The Department of Computer Science at the University of Kentucky was founded in 1966 and is among the oldest Computer Science departments in the country.
Whether you choose a career in computing or go on to med school, business school or
another field, your UK Computer Science education will give you a solid grounding in logic, strategic thinking and teamwork -- and enable you to do cool things with software! Through your elective choices you can choose to specialize in databases/data mining, networking and systems, artificial intelligence, securi
04/07/2026
The UK Computer Science program is proud our have our graduate program ranked #96 in the country by US News and World Report.
How Does University of Kentucky Rank Among America's Best Graduate Schools? Explore graduate programs at University of Kentucky
Congratulations to Prof. Dakshnamoorthy
Manivannan and his coauthors for two recent accomplishments:
First, the open access article "Secure Authentication and Privacy-Preserving Techniques in Vehicular Ad-hoc ETworks (VANETs)" by D. Manivannan, Shafika Showkat Moni, and Sherali Zeadally has been recognized by Elsevier for connecting with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.
https://www.cs.uky.edu/~manivann/dmcsgroup/your_certificate.pdf
Second, the article "A Deep Learning Approach for Intrusion Detection in Internet of Things using Focal Loss Function" by Ayesha S. Dina, A. B. Siddique, and D. Manivannan in the Internet of Things Journal has received that journal's Editor's choice award for its high impact on the research community.
https://www.cs.uky.edu/~manivann/dmcsgroup/Editors-Choice-award2024.pdf
03/09/2026
Congratulations to Computer Science faculty member Prof. Dakshnamoorthy Manivannan, "Mani," for being one of the top 125 most-cited researchers in the country!
21 Pigman College of Engineering researchers among top 2% of world’s most-cited | Computer Science The University of Kentucky is well-represented on a list of the most-cited researchers in the world. In a database compiled by Stanford University in a partnership with Elsevier, 125 current UK scientists and scholars appear among the top 2% of the most-cited researchers across 22 disciplines. Of th...
02/11/2026
UK Computer Science is excited to announce the new major in Artificial Intelligence!
‘AI is the future’: UK launches state’s 1st Bachelor of Science in AI From smartphones to self-driving cars, artificial intelligence (AI) is reshaping how the world works — and now, Kentucky students can be trained at the forefront of that transformation. The Stanley and Karen Pigman College of Engineering at the University of Kentucky has launched the Commonwealth....
04/18/2025
Congratulations to CS PhD student Lasantha Senanayake and Prof. Stephen G. Ware for winning Best Paper at the 2025 Foundations of Digital Games conference for their paper, "Language Models as Narrative Planning Heuristics."
Language Models as Narrative Planning Heuristics This presentation was given by Lasantha Senanayake of the University of Kentucky Narrative Intelligence Lab at the 2025 ACM Foundations of Digital Games conf...
04/08/2025
US News and World Report has ranked the University of Kentucky Computer Science Department #103 nationally among its Best Graduate Schools!
Best Graduate Schools Ranked in 2024 Find the best graduate program for you using the US News Best Graduate Schools rankings.
UK CS Professor Simone Silvestri and our director of graduate programs will be giving two talks this month!
The first is a keynote address at the Missouri University of Science and Technology ISC Graduate Research Symposium titled "Climbing the Doctoral Mountain: Essential Strategies for a Successful PhD."
The second will be at the University of Padua, Italy and it titled “Towards the Internet of Agricultural Things: Optimization, AI, and Communication Solutions for Modern Farming"
https://www.math.unipd.it/news/towards-the-internet-of-agricultural-things-optimization-ai-and-communication-solutions-for-modern-farming/
03/26/2025
Congratulations UK CS graduate students Xu Tao and Jackson Butcher, to UK CS Prof. Simone Silvestri, and to their colleague Sajal K. Das, on receiving the Best Demo Runner Up paper award at the IEEE PerCom conference!
Their paper, "iCrop+: An Edge-boosted Crop Disease Detection System via TinyML and LoRa Communication" can be found in the 2025 proceedings of the International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications.
Congratulations to UK CS Professor Simone Silvestri for being named a Distinguished Technical Program Committee Member for IEEE INFOCOM, one of the top conferences in our field. This award is given to peer reviewers who do an exceptional job analyzing papers that have been submitted for publication and giving feedback to the authors.
Congratulations to UK CS Professor Judy Goldsmith for being awarded the NCWIT Higher Education Alliance Harrold and Notkin Research and Graduate Mentoring Award!
Dr. Goldsmith has a long and well-recognized history of mentoring graduate students in our department, and we are very excited that she has received this award to recognize her hard work.
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