CSL Research - Innovation and Themes
The Coordinated Science Laboratory is a pure, multidisciplinary laboratory where the best minds from more than a dozen disciplines meet.
Building on the strengths of their diverse backgrounds, CSL researchers collaborate on creative new ideas that address all levels of the IT world, including materials, devices, hardware and systems.
The Lab maintains testbed environments and network infrastructures for work in the following areas:
Computing Systems and Networks
- Secure, reliable and efficient wireless and wireline systems
- Dependable and trustworthy systems
- Reliable computer architectures
- Testing, benchmarking, and validation
- Parallel, multi-core computing
Decision and Control
- Management and control of complex, large-scale networks
- Decision, theoretic, and econometric models
- Applications to aeronautical, power, and manufacturing systems
- Building systems that can adapt to the environment through feedback
Circuits, Electronics and Surface Science
- Next-generation communication and computing systems in nanoscale processes technologies
- Nanofabrication in CMOS and flash memory technologies
- Thermoelectronics of carbon-based materials
- Materials for nonvolatile memory devices
Communications and Signal Processing
- Reliable and secure wired and wireless multi-access systems
- Bioinformatics, such as novel brain-machine interfaces and models for DNA sequencing
- Remote sensing and space-borne applications
- Signal and image recovery
- Speech recognition systems
