Scassellati said that though the University’s faculty members are strong, Yale’s department doesn’t have the breadth in the field that its peer institutions do.
These new hires have promoted research and lessened the teaching load on each professor. The move came after a “recognition across the University” of the field’s importance and the structural change of moving the department into the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences in 2015, computer science professor Brian computer science vs software engineering said. At the same time, the department began including courses that people with no prior computer science experience could take, like the popular course CS50, which started in 2015.
Computer science professor Dragomir Radev noted that the period of stagnancy before those key hires likely contributed to Yale’s computer science ranking.
“All top-10 CS departments have 50-100 faculty,” Radev wrote in an email to the News. “Yale had been at around 20 for several decades. It was not until around 2016 that the department started growing again — to around 26 now.”
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