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Advanced Real-Time Computing Laboratory
[KD Kang]
The Advanced Real-Time
Computing Laboratory investigates a wide range of real-time
computing issues that are becoming increasingly important in
the upcoming smart, ubiquitous computing environment involving
audio and video streams, deeply embedded wireless sensors, and
real-time databases. The laboratory has exciting new projects
on developing the theory and practice of real-time stream data
services in mobile and Internet applications, efficient data
services in wireless sensor networks, and security/privacy
protocols in both wireless sensor networks and real-time
systems. |
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Computer Architecture and Power-Aware
Systems Research Group [Kanad Ghose and Dmitry V. Ponomarev]
The Computer
Architecture and Power-Aware Systems Research Group investigates
techniques at the microarchitectural, systems and circuits
level for improving the performance, energy-efficiency and
reliability of modern microprocessors and memory systems. |
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Computer Systems
Research Group [Kanad Ghose]
The computer systems
research group headed by Prof. Ghose is engaged in
experimental systems research in the areas of networking,
network processors, real-time network security, real-time
embedded systems, operating systems and large-scale
visualization. The research involves the design and
implementation of actual prototype systems that work as
opposed to investigations that just use simulations and
models. Networking protocols and real-time file systems
developed by this group are being commercialzed. |
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VLSI
Computer Aided Design Research Group [Patrick Madden]
The VLSI CAD group
focuses on the physical design of high performance integrated
circuits. The group is best known for the development of the
fractional cut based feng shui mixed size placement
tool, and the associated legalization and detailed placement
methods. Other innovations from the group include
non-Manhattan routing architectures, fast topology based
interconnect analysis methods, and an effective approach to
voltage island design. |
| Operating
Systems, Networking, and Distributed Systems
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Grid
Computing Research Laboratory (GCRL) [Ken Chiu, Madhu Govindaraju, and Mike Lewis]
The GCRL contributes to
research in several different areas of grid computing. Faculty
and student group members are undertaking projects to build
interoperable grid-based component frameworks including
XCAT-C++ and LegionCCA; explore, characterize, and improve Web
Services and XML performance and functionality; investigate
dynamic grid object and service evolution and deployment; and
to build large-scale, distributed systems to Grid-enable
instruments and sensor networks. |
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Networking and Parallel Processing Lab.
[Nael Abu-Ghazaleh]
This research lab
explores a wide range of issues related to building computer
systems. In particular, the group's research includes projects
in mobile and ad hoc networks, parallel discrete event
simulation, and high performance computer architecture. |
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Operating Systems and Networks (OSNET)
Lab
[Kartik Gopalan]
The OSNET lab's research is focused on building and evaluating
real-world high-performance systems software. Projects span various
aspects of operating systems, distributed systems, and
wireless as well as wired networks. Current
research projects include distributed cluster resource
virtualization, modeling channel characteristics for wireless
mesh and ad hoc networks, and multi-resource scheduling for
real-time systems. |
| Information Systems |
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Data Mining
Research Laboratory [Lei Yu]
The Data Mining Research
Laboratory focuses on scalable data analysis techniques for
mining large and complex data from emerging real-world domains
with application in bioinformatics and computer security.
Recent research topics include high-dimensional data
preprocessing, streaming data mining, gene expression
analysis, genetic regulatory networks, protein structure
prediction, and glioma migration study. |
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Database and Information Retrieval
Laboratory [Weiyi Meng]
The mission of this
laboratory is to conduct world-class research in the general
area of database and information retrieval systems. In recent
years, this lab's research has been focused mainly on
Web-based search technology. In particular, it has been
conducting research on scalable metasearching technology for
providing unified access to the many information sources on
the Web. |
| Graphics, Image Processing, and
Vision |
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Graphics and Image Computing (GAIC)
Laboratory [Lijun Yin]
The GAIC laboratory
features research projects in areas of computer graphics,
computer vision and image processing. Recent topics include
face analysis, motion tracking, modeling and animation,
biometrics computing, view-dependent rendering, 3D range data
analysis and medical imaging. The GAIC is also interested in
areas of human affects computing and expression analysis. |
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Human-Computer Interface (HCI)
Laboratory [Dick Eckert]
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Multimedia Research Laboratory [Mark Zhang]
The Multimedia Research
Laboratory conducts research projects across a broad range of
areas including computer vision and image understanding,
multimedia, and data mining and knowledge discovery. The
laboratory's research has been substantially recognized in
both intellectual merits and broader impacts. |
