Research Labs

  • Center for Information and Computer Security
  • The Computational Epidemiology Research Laboratory
  • The Computer Privacy and Security Laboratory
  • The Computer Systems Research Laboratory
  • The Computer Vision and Intelligent Systems Laboratory
  • The Geometric Computing Laboratory
  • The Laboratory for Recreational Computing
  • The Language and Information Technologies Laboratory
  • The Multimedia Information Laboratory
  • The Network Research Laboratory
  • The Network Security Laboratory
  • The VLSI Design and CAD Laboratory
  • Wireless Sensor Laboratory

  • Center for Information and Computer Security

    Center for Information and Computer Security (CICS) has helped UNT earn the designation of "Center of Academic Excellence in Information Assurance Education" from the National Security Agency for its strong computer and information security program. This designation places UNT among the top institutions in the country in the field of computer security.

    Go to CICS Homepage


    The Computational Epidemiology Research Laboratory

    The Computational Epidemiology Research Laboratory (CERL) applies computational science paradigms to the domain of public health, thereby providing tools for epidemiologists and public health researchers.

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    The Computer Privacy and Security Laboratory

    The Computer Privacy and Security Laboratory (CoPS) conducts research on improving privacy and security of computer systems.

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    The Computer Systems Research Laboratory

    The Computer Systems Research Laboratory focuses mainly on compiler and architectural issues related to multithreaded computing, cooperative architecture and compiler techniques for intelligent memory devices, hardware/software co-design, Computer Aided Design (CAD) for FPGAs and ASICs, and development of high-level design tools in Electronic System Level (ESL) design.

    Go to CSRL Homepage


    The Computer Vision and Intelligent Systems Laboratory

    The Computer Vision and Intelligent Systems Laboratory (CoVIS) is supported by the state-of-the-art facilities including image acquisition devices and software development platforms and focuses on computer vision problems such as image fusion, target recognition, and pattern classification.

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    The Geometric Computing Laboratory

    The Geometric Computing Laboratory conducts research to improve the theoretical effectiveness and efficiency of algorithms for problems with a geometric nature. Intelligent Distributed Software Systems provides the software and hardware infrastructure for research and graduate teaching in new and exciting areas such as intelligent mobile agents, distributed artificial intelligence and Internet programming.


    The Laboratory for Recreational Computing

    The Laboratory for Recreational Computing (LARC) is a center for research and education on game development and entertainment computing.

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    The Language and Information Technologies Laboratory

    The Language and Information Technologies Laboratory fosters research on various aspects of natural language processing, including text understanding, machine translation, natural language learning and information retrieval.

    Go to LIT Homepage


    The Multimedia Information Laboratory

    The Multimedia Information Laboratory conducts research on multimedia material (videos and images) processing, multimedia information extraction, and multimedia information modeling and retrieval, which include video and image segmentation, motion and color analysis, image quality analysis, and object recognition by region clustering and classification.


    The Network Research Laboratory

    The Network Research Laboratory conducts research in high-speed networking techniques and applications.


    The Network Security Laboratory

    The Network Security Laboratory was established to increase general wireline and wireless network security awareness of computer science and engineering graduates, to produce skilled security specialists, and to conduct research and development activities to advance the state-of-the-art in wireline and wireless network security and communication.

    Go to NSL Homepage


    The VLSI Design and CAD Laboratory

    The VLSI Design and CAD Laboratory (VDCL) carries out research in low power design and CAD for nano-scale VLSI circuits.

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    Wireless Sensor Laboratory

    Wireless Sensor Laboratory (WiSL) was established with the following mission: to increase general wireless communications awareness among computer science and engineering graduates, produce skilled wireless specialists, and conduct research and development activities to advance the state-of-the-art in wireless sensors.

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