CS Chair Amr Sabry
According to the National Science Foundation’s National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics, Indiana University Bloomington ranks no. 12 among all higher education institutions research and development expenditures in computer science.
The rankings (released in August 2016) are for Fiscal Year 2014, during which IU’s research funding was $28,934,000. This figure ranks fourth among Big Ten institutions, behind University of Illinois, Penn State University, and University of Maryland. Of the total, $18,090,000 was federally financed.
“Computer science at Indiana University has long been a source of innovation, and its groundbreaking work has obviously drawn the attention of the most important sources of scientific funding,” said Raj Acharya, dean of the School of Informatics and Computing. “The growth of our funding for research and development is another sign of IU’s leadership in the field of computer science.”
Research that year was highlighted by a $5 million National Science Foundation grant supporting Distinguished Professor Geoffrey Fox’s team working to improve how researchers across the sciences use big data to solve problems.
“The breadth of our research in computer science at Indiana University has allowed us to continue to grow in the field,” said Amr Sabry, the chair of the computer science department at IU. “We’re proud of the work we are doing, and our funding is simply one tangible sign of our ongoing commitment to keeping IU in the vanguard of research in computer science.”
IU’s ranking improved from 16 during fiscal year 2013.
“Dedication to research is one of the cornerstones of computer science at IU, and that dedication is reflected in our expenditures,” Assistant Dean of Research Martina Barnas said. “Our willingness to pursue the funding needed to make our research goals a reality is important to the success of our work.”
The rankings are compiled through NSF’s Higher Education Research and Development Survey, the primary source of information on R&D expenditures at U.S. colleges and universities. The survey is an annual census of institutions that expended at least $150,000 in budgeted R&D in the fiscal year.
The fiscal year 2015 data is expected to be available in November 2016.
See table here.