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Quick Navigation Links Department Facilities Multi-User Facilities Other Facilities Quick Navigation Links Department Facilities Multi-User Facilities Other Facilities Computer Science & Engineering Department Departmental Facilities and Individual Faculty Research Laboratories Brain Networks Laboratory Director: Dr. Yoonsuck Choe Studying the geometry and connectivity of the brain's architecture is a natural way to explore neural computation, but there are no quantitative, 3D reconstructions of mammalian brain architectures for any species. Ongoing projects in the Brain Networks Laboratory will fill this void and reconstruct an entire mouse cortical network, allowing for global analysis and simulation studies of an actual cortical network. The lab's enabling technology is a unique Brain Tissue Scanner (BTS) of our own invention that achieves the data acquisition rates necessary to make possible for the first time scanning and imaging an entire mammalian brain. The data processed is produced by the BTS to reconstruct the three-dimensional structure of the scanned tissue. The central goal is to map and understand the connectivity and geometry of cortical networks - critical to understanding natural computation. Center for Information Assurance and Security Faculty members, researchers and students of CIAS focus on a broad spectrum of issues involved in the expansion and protection of information and communications infrastructure systems. CIAS has been designated as a Center for Academic Excellence in Information Assurance Education and Research by the National Security Agency. Center for Robot-Assisted Search and Rescue (CRASAR) Director: Dr. Robin Murphy CRASAR serves as crisis response and research organization that strives to direct new technology development in robotics and unmanned systems for humanitarian purposes worldwide. CRASAR serves existing rescue organizations by providing robot-assisted search and rescue teams on order, training search and rescue personnel on relevant robot systems, evaluating emerging robot technologies, and fostering research into search and rescue specific robot systems. Center for the Study of Digital Libraries Director: Dr. Richard Furuta The Center's program of research provides a leadership role in the on-line development and application of world-wide access to digital library services. Development of this technology provides valuable fundamental research and supports the broader goal of research and education through improved means for collaboration and distance learning. The Center is not limited to one discipline; rather the development of digital libraries may be viewed as a fundamental contribution to research in all disciplines. The Center provides expertise and experience to help transfer collections of all types -- from books and journals to biological specimens and museum pieces -- into useful digital libraries. Center staff includes experts in key new technologies required for digital libraries: electronic document modeling and publication, hyperbase systems, process-based and spatial hypermedia systems, collaborative systems, and computer-human interaction. Distributed AI Robotics Lab Director: Dr. Dylan Shell In the Distributed AI Robotics Lab we study coordination, cooperation, and adaptation among multiple agents. We focus on group-level modeling of large-scale systems, interference reduction, task-allocation, in physical robots and sensor-actuator networks. To date our work has focused on implicitly coordinated systems in minimalist and biologically-inspired algorithms, along with generalization and application of traditional operations research and optimization techniques for deliberate coordination. We are considering applications from distributed, adaptive sampling, clustering & sorting, and network communication. Distributed Computing Group Director: Dr. Jennifer Welch The Distributed Computing Group members perform research on models, algorithms, lower bounds, and impossibility results for problems that arise in distributed computing. Current topic areas include models of partially synchronous distributed systems; mobile ad hoc networks, particularly vehicular ones; and consistency conditions for concurrently-accessible shared data objects. Electronic Design Automation Lab Director: Dr. D. M. H. Walker The EDA Lab develops software tools for design, manufacturing, assembly and test of semiconductor integrated circuits. The current research thrusts focus on test and diagnosis of integrated circuits. Current research projects include defect-based test, quiescent current testing, delay fault testing, realistic fault modeling and defect diagnosis. The nature of this research requires close cooperation with industry in order to fabricate and measure designs, and provide manufacturing data. Embedded Systems & Codesign Group Director: Dr. Rabi N. Mahapatra As the world of engineering advances, the complexity demands of both hardware and software grow at a phenomenal rate. The trade-offs between hardware and software within a system are at the forefront of this complexity and demand attention unto themselves. Hardware software codesign is the study of how to make these tradeoffs and meet the constraints of a system. The group's research includes Codesign Framework, Power-Aware Scheduling, Real-Time Embedded Systems, Systems-on-Chip and Re-configurable Architectures. Geometry and Graphics Group Director: Dr. John Keyser The Geometry and Graphics Group performs research dealing with geometric calculations and computer graphics algorithms. Particular areas of emphasis in geometry are in highly robust and precise geometric computations, particularly with application to geometric modeling. This includes work on exact computation with algebraic systems. Within the broader computer graphics category, research emphasizes physically-based modeling and simulation. High Performance Computing Laboratory Director: Dr. E.J. Kim The faculty and students in this Lab conduct research in the general area of Computer Architecture and Parallel and Distributed Systems. The primary focus of our lab is on providing architectural support for efficient networking in high performance systems. As rapid advances in technology, the communication between computing components has become a bottleneck in providing high performance. Along with high and predictable performance, optimization of energy consumption, management of temperature and enhancing security are critical issues in designing efficient networks. We investigate innovative ideas by exploiting the new features of modern architecture, operating systems and circuit technology to design high performance, energy-efficient, and secure systems. Information Innovation Lab Director: Dr. Anxiao (Andrew) Jiang Our lab pursues research on the theory and applications of distributed information systems. We currently focus on Coding for non-volatile memories, and Coding for natural redundancy. Interface Ecology Laboratory Director: Dr. Andruid Kerne Interface ecology is an emerging metadisciplinary approach, in which the creation of rich interactive experiences spans an n-dimensional conceptual space. The interface ecology lab develops interactive ecosystems that support and instantiate human creative processes. The recombinant media research area develops multimodal visualization mechanisms for presenting collections as combinations of existing media elements. The work focuses on the generation of emergent experiences by using machine-learning techniques to model users interests and interactivity as means to allow participants to express themselves and effect the generative models. CollageMachine is an ongoing instance of this research, in the field of web browsing and visual hypertext. New initiatives recombine video. The work is moving into the space of multimodal gesture as a means of integrating human computer interaction with physical activities, using computer vision-based video tracking, and physiological sensors. The body state representations research area integrates psychology, machine leaning, visualization, and physical practices to derive new forms of interactivity and communication based on expressive physiological data. Internet Research Lab Director: Dr. Dmitri Loguinov Internet Research Lab (IRL) at Texas A&M University conducts research in several areas of networking with a focus on Internet-related technologies and protocols. The research areas include congestion control, peer-to-peer networks, Internet measurements, web crawling, performance analysis, and stochastic modeling. Laboratory for Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (LENNS) Director: Dr. Radu Stoleru The Laboratory for Embedded Networked Sensor Systems at Texas A&M University performs research in several areas of sensor network protocols, architectures and applications. We currently focus on: distributed coordination algorithms such as localization, time synchronization, clustering, and topology control; QoS in sensor networks; failure resilience and fault isolation; energy management; data storage and management; sensor network programming abstractions. Laboratory for Software Research The Laboratory for Software Research (LSR) has as its mission the development of methodologies, techniques and automated tools to assist in the development of complex software systems. The specific thrusts in the LSR are object oriented development techniques, user interface development and evaluation systems and a life cycle artifact manager. This research supports the development of students for Texas industries and knowledge to be incorporated into our teaching program
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