Students and faculty within the department pursue research individually, in groups, and in collaboration with peers within the College of Engineering, across the university, and beyond. They are at the forefront of cutting-edge research in such fields as bioinformatics, human-computer interaction, software engineering, and high-performance computing and communications systems. The research groups and centers affiliated with the department reflect some of our core strengths. These groups and centers include: 

• The Center for Human-Computer Interaction
• The Digital Libraries Research Laboratory
• The Internet Technology Innovation Center
• The Parallel Computation Laboratory
• The Problem Solving Environments Group
• The Simulation and Software Engineering Laboratory
• The Systems Research Center
• The Bioinformatics Collaborative Research Group
• The Laboratory for Computation, Information, and Distributed Processing
• The Laboratory for Advanced Scientific Computing and Applications
• The Center for Virtual Environments and Visualization

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