Research

Our work involves the improvement of technology surrounding intelligent hardware and software agents and the development of applications employing these technologies. We are especially interested in humanoid and micro-robots, cooperation in multi-agent settings, and the infrastructure necessary to support social interaction in intelligent systems.

The bioinformatics lab develops tools for problems in life sciences. We focus on algorithms for dealing with genomic and proteomic data. Recent collaborative projects in the bioinformatics labs include genome sequencing, EST data analysis, and RNA structure prediction algorithms.

Pricing instruments is a highly challenging area of research in Computational Finance (CF). We (i) design, develop and implement new algorithms on advanced computing systems; (ii) apply our current CF knowledge to Grid/Cloud Computing; and (iii) train and create a new breed of HQP.

Research in our lab spans a wide range of topics in both computer vision and human vision. Current projects include visual attention, saliency, image and video understanding, human activity recognition, 3D modeling and reconstruction, etc.

Our research addresses the data privacy and security issues in the emerging technologies. In particular, we design, implement, and evaluate practical systems with provable privacy guarantee for data management in different application scenarios such as healthcare, location-based services, and social networks.

Research within the laboratory focuses on databases and data mining, which includes efficient and effective management of, knowledge discovery from, as well as analysis of, large amounts of data (such as transactional, uncertain, social media, Web, and/or streams of data).

The Geometric, Approximation, and Distributed Algorithms (GADA) laboratory examines a broad range of research problems in theoretical computer science, with a particular interest in problems involving geometry, as well as online, approximation, and network algorithms. Current research projects span several areas, including algorithms, data structures, computational complexity, and graph theory.

We explore how to design, implement and evaluate ways for people to interact with emerging computing technologies. Specifically, we investigate Information Visualization, Tabletop and Large Displays, Intelligent Interactive Systems, and Human-Robot Interaction.

At IDEAS laboratory, we evolve ideas from nature to map and design algorithms on futuristic high performance, heterogeneous multicore architectures. We design and analyze performance of parallel/distributed algorithms for compute intensive, large-scale graph problems in a wide range of interdisciplinary applications, including wireless mobile networks.

We work in parallel / distributed systems and certain supporting technologies such as compilers, networks, and operating systems. Our research includes newer topics such as cloud/grid computing, sensor networks, P2P, and pervasive computing. Issues of scale, performance and reliability are a focus. Methodology includes a combination of prototyping and simulation.