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-end computing. The research groups and centers affiliated with the department reflect some of our core strengths. 

These centers and groups include:

Centers and Laboratories
• The Center for Human-Computer Interaction
• Computing Systems Research Lab
• The Digital Libraries Research Laboratory
• The Laboratory for Advanced Scientific Computing and Applications (LASCA)
• Network Dynamics and Simulation Science Laboratory
  
• Scalable Performance (SCAPE) Laboratory
• The Systems Research Center
• The Center for High-End Computing Systems
• Parallel Emerging Architectures Research Lab (PEARL)
• Distributed Systems & Storage Laboratory (DSSL)
• Systems, Networking & Renaissance Grokking (SyNeRGy) Lab
  
• Virginia Bioinformatics Institute
• VT-CAVE (University Visualization and Animation Group)


Research Groups
• 3-D Interaction Group
• Algorithm Visualization Research Group
  
• Cell Cycle Modeling
• Computational Biology and Bioinformatics (CBB) Faculty Group
• Dialogue Research Group
• Digital Library Research Laboratory
• ETANA Digital Library Group
• Notification Systems Seminar
• Power Electronics Building Blocks Group
• The Problem Solving Environments Group
• Software Engineering Research Group
• Web-CAT Graders Group