Welcome to the Computer Science Department!

About US

The Computer Science Department offers programs that prepare students for careers as computer professionals and/or for continued study. The major provides a broad-based background in computer science and includes courses in computer software, computer systems, mathematics, network security, and computer hardware. We are committed to offering courses that stay current with changing technologies. Our BS in Computer Science degree is accredited by the Computing Accreditation Commission of ABET (http://www.abet.org).


Computer Science Degrees


BS Specializations

  • Game Development
  • Networking and Security
  • High Perfomance Computing
  • Data Science

MS Specializations

  • Artificial Intelligence and Data Analytics
  • Cloud Computing and Software Engineering
  • Cybersecurity and Networks

PhD Program

CUNY Graduate Center

Broad Research Areas





Contact Information

Professor Shuqun Zhang

Chairperson of the Department

2800 Victory Blvd, 1N-215

Staten Island, New York 10314

Phone: 718.982-2850

Fax: 718.982-2856




Computer Science at CSI

  News

  • Congratulations to our BS student Maxim Voyevoda for receiving the Best Presentation Award at the LaGuardia CRSP Symposium! Maxim's project was mentored by Prof. Sos Agaian.
    • May 2023
  • Congratulations to Professor Sarah Zelikovitz for receiving the Dolphin Award for Outstanding Teaching!!!
    • May 2023
  • Congratulations to Prof. Louis Petingi for receiving the best paper award of the 2022 International Conference of Systems Biology and Bioengineering, London, July 2022!
    • September 2022
  • Congratulations to Prof S. Agaian for being elected as a new Academia Europaea (AE) member!!!
    • July 2022
  • Prof. Louis Petingi is an invited speaker at the BIOst 2022 conference ( World Biological Science and Technology Conference) Osaka, Japan. https://www.biostconference.com/
    • January 2022
  • Prof. Agaian has been mentoring high school students' research and one of his students Samuel Iskhakov receently was named a top 300 Scholar in the 81st Regeneron Science Talent Search (STS) — the nation’s oldest and most prestigious science and mathematics competition for high school seniors.
    • January 2022
  • Congratulations to Prof S. Agaian for being elected as a Fellow of Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association (AAIA)!!!
    • October 2021
  • CSI Today article on Prof. Sos Agaian's research on COVID 19.
    • Feburary 2021
  • Prof. Sos Agaian is working with a team of researchers from Algeria and Thailandon fighting against the COVID 19. Click on the Research Tab for the introduction video.
    • January 2021
  • Dr. S. Agaian is a guest co-editor of the below special issues:
    1. Special Issue on AI for Combating COVID-2019, Pattern Recognition, Elsevier Editorial System, Manuscript submissions could be made via: https://www.journals.elsevier.com/pattern-recognition/call-for-papers/special-submission-stream-on-ai-for-combating-covid-2019. (Submission Deadline, 1 December 2020)
    2. Special Issue "Medical Image Analysis: From Small Size Data to Big Data" Applied Sciences,2020 Manuscript submissions could be made via: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/applsci/special_issues/Medical_Image_Analysis_Data (Submission Deadline, 1 December 2020)
    3. Special Issue on "Advances In Urban Imaging And Applications, Electronic Imaging, SPIE Manuscript submissions could be made via: https://www.spiedigitallibrary.org/journals/journal-of-electronic-imaging/call-for-papers?SSO=1#AdvancesinUrbanImagingandApplications (Submission Deadline, 1 November 2020).
    • July 2020
  • Congratulations to Prof. Susan Imberman for being elected to a Senior Member of the ACM!
    • July 2020
  • Distinguished Professor in Computer Sciences Sos Agaian co-chaired the conference “Image Processing: Algorithms and Systems XVIII” at San Francisco last week (26-30 January). He also chaired several Sessions, “Scene Understanding,” “Image and Video Processing,” and “Medical Image Processing.” Besides, he delivers

    (1) Several collaborative talks and

    (2) A short course on “Imaging Applications of Artificial Intelligence.

    http://www.imaging.org/site/IST/Conferences/EI/EI_2020/Conference/C_IPAS.aspx

    • Feburary 2020