Research areas

Our faculty actively seek interdisciplinary collaborations across Tufts and Boston. Current funded research includes projects with civil, chemical, electrical, and biomedical engineering departments, Tufts School of Medicine, Tufts Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Tufts Medical Center, and the Tufts University departments of biology, chemistry, astrophysics, classics, child development, and psychology.

Current areas of research in the department include:

• Algorithms and theory
• Artificial intelligence
• Bioinformatics and computational biology
• Cognitive and brain science
• Cybersecurity policy
• Data science (T-TRIPODS Institute)
• Human-computer interaction
• Machine learning
• Networked systems and technologies for social impact
• Networking and distributed systems
• Programming languages
• Robotics and human-robot interaction
• Software Systems Development
• Visualization and graphics