Research Guidance Committee

A research guidance committee will be formed immediately after a student passing a diagnostic exam. Later it will be replaced by a dissertation committee after passing a candidacy exam.

• The duties of a research guidance committee are:
  1. To advise the student on the course preparation, in particular to help draw a plan of study

  2. To help define the research area of the student.

  3. To prepare and administer the candidacy exam.

• A research guidance committee is formed according to the following procedure:
  1. The student finds an advisor.

  2. The advisor selects the members of the research guidance committee in cooperation with the student and the graduate studies committee.

  3. The research guidance committee consists of the advisor, at least three full time Computer Science faculty members and at least one full time faculty member outside of the Computer Science department. All members should hold the rank of assistant professor or higher. All the committee members must be approved graduate faculty as defined in the university faculty handbook. The current research interests of the computer science members of the committee should be related to the research goals of the student.

  4. Additional members may be appointed to the committee.

  5. The committee must fill a Ph.D. Guidance Committee Form (University Form 13). This form is submitted to the graduate program director by the graduate studies committee and to the dean of the school for approval.