• CADIP - Center for Architectures for Data-Driven Information Processing
• CISA - UMBC Center for Information Security and Assurance
• CSPL - Communications and Signal Processing Laboratory
• Computational Photonics Laboratory
• CORAL - Cognition Robotics and Learning Lab
• DAWN - Advanced Networking Research Lab
• DIADIC - Distributed Adaptive Discovery and Computation Laboratory
• ebiquity - The Ebiquity Research Group (ebiquity)
• ILIT - Institute for Language and Information Technology
• MAPLE - Multi-Agent Planning and LEarning Lab
• MCTR - Maryland Center for Telecommunications Research
• Microelectronics Laboratory
• MLSP-L- Machine Learning for Signal Processing Laboratory
• M²NET - Multimedia and Networks Research Laboratory
• Remote Sensing Signal and Image Processing Laboratory
• VANGOGH - Visualization, Animation, Non-Photorealistic Graphics, Object Modeling, and Graphics Hardware
• VLSI Research Group

Since 2007, UMBC has held an annual event to showcase selected research accomplishments by UMBC faculty and students in the Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering. Visit the Research Day website for more information.

Departmental Laboratories: Departmental Laboratories are well-equipped and support the research activities of faculty and students. They include a CAIBE facility; Laboratory of Computational Photonics; a MOCVD lab; the DIODE Laser Lab; the Computer Graphics, Animation, and Visualization Lab; the Security Technology Research Group; the Maryland Center For Telecommunications Research (MCTR); the Communications and Signal Processing Lab; the Information Technology Lab; the Parallel Processing Lab; the Remote Sensing, Signal, and Image Processing Lab; the Laboratory for Information Systems Technology; and the Laboratory for Advanced Information Technology. The department is part of the University of Maryland Institute of Advanced Computer Science.

Research Specialties: Ongoing research in the Department provides a source of project, thesis, and dissertation topics for students. The following list illustrates some of the current research areas: adaptive equalization, biomedical imaging and signal processing,coding theory, computer engineering, cryptology and network security, distributed databases, electronic commerce, graphics and animation, image and data compression, information storage and retrieval, intelligent agents, joint time frequency/time-scale analysis, networks and systems, neural networks, nonlinear optics, object-oriented programming, optical communications and networks, parallel and distributed computing, photonic switches, quantum cryptography and quantum computation, quantum electronics, scientific computation,semiconductor optoelectronics, signal and image processing, solitons on optical fiber, symbolic computation, theory of computation, ultrashort pulse lasers.

The Department encourages interdisciplinary research and invites students to take advantage of resources in related departments, including mathematics and statistics, physics, visual arts, geography, education, information systems and other departments within the College of Engineering or at the UMAB Medical School. In addition, opportunities exist for joint research projects with local research laboratories, companies, and government agencies, including for example, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, National Institute of Standards and Technology, National Institutes of Health, Library of Congress, Army Research Laboratories, Naval Research Laboratories, and the National Security Agency.