Corporate Interactions

CS faculty members, researchers, and graduate students are conducting leading-edge research in architecture, artificial intelligence, computational biology, databases and digital libraries, languages and compilation, graphics, operating systems, networks and distributed computing, scientific and parallel computing, security, and theory of computing. CIS, a new university initiative that includes CS, welcomes interactions with university researchers in interdisciplinary programs including information science and computational biology.

Our broad research agenda provides excellent opportunities for partnering and collaboration, including campus visits and support in coordinating recruiting activities on campus for CS undergraduate and graduate students. Opportunities to support collaborative efforts include unrestricted donations in support of department initiatives, research grants to individual faculty members and researchers, matching funds to NSF or other granting agencies, fellowships for graduate students, equipment grants, startup funds for new faculty, support for BOOM ("Bits On Our Minds"), which showcases our student technology work, or course-development grants.

We welcome corporate partners' researchers to the department for long- and short-term visits to work with individual faculty members and research groups. The aforementioned research areas and two institutes, The Information Assurance Institute, and the Intelligent Information Systems Institute, as well as our programs in Computational Biology, Computer Graphics, Information Science, and Computational Science and Engineering offer potential collaborations.

CS Faculty Honors and Awards

CS faculty members have been recipients of many awards in the past, including:

2 Turing Award winners

3 members of the National Academy of Engineering

5 Guggenheim Fellows

6 National Science Foundation Young Investigators

1 Office of Naval Research Young Investigator

1 Air Force Office of Scientific Research Young Investigator

3 American Academy of Arts and Sciences Fellows

4 Sloan Fellows

1 Fulbright Scholar

1 New York State Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) Professor of the Year

The Department of Computer Science at Cornell is ranked among the top five computer science departments internationally and includes:

37 faculty members

9 full-time research associates

110 Ph.D. candidates

100 M.Eng. candidates

200 undergraduate majors each year

You may address your inquires about potential collaborations to:

Justine Schaffner, CIS Director of Development & Corporate Relations; Cell 607.227.8721; Home 703.729.7740

Aimee Potts, Asst to the CIS Director of Development & Corporate Relations; 607.254.8327

E-mail: corprel@cs.cornell.edu