Communications and Photonics
Topics: Cognitive Radio, Nonlinear and Integrated Optics, Optical Fibers, Wireless Communications and Networking
Faculty: Gary Carter, Fow-Sen Choa, Yiwen Hu, Anthony Johnson, Seung-Jun Kim, Curtis Menyuk, Dmitri Perkins, Ergun Simsek, Mohamed Younis
Computer Architecture and Hardware Systems
Topics: Hardware Security, Analog/ Mixed-Mode/ Digital IC Design, Multicore Systems, Neuromorphic Computing, VLSI Design/Test
Faculty: Riadul Islam, Naghmeh Karimi, Mehdi Kiani, Dhananjay Phatak, Ryan Robucci
Cyber-Physical Systems
Topics: IoT, Networking, Network Protocols and Management, Network Security, Secure Communication, Smart Power Grids
Faculty: Nilanjan Banerjee, Riadul Islam, Anupam Joshi, Naghmeh Karimi, Seung-Jun Kim, Dong Li, Dmitri Perkins, Ryan Robucci, Deepinder Sidhu, Mohamed Younis, Roberto Yus
Graphics and Visualization
Topics: Character Animation, Computer Graphics, Scientific/Data Visualization, Physics-based animation, Deformable Modeling, Interactive visualization interfaces, Shader systems, Rendering Architectures, Real-time graphics frameworks
Faculty: Adam Bargteil, Don Engel, Marc Olano, Rebecca Williams
Robotics
Topics: Human–Robot Interaction and Collaborative Autonomy, Robot Perception, Learning, and Embodied AI, Language, Vision, and Multimodal Interfaces, Motion Planning, Control, and Manipulation, Neuro-Inspired and Bio-Integrated Robotics, Assistive, Social, and Human-Centered Robotics, Adaptive and Human-in-the-Loop Systems
Faculty: Tulay Adali, Fow-Sen Choa, Don Engel, Frank Ferraro, Tejas Gokhale, Seung-Jun Kim, Dong Li, Lara J. Martin, Cynthia Matuszek, Tim Oates, Ramana Vinjamuri
AI, Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, and Signal Processing
Topics: Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, Multimodal Learning and Foundation Models, Natural Language Processing and Grounded Language Understanding, Computer Vision and Perception, Knowledge Representation and Neuro-Symbolic Systems, Data Analytics and Scalable Learning Systems, Matrix and Tensor Methods for High-Dimensional Data, Statistical Signal Processing and Information Theory, Embodied and Adaptive Intelligent Systems
Faculty: Tulay Adali, Justin Brooks, Chein-I Chang, Keke Chen, Sanorita Dey, Don Engel, Frank Ferraro, Tejas Gokhale, Riadul Islam, Manas Gaur, Konstantinos Kalpakis, Seung-Jun Kim, Dong Li, Lara Martin, Cynthia Matuszek, Charles Nicholas, Tim Oates, Ramana Vinjamuri, Rebecca Williams
Security and Privacy
Topics: Computer Security, Cryptography, Cybersecurity, Malware Analysis, Protocols, Secure Voting
Faculty: Nilanjan Banerjee, Keke Chen, Clement Fung Yiwen Hu, Anupam Joshi, Naghmeh Karimi, Charles Nicholas, Dhananjay Phatak, Alan Sherman, Deepinder Sidhu, Mohamed Younis, Roberto Yus
Quantum Computing/Theory and Algorithms
Topics: Computational Complexity Theory, Quantum Computation, Quantum Information, Scientific and Engineering Computation
Faculty: Richard Chang, Sam Lomonaco, Curtis Menyuk