该博士课程旨在培养具有计算机科学研究专业知识的计算机科学家。具体重点领域包括算法复杂性理论，人工智能，生物信息学，云计算，编译器优化，计算科学（生物学，化学，金融，数学/统计，医学，物理学），计算机体系结构，计算机图形学，计算机网络，计算机安全，数据分析，数据仓库和挖掘，分布式和移动数据库，嵌入式系统，正式规范和验证，人机交互和可视化，高性能计算，基于知识的系统，语言和自动机理论，数学和计算机建模，多媒体数据库和系统，神经网络，并行和分布式算法，模式识别和图像处理，科学计算和数值分析，模拟，软件工程和We
The doctoral program is designed to develop computer scientists with research expertise in computer science. Specific areas of emphasis include algorithmic complexity theory, artificial intelligence, bioinformatics, cloud computing, compiler optimization, computational science (biology, chemistry, finance, mathematics/statistics, medicine, physics), computer architecture, computer graphics, computer networking, computer security and privacy, cyber physical systems/internet of things, data analytics, data driven security analytics, data warehousing and mining, distributed and mobile data bases, embedded systems, human-computer interaction and visualization, high-performance computing, knowledge-based systems, language and automata theory, mathematical and computer modeling, multimedia databases and systems, neural networks, parallel and distributed algorithms, pattern recognition and image processing, pervasive systems, scientific computing and numerical analysis, simulation, smart connected communities, software engineering and web applications. The program also permits a student to acquire expertise in closely related fields such as computer engineering and mathematics.