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The computing and information revolution is transforming society. Cornell Computer Science is a leader in this transformation, producing cutting-edge research in many important areas. The excellence of Cornell faculty and students, and their drive to discover and collaborate, ensure our leadership will continue to grow.
The contributions of Cornell Computer Science to research and education are widely recognized, as shown by two Turing Awards, two Von Neumann medals, two MacArthur "genius" awards, and dozens of NSF Career awards our faculty have received, among numerous other signs of success and influence.
To explore current computer science research at Cornell, follow links at the left or below.
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Knowledge representation, machine learning, NLP and IR, reasoning, robotics, search, vision
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Statistical genetics, sequence analysis, structure analysis, genome assembly, protein classification, gene networks, molecular dynamics
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Processor architecture, networking, asynchronous VLSI, distributed computing
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Database systems, data-driven games, learning for database systems, voice interfaces, computational fact checking, data mining
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Interactive rendering, global illumination, measurement, simulation, sound, perception
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HCI, interface design, computational social science, education, computing and society
Artificial intelligence, algorithms
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Programming language design and implementation, optimizing compilers, type theory, formal verification
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Perception, control, learning, aerial robots, bio-inspired robots, household robots
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Numerical analysis, computational geometry, physically based animation
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Secure systems, secure network services, language-based security, mobile code, privacy, policies, verifiable systems
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In the past five years, Computer Science faculty have had research collaborations with every other college at Purdue. The work of the computer scientist is applicable just about everywhere. Though research activity spans many broad areas, the list below reflects the interests and expertise of the faculty summarized in 14 areas.
Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Natural Language Processing
Our group members study and devise core machine learning and artificial intelligence methods to solve complex problems throughout science, engineering, and medicine. Our goal is to enhance human lives and bring advanced technologies to augment human capabilities. This research involves both deployments in real-world applications as well as development of fundamental theories in computer science, mathematics, and statistics.
List of Faculty
- Aniket Bera
- Simina Branzei
- Brian Bullins*
- Berkay Celik
- Chris Clifton
- David Gleich
- Dan Goldwasser*
- Steve Hanneke*
- Jean Honorio*
- Sooyeon Jeong
- Rajiv Khanna*
- Anuran Makur
- Jennifer Neville*
- Chunyi Peng
- Alex Psomas
- Ahmed Qureshi*
- Bruno Ribeiro*
- Tiark Rompf
- Muhammad Shahbaz
- Paul Valiant
- Jianguo Wang
- Yexiang Xue*
- Raymond Yeh*
- Ruqi Zhang*
- Tianyi Zhang
(* indicates primary area of research)
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- Co gnitive R obot A utonomy and L earning (CoRAL) lab
- MINDS: Data Science, Machine Learning, and AI
- PurPL: Center for Programming Principles and Software Systems
Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
Faculty in the area of bioinformatics and computational biology apply computational methodologies such as databases, machine learning, discrete, probabilistic, and numerical algorithms, and methods of statistical inference to problems in molecular biology, systems biology, structural biology, and molecular biophysics.
- Bedrich Benes
- Petros Drineas
- Ananth Grama
- Majid Kazemian*
- Daisuke Kihara*
- Alex Pothen
- Wojtek Szpankowski
- Kihara Bioinformatics Lab
- Kazemian Lab
Sample Projects
- PrFEcT-Predict
- 3D-SURFER 2.0
- Alex Pothen Software Artifacts
- Majid Kazemian Software Artifacts
Computer Architecture
Computer Architecture research studies the interplay between computer hardware and software, particularly at the intersection of programming languages, compilers, operating systems, and security.
- Changhee Jung
- Xuehai Qian*
- Kazem Taram*
Computational Science and Engineering
The research area of Computational Science and Engineering answers questions that are too big to address experimentally or are otherwise outside of experimental abilities. Using the latest computers and algorithms, this group addresses those questions through numerical modeling and analysis, high-performance computation, massive distributed systems, combinatorial algorithms in science applications, high-speed data analysis, and matrix-based computations for numerical linear algebra.
- Petros Drineas*
- David Gleich*
- Ananth Grama*
- Alex Pothen*
- Ahmed Qureshi
- Elisha Sacks
- Xavier Tricoche
- Yexiang Xue
CSE Research Group
- David Gleich Software Artifacts
- Finite Element Analysis of 9/11 Attacks
Databases and Data Mining
The data revolution is having a transformational impact on society and computing technology by making it easier to measure, collect, and store data. Our databases and data mining (big data) research group develops models, algorithms, and systems to facilitate and support data analytics in large-scale, complex domains. Application areas include database privacy and security, web search, spatial data, information retrieval, and natural language processing.
- Walid Aref*
- Elisa Bertino
- Bharat Bhargava*
- Chris Clifton*
- Dan Goldwasser
- Susanne Hambrusch
- Jennifer Neville
- Sunil Prabhakar*
- Bruno Ribeiro
- Jianguo Wang*
- Cyber Space Security Lab (CyberS2Lab)
- Conceptual Evaluation and Optimization of Queries in Spatiotemporal Data Systems
- Secure Dissemination of Video Data in Vehicle-to-Vehicle Systems
- Ensuring Integrity and Authenticity of Outsourced Databases
- Towards Scalable and Comprehensive Uncertain DAta Management
- ORION DBMS: Handling Nebulous Data
Distributed Systems
The DS group focuses on designing distributed systems that are scalable, dependable, and secure, behaving according to their specification in spite of errors, misconfigurations, or being subjected to attacks. Areas of focus include virtualization technologies with emphasis on developing advanced technologies for computer malware defense and cloud computing.
- Bharat Bhargava
- Pedro Fonseca
- Suresh Jagannathan
- Aniket Kate
- Kihong Park
- Vernon Rego*
- Eugene Spafford
- Yongle Zhang
- Vassilis Zikas
- Saurabh Bagchi (by courtesy)
- Charlie Hu (by courtesy)
- Sanjay Rao (by courtesy)
(* indicates primary area of research)
- Dependable Computing Systems Lab
- FRIENDS Lab
- ProTracer: Practical Provenance Tracing
- DCSL Projects
Graphics and Visualization
This group performs research in graphics, visualization, computational geometry, and related applications. Focus areas include model acquisition, image generalization, scientific visualization, urban modeling, robust computational geometry, and geometric computations and constraints.
- Daniel Aliaga *
- Bedrich Benes*
- Voicu Popescu*
- Elisha Sacks*
- Xavier Tricoche*
- Computer Graphics and Visualization Lab
- High Performance Computer Graphics Laboratory
Graphics Lab Projects
Human-Computer Interaction
- Sooyeon Jeong*
- Tianyi Zhang*
Information Security and Assurance
Strong security and privacy is needed to defend our records, communications, finances, governments and infrastructure against all manner of threats and attacks, while also enhancing legitimate uses. Research in Information Security and Assurance focuses on the analysis, development, and deployment of technologies, algorithms, and policies to protect computing and data resources against malicious access or tampering, and to validate authenticity.
- Mikhail Atallah*
- Elisa Bertino*
- Antonio Bianchi*
- Jeremiah Blocki*
- Berkay Celik*
- Sonia Fahmy
- Christina Garman*
- Aniket Kate*
- Ninghui Li*
- Hemanta Maji*
- Sunil Prabhakar
- Vernon Rego
- Eugene Spafford*
- Dongyan Xu*
- Vassilis Zikas*
- Freedom Research Lab
- Database Security Lab
- Spatial-temporal Recreation of Android App Displays from Memory Images
- Multiple Perspective Attack Investigation with Semantic Aware Execution Partitioning
- HexHive Group Projects
- Chunyi Peng Mobile Phone Projects
- Freedom Lab Projects
Networking and Operating Systems
This area works on fundamental problems at different layers of the network protocol stack – from the medium access control layer up to the application layer – using theoretical models, simulation, emulation, and extensive testbed experimentation to develop and evaluate proposed solutions which leverage techniques from game theory, information theory, complexity theory, optimization, and cryptography.
- Saurabh Bagchi*
- Antonio Bianchi
- Doug Comer*
- Sonia Fahmy*
- Pedro Fonseca*
- Kihong Park*
- Chunyi Peng*
- Muhammad Shahbaz*
- Yongle Zhang*
Programming Languages and Compilers
The PL group engages in research spanning all aspects of software systems design, analysis, and implementation. Active research projects exist in functional and object-oriented programming languages, both static and dynamic compilation techniques for scalable multicore systems, generative programming, assured program generation, scripting languages, distributed programming abstractions and implementations, real time and embedded systems, mobile and untrusted computing environments, and runtime systems with special focus on memory management and parallel computing environments.
- Ben Delaware*
- Suresh Jagannathan*
- Changhee Jung*
- Zhiyuan Li*
- Ryan Newton*
- Tiark Rompf*
- Roopsha Samanta*
- Xiangyu Zhang*
- Yung-Hsiang Lu (by courtesy)
- Milind Kulkarni (by courtesy)
- PurForM - Purdue's Formal Methods research group
PurPL - Center for Programming Principles and Software Systems
- Secure Software Systems Lab (S3)
Software Engineering
The software engineering area conducts research on applying advanced program analyses towards problems related to fault isolation and various kinds of bug detection, including those related to race conditions in concurrent programs, and specification inference for large-scale software systems.
- Ben Delaware
- Buster Dunsmore*
- Xiangyu Zhang
Automatic Model Generation from Documentation for Java API Functions
Robotics and Computer Vision
The Robotics and Computer Vision area includes elements of machine learning, signal processing, and image processing to further develop robotics and computer vision systems from a computational science perspective.
- Aniket Bera*
- Raymond Yeh
Theory of Computing, Algorithms, and Quantum Computing
Members of the group work in areas that include analysis of algorithms, parallel computation, computational algebra and geometry, computational complexity theory, digital watermarking, data structures, graph algorithms, network algorithms, distributed computation, information theory, analytic combinatorics, random structures, external memory algorithms, and approximation algorithms.
- Mikhail Atallah
- Saugata Basu*
- Jeremiah Blocki
- Simina Branzei*
- Brian Bullins
- Elena Grigorescu*
- Susanne Hambrusch*
- Steve Hanneke
- Rajiv Khanna
- Hemanta Maji
- Anuran Makur*
- Alex Psomas*
- Kent Quanrud*
- Eric Samperton*
- Wojtek Szpankowski*
- Paul Valiant*
- Sabre Kais (by courtesy)
Theory Group
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Computer science research at the Johns Hopkins University is advancing computing technology, enabling new modes of thought, and transforming society. Our faculty conduct innovative, collaborative research aimed at solving large and complex interdisciplinary problems, drawing upon the university’s renowned strengths in areas including artificial intelligence, robotics, speech and language processing, medicine, and public health.
The department is rapidly growing, with current core research areas of theory and programming languages; systems and networking; computational biology and medicine; information security; natural language processing; machine learning, artificial intelligence, and data science; robotics, computer vision, and graphics; and human-computer interaction.
Researchers partners with colleagues in other engineering disciplines, as well as with investigators from the Johns Hopkins Krieger School of Arts and Sciences, the School of Medicine, and the Applied Physics Laboratory.
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Theory & programming languages.
Focusing on the design, implementation, and use of computer programming languages.
Systems & Networkings
Our faculty are undertaking research into all aspects of computer systems and networks.
Computational Biology & Medicine
Faculty are engaged in a wide range of computational health and biology projects, from using data-driven tools to detect early signs of sepsis to DNA sequencing technology and evolutionary genomics.
Information Security
Hopkins researchers are working to safeguard our digital world.
Natural Language Processing
Creating innovative new technologies that will enable more natural interaction between human and computers.
Machine Learning, AI, & Data Science
Applying cutting-edge machine learning techniques to new datasets and domains.
Robotics, Vision, & Graphics
Research spans the areas of computer vision, computer graphics, and augmented and virtual reality.
Human-Computer Interaction
Placing people at the center of technological innovation.
Computer-Assisted Medicine
Our faculty are shaping the digital future across all aspects of health care.
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The Institute for Assured Autonomy is operating in partnership with industry, government and academia to ensure the safe, secure, reliable, and predictable integration of autonomous systems into society by covering the full spectrum of research and application across the three pillars of technology, ecosystem, and policy & governance.
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Autonomous and cyber-physical systems.
Subareas: Real-time and Embedded Systems, Sensor Systems, Mobile Computing, Control Theory and Systems, Formal Methods, Automated Verification and Certification Faculty: Alterovitz , Anderson , Chakraborty , Duggirala , Nirjon
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Bioinformatics and computational biology.
Subareas: Computational Genetics, Computational Immunology, Proteomics, Statistical Genetics, Single-Cell Bioinformatics Faculty: Ahalt , Krishnamurthy , Marron , McMillan , Snoeyink , Stanley
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Computational Immunology: Advancements in high-throughput flow and mass cytometry technologies have enabled the ability to study the immune system at an unparalleled depth. Understanding immunological adaptations to particular diseases and in aging and development offers unique opportunities to develop novel diagnostic tests or to propose specialized treatments or lifestyle interventions to optimize human health. Using single-cell flow and mass cytometry data collected across multiple individuals, our goal is to develop new computational techniques to identify and link heterogeneity in the cellular landscape to external variables of interest, such as, a clinical phenotype or diagnosis. Recent advances in imaging cytometry also enable taking images of tissues and studying the spatial organization of immune cells. Application areas of interest include pregnancy, HIV, neuroimmunology, and T-cell biology. Relevant People Natalie Stanley ; Collaborating Departments: Microbiology and Immunology , Computational Medicine Program , Department of Anesthesia
Development and Differentiation, and Metagenomics: We use novel measurement techniques as well as machine learning methods in understanding the interplay between these areas, with the aim of discovering the forces that shape the immune system throughout life. The overarching goal is to apply the insights from such analyses to propose new treatments for cancers.
Single-Cell Bioinformatics: Cellular heterogeneity, or the synergy of diverse and specialized cell-types drive a range of biological phenomena. Several technologies exist for measuring various properties (e.g. gene expression, protein expression) in individual cells, which allows for their comprehensive characterization and analysis in clinical or biological applications. Single-cell measurements can be studied in vitro to understand the etiology of disease. For example, in hypoxia of heart muscle cells, the cells become scar tissue and lose their muscle function. This process can be studied by looking at single cell transcriptomes to determine the order of events. Further, it can be possible to “reprogram” this sequence of events to avoid the adverse outcome. See some of our recent work in reprogramming scar tissue cells to recover some heat muscle cell functionality.
Technologies and Data Science Problems: Single-cell datasets produced with technologies, such as single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) or flow and mass cytometry reveal a unique data structure where there are several high-dimensional single-cell measurements per profiled sample, which need to be efficiently integrated.
Flow and Mass Cytometry : Flow and mass cytometry are high-throughput single-cell proteomics technologies for systematic analysis of the immune system. Often applied for the analysis of human blood and tissue samples, the produced datasets can collectively contain millions of cells. We focus on developing new computational techniques for representing, dissecting, and mining this large volume of cells to identify immunological adaptations in disease and development.
Relevant People: Leonard McMillan , Natalie Stanley
Computer Architecture
Subareas: Accelerators, Clockless Logic, Energy-efficient Computing, Security Faculty: Porter , Singh , Sturton
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Energy-Efficient Systems: With the explosive growth in mobile devices, there has been a push towards increasing energy efficiency of computation for longer battery life. Reducing power consumption is also important for desktop computing to alleviate challenges of heat removal and power delivery. A special focus in our department has been on the development of energy-efficient graphics hardware. Another area of future interest is energy-harvesting systems, which are ultra-low-power systems that operate on energy scavenged from the environment.
Asynchronous or Clockless Computing: Asynchronous VLSI design is poised to play a key role in the design of the next generation of microelectronic chips. By dispensing with global clocks and instead using flexible handshaking between components, asynchronous design offers the benefits of lower power consumption, greater ease of integration of multiple cores, and greater robustness to manufacturing and runtime variation. Our researchers work on all aspects of asynchronous design, including circuits, architectures, and CAD tools. A key area of interest is application to network-on-a-chip for integration of multiple heterogeneous cores.
Computer Graphics
Subareas: Animation & Simulation, Graphics Hardware, Modeling, Rendering, Tracking, Virtual Environments, Visualization Faculty: Alterovitz , Chakravarthula , Fuchs , Marks , Sengupta , Singh , Snoeyink , Daniel Szafir , Danielle Szafir
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Computer vision.
Subareas: Geometric Vision, Language & Vision, Recognition Faculty: Ahalt , Bansal , Bertasius , Marks , Niethammer , Sengupta
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Human-computer interaction.
Subareas: Assistive Technology, Haptics, Human Factors Analysis, Sound & Audio Display, User-Interface Toolkits, Virtual Environments Faculty: Dewan , Marks , Nirjon , Porter , Pozefsky , Srivastava , Stotts , Daniel Szafir , Danielle Szafir
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Wearable devices, such as smart watches and smart glasses, and other common sensors are increasingly facilitating new modes of interaction with modern computers—making the goal of ubiquitous computing realizable. A major research direction in HCI at UNC is exploring design techniques and system support to more easily extend desktop and phone applications onto devices with widely varying form factors and interaction modes.
Another significant research direction at UNC is exploring assistive technologies for users with impairments, such as learning disabilities, blindness, and low vision. These populations face significant barriers to education and employment that we aim to reduce, as well as study different modes of interaction with computers.
Machine Learning and Data Science
Subareas: Data Integration, Internet of Things, Knowledge Discovery, Machine Learning, Scientific Data Management, Visual Analytics Faculty: Ahalt , Bansal , Bertasius , Chaturvedi , Krishnamurthy , Marks , McMillan , Niethammer , Nirjon , Oliva , Sengupta , Srivastava , Danielle Szafir , Yao
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Machine Learning: The problems we study combine vast amounts and disparate types of measurements with equally complex prior knowledge, posing unique challenges for machine learning. Our interests include both modeling paradigms, such as Bayesian nonparametric methods, and inference methodologies, such as MCMC, variational methods and convex optimization. We also work on structured, interpretable, and generalizable deep learning models. Other topics of focus include multi-task learning, reinforcement learning, and transfer learning.
Medical Image Analysis
Subareas: Biomechanical Modeling, Diffusion Imaging, Image-guided Interventions, Segmentation, Shape Analysis, Registration Faculty: Alterovitz , Marron , Niethammer , Oguz , Pizer , Styner
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Natural language processing.
Subareas: Language Generation, Multimodal and Grounded NLP (with Vision and Robotics), Question Answering and Dialogue Faculty: Bansal , Chaturvedi , Srivastava
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Subareas: Distributed Systems, Internet Measurements, Multimedia Systems, Multimedia Transport, Network Protocols Faculty: Aikat , Dewan , Jeffay , Kaur , Mayer-Patel , Nirjon , Pozefsky
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Operating systems.
Subareas: File Systems, Virtualization, Concurrency, Software Support for Secure Hardware Faculty: Anderson , B. Berg , Jeffay , Porter
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This area has substantial overlap with a number of other research areas, including cyber-physical systems, real-time systems, mobile systems, networking, architecture, human-computer interaction, and security.
Real-Time Systems
Faculty: Anderson , Jeffay , Nirjon
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Subareas: Assistive Robotics, Manipulation, Medical Robotics, Motion Planning & Control, Robot Learning, Robot Perception (see: Computer Vision) Faculty: Alterovitz , Bansal , Snoeyink , Daniel Szafir
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Subareas: Cloud Computing Security, Cryptography, Hardware Security, Mobile Device Security, Network Security Faculty: Aikat , Eskandarian , Kwong , Porter , Sturton
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Network security: Today’s Internet infrastructure is a common target of attack and the vehicle for numerous unwanted activities in network applications (e.g., spam, phishing). We are conducting research to evaluate the extent of these vulnerabilities and to develop defenses against them. This includes research on both protecting the Internet infrastructure from attack and designing defenses within the context of network applications.
Cloud computing security: The use of cloud servers to outsource data and processing has become increasingly common. Because cloud facilities are shared, however, a customer’s data and processing may reside with those of competitors or attackers, and so privacy and integrity of the customer’s activities are paramount. We are developing technologies to better protect data and processing in such threatening environments.
Subareas: Algorithms, Automated Theorem Proving, Formal Methods Faculty: Anderson , B. Berg , Duggirala , Eskandarian , Snoeyink , Sturton
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Research areas represent the major research activities in the Department of Computer Science. Faculty and students have developed new ideas to achieve results in all aspects of the nine areas of research.
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Research at yale cs.
At Yale Computer Science, our faculty and students are at the forefront of innovation and discoveries. We conduct ground-breaking research covering a full range of areas in theory, systems, and applications.
Our department is currently in the middle of substantial growth. Data and Computer Science is listed as one of the top five Science Priorities in Yale’s recent University Science Strategy Committee Report. Yale’s School of Engineering and Applied Science is also launching a substantial initiative in Artificial Intelligence, broadly construed, that will include research in the foundations of AI, in applications and technology, and in societal and scientific impacts.
Interdisciplinary Centers & Initiatives
Computer Science has also grown beyond its own bounds to become a multi-disciplinary field that touches many other sciences as well as arts and humanities: physics, economics, law, management, psychology, biology, medicine, music, philosophy, and linguistics. They have also led to interdisciplinary research centers.
Institute for the Foundations of Data Science
Schools/Departments: CS, S&DS, EE, Econ, Social Science, Political Science, and SOM
Wu-Tsai Institute for Interdisciplinary Neurocognition Research
Schools/Departments: CS, Psych, S&DS, SEAS, and Medicine
Yale Institute for Network Science
Schools/Departments: CS, Social Science, S&DS, and EE
Yale Quantum Institute
Schools/Departments: CS, Applied Physics, Physics, and EE
Computation and Society Initiative
Schools/Departments: CS, S&DS, Social Science
Research Areas
Algorithms and complexity theory .
Yale’s Theory group advances our understanding of the fundamental power and limits of computation and creates innovative algorithms to empower society.
Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
We study how to build systems that can learn to solve complex tasks in ways that would traditionally need human intelligence. Our research covers both the foundation and applications of AI: Robotics, Machine Learning Theory, Natural Language Processing, Computer Vision, Human-Computer Interactions, AI for Medicine, and AI for Social Impact.
Computer Architecture
We design the interface of software and hardware of computer systems at all scale – ranging from large-scale AI and cloud services to safety-critical embedded systems to Internet-Of-Things devices. We deliver the next-generation processors to meet performance, power, energy, temperature, reliability, and accuracy goals, by composing principled and well-abstracted hardware.
Computer Graphics
Research in computer graphics at Yale includes sketching, alternative design techniques, texture models, the role of models of human perception in computer graphics, recovering shape and reflectance from images, computer animation, simulation, and geometry processing.
Computer Music
Computer music research at Yale encompasses a range of technical and artistic endeavors.
Computer Networks
Computer networks allow computers to communicate with one another, and provide the fundamental infrastructures supporting our modern society. Research on computer networks at Yale improves on essential network system properties such as efficiency, robustness, and programmability.
Database Systems
Database systems provide an environment for storage and retrieval of both structured and semi-structured data.
Distributed Computing
Distributed computing is the field in computer science that studies the design and behavior of systems that involve many loosely-coupled components. Distributed systems research at Yale includes work in the theory of distributed computing, its programming language support, and its uses to support parallel programming.
Natural Language Processing
Yale scientists conduct cutting-edge research in NLP, including computational liguistics, semantic parsing, multilingual information retrieval, language database interfaces and dialogue systems. We also investigate how to use NLP to create transformative solutions to health care.
Operating Systems
Yale is developing new operating system architectures, application environments, and security frameworks to meet today’s challenges across the computing spectrum, including IoT devices, cyber-physical systems (such as self-driving cars and quadcopters), cloud computers, and blockchain ecosystems.
Programming Languages and Compilers
We approach Programming Languages research from several directions including language design, formal methods, compiler implementation, programming environments, and run-time systems. A major focus of the research at Yale is to build secure, error-free programs, as well as develop frameworks that help others achieve that same goal.
Quantum Computing
Yale has been at the forefront of innovation and discoveries in Quantum Science. Through interdisciplinary research and pioneering innovations, our Yale CS faculty advances the state-of-the-art in quantum computing and quantum information science, building upon insights and lessons from classical computer science.
Robotics research at Yale’s Computer Science department is currently focused on advancing Human-Robot Interaction. Applications include education, manufacturing, entertainment, and service domains. Robots are also used to advance our understanding of human behavior.
Scientific Computing and Applied Math
Scientific computing research at Yale emphasizes algorithm development, theoretical analysis, systems and computer architecture modeling, and programming considerations.
Security and Cryptography
Adequately addressing security and privacy concerns requires a combination of technical, social, and legal approaches. Topics currently under active investigation in the department include mathematical modeling of security properties, implementation and application of cryptographic protocols, secure and privacy-preserving distributed algorithms, trust management, verification of security properties, and proof-carrying code.
Societal and Humanistic Aspects of Computation
Today’s society comprises humans living in a complex and interconnected world that is intertwined with a variety of computing, sensing, and communicating devices. Yale researchers create innovative solutions to mitigate explicit and implicit biases, control polarization, improve diversity, and ensure privacy.
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We are shaping the future of computing
Here at CS@UCSB, we are shaping the future of computing by our outstanding research and education programs. Our world-renowned faculty and exceptional students conduct exciting research in all areas of computer science. From harnessing the power of machine learning in a responsible manner to ensuring the security of cloud computing, from investigating the new horizons of human-computer interaction and visual computing to improving the energy efficiency of computing, our faculty and students are making impactful contributions in all frontiers of computer science. Our teaching faculty are innovators in teaching methods that enable us to provide an outstanding education to our students at all levels and broaden participation in computing.
Areas of Research
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Algorithms & Theory
Foundations of Computing, Geometric and Graph Algorithms, Data Structures, Quantum Computing, Cryptography, Complexity Theory, Information Theory
Faculty : Prabhanjan Ananth , Wim van Dam , Ömer Eğecioğlu , John Gilbert , Oscar H. Ibarra , Daniel Lokshtanov , Subhash Suri , Eric Vigoda , Sanjukta Krishnagopal
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Computational Science and Engineering
Computational algorithms and software tools for data mining, data analysis, linear algebra, large-scale graph computations, high performance computing, partial differential equations, and multi-scale stochastic simulation. Applications to systems biology, ecology, energy, materials, fluids, and social science.
Faculty : Michael Beyeler , Frederic G. Gibou , John Gilbert , Linda Petzold , Xifeng Yan
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Computer Architecture
Computer architecture, novel computing technologies, quantum computing, embedded systems, low-energy computing, network and security processors, architectural support for systems security and reliability.
Faculty : Timothy Sherwood , Chandra Krintz , Jonathan Balkind
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Database and Information Systems
Distributed databases, fault-tolerance distributed systems, data in the cloud, multimedia databases, spatial databases, data mining, search, data-centric processes, workflow, data-aware services.
Faculty : Divyakant Agrawal , Amr El Abbadi , Ambuj K. Singh , Jianwen Su , Tao Yang , Xifeng Yan
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Human Centered and Social Computing
Modeling social behavior and computational systems. Proliferation of the social web into every area of business and society has brought about a need for better understanding, management and use of this valuable global resource.
Faculty : Michael Beyeler , Tobias Höllerer , Ambuj K. Singh , Misha Sra , William Wang , Xifeng Yan , Sanjukta Krishnagopal
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Machine Learning and Data Mining
Machine learning and Data Mining covers a broad range of topics that include knowledge representation, natural language processing, pattern recognition, and intelligent systems, with applications in many areas including bioinformatics, business intelligence, information retrieval, security, and network science.
Faculty : Michael Beyeler , Shiyu Chang , Yu Feng , Arpit Gupta , Tobias Höllerer , Linda Petzold , Ambuj K. Singh , Misha Sra , Matthew Turk , William Wang , Xifeng Yan
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Computer networks and protocols, large-scale multimedia systems, mobile and wireless networks, quality of service, network modeling and simulation, peer-to-peer and overlay networks, dynamic spectrum and cognitive radios, high-performance mobile computing, network security, network models and protocols.
Faculty : Arpit Gupta , Elizabeth M. Belding , Subhash Suri , Trinabh Gupta
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Operating Systems and Distributed Systems
Large-scale systems, cloud computing, distributed databases, distributed programming environments and runtime systems, Internet-scale analytics, social networks.
Faculty : Amr El Abbadi , Divyakant Agrawal , Elizabeth M. Belding , Peter Cappello , Trinabh Gupta , Chandra Krintz , Rich Wolski , Tao Yang
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Programming Languages and Software Engineering
Static and dynamic techniques for automated software verification and program analysis, adaptive compilation and runtime, language-based security, resource and energy consumption prediction, program profiling, formal methods, web services, workflows, concurrent and distributed systems.
Faculty : Jonathan Balkind , Tevfik Bultan , Ben Hardekopf , Richard A. Kemmerer , Jianwen Su , Yu Feng , Chandra Krintz
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Quantum Computing
Faculty : Murphy Niu
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Robotics and Autonomy
Faculty : James A. Preiss
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Security and Cryptography
Network and system security, web security, security of social networks, malware analysis, voting system security, vulnerability analysis, language-based security, specification and verification of systems, security-enhanced microprocessors.
Faculty : Prabhanjan Ananth , Tevfik Bultan , Yu Feng , Trinabh Gupta , Richard A. Kemmerer , Christopher Kruegel , Timothy Sherwood , Giovanni Vigna
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Visual Computing and Interaction
Human-computer interaction, computer vision, virtual and augmented reality, 3D modeling, multimodality, language & vision, computer graphics, visualization, scientific and information, wearable and ubiquitous computing.
Faculty : Michael Beyeler , Yu Feng , Tobias Höllerer , Misha Sra , Matthew Turk , William Wang , Yuan-Fang Wang , Lingqi Yan
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Artificial Intelligence
Experimental and applied investigations of intelligent systems, including rational decision making, machine learning and perception, natural language processing, cognitive modeling, and more.
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Chip Design, Architecture, & Emerging Devices
Silicon chip design, computer architecture, and novel device technologies that may replace traditional CMOS transistors.
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Databases & Data Mining
Building the data management infrastructure for the twenty-first century, with particular emphasis on issues surrounding Big Data.
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Embedded & Mobile Systems
Designing systems for vehicles, wireless sensors, medical devices, wearable fitness devices, smartphones, and other devices not generally considered to be computers.
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Formal Methods & Automated Reasoning
Developing and deploying mathematically-rigorous and algorithmically-efficient solutions to prove the correct behavior of complex hardware and software.
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Human-Computer Interaction
Investigating exciting new services in educational technology, multimedia, and social computing, as well as the domains of human perception and cognition, social activity, and learning.
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Languages, Compilers, & Runtime Systems
Static and run-time compiler systems are used to get more performance, robustness, and energy efficiency with program analysis, transformation, and adaptation.
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Networking, Operating Systems, & Distributed Systems
Research from wireless networking and mobile computing to the Internet and datacenter networks, and tackling exciting new problems that span embedded systems, sensor networks, data centers, and cloud services.
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We use artificial intelligence techniques for dealing with planning and uncertainty, localization and mapping, sensor processing and classification, and continuous learning.
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Secure, Trustworthy, & Reliable Systems
Addressing key security challenges through near-term stress reduction techniques to improve the quality of silicon and longer-term technologies to detect, recover, and repair faulty systems.
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Theory of Computation
Conducting research across many areas such as data structures, cryptography, quantum computing, parallel and distributed computing, algorithmic game theory, graph theory, geometry, combinatorics, and energy efficiency.
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Warehouse-Scale & Parallel Systems
Pursuing the design of the hardware and software infrastructure for massive-scale computing systems. Major research topics include server architecture, GPU computing, emerging memory technologies, distributed software, and more.
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Artificial intelligence, machine learning, privacy/fate .
Researchers in artificial intelligence (AI) seek to understand and develop machines with human-level intelligence by exploring the academic and real-world challenges surrounding AI.
At USC’s Department of Computer Science, we are pioneering breakthroughs in a full spectrum of topics related to AI, including machine learning, computer vision and image processing, human-robot interaction, speech and language analysis, information extraction and privacy-protection.
Our researchers are working in areas where artificial intelligence has been under study for decades—like language—and where the tools are just starting to make inroads—such as efforts to combat human trafficking, diagnose fetal alcohol syndrome, and prevent terrorist attacks using limited resources.
We understand that the long-term goal of building intelligent machines relies on collaboration across many fields. That’s why we also work closely with researchers across application domains, such as health care, social work and linguistics.
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USC has a strong and active background in modern theoretical computer science, with research spanning a broad range of topics. Areas of particular interest include the theory of algorithms and optimization, graph theory, scalable algorithms, theory of machine learning, computational geometry, complex analysis, computational complexity, algorithmic number theory and cryptography.
Our researchers in this area are particularly motivated by bridging the gap between theory and practice, such as non-blockchain digital currencies, social network analysis, smoothed analysis, bilingual learning and post-quantum cryptography.
In addition, we have many strong connections to other fields, including economics and game theory, pure mathematics, applied mathematics and scientific computing, network science, sociology, as well as evolution of concepts, ideas and organisms.
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The demands on modern computing systems are increasingly complex, from small embedded systems in phones, laptops and wearables, to large-scale cloud computing and high-performance networks.
Systems, databases and software engineering research at USC aims to develop innovative hardware and software across the computing spectrum for existing technologies and to support future power-efficient, sustainable and secure computer systems.
From smart cities and intelligent transportation systems to personalized medicine, next-generation computer systems will require new, innovative and visionary approaches to hardware, wired and wireless communication.
At USC, researchers investigate various issues in the design and analysis of infrastructures for large networks. We focus on fundamental aspects of information acquisition, processing, security, privacy, storage, and communication.
Our research interests include crowd-sensing, program analysis, privacy-preserving systems, network design and management, software-defined networking, cloud computing, internet measurement, software verification and synthesis, advanced 5G wireless networks and data center design.
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At USC, the areas of computer vision, robotics and graphics represent the interface between computers and the rest of the world.
Robotics at USC focuses on developing effective, robust, human-centric, and scalable robotic systems. In this area, our expertise ranges from socially assistive robotic and novel haptics technology for virtual touch to complex human-robot interaction and multi-robot systems.
In computer vision and graphics, our researchers bridge physical and digital worlds with powerful recognition and analysis algorithms, as well as immersive technologies, such as augmented and virtual reality.
In computer vision, our strengths include object detection and recognition, face identification, activity recognition, video retrieval and integrating computer vision with natural language queries.
Our graphics researchers focus on interactive techniques and the simulation and synthesis of multimedia, 3D content and virtual worlds, including image-based modeling and reconstruction, shape analysis, 3D face processing, human digitization, efficient physics simulation, image and video-based rendering techniques.
Last but not least, USC Games, a collaboration between the Department of Computer Science and the School of Cinematics Arts, is recognized as one of North America’s top game design programs, according to Princeton Review.
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Computer science deals with the theory and practice of algorithms, from idealized mathematical procedures to the computer systems deployed by major tech companies to answer billions of user requests per day.
Primary subareas of this field include: theory, which uses rigorous math to test algorithms’ applicability to certain problems; systems, which develops the underlying hardware and software upon which applications can be implemented; and human-computer interaction, which studies how to make computer systems more effectively meet the needs of real people. The products of all three subareas are applied across science, engineering, medicine, and the social sciences. Computer science drives interdisciplinary collaboration both across MIT and beyond, helping users address the critical societal problems of our era, including opportunity access, climate change, disease, inequality and polarization.
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Our goal is to develop AI technologies that will change the landscape of healthcare. This includes early diagnostics, drug discovery, care personalization and management. Building on MIT’s pioneering history in artificial intelligence and life sciences, we are working on algorithms suitable for modeling biological and clinical data across a range of modalities including imaging, text and genomics.
Our research covers a wide range of topics of this fast-evolving field, advancing how machines learn, predict, and control, while also making them secure, robust and trustworthy. Research covers both the theory and applications of ML. This broad area studies ML theory (algorithms, optimization, …), statistical learning (inference, graphical models, causal analysis, …), deep learning, reinforcement learning, symbolic reasoning ML systems, as well as diverse hardware implementations of ML.
We develop the next generation of wired and wireless communications systems, from new physical principles (e.g., light, terahertz waves) to coding and information theory, and everything in between.
We bring some of the most powerful tools in computation to bear on design problems, including modeling, simulation, processing and fabrication.
We design the next generation of computer systems. Working at the intersection of hardware and software, our research studies how to best implement computation in the physical world. We design processors that are faster, more efficient, easier to program, and secure. Our research covers systems of all scales, from tiny Internet-of-Things devices with ultra-low-power consumption to high-performance servers and datacenters that power planet-scale online services. We design both general-purpose processors and accelerators that are specialized to particular application domains, like machine learning and storage. We also design Electronic Design Automation (EDA) tools to facilitate the development of such systems.
Educational technology combines both hardware and software to enact global change, making education accessible in unprecedented ways to new audiences. We develop the technology that makes better understanding possible.
The shared mission of Visual Computing is to connect images and computation, spanning topics such as image and video generation and analysis, photography, human perception, touch, applied geometry, and more.
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We develop new approaches to programming, whether that takes the form of programming languages, tools, or methodologies to improve many aspects of applications and systems infrastructure.
Our work focuses on developing the next substrate of computing, communication and sensing. We work all the way from new materials to superconducting devices to quantum computers to theory.
Our research focuses on robotic hardware and algorithms, from sensing to control to perception to manipulation.
Our research is focused on making future computer systems more secure. We bring together a broad spectrum of cross-cutting techniques for security, from theoretical cryptography and programming-language ideas, to low-level hardware and operating-systems security, to overall system designs and empirical bug-finding. We apply these techniques to a wide range of application domains, such as blockchains, cloud systems, Internet privacy, machine learning, and IoT devices, reflecting the growing importance of security in many contexts.
From distributed systems and databases to wireless, the research conducted by the systems and networking group aims to improve the performance, robustness, and ease of management of networks and computing systems.
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Assistive technologies and learning with disabilities.
"Disabilities can be very traumatic, leading to frustration and depression," according to the American Foundation for the Blind. The rate of unemployment among legally blind individuals of working age residing in the United States greatly exceeds the unemployment rate for individuals with no functional limitations. Clever devices and information technology engineering strategies can be developed to help people overcome barriers to pursue educational and professional opportunities that will allow them to become productive members of the society.
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Bioinformatics advances fundamental concepts in molecular biology, biochemistry, and computer science to help further understanding of basic DNA, genes, and protein structures it relates to mechanisms for drug development and treatment of diseases.
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Biomedical imaging and visualization research has become a very active research field during the last two decades, offering unique solutions for a great variety of biological and biomedical problems. Analysis and visualization of medical images facilitates diagnosis and treatment planning. Visualization systems used as surgical navigation systems enable precise and minimally invasive surgery.
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Cloud computing is a major step toward organizing all aspects of computation as a public utility service. It embraces concepts such as software as a service and platform as a service, including services for workflow facilities, application design and development, deployment and hosting services, data integration, and management of software. The cloud platform increases in importance as our industry makes the phase change from in-house data management to cloud-hosted data management to improve efficiency and focus on core businesses. However, like any new technology, there are formidable problems, from performance issues to security and privacy, from metadata management to massively parallel execution.
This is a major part of the Kno.e.sis Research Center.
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The Department of Computer Science and Engineering of Wright State University recently received a grant, titled "REU Site: Cybersecurity Research at Wright State University", from the National Science Foundation. This NSF REU site offers a ten-week summer program that aims at providing a diverse group of motivated undergraduates with competitive research experiences in cyber-security research. A variety of projects will be offered in Network Security, Intrusion Detection, Wireless Sensor Network Security, Internet Malware Detection, Analysis, and Mitigation, Software Reverse Engineering and Vulnerability Discovery, and Privacy-Preserving Data Mining. More information of this REU Site can be found at http://reu.cs.wright.edu .
In addition there are two ongoing projects sponsored by DARPA and ONR for Deepfake techniques, Deep Understanding of Technical Documents, and Computer Security (like memory attacks).
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Cyber-Physical Systems are jointly physical and computational and are characterized by complex loops of cause and effect between the computational and physical components. We focus on the creation of methods by which such systems can self-adapt to repair damage and exploit opportunities and methods by which we can explain and understand how they operate even after having diverged from their original forms. Our current application area the creation of control systems for insect-like flapping-wing air vehicles that repair themselves, in flight, after suffering wing damage.
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Data mining is the process of extracting useful knowledge from a database. Data mining facilitates the characterization, classification, clustering, and searching of different databases, including text data, image and video data, and bioinformatics data for various applications. Text, multimedia, and bioinformatics databases are very large and so parallel/distributed data mining is essential for scalable performance.
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Mathematical, statistical, and graphical methods for exploring large and complex data sets. Methods include statistical pattern recognition, multivariate data analysis, classifiers, modeling and simulation, and scientific visualization.
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Multimedia systems offer synergistic and integrated solutions to a great variety of applications related to multi-modality data, such as automatic target recognition, surveillance, tracking human behavior, etc.
- Object recognition in digital images and video
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- Modeling and visualization
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Semantic, Social and Sensor Webs
The World Wide Web contains rapidly growing amount of enterprise, social, device/sensor/IoT/WoT data in unstructured, semistructured and structured forms. The Semantic Web initiative by the World Wide Web consortium (W3C) of which Wright State University is a member (represented by Kno.e.sis) has developed standards and technologies to associate meaning to data, to make data more machine and human understandable, and to apply reasoning techniques for intelligent processing leading to actionable information, insights, and discovery. Kno.e.sis has one of the largest academic groups in the US in Semantic Web, and its applications for better use and analysis of social and sensor data.
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Machine learning and artificial intelligence aim to develop computer systems that exhibit intelligent behavior in decision making, object recognition, planning, learning, and other applications that require intelligent assessment of complex information. Our faculty apply modern tools such as deep neural networks, evolutionary algorithms, statistical inference, topological analysis, and graphical inference models to a wide variety of problems from engineering, science, and medicine.
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Wireless communication and networking have revolutionized the way people communicate. Currently, there are more than two billion cellular telephone subscribers worldwide. Wireless local area networks have become a necessity in many parts of the globe. With new wireless enabled applications being proposed every day, such as wireless sensor networks, telemedicine, music telepresence, and intelligent web, the potential of this discipline is just being unleashed.
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The computer science department at the University of Virginia attracts federal research support in excess of $6 million annually, with total external research funding of more than $19.8 million each year. In addition to excelling in traditional research areas within computer science, we believe that many important research challenges lie at the boundary of computer science and other disciplines.
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Strength in computer systems has been a pillar of our department since its earliest days. This focus has led to notable contributions, for example, in cyber-physical systems, compilers, grid computing, and computer architecture.
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Cyber-physical Systems (CPS) and the Internet of Things have been identified by the National Academy of Sciences as national research priorities, critical to educating scientists and engineers for an increasingly cyber-enabled future. In response, we have created the multi-disciplinary Link Lab, bringing together researchers from the departments of CS, Electrical & Computer Engineering, Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, and Engineering Systems & Environment.
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The recent explosive growth in artificial intelligence (AI) and data mining demonstrates their vast potential to radically transform the norms and practices in every industry and every aspect of our society. Our department is advancing the state of the art in both fundamental algorithms as well as new algorithms to help users benefit from this revolution and provide new capabilities for the benefit of society.
UVA’s Department of Computer Science has a rapidly growing group of faculty working in the area of cyber security, including hardware, software, operating systems, networks, and cryptographic theory, working in close collaboration with other research groups such as the Link Lab, Software Engineering, and AI.
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Software-intensive systems play a variety of critical roles throughout society: they support human decision making in medical, transportation, and legal domains and, over the coming years they will increasingly operate autonomously – without a human in the loop. Our department’s strength in formal methods and program analysis allows us to advance the state of the art in all these areas, ensuring that these systems operate correctly and securely.
With our recent successful faculty hires in the CS department, the areas of security/cryptography, algorithmic game theory, as well as network science have achieved critical mass that puts CS@UVA in a unique position to differentiate itself and serve as a catalyst for rapid growth in this area.
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12 Most Emerging Research Areas in Computer Science in 2021
By: P. Chaudhary, B. Gupta
- Artificial Intelligence and Robotics
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Artificial Intelligence and Robotics [1, 2] field aims at developing computational system that are intelligent in decision making, planning, object recognition, and other complex computational tasks that require minimum human intervention. This field emphasizes upon the development of cognitive algorithms for a variety of domains including e-commerce, healthcare, transport, manufacturing, gaming, defense industry, logistics, to name a few. It includes the application of popular emerging technologies such as Deep leaning, machine learning, Natural language processing (NLP), robotics, evolutionary algorithms, statistical inference, probabilistic methods, and computer vision. Some of the eminent research areas includes the following:
- Knowledge representation and reasoning
- Estimation theory
- Mobility mechanisms
- Multi-agent negotiation
- Intelligent agents
- Semantic segmentation
- Assistive robotics in medical diagnosis
- Robot perception and learning
- Motion planning and control
- Autonomous vehicles
- Personal assistive robots
- Search and information retrieval
- Speech and language recognition
- Fuzzy and neural system
- Intelligent embedded system in industries
- Object detection and capturing
- Intelligent information systems
2. Big Data Analytics
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Big data analytics [3, 4] research field involves design and development of techniques/algorithms/frameworks to explore the large amount of data to fulfill organization’s objectives. This area includes mathematical, statistical and graphical approaches to mine useful knowledge patterns from heterogeneous raw data. It is one of the potential and emerging research domains as almost every organization is attempting to utilize available data to enhance their productivity and services to their customers. Some of the distinguished research areas are following:
- Predictive analysis
- Data capturing and transmission
- Parallel Data processing
- Uncertainty in data
- Data anonymization methods
- Data processing in distributed environment
- Privacy protecting techniques
- Semantic analysis on social media
- Intelligent traffic surveillance
- Topological data analysis
3. Biometrics and Computational Biology
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This field embraces enormous potential for researchers as it amalgamates multiple research areas including big data, image processing, biological science, data mining, and machine learning. This field emphasizes on the designing and development of computational techniques for processing biological data [5, 6]. Some of the potential research areas includes:
- Structure and sequence analysis algorithms
- Protein structure anticipation
- Data modeling of scientific applications
- Virtual screening
- Brain image analysis using data mining approaches
- Design predictive models for severe disease analysis
- Molecular structure modeling and analysis
- Brain-machine interfaces
- Computational neuroscience
4. Data Mining and Databases
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This field motivates research on designing vital methods, prototype schemes and applications in data mining and databases. This field ensembles all methods, techniques, and algorithms used for extracting knowledgeable information from the available heterogenous raw data [7, 8]. It enables classification, characterization, searching and clustering different datasets from wide range of domains including e-commerce, social media, healthcare, to name a few. This field demands parallel and distributed processing of data as it operates on massive quantity of data. It integrates various research domains including artificial intelligence, big data analytics, data mining, database management system, and bioinformatics. Some of the eminent research areas comprises as follows:
- Distributed data mining
- Multimedia storage and retrieval
- Data clustering
- Pattern matching and analysis
- High-dimensional data modeling
- Spatial and scientific data mining for sensor data
- Query interface for text/image processing
- Scalable data analysis and query processing
- Metadata management
- Graph database management and analysis system for social media
- Interactive data exploration and visualization
- Secure data processing
5. Internet of Things (IoTs)
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Internet of Things has transformed the lives of people through exploring new horizons of networking. It connects physical objects with the internet as per the application to serve the user. This field carries enormous potential in different research areas related to the IoT and its interrelated research domains [9, 10]. These areas include as follows:
- IoT network infrastructure design
- Security issues in IoT
- Architectural issues in Embedded system
- Adaptive networks for IoT
- Service provisioning and management in IoT
- Middleware management in IoT
- Handling Device Interoperability in IoT
- Scalability issues in IoT
- Privacy and trust issues in IoT
- Data storage and analysis in IoT networks
- Integration of IoT with other emerging technologies such as fog computing, SDN, Blockchain, etc.
- Context and location awareness in IoT networks
- Modeling and management of IoT applications
- Task scheduling in IoT networks
- Resource allotment among smart devices in IoT networks.
6. High-Performance Computing
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This field encourage the research in designing and development of parallel algorithms/techniques for multiprocessor and distributed systems. These techniques are efficient for data and computationally exhaustive programs like data mining, optimization, super computer application, graph portioning, to name a few [11, 12]. Some of the eminent research challenges includes the following:
- Information retrieval methods in cloud storage
- Graph mining in social media networks
- Distributed and parallel computing methods
- Development of architecture aware algorithms
- Big data analytics methods on GPU system
- Designing of parallel algorithms
- Designing of algorithms for Quantum computing
7. Blockchain and Decentralized Systems
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This field [13, 14] revolutionize the digital world through processing network information without any central authority. This field is an emerging computing paradigm and motivates the design and development of algorithms that operate in decentralized environment. These techniques provide security, robustness and scalability in the network. Some of the eminent research areas includes the following:
- Enhancing IoT security using blockchain
- Precision agriculture and blockchain
- Social blockchain networks
- Blockchain based solutions for intelligent transportation system
- Security and privacy issues in blockchain networks
- Digital currencies and blockchain
- Blockchain and 5G/6G communication networks
- Integration of cloud/fog computing with blockchain
- Legislation rules and policies for blockchain
- Artificial Intelligence for blockchain system
8. Cybersecurity
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With the development of new technology such as IoT, attackers have wider attack surface to halt the normal functioning of any network. Attackers may have several intentions to trigger cyber-attacks either against an individual person, organization, and/or a country. Now-a-days, we are living in a digital world where everything is connected is to the internet, so we are prone to some form of security attacks [15, 16]. This field carries massive potential for research on different techniques/methods to defend against these attacks. Some of the emerging research areas comprise the following:
- Intrusion detection system
- Applied cryptography
- Privacy issues in RFID system
- Security challenges in IoT system
- Malware detection in cloud computing
- Security and privacy issues in social media
- Wireless sensor network security
- Mobile device security
- Lawa and ethics in cybersecurity
- Cyber physical system security
- Software defined network security
- Security implications of the quantum computing
- Blockchain and its security
- AI and IoT security
- Privacy issues in big data analytics
- Phishing detection in finance sector
9. AI and Cyber Physical System
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Specifically, Cyber physical system integrates computation and physical methods whose functionalities is determined by both physical and cyber component of the system. Research in this area motivates the development of tools, techniques, algorithms and theories for the CPS and other interrelated research domains [17, 18]. Research topics includes the following:
- Human computer interaction
- Digital design of CPS interfaces
- Embedded system and its security
- Industrial Interne to things
- Automation in manufacturing industries
- Robotics in healthcare sector
- Medical informatics
- AI, robotics and cyber physical system
- Robot networks
- Cognitive computing and CPS
10. Networking and Embedded Systems
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This field [19, 20] encourages research on the designing of contemporary theories and approaches, effective and scalable methods and protocols, and innovative network design structure and services. These mechanisms improve the reliability, availability, security, privacy, manageability of current and future network and embedded systems. Research in this domain comprises of following topics:
- Cyber physical system
- Design of novel network protocols
- Cognitive radio networks
- Network security for lightweight and enterprise networks
- Resource allocation schemes in resource-constrained networks
- Network coding
- Energy efficient protocols for wireless sensor networks
- AI and embedded system
- Embedded system for precision agriculture
11. Computer Vision and Augmented Reality
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Computer vision [21, 22] is a multidisciplinary field that make computer system to understand and extract useful information from digital images and videos. This field motivates the research in designing the tools and techniques for understanding, processing, extracting, and storing, analyzing the digital images and videos. It embraces multiple domains such as image processing, artificial intelligence, pattern recognition, virtual reality, augmented reality, semantic structuring, statistics, and probability. Some of the eminent research topics includes the following:
- Computer vision for autonomous robots
- Object detection in autonomous vehicles
- Object detection and delineation in UAVs network.
- Biomedical image analysis
- Augmented reality in gaming
- Shape analysis in digital images
- Computer vision for forensics
- Robotics navigation
- Deep learning techniques for computer vision
- Automation in manufacturing sector
- 3D object recognition and tracking
12. Wireless Networks and Distributed Systems
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The research in this field emphasizes on the developments of techniques that facilitate communication and maintain coordination among distributed nodes in a network [23, 24]. It is a broad area that embraces numerous domains including cloud computing, wireless networks, mobile computing, big data, and edge computing. Some of the eminent research topics includes the following:
- Message passing models in distributed system
- Parallel distributed computing
- Fault tolerance and load balancing
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Artificial Intelligence and Robotics, Big Data Analytics, Biometrics and Computational Biology, Data Mining and Databases, Internet of Things (IoTs), High-Performance Computing, Blockchain and Decentralized Systems,Cybersecurity
Big data research field involves design and development of techniques/algorithms/frameworks to explore the large amount of data to fulfill organization’s objectives. Some of the distinguished research areas are following: Data capturing and transmission, Parallel Data processing,Data anonymization methods,Data processing in distributed environment
Artificial Intelligence field aims at developing computational systems that are intelligent in decision making, planning, object recognition, and other complex computational tasks that require minimum human intervention. Some of the eminent research areas includes the following: Knowledge representation and reasoning Autonomous vehicles, Fuzzy and neural system, Intelligent information systems
Some of the eminent research areas comprises as follows:Distributed data mining, Multimedia storage and retrieval, Data clustering, Pattern matching and analysis, High-dimensional data modeling, Spatial and scientific data mining for sensor data.
The research areas in IoT include as follows: IoT network infrastructure design, Security issues in IoT,Architectural issues in Embedded system, Service provisioning and management in IoT, Middleware management in IoT
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My research focuses on better understanding the social and pragmatic nature of conversation, and using this understanding to build computational systems that improve the efficacy of conversation both between people, and between people and computers. In order to pursue these goals, I invoke approaches from computational discourse analysis and text mining, conversational agents, and computer-supported collaborative learning. I ground my research in the fields of language technologies and human-computer interaction, and am fortunate to work closely with students and post-docs from the LTI and the Human-Computer Interaction Institute , as well as to direct my own lab, TELEDIA . My group’s highly interdisciplinary work, published in 160 peer-reviewed publications, is represented in the top venues in five fields: language technologies, learning sciences, cognitive science, educational technology and human-computer interaction.
An exciting direction of my group's work is spearheading a satellite working group to support social interaction for learning in MOOCs with EdX called DANCE . My research toward this end has birthed and substantially contributed to the growth of two thriving interrelated research areas: automated analysis of collaborative learning processes and dynamic support for collaborative learning. Both areas use intelligent conversational agents to support collaborative learning in a context-sensitive way.
All of my work draws insight from rich theoretical models from sociolinguistics and discourse analysis, and pares them down to precise operationalizations that capture the most important essence for achieving impact. I always start by investigating how conversation works and formalizing this understanding in models that are precise enough to be reproducible and that demonstrate explanatory power in connection with outcomes with real-world value. The next step is to adapt, extend and apply machine learning and text mining technologies that leverage this deep understanding to build computational models capable of automatically applying these constructs to naturally occurring language interactions. Finally, with the technology to automatically monitor naturalistic language communication in place, we can build interventions with real-world benefits.
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Carnegie Mellon's undergraduate major in computer science combines a solid core of computer science courses with the ability to gain substantial depth in another area through a required minor in a second subject. The curriculum also gives you numerous choices for science and humanities courses. Computing is a discipline with strong links to many fields, and our program gives you unparalleled flexibility to pursue these fields. Our mathematics and probability component ensures that you'll have the formal tools to remain current as technologies and systems change, but at the same time you'll gain insight into the practical issues of building and maintaining systems by participating in intensive project-oriented courses.
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