and retrieval, etc. Additionally, members of the department lead the University's institutional efforts in developing infrastructure for bioinformatics, computational biology, and high-performance computing and networking. Our major research projects are heavily funded by both federal governments and industries. While National Science Foundation (NSF), National Institute of Health (NIH), National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA), Department of Energy (DoE), and Department of Defense (DoD) are examples for federal funding, Raytheon, Microsoft, and Monsanto are representatives for industrial funding.
Built in 1958, Engineering Building West (EBW) was originally called the Electrical Engineering Building. Today, EBW houses Computer Science and the Electrical and Computer Engineering departments.
The Department of Computer Science currently has 17 tenured or tenure track faculty, about 300 undergraduate students, 47 M.S. students, and 52 PhD students (the largest Ph.D. program in the college). It offers the B.A., B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science and is developing a B.S. degree in Information Technology. With foundations covered in computational theories, algorithms, compilers, and operating systems, the undergraduate and graduate programs are integrated over bioinformatics and computational biology, distributed computing and networking, human-computer interaction and intelligent systems, and Information management systems.
I am pleased that you have visited our department website. If you have any questions or comments, please send me an email.
Dong Xu
James C. Dowell Professor and Chair
Department of Computer Science
201 Engineering Building West
573-884-1887
xudong@missouri.edu
