Computing & Data Sciences Now Accepting Applications for Its New PhD Program
With its state-of-the-art Center for Computing & Data Sciences scheduled to open in 2022, BU’s Faculty of Computing & Data Sciences (CDS) is now accepting applications for a new cross-disciplinary PhD program, where candidates will be able to work under the guidance of faculty within CDS as well as CDS-affiliated faculty in a domain of their choice.
Azer Bestavros, associate provost for computing and data sciences, says PhD students in CDS will have the opportunity to pursue research that stands to impact a variety of disciplines. “That’s what computing and data science research does,” he says, “so the idea is to have a program where it is possible to marry data science with another discipline. That discipline could be in the social sciences or the humanities or it could be in engineering or life sciences. That will be up to the student.”...