The Department
The Department of Computer Science was created in 1987 and is one of the largest departments at the UPC. It has around 90 full-time faculty and 50 Ph.D. students. The Department is responsible for education and research in several disciplines related to the foundations of computing and their applications: Algorithms, Programming, Computer Graphics, Artificial Intelligence, Theory of Computation, Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, etc.
The core of the teaching activity is concentrated in the bachelor's and master's degrees of the Barcelona School of Informatics, but the Department also teaches at various UPC schools: the Barcelona School of Industrial Engineering, the School of Mathematics and Statistics, the Vilanova i la Geltrú School of Engineering, the Terrassa School of Industrial, Aeronautical and Audiovisual Engineering and the Barcelona East School of Engineering. The Department coodinates two PhD programmes: Computing and Artificial Intelligence.
The Department's research is organised in research groups that cover different disciplines in the Computer Science domain. It is at the main conferences in the field and participates intensively in public and industrial projects and in the creation of spin-off companies.
- Director: Gabriel Alejandro Valiente Feruglio (direccio.cs@upc.edu)
- Secretary: Ramon Ferrer Cancho (sac@cs.upc.edu)
- Assistant director: Alfredo Vellido Alcacena
- Assistant director of educational affairs: Guillem Godoy
- Head of the Postgraduate Committee: Miquel Sànchez
- Head of the Teaching Committee: Javier Vázquez
- Head of section FIB-FME: Guillem Godoy Balil
- Second-in-command for FIB: Javier Vázquez Salceda and Albert Atserias Peri.
- Second-in-command for FME: Salvador Roura Ferret.
- Head of section EPSEVG: Jordi Esteve Cusiné
- Head of section ETSEIAAT: Argimiro Arratia Quesada
- Head of section ETSEIB: María Dolors Ayala Vallespí
- Head of section EEBE: Elvira Pino Blanco
- Manager of external reviews and thesis examination committees: Lluís Padró
- Person in charge of computer services (/rdlab): Gabriel Verdejo
- Administration services (USD): utgcntic