The Department of  Computer Science and Engineering conducts theoretical  and applied research in AI, Theory and Algorithms, Software and Hardware Systems, and interdisciplinary areas related to CS+X such as Bioinformatics.

Fantasy-inspired image of the human mind as a jigsaw puzzle.
Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
6/27/19
Artificial Intelligence (AI) researchers now predict that computers will be able to perform tasks that were once considered the prerogative of human beings.
Computer Security and Information Assurance.
Computer Security and Information Assurance
6/27/19
Focuses on applied cryptography, authentication, threat modeling, anomaly detection, wireless security, cloud security, human-centered security, differential privacy and empirical cyber security.
CSE Kids' Day image.
Computing Education
6/27/19
Focuses on expanding approaches to teaching computing at all levels (K-12 and University) and the outreach to promote computing majors and careers.
Wenyao Xu and Kun Woo Cho show the viewer a smartphone that displays an image of children adorned with purple blotches.
Cyber-Physical Systems (Internet of Things)
6/27/19
Focuses on the interplay between multiple elements of cyber technologies (such as sensing, computing, communications and control), and physical systems or processes (including infrastructures such as transportation and power) as well as human factors.
Pattern Recognition, Machine Learning, and Data Mining.
Data Mining and Data Science
6/27/19
Algorithms for data mining have a close relationship to methods of pattern recognition and machine learning.
Databases.
Databases and Information Retrieval
6/27/19
Focuses on developing fundamental techniques, prototype systems and applications in databases and information retrieval.
Stock photo of engineer diagraming DNS infrastructure.
Distributed Systems and Networks
6/27/19
Research in networking and distributed systems focuses on enabling communication of and orchestrating coordination of a large number of computing nodes.
Closeup of colorful patch cables on a network switch backplane.
Hardware and Architecture
6/27/19
Hardware and software issues from the circuit to the system have three main foci: Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) circuits and systems, computer architecture, and computer security.
A female data scientist and a male data scientist in discussion in the Center for Computational Research (CCR) data center.
High Performance Computing and Computational Science
6/27/19
Focuses on efficient experimental and theoretical solutions to problems on state-of-the-art computational systems consisting of large numbers of computational elements, including clouds, clusters, grids, networks-of-workstations, massively parallel supercomputers, and GPU-based systems.
Medical Applications and Bioinformatics.
Medical Applications and Bioinformatics
6/27/19
Focuses on developing highly efficient algorithms and techniques for a wide range of problems (such as automatic analysis of biomedical images, computer assisted diagnosis, treatment planning, protein-protein interaction network analysis, protein structure prediction, computational analysis and interpretation of Genomes, evolutionary studies of Genomic ORFans, and spatial positioning patterns of the cell nucleus) arising in smart hospital, smart healthcare, precision medicine, genomics, proteomics, and microarray analysis.
Ram Sridhar and Dimitrios Koutsonikolas in Davis Hall. Photo credit: Douglas Levere.
Mobile Systems
6/27/19
Mobile systems research focuses on the design and implementation of next-generation systems for mobile devices. Research topics include mobile data management, wireless networks, sensing systems, static analysis and instrumentation for mobile apps, mobile image and video analytics, and secure and low-power hardware for mobile devices.
Programming Languages and Software Systems.
Programming Languages and Software Systems
6/27/19
Programmming Language research focuses on type systems, program logics, language-based and differential privacy and security; language, compiler, and run-time design for reliable systems; static and dynamic analyses for real-time Android; run-time visualization and verification; adaptive memory management; language concepts for database programming; logic- and constraint-based systems.
Theory and Algorithms.
Theory and Algorithms
6/27/19
Computer science theory assesses which problems are possible and feasible to solve through theories of computability, undecidability, complexity, reducibility, and approximability.