Case Western Reserve University has launched a new Computer and Data Sciences Department in the Case School of Engineering (CSE), made possible primarily by a $5 million gift from Kevin J. Kranzusch, a CSE alumnus.
The university also announced the Kevin J. Kranzusch Professorship, which will be held by the future chair of the new department. CSE has launched a national search for the inaugural chair.
Kranzusch is a vice president of a software team working on autonomous vehicles, robotics and gaming devices at NVIDIA, a Santa Clara, Calif.-based company he helped build, starting in 1994. A spike in computer sciences enrollment and the advent of artificial intelligence (AI) inspired him to make the gift, according to a news release. The number of computer science degrees awarded by CSE has nearly tripled over the last decade, according to the release.
"I'm so excited to be a part of this effort," Kranzusch said in a prepared statement. "Computer sciences, especially AI and machine learning, are the future, and I hope this can play a part in helping our students to excel in those areas."
$4 million of the Kranzusch gift will establish a permanent endowment fund for the chairperson and professorship, with the remaining $1 million set aside for the department chair to use for strategic initiatives, according to the release.
"The new computer and data sciences department will anchor our students' educational experience in the discipline, providing them a rich field of subject-matter classes and opportunities for research experience," Venkataramanan "Ragu" Balakrishnan, the Charles H. Phipps Dean of the Case School of Engineering, said in a prepared statement.
The field of study had been offered previously within the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, according to the release. The creation of a separate Computer and Data Sciences Department and the renaming of the Department of Electrical, Computer and Systems Engineering took effect earlier this year.
The two distinct, but related, departments (both of which are led by interim chairs) will grant degrees specific to their areas this academic year, according to the release: computer science and data science and analytics from the new department; electrical engineering, systems and control, and computer engineering from the renamed department.
Kranzusch had discussed the importance of high-performance computing, parallel programming and the growth of big data with university officials for about a decade, according to the release.
"But even I didn't foresee the coming explosion in data science, machine learning and AI," he told university trustees. "Almost every industry — retail, finance, manufacturing, medicine, transportation — is being impacted. We are experiencing a fundamental shift in computing."
Balakrishnan said in the release that the new department will "serve as the focal point of faculty engaging in this evolving field, unifying research efforts and centralizing access to topic experts, making it easier for faculty to collaborate across disciplines."
With computer and data science pervading everything from health care to polymers to clean energy, the new department offers the necessary structure to meet the needs of students and faculty at the university, he added.
"This expansion of computer and data sciences, along with a renewed focus for electrical engineering, will help further establish the Case School of Engineering as a leader in these critical areas," Balakrishnan said in a prepared statement.
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