The Computer Science & Engineering department has been recognized as the 9th best department in the world, tied with Princeton for computational biology and bioinformatics research by csrankings.org which provides a metrics-based ranking of top computer science institutions around the world. This ranking is based on publications in the top computational biology and bioinformatics conferences over the last ten years. The department has many faculty members working in this research area, including Professors Derek Aguiar, Mukul Bansal, Jinbo Bi, Ion Mandoiu, Sheida Nabavi, Sanguthevar Rajasekaran, Dong-Guk Shin, Yufeng Wu, and others. Congratulations to all on this extraordinary accomplishment!
| # | Institution | Count | Faculty |
| 1 | ► Carnegie Mellon University | 17.7 | 12 |
| 2 | ► University of California – Los Angeles | 12.0 | 8 |
| 3 | ► University of California – San Diego | 6.9 | 3 |
| 4 | ► University of California – Berkeley | 6.2 | 5 |
| 5 | ► Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 6.1 | 6 |
| 6 | ► Pennsylvania State University | 5.9 | 3 |
| 7 | ► Duke University | 5.8 | 2 |
| 8 | ► Tel Aviv University | 5.6 | 4 |
| 9 | ► Princeton University | 5.5 | 2 |
| 9 | ► University of Connecticut | 5.5 | 4 |