Department Chair Hari Narayanan
Auburn University’s Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering is on an upward trajectory in terms of enrollment, research and reputation. Total student enrollment is approaching 1000 undergraduate and graduate students. Our faculty continue to be highly productive in research, working in the areas of artificial & computational intelligence, autonomous land & aerial vehicles, bioinformatics & computational biology, data science & engineering, computer architecture, computer, cyber & infrastructure security, computer & wireless networks, computer science education, computer games, database systems, distributed, embedded, parallel & high performance computing systems, energy-efficient systems, human-computer interaction, image processing, internet of things, machine learning, mobile device software, modeling and simulation, multi-agent systems, software analytics & engineering, and software visualization. Faculty in the department submitted research proposals worth over 10 million dollars and received research grants totaling over 1.3 million dollars last year. Our graduates are widely welcomed by industry and graduate schools across the nation. The average starting salary for our graduates is $74,500. Best of all, seven new faculty joined us in fall 2017, bringing the total number of faculty in the department to 26.
