Overview: In broad terms, the major areas of faculty research are Distributed and Parallel Processing, Networking and Net-Centric Systems, and Computational Science and Visualization. Other active research areas include bioinformatics, database and data mining, geometric and graph algorithms, image processing, and software engineering.

Distributed and Parallel Processing: This area covers a wide spectrum of research issues related to high-performance computing. Active research topics include parallel computational models, parallel and distributed algorithms, associative computing, parallelizing compilers, massively parallel computer architectures, interconnection networks, and cluster computing. The research in this area has been supported by NASA, ONR, NSF, and OBR.

Networking and Net-Centric Systems: The faculty in this area investigate research issues in high-performance computer communications networks. Major topics include adaptive routing protocols, high-speed switching and transmission techniques, multiple access protocols, multimedia networks, network algorithms, network management, programmable and active networks, traffic management and congestion control, and web-based computing. The research in this area has been supported by CAIDA, DARPA, ITEC, Internet2, NASA, CISCO, NSF, and OBR.

Computational Science and Visualization: The researchers in this area use high-performance computing and communications facilities to solve problems in other sciences and disciplines. In particular, numerical computing, scientific visualization, computational steering, virtual reality, and animation techniques are used to address problems in biological sciences, chemistry, geography, geology, and physics. The research in this area has been supported by NSF and OBR.

Other active research areas include bioinformatics, database and data mining, evolutionary algorithms, graph algorithms and computational geometry, computational biology, hardware-software codesign, Internet-based mathematical computing, software engineering and visualization, symbolic and algebraic computation, and web-based and multimedia languages. The research in this area has been supported by NSF and OBR, NASA, and ONR.