Research Labs

The Brandeis University Computer Science Department has a number of active research groups.

Dynamical & Evolutionary Machine Organization

(Website) DEMO attacks problems in agent cognition using complex machine organizations that are created from simple components with minimal human design effort. We study recurrent neural networks, evolutionary computation, and dynamical systems as substrates. We build working systems to test our theories.

Laboratory for Linguistics and Computation

(Website) The Laboratory for Linguistics and Computation conducts research on the design and development of language models for semantic indexing, knowledge extraction, and linguistically based reasoning over large text collections. Theoretical work involves development of Generative Lexicon Theory and extensions of this theory to parsing and event-based inferencing.

Groupware-Mediated Cooperative Programming

(Website) One consequence of the rapid growth of the Internet is the corresponding rapid increase in the demand for teams of software and Web site developers to support the creation of Web content and services. Complicating matters is the need to train large numbers of workers with non-technical backgrounds for the growing electronic workplace. This research explores groupware-mediated cooperative tools to teach IT skills to novices. A same time/different place groupware system will be built, deployed, and experimentally tested that supports collaborative learning of Web development and applet programming for a computer science general service course serving social science, humanities, and fine arts students.

Brandeis Data Compression Group

The Brandeis Data Compression Group is supervised by Professors Jim Storer and Martin Cohn.

G.R.O.U.P.

(Website) Group for Research On Usage and Pragmatics

Laboratory for Experimental Software Systems

The Laboratory for Experimental Software Systems is supervised by Professor Liuba Shrira

The Logic and Computation Project

The focus of this research group is on logic in computer science, with particular interest in lambda calculus and functional programming, types, constructive mathematics, proof theory, linear logic, and semantics.

BioInformatics

Dr. Pengyu Hong is building a research group in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology