UMBC CSEE Research Programs

Research Centers and Laboratories

• Maryland Center for Telecommunications Research (MCTR)
• UMBC Laboratory for Advanced Information Technology
• UMBC Laboratory for Information Systems Technology
• UMBC Graphics, Animation and Visualization Laboratory
• Security Technology Research Group (STRG)
• Information Technology Laboratory
• Communications and Signal Processing Laboratory
• Remote Sensing Signal and Image Processing Laboratory
• Microelectronics Laboratory
• Computational Photonics Laboratory
• VLSI Design and Testing Laboratory

Research Groups

• Intelligent Information Systems
  Research in databases, knowledge bases, hypertext, machine learning, artificial intelligence, and natural language processing.

• High performance computing systems
  Research in high speed networks, telecommunications, parallel and distributed computing, and parallel I/O

• Graphics and interfaces
  Research in computer graphics, animation, rendering, and graphical interface technology

• Algorithms and theory
  Research in cryptography, cryptanalysis, complexity theory, numerical analysis, parallel and distributed algorithms, and computational fluid dynamics.

• Communications and Signal Processing
  Statistical signal processing, communication theory, information theory, image processing, adaptive signal processing, biomedical image processing.

• Microelectronics
  Research in Chemically Assisted Ion beam etching, Optoelectronic switches, Device Characterization, Optoelectronic device testing and Picosecond Spectroscopy.

• Photonics
  Research in Computational Photonics, Diode Lasers, Long Coherence Length Lasers, Laser Optics, Diode Lasers and Photonic devices