Computer Engineering
Computer engineering is a broad research area that encompasses diverse challenges that focus not only on computers, but on how they work together. Computer engineers build robots that can travel to places where humans never imagined exploring but also research parallel processing to build super fast computers. Computer engineers are typically focused on computer hardware, but frequently collaborate with computer scientists and overlap greatly into research involving computer software.
Research topics in the discipline include:
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| Algorithms and computational complexity |
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| Cloud computing |
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| Compilers |
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| Computer aided design |
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| Computer architecture |
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| Computer networking |
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| Computer security, privacy, and information trust |
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| Computer vision and pattern recognition |
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| Cryptographic systems and protocols |
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| Distributed algorithms |
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| Distributed and peer-to-peer systems |
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| Embedded, real-time, and hybrid systems |
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| Fault tolerance and reliability |
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| Formal methods and software verification |
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| Hardware verification and testing |
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| Logic design and VLSI |
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| Machine learning |
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| Natural language processing |
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| Operating systems |
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| Parallel processing |
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| Programming languages |
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| Robotics and motion planning |
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| Speech recognition and processing |
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| System modeling and measurement |
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Faculty list for this main area
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| Borisov, Nikita |
Associate Professor |
nikita@illinois.edu |
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| Brown, Donna Jean |
Associate Professor Emeritus |
djb@illinois.edu |
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| Hu, Yih-Chun |
Associate Professor |
yihchun@illinois.edu |
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| Huang, Thomas S. |
Professor |
t-huang1@illinois.edu |
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| Hutchinson, Seth |
Professor |
seth@illinois.edu |
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| Hwu, Wen-mei W. |
Professor |
w-hwu@illinois.edu |
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| Iyer, Ravishankar K. |
Professor |
rkiyer@illinois.edu |
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| Loui, Michael C. |
Professor |
loui@illinois.edu |
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| Lu, Yi |
Assistant Professor |
yilu4@illinois.edu |
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| Lumetta, Steven S. |
Associate Professor |
lumetta@illinois.edu |
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| Mitra, Sayan |
Assistant Professor |
mitras@illinois.edu |
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| Nicol, David M. |
Professor |
dmnicol@illinois.edu |
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| Patel, Janak H. |
Professor Emeritus |
jhpatel@illinois.edu |
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| Patel, Sanjay J. |
Professor |
sjp@illinois.edu |
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| Polychronopoulos, Constantine |
Professor |
cdp@illinois.edu |
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| Sanders, William H. |
Professor |
whs@illinois.edu |
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| Stratton, John Andrew |
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stratton@illinois.edu |
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| Vaidya, Nitin H. |
Professor |
nhv@illinois.edu |
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| Vasudevan, Shobha |
Assistant Professor |
shobhav@illinois.edu |
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