By the numbers
1025
Undergraduate Students87
Graduate Students53%
International & Minority Students$31 M
Active Research GrantsSchool 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, and electrical engineering.
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!
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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- Gurney, K.R., Liang, J., Roest, G. et al. Under-reporting of greenhouse gas emissions in U.S. cities. Nat Commun 12, 553 (2021).
- 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
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News
Take a look at what’s currently happening in the world of Informatics, Computing, and Cyber Systems.
Morgan Vigil-Hayes Quantifies and Addresses Gaps in Internet Connectivity in Rural and Tribal Communities
Dr. Vigil-Hayes is partnering with teachers and parents at STAR School to design and develop the Digital Backpack (DigiPack), an opportunistic content delivery system and mobile application that allows students living on Navajo Nation to engage with digital learning content at home even when Internet connectivity is slow, intermittent, or non-existent. This project is funded under Stage I of the competitive NSF CIVIC Innovation program. Dr. Vigil-Hayes’ collaborative work quantifying the inaccuracies of mobile broadband coverage maps was recently featured in…
Congratulations Joseph Vargovich, Outstanding Senior in the Computer Science, Spring 2021
Congratulations Joseph Vargovich, selected as the Outstanding Senior in the Computer Science program for Spring 2021. He was selected based on the nomination from your professor Marco Aurelio Gerosa and selected by the chair of your department Ben Ruddell. This accomplishment speaks highly of your academic performance, contributions to your department, involvement within the college, and connections to the university and community as a whole.
Congratulations Bianca Trinkenreich - Outstanding Graduate Student, Spring 2021
Congratulations Bianca Trinkenreich, selected as the Outstanding Graduate Student in the School of Informatics, Computing, and Cyber Systems for Spring 2021. She was selected based on the nomination from your professor Marco Aurelio Gerosa and selected by the chair of your department Ben Ruddell. This accomplishment speaks highly of your academic performance, contributions to your department, involvement within the college, and connections to the university and community as a whole.
Congratulations to Corey Cline who was selected as the the Standard Bearer for the CEIAS, Spring 2021
Corey Cline was selected as the Standard Bearer for the College of Engineering, Informatics, and Applied Sciences for Spring 2021. Corey Cline was selected based on the nomination from Julie Heynssens and selected by the Associate Director Kyle Winfree of the School of Informatics, Computing and Cyber Systems to represent Electrical Engineering. This accomplishment speaks highly of his academic performance, contributions to the department, involvement within the college, and connections to the university and community as a whole.
Climate science: Under-reporting of greenhouse gas emissions in US cities
Kevin Gurney and colleagues investigated the self-reported inventories of 48 cities across the US. They found that cities used different accounting methods for marine, airborne and on-road emissions, as well omission of petroleum fuel use in some cities. When comparing the self-reported emissions to independent estimates from the Vulcan CO2 emissions data product (an estimate of annual CO2 emissions from fossil fuels), the analysis suggests that the vast majority of cities under-reported emissions. For example, Indianapolis, Indiana, is found to be underestimating…