The Ph.D. program in Computation, Organizations and Society (COS)

“Computing About and For Society”

The Ph.D. program in Computation, Organizations and Society (COS):

• Prepares students to be tomorrow’s leaders in designing, constructing and assessing software that will transform society, business, policy, and law or be used to computationally reason about these complex socio-computational transformations.
• World-class interdisciplinary faculty
• Unique multi-disciplinary curriculum - focused on the cutting edge in computer science, statistical and network methods, theories and findings from the social, organizational, management and policy sciences.
• Engage in hands-on applications and cutting-edge research starting in year 1.
• Application areas include: privacy, dynamic social networks, link analysis, team and organizational performance, computer simulation, bio-surveillance, sustainability, electronic voting, and supply chain management.

COS Research Centers and Labs
	Center for Computational Analysis of Social and Organizational Systems (CASOS) CASOS brings together computational and social network techniques to develop a better understanding of the fundamental principles of organizing, coordinating, managing and destabilizing systems of intelligent adaptive agents (human and artificial) engaged in real tasks at the team, organizational or social level.
	Mobile Commerce Laboratory The Mobile Commerce Laboratory researches new technologies and applies user-centered design principles in the development of solutions to reconcile context-awareness and privacy in mobile and pervasive computing environments.
	e-Supply Chain Management Laboratory The e-Supply Chain Management Laboratory conducts interdisciplinary research on decision support tools and advanced technologies aimed at significantly increasing enterprise supply chain agility.
	CyLab Usable Privacy and Security (CUPS) Laboratory CUPS conducts research to make secure systems more usable by building systems that "just work" without involving humans in security-critical functions, making secure systems intuitive and easy to use, and teaching humans how to perform security-critical tasks.