Research

Research Labs

Advanced Research Image Analysis (ARIA) Lab

Faculty: Kim
Location: 301A Moore Bldg.

The ARIA lab hosts interdisciplinary research on image processing and analysis, specifically in biomedicine and related scientific areas. Recent projects include machine and deep learning approaches for clinical diagnosis, outcome prediction, treatment planning, and the human brain connectome.


Clinical NLP Lab

Faculty: Sun
Location: 317 Moore Bldg.

The Clinical NLP Lab hosts research on Information Retrieval, Natural Language Processing, and machine learning, with applications in clinical informatics to solve important healthcare problems. Current research focuses on these areas: data science and machine learning for clinical evidence generation and retrieval, NLP for medical knowledge engineering.


Data and Learning Lab (DLL)

Faculty: Fu and Tong
Location: 205 Petty Bldg.

The Data and Learning Lab performs the latest research and teaching in Databases, Data Mining, and Machine Learning technologies. The lab aims at gaining insights from real-world datasets using big data, machine learning, and deep learning methods. Various projects have been conducted within the lab including: Map/Reduce technique experiments, Stochastic optimizations, Sparse learning, Federated learning, and Privacy-preserving machine learning.


Graph Computing Lab (GraphLab)

Faculty: Zhu
Location: 202 Petty Bldg.

The GraphLab hosts research in graph algorithms and machine learning with a focus on developing simple yet effective algorithms for large-scale graph datasets. Some representative topics that have been investigated in the lab include graph sparsification techniques, adversarial attacks and defense on graph data, and molecular similarity search or nearest neighbor search for drug discovery.


Interactive Realities (IR) Lab

Faculty: Kopper
Location: 212 Petty Bldg.

The Interactive Realities (IR) Lab hosts research on extended reality (XR). Recent projects include immersive multimodal displays and virtual reality prototyping of next generation public safety user interfaces.


Network Information Lab (NIL)

Faculty: Deng
Location: 301B Moore Bldg.

The Network Information Lab hosts research projects related to wireless networks, vehicular networks, networked information, and information assurance. Recent projects include random access networks and social media sentiment analysis.


Security, Privacy, and Networking (SPAN) Lab

Faculty: Suthaharan and Tate
Location: 214 Petty Bldg.

The SPAN Lab hosts a variety of research projects that deal with networking and communication, including issues of security and privacy. Current and recent projects have dealt with issues in sensor networks, trusted computing, cryptography, and network quality of service.