Research

• Overview of Computer Science Research at UIC
• List of Faculty organized by Research Area
• Research laboratories
• Research sponsors

Overview of Computer Science Research at UIC

In addition to our teaching and service activities, the Department of Computer Science has an active research program, with external research funding exceeding $6 million annually. Our research is supported by federal and state agencies and foundations, as well as by industrial and commercial sponsors. Research projects span a broad range, from fundamental theoretical research in Computer Science to applied, multidisciplinary research involving collaborators from numerous UIC departments and other universities and national laboratories.

Research Interests of Individual Faculty Members

The research interests of individual faculty members are shown here

Research Laboratories

Research activity is centered around a set of active laboratories located in the Engineering Research Facility and the Science and Engineering Laboratories. These laboratories house significant computing, networking, and visualization resources, and serve as the research "home" for both faculty and graduate students.

Artificial Intelligence
	Artificial Intelligence Laboratory Artificial intelligence Faculty: Pete Nelson and Piotr Gmytrasiewicz (co-directors), Barbara Di Eugenio, Bob Sloan, Dale Reed
	Natural Language Processing Laboratory Deployment of Natural Language discourse and dialogue co-ordinated with different kinds of graphics tools Faculty: Barbara Di Eugenio (director)

Database
	Advances in Information Systems Laboratory Data management, semantic web, geographic information systems, information visualization, and security Faculty: Isabel Cruz (director)
	Database and Information System Laboratory Database, data mining, and information retrieval research Faculty: Clement Yu (director), Isabel Cruz, Ashfaq Khokhar, Bing Liu, Prasad Sistla, Ouri Wolfson, Philip Yu
	Databases and Mobile Computing Laboratory Active databases, moving objects databases, adaptive replication, semantic multicast Faculty: Ouri Wolfson (director), Prasad Sistla

Data Mining
	Multimedia Systems Laboratory Content based indexing and retrieval for multimedia, multimedia communication, high performance datamining, multimedia computing, parallel algorithms Faculty: Ashfaq Khokar (director)
	Database and Information System Laboratory Database, data mining, and information retrieval research Faculty: Clement Yu (director), Isabel Cruz, Ashfaq Khokhar, Bing Liu, Prasad Sistla, Ouri Wolfson, Philip Yu
	Computational Population Biology Laboratory Computational techniques for population biology, from genetics to social interactions. Faculty: Tanya Berger-Wolf (director)

Distributed Computing and Networking
	BITS Networked Systems Laboratory Systems and Security research with a networking focus. Faculty: Jakob Eriksson, Chris Kanich

Human Centered Computing
	Electronic Visualization Laboratory Scientific visualization, virtual reality, telepresence, high speed networking, user-interaction, learning environments Faculty: Jason Leigh (director), Tom DeFanti (director), Dan Sandin (director emeritus) Andrew Johnson, Tom Moher, Bob Kenyon, Luc Renambot
	Natural Language Processing Laboratory Deployment of Natural Language discourse and dialogue co-ordinated with different kinds of graphics tools Faculty: Barbara Di Eugenio (director)
	Virtual Reality Undergraduate Projects Laboratory Undergraduate research project laboratory focusing on virtual reality. Faculty: John Bell (director), Tom DeFanti

Security
	Center for RITES Research and Instruction in Technologies for Electronic Security Faculty: Venkat Venkatakrishnan (Director)

Theory
	Computational Population Biology Laboratory Computational techniques for population biology, from genetics to social interactions. Faculty: Tanya Berger-Wolf (director)

Research Sponsors

We wish to acknowledge the generous support of the following sponsors and partners who are providing research funding for the Department of Computer Science. Current research funding in the Department of Computer Science exceeds $9 million annually.

Air Force Office of Scientific Research Army Research Office Chicago Department of Transportation DMJM Illinois, Inc. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency Federal Highway Administration Hughes Aircraft Illinois Department of Transportation Illinois State Toll Highway Authority Manufacturing Research Center Microsoft Research Motorola National Academy of Sciences (TRB) National Aeronautics and Space Administration

National Engineering Technology Corp. National Institute for Nursing Research National Institute of Statistical Sciences National Institutes of Health National Science Foundation Northwestern University Office of Naval Research Parsons Transportation Group, Inc. Rehabilitation Institute for Health State of Illinois Sun Microsystems University of Illinois at Chicago US Department of Energy US Department of Transportation