Curiosity about the world and a commitment to solving important problems are the passions that motivate faculty at the School of Informatics and Computing. Students at both the undergraduate and graduate levels have the opportunity to work side-by-side with internationally renowned scholars on a wide range of cutting-edge research. The amazing breadth of research conducted at the School includes:

• Center for Applied Cybersecurity Research
• Center for Bioinformatics Research
• Center for Complex Networks and Systems Research
• Data to Insight Center
• Center for Data and Search Informatics
• Digital Science Center
• Center for Security Informatics
• Informatics Research Institute
• Pervasive Technology Institute

Research Areas

Applied Logic and Computation Theory

Esfandiar Haghverdi, Daniel Leivant, Steven Myers, Lawrence Moss (adjunct), Paul Purdom, Gregory Rawlins, Amr Sabry, Dirk Van Gucht, Daniel Friedman

Artificial Intelligence

Randall Beer, David Crandall, Michael Gasser, Andrew Hanson, Kris Hauser, Douglas Hofstadter, David Leake, Filippo Menczer, Luis Rocha, Matthias Scheutz, Larry Yaeger, Chen Yu (adjunct)

Artificial Life

Randall Beer, Luis Rocha, Peter Todd, Matthias Scheutz, Larry Yaeger

Bioinformatics

Mehmet Dalkilic, Matthew Hahn, Sun Kim, Predrag Radivojac, Luis Rocha, Haixu Tang, Yuzhen Ye, Paul Purdom

Cheminformatics

Geoffrey Fox, David Wild

Cognitive Science

Randall Beer, Michael Gasser, Kris Hauser, Andrew Hanson, Douglas Hofstadter, David Leake, Filippo Menczer, John Paolillo, Luis Rocha, Selma Sabanovic, Matthias Scheutz, Peter Todd, Larry Yaeger, Chen Yu (adjunct)

Compilers

Kent Dybvig, Daniel Friedman, Arun Chauhan, Amr Sabry, Paul Purdom, Andrew Lumsdaine, Amal Ahmed

Complex Networks and Systems

Randall Beer, Johan Bollen, Katy Borner (adjunct), David Crandall, Alessandro Flammini, Filippo Menczer, John Paolillo, Luis Rocha, Matthias Scheutz, Peter Todd, Alessandro Vespignani, Larry Yaeger

Computer Networks

Minaxi Gupta, Raquel Hill, Geoffrey Fox, Andrew Lumsdaine

Cyberinfrastructure and e-Science

Randall Bramley, Arun Chauhan, Geoffrey Fox, Minaxi Gupta, Andrew Lumsdaine, Beth Plale, Judy Qiu

Data Mining

David Crandall, Mehmet Dalkilic, Sun Kim, Filippo Menczer, Paul Purdom, Predrag Radivojac, Luis Rocha, Haixu Tang, Dirk Van Gucht, Yuqing (Melanie) Wu, Yuzhen Ye

Database Theory and Systems

Mehmet Dalkilic, Beth Plale, Paul Purdom, Dirk Van Gucht, Yuqing (Melanie) Wu

Digital Preservation

Geoffrey Brown, Beth Plale

Health Informatics

L. Jean Camp, Kay Connelly, David Hakken, Kalpana Shankar, Alessandro Vespignani

High Performance Computing

Randall Bramley, Arun Chauhan, Geoffrey Fox, Andrew Lumsdaine, Judy Qiu

Human Centered Computing

Jeffrey Bardzell, Shaowen Bardzell, Eli Blevis, Dennis Groth, David Hakken, David Leake, Eden Medina, John Paolillo, Selma Sabanovic, Martin Siegel, Kalpana Shankar, Erik Stolterman

Human Computer Interaction Design

Jeffrey Bardzell, Shaowen Bardzell, Eli Blevis, Kay Connelly, Martin Siegel, Erik Stolterman

Machine Learning

Sun Kim, David Leake, Filippo Menczer, Luis Rocha, Predrag Radivojac, Michael Trosset (adjunct), Dirk Van Gucht, Chen Yu (adjunct)

Music Informatics

Christopher Raphael

Parallel and Distributed Computing

Randall Bramley, Arun Chauhan, Kay Connelly, Geoffrey Fox, Andrew Lumsdaine, Beth Plale, Judy Qiu, Gregory Rawlins

Programming Languages

Amal Ahmed, Arun Chauhan, Kent Dybvig, Daniel Friedman, Christopher Haynes, Steven Johnson, Andrew Lumsdaine, Amr Sabry, Dirk Van Gucht

Robotics

Randall Beer, Kris Hauser, Jonathan Mills, Matthias Scheutz, Selma Sabanovic

Security

Amal Ahmed, L. Jean Camp, Apu Kapadia, Minaxi Gupta, Raquel Hill, Steven Myers, XiaoFeng Wang

Social Informatics

L. Jean Camp, Hamid Ekbia (adjunct), David Hakken, Eden Medina, John Paolillo, Selma Sabanovic, Kalpana Shankar

Software and Systems

Christopher Haynes, Steven Johnson, Andrew Lumsdaine, Gregory Rawlins, Yuqing (Melanie) Wu

Theoretical Computer Science

Amal Ahmed, Daniel Friedman, Esfandiar Haghverdi, Daniel Leivant, Steven Myers, Lawrence Moss (adjunct), Paul Purdom, Gregory Rawlins, Amr Sabry, Dirk Van Gucht

Unconventional Computing

Jonathan Mills, Gerardo Ortiz (adjunct), Luis Rocha, Amr Sabry

Visualization, Computer Vision, and Graphics

Katy Borner (adjunct), David Crandall, Dennis Groth, Andrew Hanson, Andrew Lumsdaine, Chen Yu (adjunct)

Web Science

Johan Bollen, Alessandro Flammini, Filippo Menczer, John Paolillo, Luis Rocha, Alessandro Vespignani, Yuqing (Melanie) Wu