About CSE

A great many fields of science, engineering, finance and social science are embracing modeling, simulation, and data analysis as necessary tools to advance their fields. Sometimes this is driven by the march of Moore’s Law providing computational power that makes simulations possible that were not possible before; it is also driven by the availability of large data sets not available before that require extensive computation to understand. The excitement of these opportunities has led 108 faculty from 20 departments and graduate programs to join together to create a new Designated Emphasis (DE) in CSE, essentially a “graduate minor” for PhD students enrolled in these 20 programs to become fluent in modeling, simulation, and data analysis tools. The participating departments are extraordinarily diverse and include Computer Science, Mathematics, Chemistry, Mechanical Engineering, Astronomy, Neuroscience and Political Science, among many others.

The following UC Berkeley departments are participating in the DE-CSE program:
• Astronomy, (Chair) Donald Backer
• Bioengineering, (Chair) Dorian Liepmann
• Biostatistics, (Chair) Sandrine Dudoit
• Chemical Engineering, (Chair) Jeffrey Reimer
• Chemistry, (Chair) Michael Marletta
• Civil and Environmental Engineering, (Chair) Lisa Alvarez-Cohen
• Earth and Planetary Science, (Chair) Rudy Wenk
• Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, (Chair) Stuart Russell
• Industrial Engineering and Operations Research, (Chair) Ilan Adler
• School of Information, (Dean) AnnaLee Saxenian
• Integrative Biology, (Chair) Nipam Patel
• Materials Science and Engineering, (Chair) Robert Ritchie
• Mathematics, (Chair) Alan Weinstein
• Mechanical Engineering, (Chair) Al Pisano
• Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute, (Head) John Ngai
• Nuclear Engineering, (Chair) Jasmina Vujic
• Physics, (Chair) Frances Hellman
• Political Science, (Chair) Paul Pierson
• School of Public Health, (Dean) Stephen Shortell
• Statistics, (Chair) John Rice