Research

• Overview of Computer Science Research at UIC
• 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 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.

Research Laboratories

Artificial Intelligence
		Artificial Intelligence Laboratory Artificial intelligence Faculty: Pete Nelson and Piotr Gmytrasiewicz (co-directors), Barbara DiEugenio, Bob Sloan, Dale Reed
		Computer Vision and Robotics Laboratory Vision and robotics Faculty: Milos Zefran (director)
		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 research with a networking focus. Faculty: Jakob Eriksson
		Concurrent Software Systems Laboratory Development and analysis of concurrent and distributed computing systems. Faculty: Sol Shatz (director), Ugo Buy, Ajay Kshemkalyani, Tad Murata, Prasad Sistla
		Distributed Real-time Intelligent Systems Laboratory Performance modeling and analysis of distributed real-time systems Faculty: Jeffrey J.-P. Tsai (director), Tadao Murata, Prasad Sistla
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
		RITES Laboratory Research and Instruction in Technologies for Electronic Security Faculty: Jon Solworth (director) and Venkat Venkatakrishnan (co-director)
Software Engineering
		Concurrent Software Systems Laboratory Development and analysis of concurrent and distributed computing systems. Faculty: Sol Shatz (director), Ugo Buy, Ajay Kshemkalyani, Tad Murata, Prasad Sistla
		Distributed Real-time Intelligent Systems Laboratory Performance modeling and analysis of distributed real-time systems Faculty: Jeffrey J.-P. Tsai (director), Tadao Murata, Prasad Sistla
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