
Welcome to the
Department of Computer Science
The Department of Computer Science at Wake Forest University is dedicated to preparing students for exciting employment opportunities and entering our own or other prestigious graduate programs. We boast a highly-qualified and passionate faculty who enjoy student engagement in and out of the classroom.
We pride ourselves on the opportunities provided to our students for meaningful participation in leading-edge research on a broad range of contemporary topics creating solutions to real-world problems.
Research
Students have the opportunity and are encouraged to work with faculty members on research projects. Research interactions often stem from shared interests between students and faculty and may involve various types of engagement and expectations around the research work.


The Student Experience
Our Department is an intimate community allowing deep engagement between students and faculty, dedicated to making use of innovative approaches to teaching and learning, performing impactful research, and providing meaningful service opportunities.
By the Numbers
15
Permanent Faculty
180
Number of Majors & Minors
15
MS Students
What’s Happening
- Jack Weissenberger (’19) Shares How to Align Strategy, Data Foundations, & Engineering to Deliver Real-world, Scalable AIAbstract: To share his career path and process for starting a business, his experiences like working in big tech, at startups, going through the Salesforce acquisition, […]
- Knowledge Editing in Multi-modal Foundation Models by Dr. Kaixiong ZhouAbstract: While FMs have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in storing knowledge and performing reasoning across modalities, including language, vision, and structured data. their stored knowledge is […]
- URECA Day: Time to Shine!Huge congratulations to Mario, Julia, Ruicheng, and Mallory! These talented students have been awarded the Wake Forest Research Fellowship and received vital support from the […]
Department Info
Who We Are
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Resources
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