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 ABET, http://www.abet.org​​, 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




Computer Science at CSI

  News

  • 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
  • Congratulations to Professor Susan Imberman and Professor Deborah Sturm for receiving a $90,000 grant entitled "Curricula Design in Public Interest Tech Using OER" from New Venture Fund!
    • October 2019
  • Distinguished Professor Sos Agaian co-chaired the Conference “International Conference on Urban Intelligence and Applications” (IEEE; Wuhan, China, May 10-12, 2019). Besides, he delivers several keynote speeches and plenary talks including,

    1. Keynote Speech: Bioinspired Computational Urban Intelligence: A Long Road Ahead. International Conference on Urban Intelligence and Applications, Wuhan, China, May 10-12, 2019

    2. Invited talk: “JND Modeling: Review, Approaches, Applications, and Prospects,” SPIE, Defense + Commercial Sensing Conference (Baltimore), May 2019.

    3.Invited talk: “Bioinspired Computational Image Processing System,” Wuhan University, China. 2019

    • June 2019
  • Well-known Professor Viacheslav Voronin and Professor Evgenii Semenishchev visited the CS Department (Computational Vision and Learning Laboratory directed by Distinughished Professor Sos Agaian) from 10 to 20 April 2019. Both scholars are from Don State Technical University (Rostov-on-Don, Russian Federation) visited the laboratory as visiting researchers. This is their third visit in the last eight months. They are working on the development of an innovation 3-D and augmented reality musculoskeletal analytic system. This system allows constructing a patient-specific bone implant. clicked here for details.
    • April 2019
  • Distinguished Professor Sos Agaian co-chaired the Conference “Image Processing: Algorithms and Systems XVII” (Society for Imaging Science and Technology; 13 - 17 January 2019, Burlingame, California USA). Besides, he delivers several keynote speeches and plenary talks including,

    1. Distinguished Lecture, Bioinspired Machine Vision: Challenges and Perspectives, ICIEA2018, International Conference on Industrial Electronics and Applications, http://www.ieeeiciea.org/2018/DIL2.html, Wuhan, China, 2018

    2. Keynote Speech (Plenary Speakers), Bioinspired Machine Vision: Problems and Perspectives; (https://scientificfederation.com/robotics-artificial-intelligence-2018/keynote-speaker-details.html?id=126 World Conference on Robotics & Artificial Intelligence), July 26-27, 2018 at Barcelona, Spain

    3. Nature-driven Approaches to Machin Vision: Capabilities and limitations, Conference Dedicated To The Memory of Sergey Mergelyan, Armenia, May 2018 (http://math.usf.edu/Mergelyan/)

    • January 2019