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Coordinated Science Laboratory
R. K. Iyer, Director
202 Computer and Systems Research Laboratory, 1308 W. Main Street, MC-228, Urbana, IL 61801-2307
217-333-2510 • http://www.csl.uiuc.edu

During the past 50 years, the Coordinated Science Laboratory (CSL) has gone through several transformations and expansions in its research focus. Started as a NASA-supported, multidisciplinary control systems laboratory in the 1950s, CSL evolved into a world-class, military-supported electronics research facility in the 1970s and 1980s, and then became what it is today: a premier national laboratory in information technology and telecommunications research.

Through these decades, the task at CSL has always been to look ahead 5 to 20 years. Today, interdisciplinary teams research innovative computing, communications, signal processing, and control technologies—the infrastructure that makes seamless wireless/wireline technology and Internet applications, such as e-commerce and distance learning, possible. At CSL, design, implementation, interaction, and evaluation issues are investigated at every level, from devices to circuits and systems and from algorithms to networked architectures and software.

To spur research in this broad technological area, the National Science Foundation (NSF) recently initiated a major program in information technology research. In the first year of the program, the University of Illinois led all institutions in the country in research awards. CSL faculty teams received the largest portion of the U of I awards, putting CSL at the forefront of this major field. Other support for research programs at CSL is extensive and broadly based, with significant investments from such federal agencies as DARPA and NASA and from such major corporations as AT&T, Cisco, Hewlett Packard, Intel, Lucent, Microsoft, Motorola, Nokia, and Sun. In addition, such major corporate research centers as the Motorola Corporate Research Laboratories and such national laboratories as the Jet Propulsion Laboratory work in synchrony with CSL faculty on a variety of projects.

CSL research is led by approximately 80 faculty members from 7 departments, and assisted by 320 graduate students and 50 undergraduates. CSL maintains relationships with more than 40 industrial partners and has strong links with the departments of Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical and Computer Engineering, General Engineering, Materials Science and Engineering, Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, and Mathematics. CSL is located primarily in its own building, with additional facilities in the Engineering Sciences Building, Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, and the Frederick Seitz Materials Research Laboratory.

The future is difficult to predict, but one thing is certain: for any of our technological dreams to unfold, an underlying information technology infrastructure—fast, adaptive and responsive, highly reliable, and secure—must be in place. The ultimate research goal of CSL is to make this infrastructure a reality.

CSL research areas include the following:

Applied Computational Theory
Circuits
Communications
Computational Electronics
Cryptography and Information Protection
Decision and Control
Physical Electronics
Reliable and High-Performance Computing
Signal and Image Processing
Space Science and Remote Sensing
Supercomputing Research and Development
Surface Studies
Thin Film Electronics

Faculty associated with CSL are listed below:

Department of Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering
P. Voulgaris

Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
L. Liu

Department of Computer Science
G. Dejong
K. Nahrstedt
S. Teng

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

I. Adesida
N. Ahuja
T. Basar
S. Bishop
R. Blahut
H. Boelcskei
Y. Bresler
D. Brown
A. Cangellaris
N. Carter
K. Y. Cheng
J. Coleman
G. Eden
S. Franke
C. Gardner
C. Hadjicostis
B. Hajek
I. Hajj
M. Hasegawa-Johnson
K. Hess
T. Huang
W. M. Hwu
R. Iyer
D. Jones
F. Kamalabadi
R. Koetter
P. Krein
E. Kudeki
P. Kumar
J. P. Leburton
S. Levinson
Z. P. Liang
D. Liberzon
M. Loui
S. Lumetta
J. Lyding
Y. Ma
S. Mehrotra
S. Meyn
P. Moulin
D. Munson
W. O'Brien
G. Papen
J. Patel
S. Patel
W. Perkins
C. Polychronopoulos
U. Ravaioli
E. Rosenbaum
E. Rudnick
W. Sanders
D. Sarwate
P. Sauer
N. Shanbhag
A. Singer
G. R. Swenson
G. W. Swenson
T. Trick
J. Tucker
B. Vaduvur
N. Vaidya
V. Veeravalli
B. Wah
K. C. Yeh

Department of General Engineering
F. Bullo
J. Medanic
M. Spong
R. Sreenivas
R. Srikant

Department of Library and Information Science
L. Smith
M. Williams

Department of Materials Science and Engineering
J. Abelson
L. Allen
D. Cahill
G. Ehrlich
J. Greene
A. Rockett

Department of Mathematics
N. Boston
I. Duursma
A. Stein

Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
A. Alleyne
G. Dullerud
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