CMS is an academic department of the Engineering and Applied Science division, located in the spectacular Annenberg Center for Information Science and Technologyon the campus of the California Institute of Technology---a world-renowned private university widely acknowledged to be among the best universities in the world despite its notably smaller size compared to peer institutions. Our department holds, at its core, over twenty faculty members, fifteen staff members, and about seventy graduate and eighty undergraduate students.
Consistently ranked among the top programs in the US, our department is active in many areas of Computer Science, Applied Mathematics, Communication &Networks, and Control &Systems, and is engaged in a broad range of interdisciplinary initiatives: our research projects frequently involve connections with other disciplines such as Applied Physics, Bioengineering, Biology, Economics, Electrical Engineering, Geology and Planetary Sciences, Mathematics, Mechanical Engineering, and Physics.
