Welcome - Computer Science
The mission of the Computer Science department is to provide defense-relevant, advanced education and research programs to meet Naval unique needs, and increase the warfighting effectiveness of the U.S. Naval Forces, DoD and allied armed forces.
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Degree-Granting Programs include:
- MS in Computer Science & MOVES
- Master of Applied Computing
- MS in Artificial Intelligence
- Ph.D. in Computer Science & MOVES
We function as a normal academic department at a research university. Our students learn to be individual thinkers — able to question, provide well grounded assessments, extract the essence of other works, and write well reasoned reports — as they approach national security issues.
Much of our research is multidisciplinary, involving students and faculty from mathematics, electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, and physics. Our research environment is unique in its blend of theory and practice, and with students' determination to put their thesis results into practice.
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Glasgow Hall East, Building 305
1411 Cunningham Rd
Monterey, CA, 93943
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Admin: 831.656.3389, DSN 756-
Program Office: 831.656.7980/7981, DSN 756-
A MESSAGE FROM THE CHAIR, DR. GURMINDER SINGH
Educating our Computer Science masters and doctoral students is the most important activity of the department. Our central focus is equipping our students to perform well as technical leaders in the world they will face after graduation. Complexity and change are dominant characteristics of that world. We develop technical leaders by teaching a principles-based curriculum, around which we build practices for managing complexity and innovation. We conduct an extensive research program that directly enhances national security by increasing the effectiveness of the armed forces of the United States and its allies. Read more.
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MSAI Degree Program
The CS Department launched our MSAI (Master of Science in Artificial Intelligence) degree program. The one-year MSAI residential program is designed to rapidly develop military leaders with advanced expertise in one of the most strategically vital technologies of the 21st century. The degree will confer the advanced knowledge, skills, and practices necessary to develop, assess, and deploy AI for the U.S. Navy, joint forces and allied militaries. Read full article NPS Launches New Master's in Artificial Intelligence Focused on Warfighter Needs.
Professor Emeritus Doron Drusinsky
Professor Emeritus Doron Drusinsky has been selected as the recipient of the IEEE Reliability Society Lifetime Achievement Award. This prestigious award recognizes his exceptional forty-year career and his transformative impact on the profession, particularly through his pioneering work in visual behavioral modeling and lightweight formal verification.
Associate Professor Marko Orescanin
Associate Professor Marko Orescanin has received a funding of $460K from ONI for “Advanced AI systems for RF analysis and configuration management”. This project will enable larger throughput of data analysis through Agentic AI system control of the RF classification (TS/SCI context).
Faculty Associate - Research Mike Thompson
FA-R Mike Thompson will be the technical lead for a two-year project, funded by the ONR Neptune program, which will apply the NPS-developed RESim reverse engineering platform to advance the Navy’s ability to perform vulnerability analysis on BMS (battery management systems) products which are critical to Navy UxS and energy storage systems.
Navigating a Restless Sea
Innovation adoption is one of the hottest topics in business and government. We want more, we want it faster, and we're not getting it.
Computational Thinking
This pocket-sized introduction to computational thinking and problem-solving traces its genealogy centuries before the digital computer.
Alumni Spotlight
Rear Admiral Kurt J. Rothenhaus currently serves as Commander, Naval Information Warfare Systems Command. He earned both his Master’s of Computer Science and Ph.D. in Software Engineering from the NPS Computer Science department.
Rear Adm. Kurt J. Rothenhaus, PhD in Computer Science