Computing Research Association

The Department participates in the the Computing Research Association (CRA). CRA’s mission is to enhance innovation by joining with industry, government and academia to strengthen research and advanced education in computing. Visit the CRA’s homepage for more information about its resources, research, and development activities.

Research Groups

Bioinformatics Research Group: Dr. Dawn E. Wilkins (Professor Emeritus) and Dr. Yixin Chen. Research on use of machine learning techniques in analysis of microarray data, bioinformatics, and computational biology. Funding by NIH and NSF.

Heterogeneous Systems Research (HEROES) Laboratory: Dr. Byunghyun Jang. Research on hardware architecture and compilers for CPU-GPU heterogeneous system, and high-performance computing. Current work focuses on optimizing GPU/HSA memory architecture and accelerating computer vision applications on mobile GPUs. Funding by industries and NSF.

Intelligent Multimedia Research Group: Dr. Yixin Chen. Analysis and retrieval of audio, image, and video data using pattern recognition and machine learning techniques. Funding by NSF.

Multiparadigm Software Architecture Research Group: Dr. H. Conrad Cunningham (Professor Emeritus). Research on software architecture and engineering, functional and multiparadigm programming languages and methods, domain-specific languages, feature modeling, software patterns, safe and secure programming, formal methods for programming, concurrent and distributed computing, and accessible documents.