Research Areas
The School of Informatics supports a wide array of research areas. Below are a list of Informatics faculty divided into their primary areas of research.
Bioinformatics
The bioinformatics research groups are interested in: sequence pattern recognition (transcriptomics, regulatory region prediction and characterization, splicing site recognition, gene prediction); comparative genomics (complete genome comparisons, biolinguistics, phylogenetic analysis); structural genomics (DNA, RNA and protein secondary structure prediction related; frament assembly in DNA sequencing; systems biology (biological networks, proteomics, protein annotation); models of evolution (quantitative or population genetics, molecular evolution, biochemical theories for the origin of life); molecular modeling and drug design.
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Interested Faculty
Cumulative Report, Peter Cherbas, Mehmet Dalkilic, Allessandro Flammini, Sun Kim, Sue Olson, Predrag Radivojac, Luis Rocha, Haixu Tang
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Center For Genomics and Bioinformatics
Chemical Informatics
The chemical informatics research groups are interested in: molecular modeling, computational chemistry, computational medicinal chemistry, computer-aided drug design, industrial catalyst design, 2D and 3D chemical structure coding and searching systems, analysis of data from high throughput screening and combinatorial chemistry libraries, cluster and grid computing for chemical informatics, advanced chemical descriptors, and the design of cheminformatics software.
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Interested Faculty
Cumulative Report, Mu-Hyun (Mookie) Baik, John Barnard, John McKelvey, Santiago Schnell, David Wild
Complex Systems, Networks, Modeling and Simulation
This area concerns complex adaptive systems and complex network models and their computational applications to both natural science and technology problems.
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Interested Faculty
Cumulative Report, Katy Börner, Allessandro Flammini, Geoffrey Charles Fox, James Glazier, Marco Janssen, Filippo Menczer, Peter Ortoleva, Luis Rocha, Santiago Schnell, Peter Todd, Alessandro Vespignani, Larry Yaeger
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Artificial Life, Complex Systems and Networks (CSN), Biocomplexity Institute, Center for Cell and Virus Theory, Community Grids Lab, Networks and Agents Network
Security Informatics
The Security Informatics group is interested in all aspects of security, including but not limited to attacks on known protocols; development of new protocols; social aspects of security; mathematical foundations of cryptography; and legal, political, military and commercial aspects of cybersecurity. We are associated with and contribute to the work of the Center for Applied Cybersecurity Research
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Interested Faculty
Cumulative Report, Jean Camp, Markus Jakobsson, Steve Myers, XiaoFeng Wang, Melanie Wu, Raquel Hill
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Center for Applied Cybersecurity Research
Discovery and Application of Information
We are interested in the discovery and application of information, including information discovery from the Web, text, databases, and data streams; algorithms, technologies, and applications for mining, filtering, and classifying those sources; and modeling, managing, and integrating information and knowledge.
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Interested Faculty
Cumulative Report, Katy Börner, Mehmet Dalkilic, Dennis Groth, David Hakken, Sun Kim, Filippo Menczer, Javed Mostafa, John Paolillo, Gregory Rawlins, Ed Robertson, Luis Rocha, Yuqing Melanie Wu, Catharine Wyss
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Database Group, Laboratory of Applied Informatics Research, Networks and Agents Network
Human-Computer Interaction Design
The human-computer interaction design group is concerned with the design of user experiences for various application areas. Core areas include collaborative shared surfaces, dynamic visualizations, external representations, collaborative working, augmented learning and interactivity.
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Interested Faculty
Cumulative Report, Jeffrey Bardzell, Eli Blevis, David Hakken, Youn-Kyung Lim, Yvonne Rogers, Marty Siegel
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Logical and Mathematical Foundations of Informatics
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Interested Faculty
Cumulative Report, J. Michael Dunn, Ruth Eberle, Esfandiar Haghverdi, Larry Moss, Steven Myers, Ed Robertson
Music Informatics
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Interested Faculty
Cumulative Report, Eric Isaacson, Christopher Raphael, Peter Todd, Don Byrd
Social and Organizational Informatics
We apply social science methods to the study of information technology and its uses in organizational and social settings.
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Interested Faculty
Cumulative Report, Bill Aspray, Erik Bucy, Jean Camp, David Hakken, Marco Janssen, Eden Medina, Christine Ogan, Gregory Rawlins, Howard Rosenbaum, Kalpana Shankar
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The School of Informatics is a partner with the School of Library and Information Science in support of the Rob Kling Center for Social Informatics.