2020 GSoC Advisory Board

Brief Update

February 21, 2020

B.A. Update

• Launched Fall 2018

• 2018-2019 Catalog: 32 students

• 2019-2020 Catalog: 45 students

• Of the 77 students, 24 (31%) are women

2018-2019 B.A. Pairings

• College of Arts and Architecture

– art history, graphic design (2), photography

• College of Business

– accounting, bus admin(3), entrepreneur (2)

• College of Letters & Science

– history, Japan studies (2), philosophy,

psychology(5), writing (2)

• College of EHHD: human development

Data Science Minor Update

• Launched Spring 2020

– CSCI 127 and CSCI 132 and CSCI 232

– CSCI 246 or M 242 or M 221

– STAT 216 and STAT 217

– One relevant upper division CS course

– One relevant upper division math/stat course

– One more relevant upper division course

Data Science Minor Update

• AY 2019-2020 Catalog: 14 students

• Majors Represented

– CS (11), Math (2), Biological Engineering (1)

• Of the 11 students, 4 (29%) are women

• MSU news story under development

Student Snapshot

Total

Students

B.S. and B.A.

Students

M.S.

Students

Ph.D.

Students

AY 2018 552 508 25 19

AY 2019 573 531 20 22

AY 2020 568 516 25 29

Student Snapshot

Total

Students

B.S. and B.A.

Degrees

M.S.

Degrees

Ph.D.

Degrees

AY 2018 78 61 14 3

AY 2019 101 90 10 1

AY 2020

estimates

119 100 15 4

New Faculty

• Travis Peters, Fall 2019

• Research Interests: cybersecurity, mobile

and wireless systems, Internet of Things

• Ph.D. from Dartmouth in 2019

New Faculty

• Laura Stanley, Fall 2019

• Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering from MSU

• Former NSF Program Officer

• Former Clemson Professor

• Research Interests: HCI,

virtual & augmented reality,

human factors

Research Snapshot

Fiscal Year Expenditures

2017 $954K

2018 $1075K

2019 $1197K

Student Trip Snapshot

• Fall 2019: Grace Hopper in Orlando

– 15 CS students

• Fall 2019: oSTEM Conference in Detroit

– 8 CS students

• Spring 2020: Seattle Tech Road Trip

– 12 CS students

• Summer 2020: Study Abroad in Berlin

– 12 CS students

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