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Whether you're looking to innovate in medical technologies, improve network infrastructure, prevent cyber attacks, or to accomplish something else entirely, you can gain the knowledge, skills, and experience you need. Collaborating with SCI's renowned faculty, make a difference not only in computing and technology fields but also for people and communities. 

Dive into the different areas where faculty conduct research and scholarly work to discover more.

 

Create better technologies for human use

For example: building technologies that are more secure, more fun to interact with, or ones that assist in varying fields, like medicine or transportation. 

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Cyberphysical Systems and IoT

SCI faculty conduct research on CPS and IoT to improve how these devices function and ultimately how they can better help people and communities. 

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Cybersecurity and Privacy

Our research includes securing and maintaining privacy and confidentiality of data in smart homes, high-performance computers, sensor networks, distributed systems, and cyber-physical systems, among others.

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Databases and Data Management

Research conducted around databases and data management explores how to better collect, store, organize, retrieve, and use the data that drives decision-making across industries.

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Human-AI, Human-Robot, and Human-Agent Interaction

We explore the relationship between technology and people. This research includes topics like augmented reality, human and artificial intelligence collaborations, and focuses on real-world applications in areas like education, health, and sustainability.

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User Experience Design and User-Centered Systems

By studying user behavior and attitudes, user experience design researchers gain insights on how to make products and platforms more effective for the people using them. 

Expand what technologies can do

For example: creating better computer systems, building more efficient networks, constructing faster AI algorithms, or developing the latest in quantum innovation.

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AI, Natural Language Processing, and Machine Learning

This research encompasses SCI’s work around artificial intelligence, the development of computer systems able to perform tasks that usually require human intelligence. 

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Computer Systems Organization

Researchers in this field study how computer systems can be built, as well as how they can be improved, including making them more efficient, secure, and sustainable. 

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Distributed Systems

Distributed systems are collections of independent computers that look like a single coherent systems to users. These computers share resources, data, and tasks to achieve a common goal.

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Quantum Computing

An emerging field in computer science and engineering, quantum computing uses quantum mechanics to solve complex problems that traditional computers either can't solve or solves them more efficiently. 

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Networks

Network science studies how networks -- connections between humans, machines, data, and other elements -- communicate information.

Study how technologies fit in to social contexts

For example: studying how AI impacts the workforce, analyzing how misinformation affects online communities, or using virtual reality for cultural preservation.

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Archives and Library Sciences

Researchers in these sciences study all aspects archival work and librarianship, from developing a framework for sustaining archives to the death of digital platforms. 

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Ethics and Community Engagement

As the world continues to be transformed by data and data-driven analysis, our research explores how it impacts society as it becomes increasingly integrated into our lives.

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Scholarly Information Sharing, Data Practices, and Technical Standards

This research studies how data and information is collected, shared, stored, and used, as well as setting the standards for these practices. 

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Social Computing and Socio-Technical Systems

This research explores the intersection between computational systems and social behavior. 

Build technologies for a particular application area

For example: building an e-learning environment for introductory programming, designing an augmented reality (AR) application for use during surgery, or discovering how carbon emissions can be reduced in subway systems. 

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Biomedical and Clinical Applications

SCI researchers explore how data and technology can be used in clinical and medical settings, from teaching health through technology to how technology can be used to aid surgeons in the operating room. 

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Educational Technologies

SCI faculty research how technologies can not only better understand how people learn, but also how to help people learn as well as the role of technology in learning and evaluating learning. 

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Public Sector and Civic Engagement

Research in this area explores how data and technology can be used to understand how people engage in public issues as well as how they can be used to improve public life and the processes by which we engage in it.

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Smart Buildings, Cities, and Transportation Systems

SCI researchers look at how the Internet of Things (IoT), sensors, and other technologies can automate and optimize operations within building, cities, and transportation services.

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Sustainability

SCI researchers in this area study how technology can be used to improve the sustainability of our buildings, infrastructures, and more.