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Computer Science at AU

The Department of Computer Science at American University balances the practical and theoretical aspects of computer science and provides students with a background for professional employment or further study in the discipline. Our graduates move on to a wide range of careers that includes software development and design, multimedia computing, artificial intelligence and computer vision, and other technical computing professions.

As a student in our department, you will:

Master state-of-the-art technologies necessary to keep pace with this rapidly changing field.
Receive individual attention in classes with fewer than 20 students.
Conduct research and complete independent studies with faculty members actively researching a variety of fields, including: artificial intelligence, scientific computing, databases and knowledge discovery, computer architecture, computational geometry, and computer vision.
Obtain internships and utilize resources at the various high-tech companies and government agencies in the Washington, DC area, including: IBM, Mellon Bank, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), and a variety of nonprofit organizations and start-up companies

Bulletins

Computer science majors Archibald Latham and Lexie Rista, and data science masters student Huong Doan, won awards at the 2021 Robyn Rafferty Mathias Student Research Conference, for research supervised by Leah Ding.

Nathalie Japkowicz and Roberto Corizzo are co-organizing a workshop at the 2021 International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), From Shallow to Deep: Overcoming Limited and Adverse Data.

CS masters student Rempee Kalia was highlighted as one of ten AU grad student changemakers.

Computer science majors Cael MacEachern and Matt Wilkinson won prizes in the Hack-for-a-Change hackathon.

Nathalie Japkowicz, Roberto Corizzo, and Michael Baron (Math/Stats) received a $210,000 award through the Lifelong Learning Machine (L2M) DARPA program.

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