Programs
Informatics
Informatics thinks big picture
Informatics is the science of information, studying how the world communicates and engages. Informatics is a place where innovative multidisciplinary programs thrive; a place where students can integrate technological skills and computer science methods with diverse disciplines:| Informatics Discipline | M.S. | Ph.D |
| Bioinformatics | √ | √ |
| Cheminformatics | √ | |
| Complex Systems | √ | |
| Human-Computer Interaction Design | √ | √ |
| Logic & Mathmatical Foundations of Informatics | √ | |
| Music Informatics | √ | |
| Security Informatics | √ | √ |
| Social Informatics | √ |
The Ph.D. in informatics encompasses a range of informatics-based options for the student. Informatics is an integrated multidisciplinary field. The doctoral program provides a balance between technological, scientific, and social dimensions involved in the development and application of information technology.
Marty Siegel, Director of Graduate Studies, Informatics
Whatever the specific focus of their informatics doctoral study, students draw on course work taken from several disciplines. In the science informatics areas, the degree is built on a base of advanced computer programming skills, mathematics, and statistics; and scientific disciplines like molecular biology for bioinformatics and organic chemistry for chemical informatics. Knowledge acquired from the integrated study of these areas is applied to research topics related to the storing, retrieving and analyzing of data in the fields of bioinformatics and chemical informatics.
For the student interested in health informatics, the program offers the resources of one of the largest academic health centers in the country. The School of Informatics and Computing works closely with the School of Medicine (collaboration in and support of bioinformatics, primarily in the Center for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics), School of Nursing (faculty appointments in the Health Informatics Graduate Program, dual curricular development), and School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences (Health Education for the 21st Century Project). The School also collaborates with the Regenstrief Institute, one of the premier research centers for medical informatics, located on the IUPUI campus.
For the student interested in human-computer interaction, the multidisciplinary program brings together user studies, behavioral science theory, new media theory, criticism, and design principles to allow the student to address research topics related to the design, evaluation and implementation of interactive computing systems in social settings. For the student interested in social informatics, the program offers a combination of knowledge of computing with the interdisciplinary study of the uses and consequences of information technologies that takes into account their interaction with institutional and cultural contexts.
