Application requirements.

1. Applicants should have an undergraduate GPA of 3.0 on a 4.0 system.

2. A GRE is not required.

3. For applicants whose native language is not English, the TOEFL, IELTS, or PTE Academic Exam is required.  The minimum TOEFL/IELTS standard as set by the Graduate School of 79 for the TOEFL and 6.5 for the IELTS is strictly enforced in the admissions process.  International applicants that have either completed an undergraduate or graduate program in the United States or that has obtained a degree from an institution where the instruction was conducted in English will be applicable for a TOEFL/IELTS waiver once all transcripts have been received, reviewed and approved by the Graduate School. 

Application deadlines.
                       Early decision                  Application closes
Fall                 June 1                              August 1
Spring            October 15                       November 1

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Core Course: Database Design & Programming (CIS5002)

Faculty: Nancy Polychronopoulou

My path towards computer science was not a conventional one. I have a bachelor's degree in physics and my graduate studies were on nuclear physics with specialization on medical imaging. My graduate research was experimental and a significant part was based on programming and data analysis. Through this I came to realize the importance of computer science and the passion I have for technology. My later years of professional experience in the fields of database administration, data analytics and machine learning have only increased my excitement for the field. I am now focusing on teaching and helping students find the things that make them passionate. My teaching philosophy boils down to two principles: hands-on learning and mutual respect. I believe that students can grow to their full potential only when they are engaged to learn through experience and that they will feel competent and become self-motivated only when they are respected as individuals.

Teaching Interest
Database Design, Database Administration, Mathematics, Medical Imaging Physics

Selected Publications
A Polychronopoulou, Z. Obradovic “Structured Regression on Multilayer Networks,” Proc. 16th SIAM Int’l Conf. Data Mining (SDM)
A Polychronopoulou et al, “Study of the optical properties of both continuous and pixelated scintillation crystals,” Journal of Instrumentation 4 (2009)

Core course: Scripting for Science and Business (CIS 5015)

Faculty: Justin Shi 

I am an associate professor in computer science. My research interest has been in decentralized high performance parallel computing. My professional training includes BS in computer engineering at the Shanghai Jiaotong University in China, MS and PhD .from the University of Pennsylvania, in software engineering with a focus on decentralized econometric simulation protocol. I am interested in programming and languages since many research challenges are rooted the ways we create programs. My interest in scripting languages was more recent, especially when scripting languages continued to gaining importance in the web-centric scientific research and in business applications.

CIS 5015 was created in collaboration with the CST graduate bioinformatics program at. It is now offered as an elective for the online graduate MS/IST program.

Selected Publications
Yuan Shi,  Reevaluating_Amdahl’s law and Gustafson’s_law, 1996
Justin Y. Shi, The scalability dilemma and the case for decoupling, HPCwire.com, 2016
Justin Shi, System and Method for Network-scale Reliable Parallel Computing (Active Content Addressable Networking), Patent US/14.11.16/USP201662421642, 2018

Core course: Data Structure and Objects (CIS5016)

Faculty: Andrew Rosen 

I am an Assistant Professor of Instruction at Temple University, where I teach introductory and intermediate programming courses. I earned my PhD in computer science from Georgia State University in 2016 and my undergraduate degree from Georgia Tech. I won the CST Distinguished Teaching Award in fall 2018. Besides teaching, my hobbies include reading fantasy novels, role-playing games, writing and remixing music, and swords.

Core course: Operating Systems and Architecture (CIS 5017)

Faculty: Sarah Lehman

Lehman is a fourth year PhD student in Temple’s CIS Department. She earned her bachelor’s degree in computer science from Messiah College in 2010, and her master’s degree in software engineering from Penn State in 2015. Before returning to school full-time, she worked in industry as a software development consultant, and as a software engineer for Lockheed Martin. Her primary research focuses on secure and efficient design of mobile and IoT systems, with a particular focus on configurability and physical access control for mobile augmented reality. She also has supplementary projects in applied mobile and IoT solutions for geriatric healthcare.

Teaching Interest
Mobile and IoT Development, Software Engineering, Human-Computer Interaction

Selected Publications
Sarah M. Lehman and Chiu C. Tan, “PrivacyManager: An Access Control Framework for Mobile Augmented Reality Applications.” Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Communications and Network Security, October 2017. 

Elective course: Computer Systems and Privacy (CIS 5107)

Faculty: Grace Giraldo 

Giraldo’s career in technology started with the US Government Internal Revenue Service computing center, supporting mainframe applications and later desktops. The experience in mainframes exposed her to computer and job control language, but it was in desktop support she discovered her passion for engineering and hands-on problem solving, configuring system hardware, and learning to manage operating systems.

Giraldo joined Chase in 1999. Through her career in the financial industry, she has worked for several lines of business including retail banking, credit cards, internet banking and corporate. She broadened her technologist background by working in a range of roles in different technology disciplines and continually learning and achieving professional certifications in operating systems, networking, information and cyber security. She started in IT as a desktop and executive support role, and developed her tactical skills into technology lead and information risk management lead.

Currently. Giraldo is responsible for implementing the new cyber framework designed to uplift our firm’s cyber standards, reporting into corporate cyber governance, policies and standards team. Giraldo earned her doctoral degree in information management from Syracuse University, a master’s in information systems from Marshall University and a bachelor’s in computer science from the Inter-American University of Puerto Rico. She also maintains her professional certification in information security (CISSP).

Elective course: Ethical Hacking and Intrusion Forensics (CIS 5414)

Faculty: Vana Khurana 

Khurana is a speaker, author, mentor, influencer and adjunct professor Temple University. Teaching is her passion.  In addition, she volunteers as a board member and director of training at Cloud Security Alliance, Delaware Valley Chapter.  For the things money can buy, Vana works as a cloud security architect for a leading financial company based at Malvern, Pa.  She is working on the second edition of her book “Does Business of IT need a Process?” Khurana loves the economy and growth of the digital education and its contribution to the world!  She holds CCSK, CCSP, CISSP, GSEC, AWS Architect, and TOGAF certifications.
 

Elective courses:
Knowledge Management (CIS 5208)
Network Technologies (CIS 5304)

Faculty: TBD

Elective course: Software Quality Assurance and Testing (CIS 5274)

Faculty: Robert Spielberger 

Spielberger is an adjunct instructor in the Department of Computer & Information Sciences, where he has taught a course on quality assurance and testing since 2015. He has extensive experience in many facets of the software development life cycle (SDLC), including quality assurance, testing, project management and process improvement. He has spent most of his career at Cerner/Siemens/Shared Medical Systems in the development, testing, implementation, and support of healthcare IT systems and applications, including electronic health record, revenue cycle management and business intelligence, for hospitals.

More recently, Robert has been a senior project manager at two Philadelphia-area companies. He presently works as a Senior Testing Lead at AmerisourceBergen. He earned an MBA in Management of Information Systems, Drexel University and BS in Mathematics, St. Joseph’s University. His certifications include Project Management Professional (PMP) from Project Management Institute (PMI); Certified Software Quality Engineer (CSQE) from American Society for Quality (ASQ); and Certified ScrumMaster (CSM) from Scrum Alliance.

Elective course: Introduction to Mobile Application Development (CIS 5590)

Faculty: Karl Morris

Morris earned his PhD in computer science from Florida International University (FIU) in 2014 where his research was in the area of software engineering with an emphasis on model-driven development, middleware and adaptable systems. His current research interests include mobile computing and cyber-physical systems. He received both his BSc and MSc in computer science from FIU in 2005 and 2011 respectively. Morris has been a project manager and consultant, application developer and systems analyst. He has a strong interest in mobile applications and is the co-founder of an app development company.

Teaching Interest
Mobile Computing, Adaptive Systems, Models at Runtime, Cryptographic Currencies

Selected Publications
Karl A. Morris, Mark Allison, Fábio M. Costa, Jinpeng Wei, Peter J. Clarke, “An adaptive middleware design to support the dynamic interpretation of domain-specific models,” Information and Software Technology, Volume 62, June 2015, Pages 21-41, ISSN 0950-5849, dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.infsof.2015.02.003
Morris, K.A.; Clarke, P.J.; Xudong He; Costa, F.M.; Allison, M., “A Method for Validating Intent Model Behavior in DSVMs,” High Assurance Systems Engineering (HASE), 2015 IEEE 16th International Symposium on , vol., no., pp.247,254, 8-10 Jan. 2015, dx.doi.org/10.1109/HASE.2015.43

Elective course: Software Project Management (CIS 5275)

Faculty: Nicole Westrick

Elective course: Practical Machine Learning: Foundational Concepts and Tools

Faculty: Tamer Aldwairi

Elective course: Software Engineering (CIS 5306)

Faculty: Ayodele Duyile

Elective course: Usability Engineering (CIS 5303)

Faculty: Vaughn Parker

Elective course: Blockchain Application Development (CIS 5418)

Faculty: Xiqui (Cindy) Li

This course covers both the technical knowledge and hands-on skill relevant to this technology but emphasizes more hands-on skill. It includes technical fundamentals: cryptography, blockchain, distributed consensus, peer-to-peer network, smart contract, and decentralized application.

Elective course: Introduction to Systems Security (CIS 5210)

Faculty: Vana Khurana

This course aims to empower both future and current IT professionals to recognize security threats, correlate them with their products and services, and effectively communicate associated risks.

Throughout this course, participants will delve into fundamental security concepts including terminology such as threats, vulnerabilities, and risks, the CIA triad (Confidentiality, Integrity, and Availability), and grasp essential concepts such as Authentication, Authorization, encryption, Application security, Data Security, Cloud Security, Operational Security, and end-user security, OWASP top 10 etc.

Michelle DeCarlo
SVP, Head of Technology Engineering Practices 
Lincoln Financial Group

Michael Giacometti
AVP, Solution Architect
​Qualitest

Anthony Hughes
Professor of Instruction

Vaughn Parker
IT Consultant
Accenture

Nancy Polychronopoulou
Assistant Professor of Instruction

Robert Spielberger
Adjunct Instructor, IT Consultant