Computer and Information Science

The College of Arts and Sciences has selected eight CIS majors as 2020-2021 Ripple Scholars. Beginning in 2019-2020, Ripple has funded scholarships for undergraduate students in the College of Arts and Sciences who are interested in research related to cybersecurity as enhanced by secure digital transactions, blockchain and other distributed systems, cryptocurrency, or secure financial... Read more

The CIS department is happy to welcome 35 new graduate students for Fall 2020! These 8 new PhD students and 27 new MS students hail from 14 different countries -- Bangladesh, China, India, Iran, Iraq, Japan, Nepal, Pakistan, Russia, Rwanda, Sudan, Sweden, USA, and Vietnam. 

We look forward to gathering as soon as we safely can, seeing familiar faces again and meeting new ones! Read more

Juno Mayer, a senior working on his undergraduate honors thesis with UO’s Oregon Network Research Group (adviser: Prof. Ram Durairajan) was selected as an Honorable Mention for the Computing Research Association’s Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Award.

Juno’s thesis seeks to assess the resilience of Internet infrastructure in... Read more

University of Oregon and Computer and Information Science department were selected as one of the first partners for Ripple’s University Blockchain Research Initiative (UBRI). Ripple's philanthropic gift (2018-2023) provides scholarships, faculty fellowships, research support, industry engagement, and supports the Oregon Blockchain Student Club. This year, the initiative recognised three CIS... Read more

University of Oregon and Computer and Information Science department were selected as one of the first partners for Ripple’s University Blockchain Research Initiative (UBRI). Ripple's philanthropic gift (2018-2023) provides scholarships, faculty fellowships, research support, industry engagement, and supports the Oregon Blockchain Student Club. This year, the Ripple’s UBRI has selected three... Read more

Prof Thanh Nguyen receives a Grant from the Army Research Office to Study Security Attacks. The project, titled "Tackling Sequential and Coordinated Attacks in Security Domains with Real-time Information", proposes to study the security problem of sequential and coordinated attacks with real-time information using a game-theoretic approach, taking into account strategic and sequential... Read more

A UO CS team consisting of CS majors Sarah Kitten, Sam Peters, and Alec Springel has won one of the three challenges at the 2020 Hack for a Cause hackathon!  The challenge asked participating teams to create a solution for BRING Recycling that allows users to obtain permission for donating specific items prior to making the trip to the recycling center.  The team solved this challenge by... Read more

On Thursday, October 1, Computer Science students, faculty, and staff gathered (remotely, of course) to launch the 2020-2021 academic year and hear about updates and plans for Computer Science this year. Professor and new Department Head Reza Rejaie welcomed students to the new year, followed by information and discussion about the major curriculum and resources for majors, including advising... Read more

Distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks can paralyze machines on the Internet with traffic flood and is a serious security concern of Internet users.  A new work from Ph.D. student Devkishen Sisodia, Prof. Jun Li  and Prof. Lei Jiao  entitled "In-Network... Read more

By attacking (e.g., flooding) the bandwidth or resources of a victim (e.g., a web server) on the Internet from multiple compromised systems (e.g., a botnet), distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attacks disrupt the services of the victim and make it unavailable to its legitimate users. Albeit studied many years already, the detection and mitigation of DDoS attacks continue to be a major... Read more