Labs

Laboratories

• Data Mining and Bioinformatics Lab

  An interdisciplinary research lab based at CCI, which includes faculty from the Dornsife School of Public Health, the College of Arts and Sciences, and the School of Biomedical Engineering

  Research Areas: Developing novel data mining algorithms and methods, and applying them to the many challenging problems in life sciences; the lab faculty are very active and productive in research publications and funded projects

• Geometric and Intelligent Computing Laboratory (GICL)

  Building interdisciplinary systems that contribute toward solutions to problems in robotics, computer-aided design, engineering knowledge management, and digital preservation

  Research Areas: Intersection of engineering design, graphics and artificial intelligence

  Location: University Crossings, Room 144

• Health and Risk Communication Lab

  Building resilient communities: Developing prevention and preparedness information behaviors through information communication technologies

• High Performance Computing Laboratory (SPIRAL)

  Automating the implementation and optimization of high performance signal processing algorithms on different computer architectures (existing and new)

  Research Areas: Automated performance tuning, algorithm/program generation and optimization, domain specific languages and compilers, high performance computing, parallel computation, performance modeling, special purpose hardware

  Location: University Crossings, Room 148

• Intelligent Information & Knowledge Computing Research Lab

  Studying intelligent techniques and algorithms for information searching and processing as well as knowledge discovery from complex, heterogeneous, and large scale data sources

• Privacy, Security and Automation Laboratory (PSAL)

  Exploring the use of artificial intelligence techniques in adversarial contexts and their application to security and privacy problems; impact of automated linguistic analysis on privacy and anonymity; the use of computer vision in detecting phishing attacks; augmenting collaborative filtering with machine learning; the effect of agent failure in distributed constraint reasoning

  Research Areas: Intersection between artificial intelligence, privacy and security, and human-computer interaction

  Location: University Crossing, Room 144

• Vision and Cognition Laboratory (VisCog)

  Recognizing patterns of human behavior; developing new algorithmic methods to be applied to practical problems; understanding human cognition via computational modeling

  Research Areas: Applied algorithms, pattern recognition, cognitive modeling, computer vision, human-computer interaction

  Location: University Crossings, Room 146

• Vision and Graphics Laboratory

  Accurate analysis and synthesis of real-world appearance; robust 3D geometry processing; effective video surveillance; development of interactive level set modeling technology; statistical analysis of tumor histology images for cancer diagnosis; simulation of chemotaxis-based cell aggregation; simulation of cell deformation that produces large-scale biological structures; cell-biology-inspired algorithms for spatial self-organization

  Research Areas: Computer Vision, computer graphics, video analysis, machine learning, geometric modeling, biomedical image analysis, biological simulation, self-organizing geometry

  Location: University Crossings, Room 150