Master of Computer Science

Nancy M. Amato is Head of the Department of Computer Science and Abel Bliss Professor of Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Previously, she was Unocal Professor and Regents Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Texas A&M University where she co-directed the Parasol Lab. She was also Senior Director of Engineering Honors Programs in the College of Engineering and Co-Coordinator of the Computer Science and Engineering Track of Engineering Honors. View full bio.

Matthew Caesar is a professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is also an affiliate professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, an affiliate research professor in the Coordinated Science Laboratory, an affiliate professor in the School of Information Sciences, and a member of the Information Trust Institute. Caesar teaches the Hands-on Internet of Things Specialization. View full bio.

Jiawei Han is a leader of and pioneer in data-mining research. Han’s research interests include text mining, information network analysis, and big data analytics. He has more than 900 publications. He has made a number of important contributions to data mining, among them the development of a set of scalable frequent-pattern mining algorithms, including FPgrowth and PrefixSpan. View full bio.

John C. Hart is Professor and Director of Online and Professional Programs in the Department of Computer Science, and the Executive Associate Dean of the Graduate College of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His research on computer graphics and data visualization has been supported by Adobe, AT&T, DARPA, IBM, Intel, Microsoft, Nokia, NVIDIA and the NSF. He has worked with graphics hardware manufacturers, defense contractors, visual effects studios, game developers and a medical imaging startup, and has provided IP expertise for Microsoft, NVIDIA, AMD, Samsung and others. View full bio.

Julia Hockenmaier is a professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her main area of research is computational linguistics or natural language processing. View full bio.

Marco Morales Aguirre is a Teaching Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His research focuses on algorithms for motion planning and control with applications to autonomous robots, machine learning, computational geometry, bioinformatics, and computational neuroscience. View full bio.

Jimeng Sun is the Health Innovation Professor at Computer Science Department and Carle's Illinois College of Medicine at University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. His research focuses on artificial intelligence (AI) for healthcare, including deep learning for drug discovery, clinical trial optimization, computational phenotyping, clinical predictive modeling, treatment recommendation, and health monitoring. View full bio.