Research at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering is conducted by faculty members and students in three research centers and eighteen laboratories of various areas.

CRA, Computing Research Association, Bulletin

Research Centers

  • Center for Information and Cyber Security

    The Center for Information and Cyber Security (CICS) has helped UNT earn the designation of "Center of Academic Excellence in Information Assurance Education" and "Center for Academic Excellence in Research" from the National Security Agency and Department of Homeland Security for its strong computer and information security program. This designation places UNT among the top institutions in the country in the field of computer security.

  • Net-Centric & Cloud Software & Systems (NCSS) Industry & University Cooperative Research Center (I/UCRC)
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    Net-Centric & Cloud Software & Systems (NCSS) Industry & University Cooperative Research Center (I/UCRC) focuses on a collaborative approach of research and development in net-centric and cloud computing systems. This allows us to draw on the expertise of industry and academia. Net-Centric and cloud computing operations offer a computing model for the future. In this paradigm, we no longer view applications as having a fixed set of capabilities: we see them as a set of highly reliable services that are dynamically created from acquired services, then verified and validated in the field in real-time. The center explores the development, verification, validation of applications and systems for net-centric and cloud environments such that the applications and services meet service level agreements (SLAs) including response time, reliability and security.

Research Areas and Labs

Algorithms and Computational Science

  • Algorithms, Combinatorics, and Graph Theory

    Algorithms, Combinatorics, and Graph Theory (ACG) is a laboratory whose goal is to improve the theoretical/practical efficiency of algorithms. We aim at developing new branches of Graph Theory/Combinatorics that can aid in modeling, and effectively solving (exactly or approximately), a wide range of computationally hard problems. For related conferences see Workshop on Algorithms, Combinatorics, and Geometry.

  • Uncertainty Quantification Lab

    Uncertainty quantification lab develops computational methods for the main aspects of uncertainty quantification, including model correction, parametric uncertainty analysis, non-probabilistic uncertainty modeling, sensitivity analysis, and applies the uncertainty quantification techniques to various disciplines such as biology and engineering.

    Faculty: Yanyan He

Artificial Intelligence and Data Science

  • Biocomputing Group

    The Biocomputing Research Group focuses on developing Bioinformatics tools and applying revolutionary technologies to critical scientific and engineering applications related to biology and medical science.

    Faculty: Xuan Guo
  • Biomedical Artificial Intelligence Lab

    The Biomedical AI Lab develops machine learning tools to predict or precisely measure the outcomes of medical interventions, collaborating extensively with hospitals and medical schools. Although artificial intelligence techniques and clinical populations are highly varied, a major theme is tailored wearable device analytics to assess therapies for individuals with impaired mobility, including past research populations with Parkinson’s disease, lower-limb amputations, incomplete spinal cord injury, and cerebral palsy.

  • Computer Vision and Intelligent Systems Laboratory

    The Computer Vision and Intelligent Systems Laboratory (CoVIS) is to advance the understanding of the theories of machine learning for processing complex data and to develop applications in areas such as medicine, geo-information, etc. The research focuses on both algorithm innovation and hardware integration, which includes computer vision, pattern recognition, data mining, and artificial intelligence. The CoVIS lab is facilitated with the state-of-the-art computing resources and various imaging technologies. The lab provides both graduate and undergraduate students a unique, collaborative research cohort to further their career goals.

  • Human Intelligence and Language Technologies Lab

    The Human Intelligence and Language Technologies (HiLT) lab focuses on research on natural language processing (NLP), machine learning (ML), and cognitive science, with an emphasis on Spoken-Dialogue Educational Health & Wellbeing Companion Robots (Companionbots), Educational Technology, Health & Clinical Informatics, and End-User Software Engineering.

  • Information Retrieval and Text Mining Lab

    The Information Retrieval and Text Mining Lab focuses on developing a variety of general techniques for representing, searching, filtering, organizing, and mining text information, with applications in multiple domains including the Web, homeland security, and biomedical and health informatics. The research draws on methods from information theory, natural language processing, and data mining to tackle problems in information retrieval and discovery, and emphasizes on both fundamental research and system development.

    Faculty: Wei Jin
  • Multimedia Information Group

    The Multimedia Information Laboratory conducts research on multimedia material (videos and images) processing, multimedia information extraction, and multimedia information modeling and retrieval, which include video and image segmentation, motion and color analysis, image quality analysis, and object recognition by region clustering and classification.

    Faculty: JungHwan Oh

Computer Systems and Networks

  • Computer Systems Research Laboratory

    The Computer Systems Research Laboratory focuses its work on researching multithreaded and multicore architectures for both embedded and high-performance applications. Research includes work in processing architectures, memory systems, cache memories and software tools to utilize the special capabilities of underlying hardware systems, and in developing both hardware and software solutions to improve performance, reduce energy consumption and prevent security breaches.

    Faculty: Krishna Kavi
  • Dependable Computing Systems Lab

    The Dependable Computing Systems Laboratory conducts research on failure modeling, failure management, adaptive failure resilience, failure-aware resource management, and power-aware dependable computing. The lab conducts both fundamental and applied research to develop highly dependable and energy-efficient distributed and cloud computing systems.

    Faculty: Song Fu
  • Energy-Efficient High Performance Computing Laboratory

    The Energy-Efficient High Performance Computing Laboratory focuses on designing computer systems that achieve high performance with limited power budgets. Our research spans across multiple areas of micro architecture design, which includes embedded systems, multi-core processors, memory hierarchies, on-chip interconnections and accelerators.

    Faculty: Hui Zhao
  • Smart Electronic System Laboratory

    The Smart Electronic Systems Laboratory (SESL) conducts research in Smart Electronics for the efficient realization of Internet-of-Things (IoT) based components for Smart Cities. The key aspects of the smart electronics are envisioned to be Energy-Smart, Security-Smart, and Response-Smart. Energy-Smart ensures that energy consumption of electronics is minimal for longer battery life. Security-Smart deals with the security/protection of electronics as well as that of the information/media that these systems capture, process, or store. Response-Smart refers to accurate sensing, intelligent processing, and fast actuation/response. Smart Electronics in the framework of IoT can provide 3Is (Instrumentation, Interconnection, and Intelligence) to the Smart Cities. Optimal combinations of hardware and software modules are explored for ESR-smartness of electronic systems.

  • Wireless Sensor Laboratory

    Wireless Sensor Laboratory (WiSL) was established with the following mission: to increase general wireless communications awareness among computer science and engineering graduates, produce skilled wireless specialists, and conduct research and development activities to advance the state-of-the-art in wireless sensors.

    Faculty: Robert Akl

Cybersecurity

  • Network Security Laboratory

    The Network Security Laboratory was established to increase general wireline and wireless network security awareness of computer science and engineering graduates, to produce skilled security specialists, and to conduct research and development activities to advance the state-of-the-art in wireline and wireless network security and communication.

Software Engineering