Research: Overview
The School of Information Sciences has a long tradition of excellent research programs and laboratories. As part of a major research university, the school is dedicated to expanding the body of knowledge and creating the next generation of information technologies through its research.
Laboratory of Education and Research on Security Assured Information Systems (LERSAIS)
The long-term goals of LERSAIS are to (a) develop the capabilities to carry out high-impact research on both aspects of information assurance: security and survivability, and (b) develop and support high-quality education in security and information assurance. Learn more >
Teaching and Learning Research Lab
Lab researchers design, develop, and evaluate tools to help students learn, and professors teach, information science. Learn more >
ULab
The ULab team is involved in a multidisciplinary program of research, primarily focused on usability engineering. Learn more >
Geoinformatics Laboratory
Geoinformatics encompasses a collection of special techniques, technologies, and tools for the acquisition, processing, management, analysis, and presentation of geospatial data. Learn more >
Research in Telecommunications and Wireless Information Systems
Faculty members in the Graduate Program in Telecommunications and Networking and its Wireless Information Group engage in a range of exciting research projects. Learn more about research in Telecommunications and Wireless Information Systems >
Decision Systems Laboratory
Decision Systems Laboratory is a research group within the Department of Information Science and Telecommunications and the Intelligent Systems Program. It maintains a research and teaching environment for faculty and students interested in the development of techniques and systems that support decision making under uncertainty. Learn more >
IR@Pitt
IR@Pitt is a group of researchers and educators who are interested in, and are actively working on various sub-topics areas of IR, which include adaptive and interactive information retrieval, cross-language information retrieval, digital library, information seeking on the Web and in traditional library settings, interface and visualization, and multimedia indexing and retrieval. The goal of the group is to develop effective, efficient and friendly tools for people to access large, distributed, and heterogeneous information collections. Learn more >
Personalized Adaptive Web Systems (PAWS) Lab
The PAWS Lab's goal is developing and evaluating innovative user- and group-adaptive Web-based technologies, systems, and architectures. Learn more >
Spatial Information Research Group
The group is dedicated to the understanding and use of spatial information across a wide variety of contexts. Spatial information theory forms the underpinnings to developments in geographic information systems, hypertext navigation, and aspects of scientifiic visualization. Learn more >
University Consortium for Geographic Information Science (UCGIS)
The study of geographic information science at Pitt addresses a diverse set of related research themes in departments and schools across the University. Learn more >
Group for Research on Idealized Neural Systems
The group's interests span a broad range, from models of neurobiological systems to cognitive models to applications of neural networks in medicine and engineering. Learn more >