Our faculty are engaged in cutting-edge research, both to advance fundamental algorithms and computing technologies, and to apply those technologies in innovative ways that improve people's lives and advance knowledge and understanding of our world. They present work at national and international conferences and publish results in renowned journals. They are principal investigators, currently leading projects funded by more than $1.7M in awards. They are also educators, involving undergraduate and graduate students in these research efforts. (See highlights of our students' research.)
Research Clusters
Details of our research activities can be found below anong the list of grants and publications, and on individual faculty member's webpages. Some common themes in the research programs involve:
- Algorithms
(Erin Chambers, Michael Goldwasser, David Letscher)
- Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
(Jie Hou, David Letscher, Bahareh Rahmani, Kevin Scannell, Abby Stylianou)
- Bioinformatics
(Ted Ahn, Erin Chambers, Michael Goldwasser, Jie Hou, David Letscher, Bahareh Rahmani)
- Computational Topology
(Erin Chambers, David Letscher)
- Computer Networks and Security
(Flavio Esposito, Md Mainul Islam Mamun, Sohini Roy, Tourani, Wei Wang
- Data Science
(David Letscher, Kevin Scannell)
- High-performance Computing
(Ted Ahn)
- Human-Computer Interaction
(Ankit Agarwal)
- Image Processing
(Jason Fritts, Abby Stylianou)
- Natural Language Processing
(Kevin Scannell)
- Real-time Systems
(David Ferry)
- Software Engineering
(Kate Holdener)
- Virtual Reality
(David Ferry, Jason Fritts)
Yajie Yan, David Letscher, and Tao Ju. “Voxel cores: efficient, robust, and provably good approximation of 3D medial axes”. In: ACM Trans. Graph. 37.4 (2018), 44:1–44:13. doi: 10.1145/3197517.3201396. url: http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/3197517.3201396. |
Travis Mick, Reza Tourani, and Satyajayant Misra. “LASeR: Lightweight Authentication and Secured Routing for NDN IoT in Smart Cities”. In: IEEE Internet of Things Journal 5.2 (2018), pp. 755–764. doi: 10.1109/JIOT.2017.2725238. url: https://doi.org/10.1109/JIOT.2017.2725238. |
Jianyu Wang, Jianli Pan, Flavio Esposito, Prasad Calyam, Zhicheng Yang, and Prasant Mohapatra. “Edge Cloud Offloading Algorithms: Issues, Methods, and Perspectives”. In: CoRR abs/1806.06191 (2018). arXiv: 1806.06191. url: http://arxiv.org/abs/1806.06191. |
Gabriele Castellano, Flavio Esposito, and Fulvio Risso. “A Distributed Architecture for Edge Service Orchestration with Guarantees”. In: CoRR abs/1803.05499 (2018). arXiv: 1803.05499. url: http://arxiv.org/abs/1803.05499. |
Reza Tourani, Satyajayant Misra, Travis Mick, and Gaurav Panwar. “Security, Privacy, and Access Control in Information-Centric Networking: A Survey”. In: IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials 20.1 (2018), pp. 566–600. doi: 10.1109/COMST.2017.2749508. url: https://doi.org/10.1109/COMST.2017.2749508. |
Erin W. Chambers, S?ndor P. Fekete, Hella-Franziska Hoffmann, Dimitri Marinakis, Joseph S. B. Mitchell, Srinivasan Venkatesh, Ulrike Stege, and Sue Whitesides. “Connecting a set of circles with minimum sum of radii”. In: Comput. Geom. 68 (2018), pp. 62–76. doi: 10.1016/j.comgeo.2017.06.002. url: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.comgeo.2017.06.002. |
Matthew J. McCoy, Alexander J. Paul, Matheus B. Victor, Michelle Richner, Harrison W. Gabel, Haijun Gong, Andrew S. Yoo, and Tae-Hyuk Ahn. “LONGO: an R package for interactive gene length dependent analysis for neuronal identity”. In: Bioinformatics 34.13 (2018), pp. i422–i428. doi: 10.1093/bioinformatics/bty243. url: https://doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/bty243. |
Hsien-Chih Chang, Jeff Erickson, David Letscher, Arnaud de Mesmay, Saul Schleimer, Eric Sedgwick, Dylan Thurston, and Stephan Tillmann. “Tightening Curves on Surfaces via Local Moves”. In: Proceedings of the Twenty-Ninth Annual ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms, SODA 2018, New Orleans, LA, USA, January 7-10, 2018. 2018, pp. 121–135. doi: 10.1137/1.9781611975031.8. url: https://doi.org/10.1137/1.9781611975031.8. |
Erin Wolf Chambers, Arnaud de Mesmay, and Tim Ophelders. “On the complexity of optimal homotopies”. In: Proceedings of the Twenty-Ninth Annual ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms, SODA 2018, New Orleans, LA, USA, January 7-10, 2018. 2018, pp. 1121–1134. doi: 10.1137/1.9781611975031.73. url: https://doi.org/10.1137/1.9781611975031.73. |
Heather E. Metcalf, Tanya L. Crenshaw, Erin Wolf Chambers, and Cinda Heeren. “Diversity Across a Decade: A Case Study on Undergraduate Computing Culture at the University of Illinois”. In: Proceedings of the 49th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, SIGCSE 2018, Baltimore, MD, USA, February 21-24, 2018. 2018, pp. 610–615. doi: 10.1145/3159450.3159497. url: http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/3159450.3159497. |