Software Engineering
The Software Engineering research group focuses on how to analyze, design, build, test, and maintain safe and reliable software systems. The group has published extensively in international software engineering journals and conferences. Our group members work on a very broad research base which includes research into embedded and real-time systems, communications, databases, software design techniques, user interfaces and human-computer interaction, distributed systems engineering, software measurement and quality, software testing, software processes, reuse, requirements engineering, and software tools.
Distributed Systems
Howard University's Distributed Systems Research Group (DSRG) is concerned with distributed software/hardware systems: their development, their use, and the principles underlying both. Members of HU's distributed systems group conduct research in the areas of operating systems, database, security, performance evaluation, computer architecture, parallel processing, multimedia, and computer networking. Their current thrusts are context aware computing, mobile middleware, telehealth information systems, and virtualization. The DSRG is lead by Professor Legand Burge.
Data Communications and Computer Networks
Research in the Computer Networks Lab covers a wide range of theoretical and experimental areas, with an emphasis on high-speed and wireless networks and the delivery of multimedia over local, metropolitan and wide area networks. The Computer Networks Lab is led by Professors Jiang Li, and Nicki Washington. Current areas of activity include:
- Multimedia Networking.
- Wireless Networks.
- Network Management.
- TCP Traffic Management and Modeling.
- Routing
- High Performance LANs and MANs and Residential Broadband Access.
- Pricing in the Internet.
Algorithms and Machine Learning
The Algorithms and Machine learning group focuses on a broad range of topics such as: Intelligent tutoring systems, Data mining, optimization, graph theoretic algorithms, complexity, machine learning techniques, and bioInformatics.
Information Assurance and Computer Security
The IACS group investigates the effects of diversity and scale on security; advanced technology for programmable network architectures, cryptographic protocol verification, embedded systems security, privacy/anonymity on the web, models and protection measures for DoS, trust management, language-based security, and non-traditional applications of cryptology.
Appropriate Technology
The Howard University Project on Appropriate Technology (HUPAT) investigates technology that is appropriate to the environmental, cultural and economic situation it is intended for. Typically, these technologies require fewer resources, which mean lower cost and less impact on the environment.
Computational Biology
The computational biology group's primary focus is on protein structure prediction using fast sequence to structure alignment and multi-sequence alignment algorithms. There approach is based on tree decomposition method. In addition, the computational biology group supports the efforts of the Laboratory for Molecular Computations and Bioinformatics .
Systems, Performance, Simulation and Modeling
The Systems group conducts research on performance modeling, risk analysis, system dynamics, knowledge engineering/Management, and engineering management.
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