Learn About Our State of the Art Research Labs

CCI's laboratories serve as dedicated space for the College's smaller-sized and/or early research endeavors, located in state-of-the-art facilities across Drexel's University City campus. Our labs - staffed by CCI faculty, doctoral students and research assistants - focus on broad range of computing and informatics topics such as information privacy, human computer interaction, gaming technology, health information technology and data mining.

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
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

Laboratories

Data Mining and Bioinformatics Lab

Geometric and Intelligent Computing Laboratory (GICL)

Health and Risk Communication Lab

High Performance Computing Laboratory (SPIRAL)

Intelligent Information & Knowledge Computing Research Lab

Vision and Cognition Laboratory (VisCog)

Vision and Graphics Laboratory