Brain Networks
Laboratory
Yoonsuck Choe - 322B H.R. Bright Building, MS #3112 - 979/845-5466
- Email: choe@cse.tamu.edu
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.
Amato, Nancy - 425H HRBB - 979/862-2275 - amato@cse.tamu.edu
Keyser, John - 527C HRBB - 979/458-0167 - keyser@cse.tamu.edu
Rauchwerger, Lawrence - 425E HRBB - 979/845-8872 - rwerger@cse.tamu.edu
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Center for Information Assurance and
Security
Riccardo Bettati - 509C H.R. Bright Building, MS #3112 - 979/
847-8578 - Email: bettati@cse.tamu.edu
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.
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Center for Robot-Assisted Search and
Rescue (TEES)
Robin Murphy - 333 H.R. Bright Building, MS #3112 - 979/845-2015 -
Email: murphy@cse.tamu.edu
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.
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Center for the Study of Digital
Libraries (TEES)
Richard Furuta - 402C H.R. Bright Building, MS #3112 - 979/845-3839
- Email: furuta@cse.tamu.edu
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.
Frank Shipman - 404 979/862-3216 - shipman@cse.tamu.edu
Andruid Kerne - 402A - 979/862-3217 - andruid (at) cse.tamu.edu
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Distributed AI Robotics
Lab
Dylan Shell - 333B H.R. Bright Building, MS #3112 - 979/845-2369 -
Email: dshell@cse.tamu.edu
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.
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Distributed Computing
Group
Jennifer Welch - 425G H.R. Bright Building, MS #3112 -
979/8845-5076 - Email: welch@cse.tamu.edu
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.
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Electronic Design Automation
Lab
Hank Walker - 515B H.R. Bright Building, MS #3112 - 979/862-4387 -
Email: walker@cse.tamu.edu
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.
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Embedded Systems &
Codesign Group
Rabi Mahapatra - 520B H.R. Bright Building, MS #3112, 979/845-5787
- Email: rabi@cse.tamu.edu
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.
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Geometry and
Graphics Group
John Keyser - 527C H.R. Bright Building, MS #3112, 979/458-0167 -
Email: keyser@cse.tamu.edu
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.
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High Performance
Computing Laboratory
Eun Jung Kim - 427C H.R. Bright Building, MS #3112 - 979/845-3660 -
Email: ejkim@cse.tamu.edu
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.
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Hypermedia Research
Laboratory
Richard Furuta - 402C H.R. Bright Building, MS #3112 - 979/845-3839
- Email: furuta@cse.tamu.edu
The Hypermedia Research Laboratory (HRL) provides an enhanced
environment for student and faculty research in the areas of
hypermedia, multimedia, computer-supported cooperative work, and
digital library systems. Research includes the study, design and
prototypic implementation of hypermedia architectures, systems and
environments that support the above research areas. Most recently,
research has centered on the design and implementation of open and
distributed hypermedia architectures, spatial hypertext systems,
metadocument-based reshaping of distributed collections, and the
applications of hypertextual technologies in support of education
and scholarship.
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infolab: Web & Distributed
Information Management
James Caverlee - 403 H.R. Bright Building, MS #3112 - 979/ 847-8578
- Email: caverlee@cse.tamu.edu
Our overall research goal is to enable efficient and trustworthy
information sharing and knowledge discovery over dynamic,
heterogeneous, and massive-scale networked information systems.
From the World Wide Web to distributed databases to emerging
social/mobile information systems, these large-scale networked
systems place great demands on knowing whom and what information to
trust and how to enable efficient and personalized access, all
while maintaining the core open and self-organizing principles of
these systems.
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Information Innovation
Lab
Anxiao (Andrew) Jiang - 427B H. R. Bright Building, MS #3112 -
979/845-7983 - Email: ajiang@cse.tamu.edu
Our lab pursues research on the theory and applications of
distributed information systems. We currently focus on wireless ad
hoc and sensor networks as well as file storage and retrieval in
networks.
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Interface Ecology
Laboratory
Andruid Kerne - 402A H.R. Bright Building, MS #3112 - 979/862-3217
- Email: andruid (at) cse.tamu.edu
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.
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Internet Research Lab
Dmitri Loguinov - 515C H.R. Bright Building, MS #3112 -
979/845-0512 - Email: dmitri@cse.tamu.edu
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.
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Laboratory for Embedded Networked
Sensor Systems
Radu Stoleru - 509D H. R. Bright Building, MS #3112 - 979/862-8349
- Email: stoleru@cse.tamu.edu
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.
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Laboratory for Software Research
William Lively - 326 H.R. Bright Building, MS #3112 - 979/845-5480
- Email: lively@cse.tamu.edu
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 in software engineering.
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NetBot Laboratory
Dezhen Song - 311C H.R. Bright Building, MS #3112 - 979/ 845-5464 -
Email: dzsong@cse.tamu.edu
Our lab focuses research on three thrusts including networked
telerobotics, vision-based robot navigation, and sensor/robot
networks. We develop and apply techniques drawn from modern
probability models, optimization theory, computational geometry,
and control theory to problems in the domain of robotics and
automation. Our research has found many applications including
natural environment observation, distance learning, surveillance of
public space, building construction monitoring/archiving, vehicle
navigation, space exploration, and manufacturing. We approach
research problems from both theoretical and experimental
perspectives. We build mathematical models, develop algorithms, and
validate them through both simulations and physical
experiments.
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Parasol Laboratory
Lawrence Rauchwerger - 425E H.R. Bright Building, MS #3112 -
979/845-8872 - Email: rwerger@cse.tamu.edu
Nancy Amato - 425H H.R. Bright Building, MS #3112 -979/862-2275 -
Email: amato@cse.tamu.edu
The Parasol Laboratory is a focal point for research related to
next-generation high-performance computing systems and for the
development of algorithms and applications that exploit these
systems to solve computationally intensive applications. Due to its
application-centric focus, the Parasol Lab creates a uniquely
favorable environment for collaboration between systems and
application developers. Parasol systems projects include: the study
and development of novel architecture and compiler techniques for
the optimization of parallel and distributed systems, the design
and implementation of compiler driven software productivity
improvement tools, software verification, and performance modeling
and prediction. Parasol applications projects include: the
development of optimized algorithms for applications from domains
such as computer-aided design (CAD), computational biology,
computational geophysics, computational neuroscience, computational
physics, robotics, and virtual reality. This interdisciplinary
college-wide lab provides an array of systems to support research
related to parallel and distributed computing, including a
Hewlett-Packard 16 processor V-class multiprocessor.
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Perception, Sensing and
Instrumentation Lab (formerly PRISM lab)
Ricardo Gutierrez-Osuna - 506A H.R. Bright Building, MS #3112 -
979/845-2942 - Email: rgutier@cse.tamu.edu
Research in the Pattern Recognition and Intelligent Sensor Machines
Lab lies at the interface between signal processing, machine
learning, neural computation, robotics and sensor systems. Our
interest is in understanding how sensory systems (man-made or
biological) perceive, interact with, learn from and adapt to their
environments under a number of modalities, including chemical,
acoustic, visual, and physiological.
In the process, we draw motivation from multiple disciplines,
from neurobiology to perceptual psychology. Our current research
projects include speech processing methods for foreign accent
conversion, wearable physiological sensors for stress monitoring,
active sensing with tunable chemical sensors, and face perception
and face super resolution.
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Real-Time Distributed
System
Steve Liu - 502B H.R. Bright Building, MS#3112 - 979/845-8739 -
Email: liu@cse.tamu.edu
This group is interested in solving the underlying principles of
complex systems in order to convert them into real solutions to
real world problems. With the rapid evolution and acceptance of
computing and communication technologies in our society, this group
strives for long-term impact with short-term relevance and success
in its research and in its educational process. Its aim is to
provide lab members with a balanced view of information technology
by focusing on the entire process of design, analysis and
implementation.
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Real-Time Systems
Group
Riccardo Bettati - 509C H.R. Bright Building, MS #3112 -
979/845-5469 - Email: bettati@cse.tamu.edu
This group focuses on research and development of real-time
computing and communication technology for mission critical
information systems, including multimedia, command and control,
transportation, process control, etc. The group's NetEx and NetCamo
projects have made significant progress that has been recognized by
various awards, including the outstanding paper award from the IEEE
International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems in 1992;
the best paper award from the IEEE National Aerospace and
Electronics Conference in 1997; an award on technology transfer
from the Defense Advanced Research Program Agency (DARPA) in 2002;
and the 2nd prize in the International ACM Student Research Contest
in 2002.
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Secure Communication and
Computer Systems Laboratory (SUCCESS)
Guofei Gu - 502C H.R. Bright Building, MS#3112 - 979/ 845-2475 -
Email: guofei@cse.tamu.edu
Our lab focuses on cutting-edge research in computer and network
security. We are developing new generations of algorithms,
techniques, and systems to solve real-world security problems and
aim to make profound real-world impacts. We balance theory and
practice, and often bridge system and networking techniques with
other areas such as machine learning, statistics, information
theory, and applied cryptography. Our current research projects
include (but not limited to): malware detection/defense/analysis,
intrusion detection/prevention, web and social networking
security.
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Sketch Recognition
Lab
Tracy Hammond - 414C H.R.Bright Building, MS#3112 - 979/ 862-4284 -
Email: hammond@cse.tamu.edu
We are interested in the integration of sketch and gesture
recognition into traditional user interfaces.
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Software &
Systems Group
Lawrence Rauchwerger - 425E H.R.Bright Building, MS#3112 - 979/
845-8872 - Email: rwerger@cse.tamu.edu
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