The MPCS directly helped me land my job. I was contacted by a SpaceX recruiter via the university’s careers platform. I rely on my CS education every day to solve problems efficiently and write reliable, scalable, maintainable code. I recommend the MPCS to anyone motivated to get a strong computer science education.
Andrew Eckart, ’21
Software Engineer, SpaceX
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Total Students
- Technology 56%
- Finance and Trading 24%
- Research 10%
- Other 10%
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In undergrad, Chelsea planned to become a spy. Plans changed, and she became a programmer instead. By day, Chelsea writes machine learning models to assist with annotating and interpreting legal text. By night, she builds mobile apps and data visualizations contributing to climate protection, citizen science, and racial justice.
Andrew is a Fellow at the Computation Institute of Chicago and a scientist at Argonne National Laboratory. His research is focused on developing new techniques for computer-aided drug discovery and applying them to study targeted proteins from human pathogens causing emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases. He conducts large-scale computing simulation experiments on one of the world’s largest supercomputers at Argonne and, ironically, teaches on the world’s most powerful computer you can fit in your pocket, the iPhone.
Gerry earned a degree with honors in mathematics from the University of Chicago, where her interest in physics led her to study probability theory, statistics, and numerical analysis. She completed a doctorate in logic at the University of Oslo in 1997, with her thesis later published as a book. In the 1990s, she helped computerize the editing and publication of the Astrophysical Journal and Astronomical Journal at the University of Chicago Press.