Research

Our faculty members are involved in research and professional activities in many major areas of computing such as:

  • bioinformatics and biomedical computing
  • computer and information security
  • computer and sensor networks
  • data visualization and computer vision
  • e-commerce
  • formal methods in software design/development
  • health informatics/wirelss health
  • machine/statistical learning, pattern recognition
  • mobile robotics
  • neural computing, multi-agent systems
  • parallel and distributed computing
  • software engineering of object-oriented systems
  • social implications of computing

Some research activities have been sponsored by grants from:

  • National Science Foundation
  • National Institutes of Health
  • Office of Naval Research, Naval Undersea Warfare Center, Newport, RI
  • U.S. Department of Energy
  • Commonwealth Information Technology Initiative
  • UMass Dartmouth Foundation
  • local computer industries