Research Groups

Dependable Systems: This group, headed by Rodrigo Rodrigues, focuses on building reliable, highly-available software systems, by improving the methods used to build such systems.


Distributed Systems and Operating Systems: This group, headed by Peter Druschel, conducts research in the design, implementation and evaluation of computer systems.


Information Security and Cryptography: This group, headed by Michael Backes, conducts research in theoretical foundations and applied aspects of information security and cryptography.


Large Scale Internet Systems: This group, headed by Paul Francis, attacks problems associated with Internet routing and addressing, overlay networks, Internet security, and cloud computing.


Networked Systems: This group, headed by Krishna Gummadi, conducts research in both experimental and theoretical aspects of networked systems design.


Programming Languages and Systems: This group, headed by Umut Acar, researches the foundations, design, and implementation of programming languages and systems.


Rigorous Software Engineering: This group, headed by Rupak Majumdar, focuses on algorithms, tools, and methodologies to build complex yet reliable software systems.


Type Systems and Functional Programming: This group, headed by Derek Dreyer, conducts research in both the theoretical and practical aspects of modern programming language design, with a primary focus on type systems and functional programming.


Verification Systems: This group, headed by Andrey Rybalchenko, conducts research on algorithms and tools for the automated analysis and verification of software systems.


Career opportunities:

Tenure-track openings

Postdoctoral positions

Graduate studies

Internships


Architect's rendering of new institute buildings:

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Lectures:

Institute Colloquium

Distinguished Lecture Series



Computing research organizations in the surrounding area:

List of all organizations




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