Research

The Department of Computer Science has research programs in a variety of areas. Please check out research groups listed below, or you can view our individual faculty member pages here.

AdVanced Empirical Software Testing and Analysis (AVESTA)

Principal Investigator:Dr. Akbar Siami Namin
Email: Akbar.Namin@ttu.edu
Phone: 325.677.1112
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The AdVanced Empirical Software Testing and Analysis (AVESTA) research group focuses on conducting research in software testing, empirical software engineering, and application of statistical analysis to program analysis. The group is founded in the Computer Science Department at Texas Tech University August 2009.

Center for the Science and Engineering of Cyber Security

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The objective of the center is to study principles of Cyber Security, how to measure, assess and enforce security in legacy systems, and how to build new systems that are secured. The science of Cyber Security is addressed by exploiting formal techniques that are theoretically grounded to express, model and reason about security accurately. The engineering of cyber security utilizes empirical techniques that aim to create holistic and systematic approaches to development of automated tools for cyber security system analysis. The center also examines cyber security issues facing the general public such as security in business enterprises, health care and national infrastructures.

Cyber Physical Systems (CPS) Lab

Principal Investigator:Dr. Bashir I. Morshed
Email:bmorshed@ttu.edu
Phone: 806.834.4898
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CPS research lab focuses on wholistic solution for mobile health applications with body-worn electronic patch sensors, wearables, and edge-AI with multidisciplinary research team. Our capabilities include low-cost additive-manufacturing nanotechnology based inkjet-printed (IJP) flexible electronics for body-worn sensors, fully-customized ultra-low power Embedded systems (ES) based electronic wearable/IoT and smartphones for real-time data collection, and analysis of events-of-interest (EoI) with edge computation with lightweight AI models, including machine learning (ML), deep learning (DL), and transformer models. These innovations find applications in various domains including mobile-health (mHealth) and smart-health (sHealth), autonomous vehicles, drones, and robotics, and smart & connected communities (S&CC).

Data-Intensive Scalable Computing Laboratory (DISCL)

Principal Investigator: Dr. Yong Chen
Email: Yong.Chen@ttu.edu
Phone: 806.834.0284
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The Data-Intensive Scalable Computing Laboratory (DISCL) at the Texas Tech University has broad research interests in parallel and distributed computing, high-performance computing, Cloud computing, computer architectures and systems software with a focus on building scalable computing systems for data-intensive applications in high-performance scientific computing/high-end enterprise computing.

Intelligent Internet of Things Lab

Principal Investigator:Dr. Jingjing Yao
Email:jingjing.yao@ttu.edu

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interactive Data Visualization Lab (iDVL) 

Principal Investigator:Dr. Tommy Dang
Email:tommy.dang@ttu.edu
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The interactive Data Visualization Lab is housed at EC 305 within the Department of Computer Science at Texas Tech University. The lab focuses on developing methods and tools for analyzing, visualizing, and interacting with massive, dynamic, and ambiguous data arised from various application domains. The iDVL lab research explores the novel marriage of human-computer interaction, scientific and information visualization, computer animation, and machine learning. We move beyond traditional computing environments by experiencing interactive visualization techniques on mobile devices as well as within immersive virtual reality environments.

NSF Cloud and Autonomic Computing (CAC) Center

Principal Investigator: Dr. Yong Chen
Email: Yong.Chen@ttu.edu
Phone: 806.834.0284
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The overall mission of the CAC Center is to pursue fundamental research and development in cloud and autonomic computing in collaobraiton with industry and government partners. The technical scope of the Center’s activities includes design and evaluation methods, algorithms, architectures, software, and mathematical foundations for advacned distributed and automated computing systems. Solutions are studied for different levels including the hardware, networks, storage, middleware, services, and information layers. The CAC Center is supported through the National Science Foundation (NSF) Industry-University Cooperative Research Centers (IUCRC) program. 

TTU Wireless Mobile Networking Laboratory (TSquareWISTOR)

Principal Investigator: Dr. Sunho Lim
Email: sunho.lim@ttu.edu
Phone: 806.742.3527
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In the TTU Wireless Mobile Networking Laboratory (T2WISTOR), we are conducting research in the areas of Green Networking (Energy Harvesting/Routing/MAC), Mobile Data Management (Data Dissemination/Query/Caching), Embedded Networked Systems (Ad Hoc/Sensor/Vehicular), and Mobile Software (Google Android).