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CS Rankings excludes important CS research from ECE/EE deptartments

by l31g on 4/4/20, 2:57 AM with 8 comments

• by azhenley on 4/4/20, 4:25 AM

  One of the exclusions that I find interesting is any faculty that has a joint position at a company. A lot of great professors get 0 credit because of this.

  Another one is that you are penalized for having student authors on your papers.

• by l31g on 4/4/20, 3:23 AM

  According to csrankings.org's FAQ, they only include professors who can advise a CS-only student. The conflict is that the website includes areas (like "Embedded & real-time systems", "Robotics", and "Computer Architecture") that are traditionally done in EE and ECE departments. One significant example is UT Austin's prolific ECE department.

• by LolWolf on 4/4/20, 4:10 AM

  Huh, not sure why Stephen Boyd is not included in the Stanford list, but John Duchi is (if you’re reading this John, I’m only a little sorry! ;). He’s on the top 10 highest citation count of all Stanford professors behind essentially Hastie and Tibshirani (both of Elements of Statistical Learning fame), and both of which I’m also surprised are not included, even though they can all advise CS-only students.

  This is a bit silly of course because Stanford has a full cross-department policy, where the student’s department and their PhD advisors can be completely unrelated. (I’m not exaggerating at all when I’m saying this, and this policy also includes the Business and Medicine schools. There are EE professors who have business school students even without a courtesy appointment in the school of business. Similar things happen in the Medical school, etc.)

  I wonder how that (for Stanford and other schools) would change the rankings.