Research Centers
Bioinformatics, Information Theory, and Communications Laboratory
The BiIT Comm Laboratory is a facility dedicated to research in the areas of Communications, Information Theory and Bioinformatics. In the Communications area several projects are under way in Space Time coding, Multiple Input Multiple Output communication systems, Wireless Sensor Networks and Advanced Modulation formats for bandwidth and power efficient communications. In the bioinformatics area projects focus on applying principles of source and channel coding theory, information theory and pattern recognition to analyze and model genetic structures.
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Embedded Computing and Signal Processing Research Group
ECASP is a research laboratory dedicated to the development of high performance low power computing platforms targeted at computationally intensive problems in the fields of Communications, Signal Processing, Computer Architecture, and Ultrasonic imaging for both medical and industrial applications. Currently we have projects in Reconfigurable Systems, Target Detection, Estimation Algorithms, Signal Modeling, Data Compression, Neural Networks, Ultrasonic Imaging, Image Processing Systems, Hardware realization of Encryption Algorithms, Error Correction, FPGA based DSP systems, and RFID.
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Electric Power and Power Electronics Center
The Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) has long maintained high quality education and research programs in electric power and energy systems. The mission of the Electric Power and Power Electronics Center (EPPEC) is to make significant educational, research, and practical contributions to the fields of electric power, power electronics, electric machines, motor drives, and vehicular power systems. The tasks of the Center include the sponsorship of technical studies, which will enhance the role of university faculty, manufacturers, vendors, and consumers in power engineering research and education. The Center works with centers and departments across IIT, other institutions, government agencies, and industry to sponsor research projects, short courses, conferences, and seminars.
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Future Networking Research Laboratory
Research directions in the FunLab include Internet and wireless networks, with the objective to develop practical technologies that can provide quality-of-service (QoS) guaranteed multimedia applications over wireless and wireline Internet Protocol (IP) based networks. Specific research topics include service and application oriented network architectures, autonomic network management, Internet performance analysis, resource allocation and traffic engineering, network measurement, network security, wireless networks, and wireless/wireline interworking.
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Medical Imaging Research Center
MIRC is a research center focused on technological developments in biomedical imaging. MIRC faculty are developing new imaging modalities and new techniques for acquisition, processing and analysis of medical images.
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Ubiquitous Security and Privacy Research Laboratory
UbiSeC lab at IIT's ECE department houses research in the area of network and system security, with an emphasis on privacy preserving techniques, physical layer security, wireless security, ubiquitous computing, and applied cryptography. The mission of UbiSeC lab is to develop sound security and privacy technologies for enhancing society welfare in the era of ubiquitous computing and networking.
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