Carnegie Mellon University Software and Societal Systems Department

The Institute for Software Research in Carnegie Mellon Unversity’s School of Computer Science is a leader in software research and education. We are home to Ph.D. programs in Software Engineering and Societal Computing as well as professional masters programs in Software Engineering, eBusiness Technology, and Privacy Engineering. Our world-class faculty pursue research at the intersection of software, systems, and society. Some of the areas in which we are known, include: Software architecture Social network analysis at scale Software requirements Energy and IoT systems Socio-technical coordination Program analysis Mobile privacy and mobile commerce Privacy science and engineering Security engineering Software assurance and quality