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 degree is accredited by the Computing Accreditation Commission of the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET) which means our program meets the highest national standards.


Computer Science Degrees


BS Specializations

  • Game Development
  • Networking and Security
  • High Perfomance Computing

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



  News

Congratulations to Professor Feng Gu for receiving a CUNY IRG grant entitled “An Integrated Agent-Based Model with Geographic Information System of Childhood Obesity in the Urban Communities in New York City”!!!
August 2018
Congratulations to Professor Yumei Huo and Prof. Feng Gu for receiving an NSF grant entitled "Improve Awareness of High Performance Computing by Training High School STEM Instructors"!!!
August 2018
Professor Louis Petingi will be the plenary speaker at the upcoming 4th International Conference on Wireless, Telecommunication & IoT in London. https://wirelesscommunication.conferenceseries.com/
April 2018
Congratulations to Professor Feng Gu and his students for winning the best paper award on the "TMS/DEVS 2018 Symposium on Theory of Modeling and Simulation" !!!
April 2018
Congratulations to Professor Deborah Sturm for winning the "2018 President's Dolphin Award for Outstanding Teaching for Full-Time Faculty" !!!
April 2018
Distinguished Professor Sos Agaian presented a research talk entitled "Bioinspired Computational Vision: Challenges and Perspectives" at Dean's Colloquium on Nov. 30.
Nov. 2017
Welcome visiting scholar, Thaweesak Trongtirakul! Thaweesak is from Thailand, where he is a Ph.D student at King Mongkut's University of Technology Thonburi with the scholarship under National Science and Technology Development Agency (NSTDA). Head over to his page to learn a little bit more about him.
Oct. 2017
Welcome Distinguished Professor Sos Agaian and Substitute Lecturer Linda Yang to our Department!
Sept. 2017

Congratulations to Prof. Sarah Zelikovitz for receiving the 2017 Award for Outstanding Performance in Computer Science Education at the NJ/NY 2017 Chairs Meeting!

Sept. 2017



Computer Science at CSI