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By the numbers

1545

Undergraduate Students

1629

Graduate Students

#13

Ranked Informatics B.S

61%

International & Minority Students

$31 M

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School of Informatics, Computing, and Cyber Systems

The School of Informatics, Computing, and Cyber Systems (SICCS) integrates a range of educational programs and interdisciplinary research. Our programs integrate computational and data sciences with engineering, natural and social sciences, arts, and business.

Our faculty and academic programs combine expertise in environmental and ecological informatics, health and bioinformatics, computer science, cyber-security/cyber-engineering, and electrical engineering.

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Our Degrees

We offer undergraduate and graduate programs in Informatics, Electrical Engineering, and Computer Science. Our students are involved in a broad range of research and applied experiences. Explore our programs below!

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Research & Emphasis Areas

Our school’s faculty, students, and staff bring interdisciplinary expertise to bear on applied and basic research problems in several emphasis areas, and in partnership with a variety of local and global partners. SICCS currently emphasizes five major areas of research.


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Research Emphasis Areas Accordion Open

  • Computer Science
  • Ecological and Environmental Informatics
  • Cyber Engineering for Cyber Security
  • Electrical Engineering
  • Health and Bioinformatics

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  • ABoVE
  • FEWSION
  • GEDI
  • MsTMIP
  • NSF-NRT “T3”
  • PhenoCam Network
  • SEGA
  • Vulcan

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  • Dubayah, R., Blair, J.B., Goetz, S., Fatoyinbo, L., Hansen, M., Healey, S., Hofton, M., Hurtt, G., Kellner, J., Luthcke, S., Armston, J., Tang, H., Duncanson, L., Hancock, S., Jantz, P., Marselis, S., Patterson, P., Qi, W., Silva, C. (2020). The Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation: High-resolution laser ranging of the Earth’s forests and topography. Science of Remote Sensing 100002.
  • Brancalion, P. H. S., Niamir, A., Broadbent, E., Crouzeilles, R., Barros, F. S. M., Almeyda Zambrano, A. M.,  Baccini, A., Aronson, J., Goetz, S.J., Reid, J. L., Strassburg, B. N., Wilson, S., Chazdon, R. L. (2019). Global restoration opportunities in tropical rainforest landscapes. Science Advances, 5(7), eaav3223.
  • Walker, X. J., Baltzer, J. L., Cumming, S. G., Day, N. J., Ebert, C., Goetz, S.J., Johnstone, J. F., Potter, S., Rogers, B. M., Schuur, E. A. G., Turetsky, M. R., Mack, M. C. (2019). Increasing wildfires threaten historic carbon sink of boreal forest soils. Nature, 572(7770), 520–523.
  • Anderegg, W.R.L., Trugman, A.T., Badgley, G., Anderson, C.M., Bartuska, A., Ciais, P., Cullenward, D., Field, C.B., Freeman, J., Goetz, S.J., Hicke, J.A., Huntzinger, D., Jackson, R.B., Nickerson, J., Pacala, S., Randerson, J.T. (2020). Climate-driven risks to the climate mitigation potential of forests, Science 368 (6497)
  • Walker, X. J., Baltzer, J. L., Cumming, S. G., Day, N. J., Ebert, C., Goetz, S.J., Johnstone, J. F., Potter, S., Rogers, B. M., Schuur, E. A. G., Turetsky, M. R., Mack, M. C. (2019). Increasing wildfires threaten historic carbon sink of boreal forest soils. Nature, 572(7770), 520–523.
  • Basu S., S.J. Lehman, J.B. Miller, A.E. Andrews, C. Sweeney, K.R. Gurney, X. Xu, J. Southon, P. Tans (2020) Estimating US Fossil Fuel CO2 Emissions from Measurements of 14C in Atmospheric CO2, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, June 16, 2020 117 (24) 13300-13307; first published June 1, 2020
  • Gurney, K., Shepson, P., “Opinion: The power and promise of improved climate data infrastructure“. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Aug 2021, 118 (35) e2114115118
  • Gomez, M., A. Mejia, B.L. Ruddell, and R.R. Rushforth (2021), Supply chain diversity buffers cities against food shocks, Nature, V.595
  • Gurney, K.R., Liang, J., Roest, G. et al. Under-reporting of greenhouse gas emissions in U.S. cities. Nat Commun 12, 553 (2021).
  • Myers Smith, I.H., Kerby, J.T., ET.AL (2020)”Complexity revealed in the greening of the Arctic.” Nature Climate Change, 10(2), 106-117.
  • Berner, L., Massey, R., Jantz, P., Forbes, B. C., Macias Fauria, M., Myers-Smith, I., … & Burns, P. (2020). “Summer warming explains widespread but not uniform greening in the Arctic tundra biome“. Nature Communications.
  • O., Watson, J.E.M., Jantz, P., Virnig, A.L.S., Barnett, K., Pillay, R., Atkinson, S., Supples, C., Rodríguez-Buritica, S., Armenteras, D. (2020). “A policy-driven framework for conserving the best of Earth’s remaining moist tropical forests“. Nature Ecology and Evolution Evolution, early edition online.
  • William R. L. Anderegg, Anna T. Trugman, Scott J. Goetz, et al. “Climate-driven risks to the climate mitigation potential of forests“. Science 368.6497 (2020).
  • Enquist, B. J., Abraham, A. J., Harfoot, M. B., Malhi, Y., & Doughty, C. E. (2020). The megabiota are disproportionately important for biosphere functioning. Nature communications, 11(1), 1-11.
  • Richter, B.D., et al. Water scarcity and fish imperilment driven by beef production. Nat Sustain (2020).
  • Schmitz, Oswald J., et al. “Animals and the zoogeochemistry of the carbon cycle.” Science 362.6419 (2018): eaar3213.
  • Ogle, Kiona. “Hyperactive soil microbes might weaken the terrestrial carbon sink.” Nature (2018): 32.
  • Richardson, Andrew D., et al. “Ecosystem warming extends vegetation activity but heightens vulnerability to cold temperatures.” Nature 560.7718 (2018): 368.
  • Buermann, Wolfgang, et al. “Widespread seasonal compensation effects of spring warming on northern plant productivity.” Nature 562.7725 (2018): 110.
  • McManamay, Ryan A., et al. “US cities can manage national hydrology and biodiversity using local infrastructure policy.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 114.36 (2017): 9581-9586.
  • Lu, Xiankai, et al.“Plant acclimation to long-term high nitrogen deposition in an N-rich tropical forest.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 115.20 (2018): 5187-5192.

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Our research is supported through collaborations with other university entities such as:

  • Pathogen and Microbiome Institute
  • Center for Ecosystem Science and Society
  • School of Earth Sciences and Environmental Sustainability
  • Merriam-Powell Center for Environmental Research
  • Department of Physics and Applied Materials Science

Our regional research partners include:

  • Translational Genomics Research Institute
  • Northern Arizona Healthcare
  • Flagstaff Medical Center
  • North Country HealthCare
  • U.S. Geological Survey
  • Northern Arizona Planetary Science Alliance

News

Take a look at what’s currently happening in the world of Informatics, Computing, and Cyber Systems.

Cancer Discovery publishes research examining cancer dictations across vertebrate species

Posted by elm358 on October 25, 2024

Assistant professor Marc Tollis of Northern Arizona University's School of Informatics, Computing, and Cyber Systems (SICCS) worked staunchly with researchers to explore potential factors that dictate why some species are more prone to cancer than others, including adult mass and gestational time. Results of the study suggest that higher adult mass and longer gestation time may contribute to an increased risk of developing cancer among vertebrates. It is also thought that the insights of the study may help uncover mechanisms…

Congratulations Bianca Trinkenreich for receiving the 2024 ACM SIGSOFT Outstanding Dissertation Award for the work she performed during her PhD here at SICCS!

Posted by wbm3 on January 19, 2024

The 2024 award goes to Bianca Trinkenreich (now at Oregon State University) for her Ph.D. thesis “Understanding and Supporting Women’s Participation in Open Source Software” (Northern Arizona University, advised by Igor Steinmacher and Marco Aurelio Gerosa).

Disease ecologist awarded $3.5 million to build revolutionary epidemiological platform

Posted by SICCS on July 06, 2022

Mathematical modeling—which combines math, statistics, computing and data—is a critical tool for public health professionals, who use it to study how diseases spread, predict the future course of outbreaks and evaluate strategies for controlling epidemics. Assistant professor Joe Mihaljevic of Northern Arizona University’s School of Informatics, Computing, and Cyber Systems (SICCS) has been working with public health partners across the state and the country to share computer models mapping the spread of the coronavirus. Mihaljevic, a disease ecologist who applies epidemiological modeling…

Congratulations John Hardy for receiving the NAU/NASA space grant!

Posted by SICCS on April 26, 2022

Congratulations John Hardy for receiving the NAU/NASA space grant (Fall 2022-Spring 2023). John Hardy is the third-year Electrical Engineering undergraduate student in Dr. Ying-Chen (Daphne) Chen’s research lab, who has been showing a great interests and potential in conducting cutting-edge research on next-generation microelectronics. The project being funded will be focused on the oxide-based memory for neural network implementations towards the computing challenges.

Congratulations to Jasmine Mendez and Adam Wilson on receiving the Hooper Undergraduate Research Award(HURA)

Posted by SICCS on April 05, 2022

Jasmine Mendez and Adam Wilson received the prestigious Hooper Undergraduate Research Award(HURA) for their project The Selfish Sequences in Squamate Genomes: Evolutionary Dynamics of CR1 and LINE-1 non-LTR Retrotransposons.

 

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