Welcome to the Research Pages

The department prides itself on having several research groups with an international reputation who are among the leaders in their respective fields. Research guides all efforts of the department. Faculty members conduct research which is supported and enhanced by graduate as well as undergraduate students. Research projects conducted by our faculty often have an interdisciplinary and/or industrial component.

Research in the department is mainly clustered in the following five focus areas:

• Foundations of Computer Science
• Information Security and Data Management
• Networks and Distributed Systems
• Software Engineering
• Visual and Interactive Computing

Each focus area includes several of our research groups. Detailed information about the individual groups and labs can be obtained by using the links listed below.

• Advanced Database Systems and Applications
• Agile Software Engineering Lab
• Artificial Intelligence Research Laboratory
• Biological Modeling and Visualization
• BTLab: Biometric Technologies Laboratory
• Distributed Systems Laboratory
• Graphics Jungle
• Grouplab
• iCORE Information Security Lab (iCIS)
• Innovations in Visualization (InnoVis)
• Institute for Security, Privacy and Information Assurance
• Laboratory for Software Modification Research (LSMR)
• Networks Research Group
• NSERC SurfNet Network
• The Pacific Institute of Mathematics
• Programming Languages Lab
• Quantum Computing Research Group
• Software Engineering Decision Support Laboratory
• The SPARCS Laboratory
• The Trustworthy Systems Group (TSG)
• uTouch: Physical Human-Computer Interaction
• Video and Motion Analysis Laboratory