计算机科学系的博士生可以将他们的研究重点放在以下领域：人工智能：计算机视觉，决策理论/游戏理论，知识表示和推理，智能用户界面，机器学习，自然语言理解和生成，机器人技术和触觉。，计算机图形学：动画，成像，建模，渲染，可视化。，数据管理和挖掘：商业智能，数据集成，基因组分析，文本挖掘，Web数据库。，系统的形式验证和分析：模拟，数字和混合系统，VLSI，协议，软件。，以人为本的技术：人机交互（HCI），视觉，触觉和多模式界面，计算机支持的协作工作（CSCW），视觉分析。，网络，系统和安全性：高性能计算/并行处
PhD students in the Department of Computer Science may focus their research in the following areas:<br>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.<br>Computer Graphics: animation, imaging, modeling, rendering, visualization.<br><br>Data Management and Mining: business intelligence, data integration, genomic analysis, text mining, web databases.<br>Formal Verification and Analysis of Systems: analog, digital and hybrid systems, VLSI, protocols, software.<br>Human Centered Technologies: human computer interaction (HCI), visual, haptic and multimodal interfaces, computer-supported cooperative work (CSCW), visual analytics.<br>Networks, Systems, and Security: high performance computing/parallel processing, networking, operating systems and virtualization, security.<br><br>Scientific Computing: numerical methods and software, differential equations, linear algebra, optimization.<br>Software Engineering and Programming Languages: development tools, foundations of computation, middleware, programming languages, software engineering.<br>Theory: algorithm design and analysis (including empirical), algorithmic game theory, discrete optimization, graph theory, computational geometry