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2007 Graduate Forum

2007 Graduate Forum. 5:00 Pizza and drinks 5:20 Status of CS and MSCS 5:40 Alumni Panel 6:10 Faculty Presentations 6:40 Open Discussion. Status of CS and MSCS. State of the Department – Dr. Yang State of MS CS Program – Dr. Sang Presentation of MSCS Scholarship awards

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2007 Graduate Forum

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  1. 2007 Graduate Forum • 5:00 Pizza and drinks • 5:20 Status of CS and MSCS • 5:40 Alumni Panel • 6:10 Faculty Presentations • 6:40 Open Discussion

  2. Status of CS and MSCS • State of the Department – Dr. Yang • State of MS CS Program – Dr. Sang • Presentation of MSCS Scholarship awards • Questions and suggestions on graduate program and its curriculum

  3. CS Department Report Dr. Lan Yang Department Chair

  4. Status of CS Programs • Undergraduate • About 550 students • Enrollment stabilized • Consistent with the national trend • Full in many low division classes • Graduate program • New scholarship and support for graduate research • On campus job opportunities • Graduate assistant, lab tutors, graders, … • More to be presented by Dr. Sang

  5. Curriculum • Graduate level • Just started a brand new curriculum • New courses in undergraduate level • Offered to CS majors • Game programming • Unix and script programming – Winter 2008 • Offered as service course • Web Design and Programming • Visual Basic – Fall 2007 • Offered as GE • Computers and Society

  6. CS Faculty • New faculty • Dr. Daisy Tang • Majority faculty members are looking forward to working with graduate students and supervise independent studies and theses • A good number of publications are joint work of graduate students and faculty

  7. Facility • Instructional labs • PC lab and software engineering lab • Research areas • Intelligent Robotics lab • Network lab • Limited space for graduate research • Building 3 new labs • Graduate research lab • Another instructional lab

  8. Thank you! • Please take a look at CS webpage – we are updating it and would like to have your comments • http://www.csupomona.edu/cs/ • Any comments and suggestions, please feel free to contact me at lyang@csupomona.edu

  9. MSCS Graduate Program Dr. Daisy Sang Graduate Coordinator

  10. Program Status • Total 47 Graduate Students • Unconditional: 43, Conditional: 4 • 8-Year Data Accepted Entered Graduated 1999-00 33 22 6 2000-01 24 14 5 2001-02 42 28 4 2002-03 57 35 12 2003-04 44 34 8 2004-05 41 22 17 2005-06 24 12 14 2006-07 32 19 9+

  11. Data on Graduate Programs • At Cal Poly Pomona, F05 • 6.3% of students are graduate students (gs=1221, ugs=18010) • 30% of graduate students are full time (ftgs=366, gs=1221) • In Computer Science, F04 – Su06 • 36.4% of students from CPP (architecture 4.8%, electrical engineering 71.6%) • 2.7 years to degree (psychology 1.73 years, architecture 3.52 years)

  12. Admission Requirements • Unconditional admission • BS in CS or closely related field • Major GPA 3.0 or better • 3.0 GPA on 15 prerequisites • Conditional admission • BS degree with GPA 2.8 or better • 3.0 GPA on 5 CS/Math Courses • CS 130, 210, 241, 264, and Math 214. • Need to take a list of CS/Math upper-division courses • Details:see program web site at http://www.csupomona.edu/~cs/ms

  13. Graduate Curriculum • 2006-07 curriculum • For students admitted in 2006-2007 or later • Required (21 units) – CS 525, 530, 580, 664, 691, 696 • Electives (24 units) • Total Units: 45 • 2003-04 curriculum • For students admitted in 2003-2006 • Required (21 units) – CS 525, 530, 531, 664, 691, 696 • Required Electives (12 units) – One course from each of the following three areas: AI, Networks and Distributed Systems, and Software Engineering • Electives (12 units) • Total Units: 45

  14. Highlight of Some Policies • GWT • Eligible to take it upon entrance • Required to take it by the quarter following the completion of 8 units • Degree Contract • A list of courses that the student agrees to take in order to earn the degree • Submitted before the end of the 2nd quarter at Cal Poly as unconditional • Continuous Enrollment • Cannot be absent for more than two quarters (including summer quarter) • Advice: File leave of absence petition in advance

  15. Highlight of Some Policies (2) • CS691, 696, 699 • Must complete 691 before taking 696 • Must have completed 4-unit of 696 before taking 699 (RP grade is acceptable) • Must file application every quarter that you register • Grad Check • Check if you fulfill everything listed on degree contract • Request it the quarter prior to completing degree requirements • Graduation • Must file an application for graduation • Must be enrolled during the quarter in which you graduate

  16. CS691 Directed Study Prerequisite: unconditional Find a thesis advisor  File 691 application form, register for 691, and work on thesis proposal  Finish proposal and approved by advisor  Form thesis committee  Proposal approved by the whole committee  Turn in the signed proposal and receive a letter grade

  17. CS696 Master’s Degree Thesis Prerequisites: unconditional status, GWT, contract, good academic standing, completion of 691  File 696 application form, register for 696, work on thesis  Thesis 1st draft approved by the committee  Thesis 2nd draft approved by the committee  Submit Thesis Defense Application  Thesis Defense  Follow Final Thesis Procedures (available at ~cs/ms) and submit thesis to Graduate Studies Office

  18. Other Useful Information • Available at CS MS web page • Application Procedures • Planned Course offerings • Faculty Research Interests • Graduate Student Accomplishments • A list of Past Thesis Titles (5 accessible in Institutional Repository) • Handbook (rules and policies) • Online Forms and Instructions • Announcement (scholarships, job opportunities, thesis defenses schedule)

  19. Announcement (1) • Program assessment • Draft plan by Sp07 • Define program learning outcomes, develop assessment procedures, use assessment results to drive continuous program improvement • Survey and Questionnaires • Instructors • Graduating students • Thesis advisor and committee members • Alumni/Employer feedback

  20. Announcement (2) • Summer Research Internship Program in Information Technology • 10 weeks: 6/3/07 – 8/10/07 • Paid internship co-located at Stanford University and San Jose State University • Application deadline: April 16, 2007 • JPL SIRI (Student Independent Research Internship) Program • Offered twice a year: Fall (September to January) and Spring (February to June) • Unpaid internship to provide real-life work experiences

  21. Announcement (3) • CA Forum for Diversity in Graduate Education • 4/21/07, 8 AM – 4 PM, UC Santa Barbara • Career opportunities and academic challenges associated with advanced study • Opportunity to meet representatives of the nation’s leading graduate schools offering MS and PhD degrees • Registration deadline: April 16, 2007 • Cost will be covered by the Graduate Studies Office • Doctoral Incentive Program, AKA Forgivable Loan • Financial support to doctoral students who show promise of becoming strong candidates for CSU faculty positions • See details on Faculty Affairs website

  22. What’s New … • Graduate Differential Fees • For recruitment, retention, and program quality improvements • Based on the number of students enrolled • Activities: • scholarships, research awards • support development of online or hybrid online courses • establish a graduate student club (need your participation; please sign up) • provide informative and welcoming website, link to alumni home pages

  23. MSCS Web Site • Message from Dean Straney (1/8/07): “Don Hoyt recently surveyed the various departmental web sites to evaluate how well they present information on graduate programs. Of yours, he wrote me that “this website has exceptional information.” Congratulations!!” http://www.csupomona.edu/~cs/ms • To do list • Online forms • Link to alumni home pages and grad student club • Appealing user interface, propose: http://www.csupomona.edu/~mhsarmiento/cs_ms/

  24. MSCS Scholarship • To encourage students in their graduate studies and assist with their financial needs. • 2006-07 Scholarship Recipients • Samira Hussain • Chang Kim • Nan Liu • Bao Ngo • Zachary Ramjan • Daxin Yang

  25. Questions and Suggestions • Questions and suggestions on graduate program and its curriculum

  26. Alumni Panel Moderator: Dr. Rich Panelists Dr. Debra Brum Dr. Norton Riley James Evans Jeffrey Faust Hyun Lee Thanh Nguyen

  27. Faculty Presentations Presentations on research interests and possible thesis topics

  28. Dr Robert Kerbs Research Interests • Computer Graphics • Data / Information Visualization • Data Mining • Game Development • Human Computer-Interaction Thesis Topics • Visual methods for modeling databases with categorical + numeric attributes

  29. Amar Raheja, Ph.D. Associate Professor Computer Science College of Science California State Polytechnic University, Pomona

  30. Primary Research Interests • Image Processing and Computer Graphics • Medical Image Analysis • Image Reconstruction • Medical Imaging Modalities • Image Compression using wavelets • GUI with visualization aspects (algorithms in computer graphics) • Bioinformatics • Prediction of active sites in proteins • Visualization of data in bioinformatics • Applied research using Soft Computing Methods • Fuzzy Forecasting of Apparel Sales • Neuro-genetic algorithms for financial forecasting • Neural networks for prediction of drape

  31. Research Projects: Students Needed • Prediction of active protein sites using RBF, recurrent and evolutionary neural networks • Ligand hydration in structure prediction • Graphics model reconstruction from minimal data

  32. Current and Past Student Thesis Topics • Zachary Ramjan: Develop an intuitive multi-platform GUI for Cassandra • Swati Pande: Predicting protein catalytic sites using neural networks from sequence only data • Christian Latunos: Feature based video scene cut detection and classification • Huan Doan: Reducing Shadow Map Aliasing in Large Environments Using a Reparameterization and Variance Approach • Yan Wu: Fast Global Illumination: Photon Mapping using On-Demand Estimate with Irradiance Map. • Yuan Chen: Wavelet Lifting for Speckle Noise Reduction in Medical Ultrasound Images • http://www.csupomona.edu/~raheja

  33. Dr. Daisy Tang

  34. Intelligent Robotics Lab

  35. Dr. Lan Yang • http://www.csupomona.edu/~lyang

  36. Dr. Gilbert Young • http://www.csupomona.edu/~gsyoung/ResearchProject/researchprojects.htm

  37. Dr. Daisy Sang • http://www.csupomona.edu/~fcsang

  38. Open Discussion Talk to professors, alumni, and other graduate students in groups

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