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CYBER SECURITY RESEARCH AND EDUCATION INSTITUTE
Director: Dr. Kevin Hamlen
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The Cyber Security Research and Education Institute is dedicated to conducting focused research and education that help prevent, detect and solve cybercrimes.
UT Dallas is an NSA/DHS National Center of Academic Excellence in Cyber Defense Education and Research as well as Cyber Operations.
For more detailed information about the Cyber Security Research and Education Institute (CSI), please click here.
HUMAN LANGUAGE TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE
Director: Dr. Sanda Harabagiu
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Human language technology incorporates a broad spectrum of disciplines working toward two closely related goals:
- Enabling computers to interact with humans using natural language capabilities
- Enabling computers to serve as useful assistants to humans by providing services such as automatic text understanding and retrieval, information extraction and question answering, automatic translation, and speech recognition
The institute includes six research centers: the Center for Basic Research in Natural Language Processing, the Center for Emerging Natural Language Applications, the Center for Machine Learning and Language Processing, the Center for Search Engines and Web Technologies, the Center for Text Mining, and the InterVoice Center for Conversational Technologies.
INSTITUTE FOR DATA ANALYTICS
We operate a world-class organization in data analytics that serves the students and faculty of the University of Texas at Dallas as well as the external organizations that sponsor our work. Our goal is to provide extraordinary service to our clients, funded research opportunities for our faculty, and employment opportunities for our students.
EMBEDDED SOFTWARE CENTER
Director: Dr. Farokh Bastani
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The Embedded Software Center in the Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science is an industrial/academic collaborative center for advanced research to dramatically increase the productivity and quality of complex embedded applications.
The center is developing sophisticated tools and techniques for integrating reliable embedded software systems from third-party components. The goal is to increase productivity by compressing time-consuming steps in the software development process. Eventually, this will enable domain experts to rapidly assemble an application from existing components using small amounts of in-house software to interface with third-party components. The center is also investigating advanced tools to enhance the reliability, security, adaptability, and performance of embedded applications.
To achieve this vision, the center is developing a COTS-aware requirements engineering methodology to adapt product concepts in order to maximize the use of existing components and preempt quality problems. A web-based component management system is being developed to automatically track software components, facilitate component customization, and automatically synthesize glue code and design templates. A design methodology is being investigated to provide significant reliability and customizability gains through the decomposition of complex monolithic systems into parts that can be independently implemented, validated, and customized. The center is developing tools to support the methodology, including specialized reliability and security enhancement tools and a framework for adapting the system to changes in the environment without sacrificing performance.
The research is being evaluated using prototype development with periodic demonstration projects to assess the technology and measure the productivity and quality gains. The center is working with its industrial partners, currently Alcatel USA and Texas Instruments, for technology transfer and more in-depth demonstration projects.
CENTER FOR SOFTWARE TESTING
Director: Dr. Eric Wong
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The center’s primary objective is to promote further research and develop advanced cutting-edge technologies, with user-friendly tool support, for technology transfer. We will focus on closing the gap between the state-of-art research conducted in an academic setting and the state-of-practice techniques used in the field. We will assist practitioners, no matter what their previous level of experience with software testing and quality assurance, to be quickly brought up to speed on the necessary background knowledge and gain the ability to apply a cost-effective set of procedures tailored to their specific projects.
IPERFORM: CENTER FOR ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY (AT) TO ENHANCE HUMAN PERFORMANCE
Director: Dr. Ovidiu Daescu
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This center works to bring together university and industry researchers to advance basic and applied research in Assistive Technologies in order to enhance human performance. Researchers at the I/UCRC iPerform Center currently are working on computer-based tools and methods to increase, maintain, or improve the functional capabilities of people with disabilities and to enhance the productivity of well-bodied people. Assistive technologies have a wide variety of applications, from improving workplace safety and training to enhancing sensory and cognitive capabilities, and delaying physical and cognitive decline in chronic conditions. In health care environments, Assistive Technologies tools can enhance sensory and cognitive capabilities, improve training & delivery, enable remote monitoring, delay physical and cognitive decline in chronic conditions, and personalize rehabilitation. Click here to learn more about the I/UCRC iPerform Center.
CENTER FOR CS EDUCATION AND OUTREACH
Director: Dr. Jey Veerasamy
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The center’s mission is to introduce the magical world of Computer Programming in an enjoyable manner to every school student in the greater Dallas area and beyond.
THE DALLAS INSTITUTE FOR INTERACTIVE AND SPATIAL COMPUTING (UT-DIISC)
Director: Dr. B. Prabhakaran
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The goal of the University of Texas Dallas Institute for Interactive and Spatial Computing is to incorporate activities in a broad spectrum of disciplines such as computational geometry, computer graphics, high-dimensional data analysis, human-computer interaction, information visualization, multimedia, and virtual reality. These activities enhance knowledge and human performance through bioinformatics, physically-based modeling and simulation, and training and education applications.
THE CENTER FOR MACHINE LEARNING
THE CENTER FOR APPLIED AI AND MACHINE LEARNING