Doctor of Philosophy in Computer Science (PhD)

at The University of British Columbia

PhD students in the Department of Computer Science may focus their research in the following areas:
 

• Artificial Intelligence: computer vision, decision theory/game theory, knowledge representation and reasoning, intelligent user interfaces, machine learning, natural language understanding and generation, robotics and haptics.
• Computer Graphics: animation, imaging, modeling, rendering, visualization.
• Data Management and Mining: business intelligence, data integration, genomic analysis, text mining, web databases.
• Formal Verification and Analysis of Systems: analog, digital and hybrid systems, VLSI, protocols, software.
• Human Centered Technologies: human computer interaction (HCI), visual, haptic and multimodal interfaces, computer-supported cooperative work (CSCW), visual analytics.
• Networks, Systems, and Security: high performance computing/parallel processing, networking, operating systems and virtualization, security.
• Scientific Computing: numerical methods and software, differential equations, linear algebra, optimization.
• Software Engineering and Programming Languages: development tools, foundations of computation, middleware, programming languages, software engineering.
• Theory: algorithm design and analysis (including empirical), algorithmic game theory, discrete optimization, graph theory, computational geometry