Doctor of Philosophy in Computing Science- Database Systems

University of Alberta

Database systems research includes database systems, spatiotemporal and image databases, information retrieval, content-based information retrieval, data management issues on the web and social networks, querying and indexing novel data types, knowledge discovery in databases, indexing, data mining, spatial data mining, web mining, database aspects of multimedia, bioinformatics, logic programming and artificial intelligence.We offer courses and research opportunities in several disciplines, including Artificial Intelligence, Database Systems, Computer Games, Machine Learning, Robotics, Software Engineering, Artificial Man-Machine Interfaces, Bioinformatics, Communication Networks, Algorithmics, Computer Graphics, Computer Vision, Software Systems, Human Computer Interaction, Internetworking, and Multimedia.