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CIS 791
PHD
students are required to register CIS 791. PHD students supported by the
department must register this course until the support is terminated. Part-time
PHD students must register for at least 2 semesters.
Departmental Seminars
Each supported CS PhD student must attend at least 75% of the
departmental seminars in each semester. Attending all departmental
seminars is encouraged.
A seminar attendance sheet is available in the seminars or from the
department office. Results will be evaluated by the CS PHD program committee.
Financial Support Period for Ph.D. Students
"Student" here refers to a PHD student getting financial aid
from the department.
Details concerning the financial support can be found
here.
Timetable:
| End of First Year |
Student must take all the qualifying exams in order to get the next year's financial aid. |
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| End of Second Year | Student must pass all the qualifying exams, have chosen an advisor and have an approved dissertation topic in order to get the next year's financial aid. |
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| End of Third Year | Student must pass the doctoral dissertation proposal defense in order to get the next year's financial aid. |
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| End of Fourth Year | Student is expected to pass the doctoral dissertation defense and graduate. |
A student can receive teaching assistantship from the department for at most 4 years. He/she may still get financial aid from his/her advisor after the 4th year.
A CS PhD student is automatically dismissed from the CS PHD program if he/she fails to pass the qualifying exams on the second attempt.
Registration
To
register for courses, every CS PhD student should contact
Program Director, who will advise all CS PhD
students in registering for courses that will help their research progress and
dissertation writing.
A student is permitted to register for a maximum of six (6) credits of pre-doctoral dissertation research in order to prepare a proposal for his or her dissertation research. The proposal must be in writing and defended successfully to the dissertation committee before it is accepted.
Doctoral Dissertation
The
dissertation committee is chaired by the student's advisor, the
Computer Science tenured, tenure-track, or affiliated faculty member
who supervised his/her research.
The advisor makes a recommendation to the Director of the Doctoral Prgram in
Computer Science, who appoints at least five (5) faculty
members to serve on the
committee, one of whom must be from outside the department
and the majority of whom must be
computer science tenure-track or tenured faculty members.
The dissertation proposal must be distributed and received by
each of the committee members at least
four (4) weeks prior to the oral defense.
The oral defnese is open to the Department of Computer Science and,
therefore must be announced to the faculty seven (7) days before it is held.
Master's Degree while in Ph.D. Program
Any Ph.D. student who has received a TA or RA support from
the Computer Science Department is not eligible
for transferring to the M.S. program in the
department. Consequently, withdrawing from the Ph.D. program or disqualified
from the Ph.D. program results in leaving the department without being
awarded any degree.
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