SJSU Department of Computer Science
The Computer Science Department at San Jose State University (SJSU) is renowned for its excellence in providing students with a comprehensive and practical education. The department boasts a dedicated faculty composed of accomplished experts who are passionate about teaching and mentoring students. SJSU's CS program offers a wide range of cutting-edge courses, enabling students to gain a strong foundation in computer science principles while also specializing in areas such as artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, and software engineering.
This project will be run by Dr. Jon Pearce and Dr. Thomas Austin.
CS Talk - October 8, 2024
A CS Talk on Supercharging Mobile Development Using Gen AI presented by Pranay Airan and Sriram Santosh Aripirala.
CS Talk - September 24, 2024
A CS Talk on Technical Entrepreneurship presented by Professor Ray Combs.
Celebrating the Class of Spring 2024
The CS Department hosted a Graduation Celebration Party for the Class of Spring 2024 at the Department prior to CoS Commencement on May 23, 2024.
Congratulations to Kadin Tang, 2024 BSCS, winner of 2024 SJSU Outstanding Graduating Senior Award.
CS Department at the Student Research Day
Students and faculty of the CS Dept attend the 19th Annual CoS Student Research Day. They also displayed posters to represent orginal research projects.
Congratulations for winning the "Smartest AI Agent Prize"
Congratulations to Chinmay Mahagaonkar, Sanket Kulkarmi, Tanay Godse, and Peteti Sai Mounika for winning the "Smartest AI Agent Prize" Award at TreeHacks 2024. The CS graduate students worked as a team advised by Dr. Mike Wu for the project titled "Pawsome".
Congratulations to Kadin Tang - Top 25 in TCS Codevita Season XI
Kadin Tang (BS, Computer Science) has made it to the Top 25 in the TCS Codevita out of 112k participants from 25 countries!
Congratulations to Dr. Navrati Saxena
Congratulations to CS Prof. Navrati Saxena who won the 1st Place in Technology Applications Concept Only CTU 2023 Challenge: Closing the Gender Digital Divide, co-organized by USAID (United States Agency for International Development) and IEEE CTU (Connecting the Unconnected); she also won the 2023 IETE-CDIL Award for Industry-2023 under the Best Industry-Focussed Paper.
Congratulations to Dr. Nada Attar
Congratulations to CS Prof. Nada Attar, working with Darra Hofman (School of Information), Souvick Ghosh (School of Information), and Michele Villagran (School of Information) awarded a Responsible Computing Challenge Award by Mozilla for a collaborative research project title: " CIRCLE: Cross-campus Interdisciplinary Responsible Computing Learning Experiences." , for 1-year (July/2023 - June/2024), in the amount of $150,000.
Congratulations to CS Prof. Wendy Lee received the 2023 College of Science Teaching Excellence Award.
Congratulations to Dr. Faranak Abri
Congratulations to CS Prof. Faranak Abri, working with Dr. Namin and Dr. Jones (both Texas Tech. University) awarded an NSF grant for a collaborative research project title: "SaTC: CORE: Small: Analytical Models for Conversational Social Engineering Attacks." , for 3-years (Oct/2023 - Sept./2026), in the amount of $200,000 (for each PI).
Congratulations to Dr. Fabio Di Troia
Prof. Fabio Di Troia, (with Prof. Younghee Park of CMPE), won an 3-years NSF grant on Undergraduate Research Experience for Women in Machine Learning-based Cybersecurity (over $370K award).
Congratulations to Dr. William Andreopoulos
Congratulations to Prof. William Andreopoulos ( with Dr. Jetcheva and Dr. Rojas (both Computer Engineering) as PIs, and Dr. Wiggins (Sociology ) and Dr. Gutmann (Physics) as co-PIs ), for being awarded the NSF grant for S-STEM: Empowering Low-Income Students to Succeed in Engineering and Computer Science. For a period of 6-years, starting from July 15th, 2023, and ending on June 30th, 2029, a grant amounting to $2,499,411 has been awarded.
Celebration of Diversity
The CS Department hosted a Celebration of Diversity event on December 2nd 2023, joined by the Department of Linguistics and Language Development (LLD) and the Department of Mathematics and Statistics (Math/Stat), to celebrate our successful efforts in promoting diversity and in developing interdisciplinary programs.
CS Celebration Party for Class Fall 2023
CS Department hosted a Graduation Celebration Party for the Class Fall 2023 at the CS Department after CoS Commencement on December 18, 2023.
Ideate Hackathon Winners
Congratulations to the following Class of 2025 (BSCS) students on winning third place in the Ideate for Change Hackathon: Anne Mai, Sandra Le, Galit Bolotin, Shreyass Prem Sankar, and Mannan Zinjuvadia.
Google Cloud Hero Gamified Learning Competition
60+ CS Students were invited by Google to attend the Google Cloud Hero Cup , a gamified learning competition event at Google's San Jose Campus on October 26, 2023
6 CS Googler alumni, 2 Google Summer Intern students, and 60+ students participated in the CS-Googler Alumni Panel & Social Networking Event on Friday November 3rd, 2023
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Outstanding Alumni News
Jonathan Oribello (MS’20 Bioinformatics) received the 2021 College of Science Outstanding Recent Graduate award in August 2021.
Outstanding Student News
Senior student Alvin Lin (advisor Prof. Teng Moh) received a $2,500 scholarship award from the California Association of Criminalists in July 2021. He was recommended by the Department of Justice Studies.
Outstanding Faculty News
Congratulations to CS Prof. Faranak Abri, working with Dr. Namin and Dr. Jones (both Texas Tech. University) awarded an NSF grant for a collaborative research project title: "SaTC: CORE: Small: Analytical Models for Conversational Social Engineering Attacks." , for 3-years (Oct/2023 - Sept./2026), in the amount of $200,000 (for each PI).
Join Our Expert Faculty
We have a job opening for a Part-Time Lecturer for Pool-Computer Science. Take a look at the description for the position, as well as requirements and application instructions.
