DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE

COMPUTER SCIENCE
Computer Science offers Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Science, Master of Science, and Doctor of Philosophy degrees. Our program is ranked among the top 50 public universities.
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COMPUTER CRIMINOLOGY
Computer Science offers an interdisciplinary undergraduate degree program in Cyber Criminology. This degree program was developed jointly by the Department of Computer Science and the College of Criminology and Criminal Justice.

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COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY
Computer Science Department offers an interdisciplinary undergraduate degree program in Computational Biology. This degree program was developed jointly by the Department of Computer Science and the Department of Biological Science.

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MS in Cybersecurity
Cybersecurity is an emerging profession aiming to protect the integrity, confidentiality, and availability of information and information systems from digital attacks, theft, damage, or unauthorized access. It involves various strategies and tools to safeguard information and ensure the privacy, integrity, and availability of systems and data. Cybersecurity professionals are in high demand. The field offers a wide range of career paths, from technical roles and security architects to managerial roles and security consultants.

Our department offers MS Cybersecurity degree and the Scholarship For Service (SFS) program.
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MS in Computer Systems and Network Administration
Our department offers an MS program in Computer Systems and Network Administration. This program emphasizes knowledge and technical skills needed for the workforce. It prepares graduates for jobs like network administrator, network specialist, network design engineer, system software developer, and system administrator.
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Data Science
The Florida State University College of Arts and Sciences and the Departments of Computer Science, Mathematics, Scientific Computing, and Statistics offer a Master’s of Science Degree in Interdisciplinary Data Science (MS-IDS) that provides students a unique and broad educational experience across the four foundational areas of Data Science.

The MS-IDS graduate program appeals directly to students with undergraduate degrees in math, computer science, or statistics, but will also attract students with less traditional backgrounds, e.g., physics or engineering.
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Women In Computer Science
This organization is a social and professional group geared at helping to advance women in the department and the field at large through a departmental mentorship program, creating a network to connect students to alumni, and hosting monthly guest speaker and student social events designed to help support and connect students.
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We are hiring Tenure Track Open-Rank and Non Tenure Track Specialized Faculty

Open-Rank Professor, Thinking Machines Endowed Chair Position

Teaching Faculty I Position

Dr. Grigory Fedyukovich has a paper accepted at OOPSLA

Dr. Grigory Fedyukovich has a paper accepted at the 2025 ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages & Applications (OOPSLA). The paper, titled “A Flow-Sensitive Refinement Type System for Verifying eBPF Programs”, is co-authored by PhD students Ameer Hamza and Lucas Zavalia...

Dr. Shayok Chakraborty has a paper accepted at EMNLP 2025

Dr. Shayok Chakraborty has a paper accepted at the Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP) Findings 2025, a top tier conference in NLP. The paper is titled “MediVLM: A Vision Language Model for Radiology Report Generation from Medical Images”. All the authors of this paper are affiliated to CS, FSU...

Recent Highlights

FSU students from Dr. Gubanov’s lab presented at the IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE)August 10, 2025
A paper led by FSU students from Dr. Gubanov’s lab was presented at the IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), one of the leading venues in Data Science. The… Read more: FSU students from Dr. Gubanov’s lab presented at the IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE)
FSU Computer Science Ph.D. Student Awarded Mentoring ScholarshipJuly 11, 2025
Daniel Riley, a PhD student under Dr. Grigory Fedyukovich, has been awarded a scholarship to attend the Programming Languages Mentoring Workshop (PLMW) at PLDI 2025 in Seoul, South Korea. PLDI,… Read more: FSU Computer Science Ph.D. Student Awarded Mentoring Scholarship

Recent Events

Reinforcement Learning for Micro-architectural Attack and Defense (Nov 14)November 10, 2025
Speaker: Mulong Luo | Date: Nov 14, 2:15 PM – 3:05 PM | Abstract: Securing modern computer systems against an ever-evolving threat like micro-architectural attacks is a significant challenge that requires innovative approaches…
Haphazardness in LLMs and Its Implications for Agentic AI Systems (Nov 7)November 4, 2025
Speaker: Xiuwen Liu | Date: Nov 7, 2:15 – 3:05 pm | Abstract: As large language models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed in agentic AI systems to iteratively solve complex tasks, empirical studies have revealed a persistent lack of reproducibility and stability in their behaviors…

UNDERGRADUATE PROGRAMS

The department offers the following undergraduate programs:

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science
Bachelor of Arts in Computer Science
Bachelor of Arts in Computer Programming and Applications
Bachelor of Arts in Computer Science-Math/FSU-Teach
Bachelor of Science in Computational Biology
Bachelor of Science in Cyber Criminology
Combined Bachelor of Science and Master of Science Degree

For more information about our undergraduate programs, admissions, and financial aid, please READ MORE HERE

GRADUATE PROGRAMS

The department offers the following graduate programs:

Master of Science in Computer Science
Master of Science in Cyber Criminology
Master of Science in Cybersecurity
Master of Science in Computer and Network Administration
Master of Science in Data Science
Combined BS/MS Pathways
Ph.D. in Computer Science

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GIVING TO THE DEPARTMENT

Show your support for the Department of Computer Science by contributing to the Computer Science Fund managed by FSU Foundation. Your donations fund our students activities such as refreshments for programming competitions, annual “CS Expo” students awards, and other department initiatives.Thank you.

Please Donate Here. Search Computer Science Fund (F00068)

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