Bioinspired Computing
- Forrest Brewer / High Level Synthesis Lab: Low Power Pulse-Mode and Biologically Inspired Control and Signal
Processing - Dmitri Strukov: Electronic Synapses, Nanoelectronic Neuromorphic Circuits
- Luke Theogarajan / Biomimetic Circuits & Nanosystems Lab: Neuromorphic Circuits & Systems
- Patrick Yue / High-Speed Silicon Lab (HS2L): Wireless Data and Power Delivery for Integrated Biomedical Sensors
Circuit and System Design
- Kaustav Banerjee / Nanoelectronics Research Lab: Novel Device Driven Circuits and Systems Exploration; Robust Design Techniques for Nanometer CMOS
- Forrest Brewer / High Level Synthesis Lab: Low power Signaling, Low Power Integrated Circuit Design
- Steve Butner / Computer Architecture Lab: Computer Architecture, Embedded Systems, Real-time Systems, Robotics
- Tim Cheng / SoC Design and Test Lab: High-speed IO Interfaces, Design for Flexible Electronics including Organic Devices
- Tim Sherwood / ArchLab: Memory Design, MEMS Control Processors, High-throughput Digital Systems
- Dmitri Strukov: Digital Memories and Field Programmable Circuit Architectures Based on Emerging Device Technologies
- Luke Theogarajan / Biomimetic Circuits & Nanosystems Lab: Low-Power Analog VLSI, Biosensors, Neural Prosthesis
- Patrick Yue / High-Speed Silicon Lab (HS2L): High-speed CMOS Wireless and Wireline IC Design
Computer Architecture
- Forrest Brewer / High Level Synthesis Lab: High Performance Digital Feedback Control, Integrated Control for MEMs
- Steve Butner / Computer Architecture Lab : Computer Architecture, Embedded Systems, Real-time Systems, Robotics
- Fred Chong / ArchLab: Embedded Systems, Security Architectures, Multicore Architectures
- Michael Melliar-Smith / Computer Networks and Distributed Systems Laboratory: Processor Design, Multicore, Concurrency
- Behrooz Parhami / PQRS Computer Architecture Lab: Performance, Quality, Reliability, and Scalability Considerations in Computer Arithmetic; Parallel Processing; Dependable Computing
- Tim Sherwood / ArchLab: Security Architectures, Dynamic Program Analysis, Embedded Systems
Electronic Design Automation and Testing
- Kaustav Banerjee / Nanoelectronics Research Lab: Novel CAD Framework for Emerging Issues in Nanometer CMOS and Beyond-CMOS Electronics
- Tim Cheng / SoC Design and Test Lab: Design Verification and Validation, Silicon Debug, and Testing for System-on-chip, Multi-core Processors, and Mixed-signal Systems
- Margaret Marek-Sadowska / VLSI CAD & Test Lab: Physical Design, VLSI Layout Design, Diagrams of Physical Defects, Low-Power Design, Physical Design of Multi-Cores, Regular Circuit Fabrics, Power-Gated Designs
- Dmitri Strukov: Design Automation for Hybrid CMOS/nanodevice Circuits
- Li-C Wang / Microprocessor Test and Validation Lab (MTV): Test and Verification, Statistical Methods for EDA, Test Data Mining
- Patrick Yue / High-Speed Silicon Lab (HS2L): Cell-based RF/mm-wave Modeling and Design Methodology and On-wafer Wireless Testing for Process Control Monitoring
Emerging Technologies for Computing
- Kaustav Banerjee / Nanoelectronics Research Lab: Emerging Nanotechnologies (Carbon Nanotube, Graphene, Nanowire, etc) for VLSI Applications; 3-D ICs and More-than-Moore Technologies
- Fred Chong / ArchLab: Quantum Computing, Nanoscale Electronics
- Volkan Rodoplu / Wireless Network Lab: Automated Design of Networking Protocols
- Dmitri Strukov: Hybrid CMOS/nanodevice Circuits, 3D-stackable Circuits, Resistive Switching ("memristive") Devices, Analog Computation
- Heather Zheng / Lab for Intelligent Networking (LINK): Dynamic Spectrum and Cognitive Radios, Mobile and Wireless Networks, Multimedia Networks
Energy-efficient Computing (Greenscale Center)
- Kevin Almeroth / Networking and Multimedia Systems Lab (NMSL): Computer Networks and Protocols, Wireless Networking, Multicast Communication, Large-Scale Multimedia Systems, and Mobile Applications
- Kaustav Banerjee / Nanoelectronics Research Lab: Green Electronics (Sub-kT/q devices--Tunnel-FETs, Nanoelectromechanical Switches, etc) --Materials, Devices, Circuits, and Architecture
- Forrest Brewer / High Level Synthesis Lab: Power Efficient Signal and Control Processing
- Tim Cheng / SoC Design and Test Lab: Datacenter Reliability, SoC/SiP Power Analysis and Optimization, Validation and Test of Low-Power Devices
- Fred Chong / ArchLab: Large-scale Computing, Server Architectures, Silicon Reuse
- Chandra Krintz / Lab for Research on Adaptive Compilation Environments (RACELab): Estimation of Energy Consumption, Feedback Directed Energy and Power Optimization (compiler, runtime, operating system), Software support for Energy Monitoring
- Margaret Marek-Sadowska / VLSI CAD & Test Lab: Physical Design of Power-gated Chips and Multicores
- Volkan Rodoplu / Wireless Network Lab: Underwater Sensor Networks, Energy-efficient Joint Communication and Computing
- Tim Sherwood / ArchLab: Low-power Design
- Rich Wolski / MAYHEM: Estimation of Energy Consumption, Feedback Directed Energy and Power Optimization (compiler, runtime, operating system), Software support for Energy Monitoring
- Heather Zheng / Lab for Intelligent Networking (LINK): Cognitive Radios and Networking, Energy-efficient Spectrum Access and Routing
Nanotechnology
- Kaustav Banerjee / Nanoelectronics Research Lab: Applications of Nanomaterials in Electronics, Spintronics, Energy Harvesting, and Bio/Medicine -- Modeling, Design, and Nanofabrication
- Fred Chong / ArchLab: Quantum Computing; Nanoscale Computing, Memory, and Sensors
- Dmitri Strukov: Nanoionic and Nanoelectronic Devices for Application in Digital and Analog Circuits
- Luke Theogarajan / Biomimetic Circuits & Nanosystems Lab: Biomimetic Nanosystems, Triblock Polymer Synthesis, Self-Assembly, and Micro and nanofabrication
Networking
- Kevin Almeroth / Networking and Multimedia Systems Lab (NMSL): Delay Tolerant Networking, Wireless, Mobile Computing, Measurement, Multimedia, Educational Technology
- Michael Melliar-Smith / Computer Networks and Distributed Systems Laboratory: Network Protocols, Performance, Handheld Wireless Devices
- Louise Moser / Computer Networks and Distributed Systems Laboratory: Network Protocols, Quality of Service, Mobile and Wireless Networks
- Volkan Rodoplu / Wireless Network Lab: Automated Design of Networking Protocols, Quality of Service in Mobile Networks, Underwater Sensor Networks
- Ben Zhao / Lab for Secure and Reliable Networking (CURRENT Lab): Networking Security and Privacy, Peer-to-peer and Overlay Networks, Large-scale Networks
- Heather Zheng / Lab for Intelligent Networking (LINK): Dynamic Spectrum and Cognitive Radios, Mobile and Wireless Networks, Multimedia Networks
Operating Systems and Distributed Systems
- Ben Zhao / Lab for Secure and Reliable Networking (CURRENT Lab): Cloud Computing, Distributed Data-intensive Computing, Distributed File Systems, Online Social Networks
- Chandra Krintz / Lab for Research on Adaptive Compilation Environments (RACELab): Virtualization, OS/Runtime Interaction and Coordination, Cloud Computing, System-wide Adaptive Optimization
- Michael Melliar-Smith / Computer Networks and Distributed Systems Laboratory: Concurrency, Fault Tolerance, Interoperability
- Louise Moser / Computer Networks and Distributed Systems Laboratory: Dependability, Virtualization, Interoperability, Web Services, Service Oriented Architectures
- Rich Wolski / MAYHEM: Scalable Systems, Cloud Computing, Grid Computing
Software and Languages
- Tevfik Bultan / Verification Laboratory: Service Oriented Computing, Concurrency, Model Checking, Static Analysis, Software Engineering
- Tim Cheng / Learning-Based Multimedia Lab: Multimedia Content Management and Retrieval, Mobile Computer Vision, Video Surveillance
- Chandra Krintz / Lab for Research on Adaptive Compilation Environments (RACELab): Programming Languages and Runtime Systems for Distributed Computing (resource-constrained devices to high-end clusters); Techniques for Performance Profiling, Feedback-directed Dynamic Compilation, and Memory Management
- Louise Moser / Computer Networks and Distributed Systems Laboratory: Service Oriented Architectures, Composition of Components, Human Computer Interface
- Tim Sherwood / ArchLab: Adaptive and Introspective Systems, Sketch-based Interfaces