Congratulations Graduates
Purdue Computer Science welcomes our newest alumni following Purdue's Spring 2022 Commencement.
For the academic year of 2021 - 2022, 437 bachelor degrees, 78 master's degrees, and 47 doctoral degrees were conferred to our students. Congratulations to all of our graduates.
Tom Appenzeller, BS in Computer Science, Mathematics, and Applied Statistics, was selected as the student responder for the College of Science in Purdue's Spring 2022 Commencement ceremony on Saturday, May 14, 2022.
Speaking on behalf of the student body was both frightening and rewarding and it’s an experience I am eternally grateful for.
Purdue tops Big Ten & R1 institutional peers in conferring Doctoral Degrees to Black computer scientists
During the five-year period that ended in spring 2020, Purdue conferred the most doctoral degrees to Black graduate students – compared with its peer R1 research institutions nationally and in the Big Ten – in the discipline of computer science, according to a Purdue analysis compiled from the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System.
"In keeping with our land-grant mission that’s deeply rooted in the intrinsic connection between diversity and academic excellence as well as the principles of access and equity, Purdue has led not just the Big Ten but our R1 institutional peers in conferring the most doctoral degrees in many of our STEM programs the past five years." John Gates, Purdue’s vice provost for diversity and inclusion.
IEEE Security & Privacy 2022
The IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy is the premier forum for presenting developments in computer security and electronic privacy, and for bringing together researchers and practitioners in the field. The 2022 Symposium took place on May 23-25, 2022. Due to the pandemic, this is the first time since 2019 the event has taken place live.
ACCEPTED PAPERS
Purdue CS faculty had a total of six accepted papers for the IEEE S&P 2022.
Automated Attack Synthesis by Extracting Finite State Machines from Protocol Specification Documents Maria Leonor Pacheco, Max von Hippel, Ben Weintraub. Dan Goldwasser, Cristina Nita-Rotaru (Joint with Northeastern University)
Formal Model-Driven Discovery of Bluetooth Protocol Design Vulnerabilities Jianliang Wu, Ruoyu Wu, Dongyan Xu, Dave (Jing) Tian, Antonio Bianchi
FuzzUSB: Hybrid Stateful Fuzzing of USB Gadget Stacks Kyungtae Kim, Taegyu Kim, Ertza Warraich, Byoungyoung Lee, Kevin Butler, Antonio Bianchi, Dave (Jing) Tian
Goshawk: Hunting Memory Corruptions via Structure-Aware and Object-Centric Memory Operation Synopsis Yunlong Lyu (University of Science and Technology of China), Yi Fang (Feiyu Security), Yiwei Zhang (Shanghai Jiao Tong University), Qibin Sun (University of Science and Technology of China), Siqi Ma (The University of New South Wales Canberra), Elisa Bertino (Purdue University), Kangjie Lu (University of Minnesota), Juanru Li (Shanghai Jiao Tong University)
Model Orthogonalization: Class Distance Hardening in Neural Networks for Better Security Guanhong Tao, Yingqi Liu, Guangyu Shen, Qiuling Xu, Shengwei An, Zhuo Zhang, Xiangyu Zhang
PGPATCH: Policy-Guided Logic Bug Patching for Robotic Vehicles Hyungsub Kim, Muslum Ozgur Ozmen, Z. Berkay Celik, Antonio Bianchi, Dongyan Xu
PICCOLO: Exposing Complex Backdoors in NLP Transformer Models Yingqi Liu, Guangyu Shen, Guanhong Tao, Shengwei An, Shiqing Ma, Xiangyu Zhang
Posters of accepted papers from IEEE S&P 2020 and 2021
Due to the pandemic, accepted papers from the 2020 and 2021 IEEE S&P Conference were given the opportunity for presentation in poster format.
StochFuzz: Sound and Cost-effective Fuzzing of Stripped Binaries by Incremental and Stochastic Rewriting (IEEE S&P 2021) Zhuo Zhang, Wei You, Guanhong Tao, Yousra Aafer, Xuwei Liu, Xiangyu Zhang
RECOMB 2022
The conference on Research in Computational Molecular Biology (RECOMB) 2022 is an algorithmic computational biology conference bridging the areas of computational, mathematical, statistical and biological sciences. The conference features keynote talks by preeminent scientists in life sciences with presentations of ground breaking research in computational biology.
Accepted Paper
A Fast, Provably Accurate Approximation Algorithm for Sparse Principal Component Analysis Reveals Human Genetic Variation Across the World Agniva Chowdhury, Aritra Bose, Samson Zhou, David P. Woodruff , Petros Drineas (Joint with IBM Research and Carnegie Mellon University)
Future students may visit Purdue's campus and tour the Department of Computer Science. Our visit opportunities give you a chance to experience life at Purdue - whether you want to do that in-person or virtually. The Department of Computer Science offers an information session which you can schedule in advance.
Arrange a visit to Purdue's campus through the Office of Admissions.
PURDUE COMPUTER SCIENCE | BY THE NUMBERS
UNDERGRADUATE POPULATION
AN ERA OF GROWTH
In the profession of computer science, demand for our majors continues to grow - once again we have broken our own record for the number of applications for freshman admissions at 6,200. At the start of fall classes, 577 new computer science and data science students joined our previous classes for a total 2,207 undergraduates.
This year, freshman women students represent 25% of the undergraduate population and women are 23% among all undergraduate classes.
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GRADUATE POPULATION
Our graduate population has exploded with 496 MS and PhD students for the 2021-2022 year. This represents a 26% increase in growth from the previous year.
