The SSP division contains faculty whose main research interests include the design, analysis, and proof-of-concept development of solid-state and photonic devices and systems.

SSP Faculty: Prem Kumar (Head), Matthew Grayson, Seng-Tiong Ho, Xu Li, Chang Liu³, Hooman Mohseni, Martin Plonus, Manijeh Razeghi, Selim Shahriar, Bruce Wessels, Horace Yuen¹

The CSD division conducts research focused on understanding how the mind works (with a computational focus) and on creating systems for education, performance support, and entertainment that exploit principles of cognitive science and artificial intelligence.

CSD Faculty: Ken Forbus (Head), Larry Birnbaum¹, Justine Cassell¹, Louis Gomez², Kristian Hammond¹,Lawrence Henschen², Thomas Hinrichs, Ian Horswill², Don Norman¹, Andrew Ortony¹, Bryan Pardo¹, Chris Riesbeck, Uri Wilensky¹

The CES division conducts research in architecture, operating systems, distributed and parallel systems, compilers, the interface with software systems, robotics, databases, VLSI, networking (including security), and performance analysis.

CES Faculty: Peter Dinda and Yehea Ismail¹ (Co-Heads), Fabian Bustamante, Yan Chen¹, Alok Choudhary,  Robert P. Dick¹, Lawrence Henschen¹,  Russ Joseph, Aleksandar Kuzmanovic, Wei-keng Liao, Wei-Chung Lin², Gokhan Memik, Seda Ogrenci Memik,  Alan Sahakian², Peter Scheuermann¹, Chi-Haur Wu¹, Hai Zhou¹

The GIM division contains faculty whose research goal is the interaction of data, information, and images as gathered, processed, and presented by a computational system with humans.

GIM Faculty: Ian Horswill (Head), Larry Birnbaum²,  Justine Cassell²,  Louis Gomez¹, Kristian Hammond²,  Don Norman²,  Andrew Ortony², Bryan Pardo², Jack Tumblin¹, Uri Wilensky²

The research of the CAA division focuses on algorithms, theory, applications, and software and hardware implementations.

Current research areas include bioinformatics, computational economics and finance, continuous and discrete optimization, database algorithms, formal methods, networking algorithms, security algorithms, self-assembly, and VLSI CAD algorithms.

CAA Faculty: Ming-Yang Kao (Head), Yan Chen², Lance Fortnow, Jason Hartline, Nicole Immorlica,  Jorge Nocedal, Peter Scheuermann², Allen Taflove, Hai Zhou²

The S&S division broadly covers signals including images and other forms of information and their acquisition, representation, processing, analysis and interpretation, coding, transmission through networks, wireless and other channels, and the control of linear and non-linear dynamic systems.

S&S Faculty: Alan Sahakian (Head), Randy Berry, Arthur Butz, Robert Dick², Randy Freeman, Dongning Guo, Abraham Haddad, Michael Honig, Yehea Ismail², Aggelos Katsaggelos Chung-Chieh Lee, Wei-Chung Lin¹, Thrasos Pappas, Jack Tumblin², Chi-Haur Wu², Ying Wu, Horace Yuen²

¹Primary affiliation
²Secondary affiliation
³50% EECS