Research Labs & Projects
Applied and Nano-optics
The research interests of the Applied and Nano-optics group cover a wide range with an emphasis on experimental nanoscale optics. We are developing new methods and devices for optical studies of single particles such as molecules, photons, or nanomagnets. To this end we are using a wide variety of optical and nanoscale characterization techniques such as time-correlated single photon counting, ultrafast laser spectroscopy, or scanning probe microscopy. Applications of our research include integrated biomedical sensors, high-density magnetic memory, or single-photon light sources and detectors. [MORE]
Computer Communication Research Group (CCRG)
The Computer Communication Research Group (CCRG) is dedicated to basic and applied research in computer communication. CCRG research focuses on new algorithms, protocols, and architectures for wireless networks based on packet switching (i.e., packet-radio networks), internetworking, multipoint communication, and the control of resources by multiple administrative authorities.
Database Group
Database research, projects and seminars at the Baskin School of Engineering.
Design and Verification Lab
Research in software and system design methods, embedded software design, software and system verification, game theory, formal methods.
Geo-spatial Visualization
We are creating a consistent 4-dimensional space-time visualization of geospatial data and intelligence associated with the environment. This task requires intelligent collection of data using various sensors including a variety of cameras, LIDAR data, and multispectral imagery in all kinds of frequenecy bands. The spatio-temporal GIS (Geographic Information System) visualization system will bring together several layers of information including terrain data, street maps, buildings, environment data, aerial images, and mobile objects data.
Group Researching Advances in Software Engineering (GRASE)
The GRASE laboratory performs research in the areas of software evolution and reengineering, and software configuration management. Current areas of research include identifying unstable areas of evolving software, automatic generation of software configuration management repositories, and development of Web-based versioning and configuration management infrastructure.
Information Retrieval and Knowledge Management (IKRM)
The IRKM Lab is dedicated to basic and applied research in information retrieval and data mining. Current research projects include developing a proactive information retrieval, adaptive information filtering, and collaborative personalized search, recommendation and advertising.
Inter-Networking Research Group
The Internetwork Research Group ( i-NRG ) at UC Santa Cruz conducts research in the design, experimental evaluation, and implementation of network protocols for internetworks consisting of wired as well as wireless networks. Our research activities, span a number of areas in computer networks and distributed systems.
Micro Architecture at Santa Cruz
Research on computer architecture with special focus on are energy/performance trade-offs, thread level speculation, simulation tools, FPGAs, and design complexity.
Multi-Dimensional Signal Processing
The Multidimensional Signal Processing (MDSP) Research Group interests are in the area of inverse problems in imaging, statistical detection and estimation, and associated numerical methods. Current projects include image resolution enhancement and super-resolution, computationally efficient image motion estimation, shape reconstruction from local and global geometric data, multiscale modeling and analysis of signals and images, radon transform-based algorithms for deformation analysis and dynamic imaging, image processing and inverse problems in remote sensing, and automatic target detection and recognition. The MDSP group is directed by Professor Peyman Milanfar of the Electrical Engineering Department at UCSC.
Santa Cruz Laboratory for Visualization and Graphics
Recent research at the Santa Cruz Laboratory for Visualization and Graphics Lab includes animal modeling and animation, environmental visualization, isosurfaces, d.v.r., hierarchies, irregular grids, massively parallel volume rendering through the net, uncertainty visualization, virtual reality in scientific visualization, nomadic collaborative visualization, tensor visualization, and flow visualization.
Storage Systems Research Center
Composed of faculty from both the computer science and computer engineering departments, the Computer Systems Laboratory focuses on caching, storage systems hierarchies, wide-area distributed systems, security and performance.
UCSC Broadband Communications Research Group (UCBC)
Broadband communications research at the Baskin School of Engineering.
UCSC Scientific Visualization Laboratory
The UCSC Scientific Visualization Laboratory provides the means for creating visualizations from scientific data. Projects include a simulation of an "extensive air shower" striking the Milagro detector at Los Alamos National Lab, representing a subsonic flow over a delta wing aircraft, a demonstration of direct volume rendering on a multiply-gridded space shuttle launch vehicle, an N-body simulation of large-scale structure in the universe, and a representation of a diving whale based on location data from a Monterey Bay tagging experiment.
UCSC Visual Computing Laboratory
The UCSC Visual Computing Laboratory explores visual tracking, stereo and sparse IBR, facial modeling and analysis, image and video processing, and more.