The Computer Science doctoral program is highly interdisciplinary with research projects often bridging departments within the School of Engineering, the School of Medicine, the Graduate School of Biomedical Science, Tufts Medical Center, and the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences.
Students in the doctoral program work closely with computer science faculty to identify and pursue interdisciplinary learning and research collaboration opportunities across the university.
Current areas of research include:
Doctoral candidates are expected to plan a program of research under the direction of their dissertation supervisor and with the guidance of a faculty committee. Upon completion of this research, the candidate will prepare and publicly defend their dissertation. Students should earn 20 courses for the PhD degree.
The program prepares students to change the world with successful careers in industry and academia. Doctoral program graduates often teach in tenure-track positions at prestigious universities, launch innovative start-ups, and go to work at companies like Google, Microsoft, IBM, and many more.
You will build strong connections with Tufts alumni in industry and at other universities. Our alumni regularly return to campus to sponsor special events, give guest lectures, recruit at our career fairs, and mentor students.
We recognize that attending graduate school involves a significant financial investment. Our team is here to answer your questions about tuition rates and scholarship opportunities.
Please contact us at gradadmissions@tufts.edu.
Research/Areas of Interest: Programming languages, software engineering, security
Research/Areas of Interest: Artificial intelligence, machine learning, reinforcement learning.
Research/Areas of Interest: privacy-preserving analytics, federated databases, differential privacy, private data sharing, secure computation, database performance, data science, trustworthy database systems
Research/Areas of Interest: Data visualization, visual analytics, human-computer interaction, databases, computer graphics
Research/Areas of Interest: cyber security, web engineering
Research/Areas of Interest: data science, software systems engineering, performance analysis, system, network, and data management
Research/Areas of Interest: data science, graph algorithms, distributed algorithms, approximate routing, classification and clustering for high-dimensional data, coloring and its generalizations, computational molecular biology
Research/Areas of Interest: design, implementation, and evaluation of different educational technologies
Research/Areas of Interest: Cognition and Psycholinguistics
Research/Areas of Interest: Improving performance and reliability of networked systems, specifically cloud-based systems, mobile and wireless systems, and the Internet. Also, interested in designing technologies for developing regions.
Research/Areas of Interest: low-dimensional geometric topology
Research/Areas of Interest: Machine Learning; Systems Biology; Metabolic Engineering, computer-aided design for integrated circuits
Research/Areas of Interest: Machine learning : probabilistic models, Bayesian inference, variational methods, time-series analysis, semi-supervised learning Clinical informatics : electronic health record analysis
Research/Areas of Interest: human-computer interaction, new interaction modes and techniques, implicit brain-computer interfaces, user interface software
Research/Areas of Interest: programming languages, type systems, dynamic languages
Research/Areas of Interest: Cybersecurity policy, Privacy, Communications Surveillance
Research/Areas of Interest: computer science education, distributed systems, operating systems, networked systems, software development, secure systems and networking
Research/Areas of Interest: Data Science, Machine Learning, Bayesian Methods, Deep Learning, Graph
Research/Areas of Interest: Quantum information and computation, Computational complexity, Quantum complexity theory, NISQ devices, Classical algorithms for quantum systems, Quantum inspired algorithms, Hamiltonian complexity, Quantum pseudo-randomness.
Research/Areas of Interest: distributed systems, operating systems, World Wide Web
Research/Areas of Interest: data, visualization, language
Research/Areas of Interest: computational sciences, data driven modeling
Research/Areas of Interest: Computational complexity, logical foundations of computer science, tropical geometry
Research/Areas of Interest: Cloud computing, evolvability, debugging distributed systems.
Research/Areas of Interest: Embodied AI approaches for performing complex tasks that require creativity, reasoning, and alignment with social and ethical norms.
Research/Areas of Interest: Artificial intelligence, artificial life, cognitive modeling, foundations of cognitive science, human-robot interaction, multi-scale agent-based models, natural language understanding.
Research/Areas of Interest: programming languages, software systems, concurrency, distributed information systems
Research/Areas of Interest: Algorithmic human-robot interaction for robust and socially appropriate assistance to human users, especially users with disabilities.
Research/Areas of Interest: Artificial Intelligence, Developmental Robotics, Computational Perception, Robotic Manipulation, Machine Learning, Human-Robot and Human-Computer Interaction
Research/Areas of Interest: data science, algorithms for analysis of biological networks, gene and pathway regulation in human development, algorithms for precision medicine, computational approaches to pharmacogenomics and drug discovery or repositioning
Research/Areas of Interest: computational geometry, design and analysis of algorithms, computational complexity
Research/Areas of Interest: functional languages, compilers for embedded systems, program analysis and optimization, embedded domain-specific languages
Research/Areas of Interest: computer security and privacy, secure development, security professionals, human-computer interaction, mobile security