Computer Science at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

31 faculty and 40 courses in Computer Science at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

Faculty

• Tarek Abdelzaher, Sohaib and Sara Abbasi Professor and Willett Faculty Scholar h-index 87
  Notable: “Range-free localization schemes for large scale sensor networks” (2003) · 2,645 citations
• Roy H. Campbell, Abbasi Professor Emeritus h-index 66
  Notable: “Big Data: Astronomical or Genomical?” (2015) · 1,410 citations
• Sarita V. Adve, Richard T. Cheng Professor h-index 62
  Notable: “Shared memory consistency models: a tutorial” (1996) · 1,118 citations
• Franck Cappello, Adjunct Research Associate Professor h-index 56
  Notable: “The International Exascale Software Project roadmap” (2011) · 715 citations
• Chandra Chekuri, Paul and Cynthia Saylor Professor h-index 53
  Notable: “Maximizing a Monotone Submodular Function Subject to a Matroid Constraint” (2011) · 820 citations
• Gul A. Agha, Research Professor and Professor Emeritus h-index 51
  Notable: “CUTE” (2005) · 1,654 citations
• Nancy M. Amato, Abel Bliss Professor of Engineering and School Director h-index 51
  Notable: “OBPRM: an obstacle-based PRM for 3D workspaces” (1998) · 421 citations
• Matthew Caesar, Professor h-index 47
  Notable: “VeriFlow: verifying network-wide invariants in real time” (2013) · 477 citations
• Vikram Adve, Donald B. Gillies Professor in Computer Science h-index 45
  Notable: “LLVM: A compilation framework for lifelong program analysis & transformation” (2004) · 2,544 citations
• Brian Bailey, Professor h-index 44
  Notable: “On the need for attention-aware systems: Measuring effects of interruption on task performance, error rate, and affective state” (2006) · 578 citations
• Timothy Moon-Yew Chan, Founder Professor in Engineering h-index 44
  Notable: “Optimal output-sensitive convex hull algorithms in two and three dimensions” (1996) · 341 citations
• Kevin Chenchuan Chang, Professor h-index 43
  Notable: “A Comprehensive Survey of Graph Embedding: Problems, Techniques, and Applications” (2018) · 2,054 citations
• Marco Caccamo, Adjunct Professor h-index 43
  Notable: “Real Time Scheduling Theory: A Historical Perspective” (2004) · 618 citations
• Girish Chowdhary, Associate Professor h-index 41
  Notable: “Research and development in agricultural robotics: A perspective of digital farming” (2018) · 522 citations
• Adam Bates, Associate Professor h-index 32
  Notable: “NoDoze: Combatting Threat Alert Fatigue with Automated Provenance Triage” (2019) · 312 citations
• Rachel Adler, Associate Professor h-index 14
  Notable: “Juggling on a high wire: Multitasking effects on performance” (2011) · 201 citations
• Eshwar Chandrasekharan, Assistant Professor h-index 13
  Notable: “You Can't Stay Here” (2017) · 375 citations
• George Chacko, Research Associate Professor h-index 13
  Notable: “Negative signaling in B lymphocytes induces tyrosine phosphorylation of the 145-kDa inositol polyphosphate 5-phosphatase, SHIP” (1996) · 171 citations
• Tal August, Assistant Professor h-index 13
  Notable: “A Design Space for Intelligent and Interactive Writing Assistants” (2024) · 124 citations
• Geoffrey Challen, Teaching Professor h-index 12
  Notable: “Mercury” (2009) · 264 citations
• Ram Alagappan, Assistant Professor h-index 11
  Notable: “All file systems are not created equal: on the complexity of crafting crash-consistent applications” (2014) · 102 citations
• Camille Cobb, Assistant Professor h-index 11
  Notable: “Designing for the deluge” (2014) · 99 citations
• Lawrence Angrave, Teaching Professor, Gies RC Evans Innovation Fellow h-index 10
  Notable: “How do Gender, Learning Goals, and Forum Participation Predict Persistence in a Computer Science MOOC?” (2018) · 45 citations
• Karthekeyan Chandrasekaran, Associate Professor h-index 9
  Notable: “Faster private release of marginals on small databases” (2014) · 51 citations
• Abdussalam Alawini, Teaching Associate Professor h-index 9
  Notable: “Insights from Student Solutions to SQL Homework Problems” (2020) · 30 citations
• Robert Brunner, Professor, Accountancy / Chief Disruption Officer h-index 4
  Notable: “Scalable Molecular Dynamics for Large Biomolecular Systems” (2000) · 24 citations
• Mattox Beckman, Teaching Associate Professor h-index 3
  Notable: “Integrative Engineering Leadership Initiative for Teaching Excellence (iELITE)” (2020) · 7 citations
• Arindam Banerjee, Founder Professor in Engineering
• Katie Cunningham, Assistant Professor
• Ryan Cunningham, Senior Lecturer
• Suma Bhat, Adjunct Assistant Professor

Courses

• Computer Science Orientation CS 100
• Intro Computing: Engrg and Sci CS 101
• Little Bits to Big Ideas CS 102
• Intro Computing: Non-Tech CS 105
• Data Science Discovery CS 107
• Introduction to Computer Science I CS 124
• Introduction to Computer Science CS 125
• Software Design Studio CS 126
• Introduction to Computer Science II CS 128
• Discrete Structures CS 173
• First-Year Student Honors CS 196
• Undergraduate Open Seminar in Computer Science CS 199
• Ethical and Professional Issues CS 210
• Ethical and Professional Conduct CS 211
• Software Design Lab CS 222
• Data Structures CS 225
• Computer Architecture CS 233
• Programming Studio CS 242
• Innovation Illinois: From Accessible Design to Supercomputing Cultures CS 265
• Community Innovation CS 266
• Algorithms and Data Structures for Data Science CS 277
• Honors Course CS 296
• Modeling and Learning in Data Science CS 307
• Introduction to Computer Systems CS 340
• System Programming CS 341
• Numerical Methods I CS 357
• Probability and Statistics for Computer Science CS 361
• Introduction to Algorithms and Models of Computation CS 374
• Individual Study CS 397
• Special Topics CS 398
• Accelerated Fundamentals of Computing I CS 400
• Accelerated Fundamentals of Algorithms I CS 401
• Accelerated Fundamentals of Computing II CS 402
• Accelerated Fundamentals of Algorithms II CS 403
• Cryptography CS 407
• The Art of Web Programming CS 409
• Text Information Systems CS 410
• Database Systems CS 411
• Introduction to Data Mining CS 412
• Intro to Combinatorics CS 413

Faculty counts are directory headcounts; the named list may be a subset. h-index shown only for ORCID-backed or high-confidence OpenAlex matches. Data as of 2026-07-02.