By the numbers
1545
Undergraduate Students1629
Graduate Students#13
Ranked Informatics B.S61%
International & Minority Students$31 M
Active Research GrantsSchool of Informatics, Computing, and Cyber Systems
The School of Informatics, Computing, and Cyber Systems (SICCS) integrates a range of educational programs and interdisciplinary research. Our programs integrate computational and data sciences with engineering, natural and social sciences, arts, and business.
Our faculty and academic programs combine expertise in environmental and ecological informatics, health and bioinformatics, computer science, cyber-security/cyber-
Our Degrees
We offer undergraduate and graduate programs in Informatics, Electrical Engineering, and Computer Science. Our students are involved in a broad range of research and applied experiences. Explore our programs below!
Research & Emphasis Areas
Our school’s faculty, students, and staff bring interdisciplinary expertise to bear on applied and basic research problems in several emphasis areas, and in partnership with a variety of local and global partners. SICCS currently emphasizes five major areas of research.
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- Dubayah, R., Blair, J.B., Goetz, S., Fatoyinbo, L., Hansen, M., Healey, S., Hofton, M., Hurtt, G., Kellner, J., Luthcke, S., Armston, J., Tang, H., Duncanson, L., Hancock, S., Jantz, P., Marselis, S., Patterson, P., Qi, W., Silva, C. (2020). Science of Remote Sensing 100002.
- Brancalion, P. H. S., Niamir, A., Broadbent, E., Crouzeilles, R., Barros, F. S. M., Almeyda Zambrano, A. M.,Baccini, A.,Aronson, J.,Goetz, S.J.,Reid, J. L.,Strassburg, B. N.,Wilson, S.,Chazdon, R. L. (2019).ScienceAdvances,5(7), eaav3223.
- Walker, X. J., Baltzer, J. L., Cumming, S. G., Day, N. J., Ebert, C., Goetz, S.J., Johnstone, J. F., Potter, S., Rogers, B. M., Schuur, E. A. G., Turetsky, M. R., Mack, M. C. (2019). Nature, 572(7770), 520–523.
- Anderegg, W.R.L., Trugman, A.T., Badgley, G., Anderson, C.M., Bartuska, A., Ciais, P., Cullenward, D., Field, C.B., Freeman, J., Goetz, S.J., Hicke, J.A., Huntzinger, D., Jackson, R.B., Nickerson, J., Pacala, S., Randerson, J.T. (2020)., Science 368 (6497)
- Walker, X. J., Baltzer, J. L., Cumming, S. G., Day, N. J., Ebert, C., Goetz, S.J., Johnstone, J. F., Potter, S., Rogers, B. M., Schuur, E. A. G., Turetsky, M. R., Mack, M. C. (2019).. Nature,572(7770), 520–523.
- Basu S., S.J. Lehman, J.B. Miller, A.E. Andrews, C. Sweeney, K.R. Gurney, X. Xu, J. Southon, P. Tans (2020) , Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, June 16, 2020 117 (24) 13300-13307; first published June 1, 2020
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- Gomez, M., A. Mejia, B.L. Ruddell, and R.R. Rushforth (2021), , Nature, V.595
- Gurney, K.R., Liang, J., Roest, G.et al..Nat Commun12,553 (2021).
- Myers Smith, I.H., Kerby, J.T., ET.AL (2020)””Nature Climate Change, 10(2), 106-117.
- Berner, L., Massey, R., Jantz, P., Forbes, B. C., Macias Fauria, M., Myers-Smith, I., … & Burns, P. (2020). ““. Nature Communications.
- O., Watson, J.E.M., Jantz, P., Virnig, A.L.S., Barnett, K., Pillay, R., Atkinson, S., Supples, C., Rodríguez-Buritica, S., Armenteras, D. (2020). ““. Nature Ecology and Evolution Evolution, early edition online.
- William R. L. Anderegg,Anna T. Trugman,Scott J. Goetz, et al. ““. Science 368.6497 (2020).
- Enquist, B. J., Abraham, A. J., Harfoot, M. B., Malhi, Y., & Doughty, C. E. (2020). .Nature communications,11(1), 1-11.
- Richter, B.D.,et al.Nat Sustain(2020).
- Schmitz, Oswald J., et al. Science 362.6419 (2018): eaar3213.
- Ogle, Kiona. Nature (2018): 32.
- Richardson, Andrew D., et al. Nature 560.7718 (2018): 368.
- Buermann, Wolfgang, et al. Nature 562.7725 (2018): 110.
- McManamay, Ryan A., et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 114.36 (2017): 9581-9586.
- Lu, Xiankai, et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 115.20 (2018): 5187-5192.
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News
Take a look at what’s currently happening in the world of Informatics, Computing, and Cyber Systems.
Cancer Discovery publishes research examining cancer dictations across vertebrate species
Assistant professor Marc Tollis of Northern Arizona University's School of Informatics, Computing, and Cyber Systems (SICCS) worked staunchly with researchers to explore potential factors that dictate why some species are more prone to cancer than others, including adult mass and gestational time. Results of the study suggest that higher adult mass and longer gestation time may contribute to an increased risk of developing cancer among vertebrates. It is also thought that the insights of the study may help uncover mechanisms…
Congratulations Bianca Trinkenreich for receiving the 2024 ACM SIGSOFT Outstanding Dissertation Award for the work she performed during her PhD here at SICCS!
The 2024 award goes to Bianca Trinkenreich (now at Oregon State University) for her Ph.D. thesis “Understanding and Supporting Women’s Participation in Open Source Software” (Northern Arizona University, advised by Igor Steinmacher and Marco Aurelio Gerosa).
Disease ecologist awarded $3.5 million to build revolutionary epidemiological platform
Mathematical modeling—which combines math, statistics, computing and data—is a critical tool for public health professionals, who use it to study how diseases spread, predict the future course of outbreaks and evaluate strategies for controlling epidemics. Assistant professor Joe Mihaljevicof Northern Arizona University’sSchool of Informatics, Computing, and Cyber Systems (SICCS) has been working with public health partners across the state and the country to share computer models mapping the spread of the coronavirus. Mihaljevic, a disease ecologist who applies epidemiological modeling…
Congratulations John Hardy for receiving the NAU/NASA space grant!
Congratulations John Hardy for receiving the NAU/NASA space grant (Fall 2022-Spring 2023). John Hardy is the third-year Electrical Engineering undergraduate student in Dr. Ying-Chen (Daphne) Chen’s research lab, who has been showing a great interests and potential in conducting cutting-edge research on next-generation microelectronics. The project being funded will be focused on the oxide-based memory for neural network implementations towards the computing challenges.
Congratulations to Jasmine Mendez and Adam Wilson on receiving the Hooper Undergraduate Research Award(HURA)
Jasmine Mendez and Adam Wilson received the prestigiousHooper Undergraduate Research Award(HURA) for their project The Selfish Sequences in Squamate Genomes: Evolutionary Dynamics of CR1 and LINE-1 non-LTR Retrotransposons.