Graduate PhD Program

I graduated with my bachelors in Computer Engineering from the University of Patras, Greece. Having visited a friend in Stony Brook a few years back, I had a very positive impression of the place and the school, so I decided to apply there, among a few other schools. Being the highest ranked institution to offer me a full scholarship and with a strong algorithmic team in the Computer Science department, it was clearly the best choice.

The Computer Science department at Stony Brook is large, offers many options and quite a few advanced classes, providing a great amount of flexibility to its students. The professors are very approachable, there are many opportunities to interact with them in formal and informal settings, such as the famous donut hour! Read More Collapse

I am an Associate Professor of Computer Science and also Chair of my department at Dowling College in Oakdale, NY, where I have worked since 2004. I earned my undergraduate and graduate degrees in Computer Science at Stony Brook, and both experiences have proven extremely valuable in preparing me to become an educator. Since I teach at a relatively small institution, I need to be flexible enough to teach a wide variety of subjects. The rigorous and broad undergraduate education I received from Stony Brook has been especially valuable in this regard. Also, my doctoral training prepared me very well to engage in research and write grant proposals. I credit much of my professional success to the excellent training I received while a student at Stony Brook and to the many valuable interactions I had with the accomplished Computer Science faculty at the University. In particular I need to single out my thesis advisor, Dr. Hong Qin, for his unwavering support and for the tremendous amount of attention he gave me throughout my graduate studies.
-Kevin

I have posdoc'ed at USC for 3 years after graduating from Stony Brook and then joined GE labs in Schenectady, NY. In 1997 I had left GE to pursue a MD degree in Cornell-Weil Medical School in NY city. I was in his mid-30's then. Today I am a neuro and cardio radiologist at Massachusetts General Hospital (affiliated with Harvard Medical School) in Boston. I am the director of their Volume CT Lab, teach at Harvard Medical School and work with MIT folks building robots for doing biopsy.
-Rajiv

I was in Dhaka, Bangladesh before coming to Stony Brook University in Aug 2004. I was passionate to enroll into a prestigious graduate program in Computer Science after my undergrad. I wanted to enrich my knowledge, learn more in a special topics in Computer Science, and do research. I applied to a number of graduate programs in US universities and I decided to pursue my graduate studies in Department of Computer Science, Stony Brook University, because it matched my interest and I loved greater NY area. I think I made the right decision! I learned a lot in Stony Brook University. One of the most challenging part of the PhD program in Stony Brook was its PhD Qual exams for which I had to study very hard. I got tremendous support from my PhD advisor when I started doing research. I had the opportunity to work with extremely talented fellow graduate students, and found my research projects very interesting. Read More Collapse