The Department of Computer Science awarded four Ph.D. degrees in May 2012. The recipients of the degrees were:

• Anjum Chida. Dissertation: Protein Tertiary Model Assessment Using Granular Machine Learning Techniques. Advisor: Dr. Yanqing Zhang. Current position: Lecturer, Department of Computer Science, Kennesaw State University.
• Wooyoung Kim. Dissertation: Innovative Algorithms and Evaluation Methods for Biological Motif Finding. Advisor: Dr. Yi Pan. Current position: Acting assistant professor, Computing and Software Systems Program, University of Washington Bothell.
• Gang Shen. Dissertation: Shadow Price Guided Genetic Algorithms. Advisor: Dr. Yanqing Zhang. Current position: System specialist, Macy's.
• Marco Valero-Rangel. Dissertation: DI-SEC: A Distributed Security Framework for Heterogeneous Wireless Sensor Networks. Advisors: Dr. Raheem Beyah and Dr. Yingshu Li. Current position: Senior R&D architect, Internap Network Services Corporation.