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Active
Materials Laboratory
Research focuses on fiber optic sensors, magnetostrictive materials,
piezoelectric materials and shape memory alloys, with applications
in industries including automotive, aircraft, spacecraft and bioengineering.
Adaptive
Systems Laboratory
Research focuses on the analysis and design of adaptive systems
with special interest in problems that arise in the areas of signal
processing, communications, biomedicine, finance and control.
Air
Quality and Aerosol Technology Laboratory
Research focuses on the study of particle/gas systems with applications
to pollution control and commercial production of fine particles.
Antenna
Research, Applications, and Measurement Laboratory
Fosters creative research in modern electromagnetics, communications
and antennas by addressing the needs of industry, government and
the scientific community.
B
Biochemical
Engineering Laboratory
This lab is equipped for aerobic or anaerobic fermentations from
the shake flask to 100-liter pilot-plant scale; production, isolation,
and purification of enzymes from recombinant or natural bacterial
and yeast sources; traditional enzymology and electroenzymology;
and production of biological and semi-synthetic colloids such
as micelles and vesicles.
Biocybernetics
Laboratory
Research focuses on the integration of theoretical biomodeling
and biosystems approaches with experimental lab techniques in
physiology, pharmacology and biomedical fields.
Boiling
Heat Transfer Laboratory
Research focuses on the fundamental and applied sciences concerning
the study of flow boiling, microgravity boiling, natural convection,
electronic cooling and other theoretical, numerical and experimental
studies.
C
Chemical
Reaction Engineering Catalysis and Combustion Research Laboratory
Research combines experiments and theory to better understand
and control homogeneous and heterogeneous chemical reaction processes.
Cognitive
Systems Laboratory
This lab focuses on evidential reasoning, causal reasoning, learning
and constraint processing.
Communications
Systems and Optimization Research Laboratory
Research focuses on the major areas of digital communications,
communications signal processing and communications networks.
Computational
Fluid Dynamics Laboratory
This lab is equipped with a cluster of workstations and Beowulf
systems for performing numerical simulations of transitional and
turbulent flows, hypersonic flows and reacting flows.
Concurrent
Systems Laboratory
Research focuses on the design, implementation, and evaluation
of computer systems that use state-of-the-art technology to achieve
both high performance and high reliability.
Cryogenics
Laboratory
This lab focuses on experimental studies in the area of cryogenics
for superconducting magnets.
D
Design Automation Lab
This lab focuses on high-performance interconnect modeling and
design, low power FPGA circuits and architectures and power-efficient
software/hardware co-designed computers and systems.
Device
Research Laboratory
Research focuses on nanoelectronics and optoelectronics, nanoscale
and quantum CMOS, RF, microwave and millimeter wave devices and
circuits.
Digital
Arithmetic and Reconfigurable Architecture Laboratory
Research focuses on fast and power-efficient arithmetic algorithms,
design methods and tools for building arithmetic architectures,
and the implementation of these algorithms and tools in reconfigurable
architectures and microprocessor designs.
E
Electronic
Materials Group
This lab focuses on the study of electronic materials.
Electronic
Materials Processing Laboratory
This lab is equipped with state-of-the-art instruments for studying
the molecular processes which occur during the chemical vapor
deposition (CVD) of compound semiconductors.
Electronic
Materials Synthesis and Plasma Processing Laboratory
Research focuses on the synthesis and patterning
of multi-functional complex oxide films with tailored electronic,
chemical, thermal, mechanical and biological properties.
Electronic
Thin Film Laboratory
Research focuses on wafer-based and flux-driven materials science.
Electro-Physical Integration
Group
This lab is focused on the research issues and synergies derived
from the integration of electronics with other physical domains,
such as photonics and acoustics, creating new capabilities in
fields such as biomedicine and communications.
Embedded
and Reconfigurable Systems Lab
Research focuses on the study of CAD, design and compiler aspects
of reconfigurable cores in embedded systems, including low-power
embedded systems.
Energy & Propulsion
Research Laboratory
Research involves the application of modern experimental diagnostic
methods and computational tools to the understanding and development
of improved energy, propulsion, and combustion systems.
Environmental
Reaction Engineering Laboratory
Research focuses on the structure and reactivity of complex organic
mixtures, such as atmospheric pollutants, combustion products,
mixtures of petroleum products and hazardous wastes.
H
High Performance Internet
Research focuses on TCP congestion control, measurement tools,
high speed network performance, routing and fault-tolerant multicasting.
I
Image
Communications Lab
Research focuses on the source coding, channel coding, and system-level
solutions to enable low-power, robust, and efficient multimedia
communications and computing.
Integrated
Circuits and Systems Lab
Research focuses on disk drive signal processing, data conversion,
wireless transceiver research and other analog projects.
Integrated
Photonics Laboratory
This lab focuses on micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS) research
and has state-of-the-art optical equipment as well as extensive
capability for characterizing MEMS devices.
Internet
Research Lab
This lab explores the forefront of current Internet architecture
and protocol development.
L
Laboratory for Advanced Systems Research
Research focuses on active networks, network security, operating
systems, file systems, distributed systems and systems support
for mobile computing and wireless networks.
Laboratory
for Embedded Collaborative Systems
Research focuses on the architectural challenges posed by massively
distributed, large scale, physically-coupled, and usually untethered
and small-form-factor computing systems.
Laser-Plasma
Group
This lab focuses on laser fusion, laser acceleration of particles,
nonlinear optics, high-power lasers and plasma physics.
M
Materials
Degradation Characterization Laboratory
Research focuses on solid mechanics and nondestructive evaluation.
Mechatronics and Controls Laboratory
Focuses primarily on servo control with applications in
precision machining, engine control and nanopositioning.
MEMS
Micro Systems Laboratory
Research focuses on molecular mechanics, nano fluidics and bio-nano
research.
MEMS
Micromanufacturing Laboratory
Research projects include digital microfluidics, nanoengineered
surfaces, microdroplet-dispensing systems, RF liquid switches,
micro fuel cells, 3-D microbatteries and on-chip encapsulation
of microdevices.
Microwave
Electronics Lab
This lab conducts theoretical/numerical projects and experimental
investigations in the area of microwave/millimeter-wave active
integrated circuits, microwave-optical interactions and electromagnetics.
Modeling,
Animation and Grafix Lab
Research focuses on computer graphics, physics-based animation,
robotics and biomechanics.
Multifunctional
Composites Laboratory
This lab’s mission is to develop multifunctional nanocomposites
and explore their applications by integrating technologies involving
composites, nanomaterials, information, functional materials,
biomimetics and concurrent engineering.
Multimedia
Systems Laboratory
This lab supports research in the area of multimedia systems,
and is equipped with a wide array of media production, capturing
and editing devices.
N
Nano and Micromechanics Laboratory
Focusing on predictive relations between the nano- and micro-structure of
a material and its macroscopic mechanical properties through computational
modeling.
Networked
and Embedded Systems Laboratory
This lab is engaged in research on architecture, design, and tools
for networked and embedded computing and communication systems.
O
Optoelectronic
Circuits and Systems Laboratory
This lab performs multidisciplinary research and development in
the fields of communication and sensing.
Optoelectronics
Group
This lab is focused on the fields of optoelectronics, high speed
optical communications, high efficiency light-emitting diodes
and nano-cavity lasers, photonic crystals at optical and microwave
frequencies, and quantum computing and communication.
P
Parallel
Computing Laboratory
This lab researches high performance computing systems, mobile
computing environments, large-scale heterogeneous networks and
hybrid networking environments.
Polymer
and Separations Laboratory
This lab focuses on the fundamentals of surface chemical engineering.
Process
Control and Design Laboratory
Research focuses on advancing and applying novel design and control
schemes.
R
Radio
Frequency Identification Lab
Research focuses on development of data acquisition architectures
and algorithms in the creation and use of RFID-based networks
within enterprise
information technology systems.
S
Semiconductor
Materials Research Laboratory
Research focuses on new device structures based on quantum mechanical
effects, and finding a comprehensive solution to the challenges
of mixed-signal integration technology.
Speech
Processing and Auditory Perception Laboratory
This lab develops quantitative models of human speech perception
and production mechanisms and uses these models to improve the
performance of speech-processing applications.
T
Turbulence
Research Group
Research focuses on transitional and turbulent flows, physics
and control of turbulent flows, and numerical algorithms for computational
science.
V
Vision
Lab
Research focuses on processing visual information to retrieve
a model of the environment for the purpose of control and interaction
with the environment and with humans.
VLSI
CAD Lab
This lab focuses on computer system architectures, physical design
automation of VLSI systems and the design of high-speed VLSI interconnects.
W
Web
Information Systems Laboratory
Research focuses on stream data management, data mining, bioinformatics,
search engine technology and database languages.
Wireless
Adaptive Mobility Lab
Research focuses on mobile, wireless communications.
Wireless
Integrated Systems Research Group
This lab focuses on wireless communication system design, VLSI
ASICs for wireless data communications, and testbed development
and field trials of end-to-end wireless links.
Wireless
Networking Group
Research focuses on wireless and mobile networking, to build high-performance
and dependable networking solutions for the wireless Internet. |
