RESEARCH GROUPS AND LABS
The department participates in four interdisciplinary research centers, and houses a number of departmental labs and research groups. Following is a basic overview of some of these facilities with pointers to additional information.
| Research Centers |
CENTER FOR ADVANCED TELECOMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY (CATT)
This research center focuses on networking, wireless communication, imaging/multimedia, and distributed information systems, and involves a number of faculty from the Electrical and Computer Engineering and Computer Science and Engineering departments. The center is financed by the New York State Office of Science, Technology and Academic Research and by contracts and grants from other agencies, industrial sponsors and affiliates. |
WIRELESS INTERNET CENTER FOR ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY
WICAT is a research center at Polytechnic Institute of NYU, funded by New York State plus contributions from industry and federal funding agencies, that focuses on wireless technologies and the internet. Researchers in the center include faculty member from the departments of Electrical Engineering, Computer Science and Engineering, and Management who conduct research on a variety of problems from the lowest layers of networking and wireless signal propagation to high-level complex software systems and new applications and their implications for business and management. |
OTHMER INSTITUTE FOR INTERDISCIPLINARY STUDIES
The mission of the Othmer Institute is to support novel research directions that transcend the boundaries of the established disciplines and have a potential for significant scientific and economic impact. The Institute is guided by a board of external overseers and by Junior and Senior Fellows chosen from among the faculty of the University, and aims to provide support and seed financing for ambitious interdisciplinary research initiatives. |
THE INSTITUTE FOR MATHEMATICS AND ADVANCED SUPERCOMPUTING (IMAS)
The Institute for Mathematics and Advanced Supercomputing focuses on fostering interdisciplinary activity between mathematics and other areas of science and engineering, including computer science, computer engineering, electrical engineering, environmental sciences, physics, and geophysics, The institute is led by Distinguished Industry Professors Gregory and David Chudnovsky, with participation by faculty from the University's other departments. |
| Research Labs & Groups |
COMPUTATIONAL AND COMBINATORIAL GEOMETRY GROUP
This group's research (led by Profs. Boris Aronov, Hervé Brönnimann, and Yi-Jen Chiang) focuses on the design, analysis and implementation of geometric algorithms and data structures, with applications in graphics, robotics, and data visualization. See the faculty members' home pages for additional information. |
DATABASE SYSTEMS RESEARCH LAB
The Database Systems Research Lab, directed by Prof. Alex Delis, focuses on a variety of problems in database system, including client-server database systems, indexing, data mining, and spatial and temporal databases. See the homepage of Prof. Delis for additional information. |
IMAGE PROCESSING LABORATORY
The Image Processing Lab involves faculty from the ECE (Prof. Yao Wang) and CSE (Prof. Edward Wong) departments. The lab's research focuses on image and video compression, multimedia data delivery and transport, content-based image and video retrieval, document image analysis, medical image processing, and biometrics. |
INFORMATION SYSTEMS and INTERNET SECURITY
The Information Systems and Internet Security (ISIS) Laboratory consists of heterogeneous platforms and multiple interconnected networks to facilitate experimentation in issues related to information security. It provides the focus for multidisciplinary research and education in emerging areas of information security at Polytechnic Institute of NYU. Current areas of research include computer and network security, software protection, steganography and multimedia security. ISIS was designated an NSA Center of Excellence in 2002. It is currently further being expanded with an NSF Scholarship for Service (SFS) capacity building grant and is the host laboratory for Polytechnic Institute of NYU's SFS program. |
SOFTWARE ENGINEERING GROUP
The software engineering group focuses on issues pertaining to software correctness and integrity. The researchers in this group, directed by Profs. Phyllis Frankl, Gleb Naumovich, and Nasir Memon develop and evaluate techniques for software testing, finite state verification of software, software watermarking, and virus detection. Research activities in this area are funded by the National Science Foundation and several industrial sponsors. |
VISUAL INFORMATION PROCESSING LAB
The VIP lab, directed by Prof. Nasir Memon, focuses on research in image and video compression and multimedia security. In the recent past, it has received funding from NSF, HP labs, Intel, Panasonic and Sun Microsystems. |
WEB EXPLORATION AND SEARCH TECHNOLOGY LAB
This newly opened research lab, directed by Prof. Torsten Suel, focuses on web search technology, web archival, and the analysis of the structure and evolution of the world-wide web. See the lab homepage for more details. |
WIRELESS INFORMATION SERVICES RESEARCH GROUP
Several CSE faculty members (Profs. Phyllis Frankl, Nasir Memon, Gleb Naumovich, Torsten Suel) are collaborating with members of the ECE Department's Wireless Communications group (Profs. David Goodman) to develop new paradigms for transmitting information to and from mobile and hand-held devices. Current foci of research are infostations, which provide high bandwidth wireless connectivity in certain limited areas of coverage, and the efficient transmission of content over low-bandwidth links. |
In addition to the general computer labs used in most courses, the department maintains specialized instructional labs in several areas. These labs are used in advanced undergraduate and graduate courses, and are usually closely related to a faculty member's research interests. Several of the labs are also supported by grants from outside agencies.
| Specialized Instructional Labs |
PARALLEL AND DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS LAB
This laboratory offers specialized equipment for courses on parallel and distributed computation that focus on parallel programming, models of parallel computation, and distributed computing and object systems. The lab was established with funding from the National Science Foundation and an equipment grant from Sun Microsystems, and is directed by Profs. Wein and Strauss. |
SOFTWARE INTEGRATION LAB
The Software Integration Lab contains a large number of Intel-based workstations that are used to support senior-level and graduate courses on Software Engineering, and senior projects and courses with a significant design component. The Lab is supervised by Prof. Strauss (profile). |
GRAPHICS and VISUALIZATION LAB
This newly opened research and educational lab, directed by Prof. Yi-Jen Chiang, focuses on efficient techniques for handling large-scale graphics models and visualization datasets, including out-of-core progressive-mesh simplification and rendering, out-of-core isosurface extraction and volume rendering, and graphics compression. |
In addition, active research efforts are also underway in several other areas, including parallel & distibuted computing, wireless & mobile computing, and computer architecture. Additional computer-related research, in particular in computer networking, image processing, and computer architecture, is done in the Electrical and Computer Engineering department, and in the Center for Advanced Technology in Telecommunications (CATT), a large state-sponsored research center shared by the two departments.
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