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College of Computing and Michigan Tech faculty and students are engaged in a wide range of research projects. Computing touches virtually everything, so your research options are limitless. The links below will help you identify the research opportunities of interest to you.

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Graduate Assistantships

Graduate Student Assistantships are a form of student employment that includes compensation in the form of a stipend, tuition, and lab/course fees.

  • Graduate Assistantship (GRA/GTA) recipients perform research, teaching, or administrative services for the University as part of a student’s academic and professional training and development. All applicants to the Graduate School are automatically considered for graduate assistantship opportunities. A separate graduate assistantship application is not needed. All Michigan Tech graduate programs offer assistantships.

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Faculty from dozens of University departments conduct research through the Institute of Computing and Cybersystems.

Computing Faculty Research Areas

Biocomputing and Digital Health

Research Areas: Medical Image/Signal Processing; Biomedical Imaging and Inverse Problems; Interaction of Biological Matter with Nanomaterials; Image Data Modeling; Machine Learning; Biomedical Optics and Ultrasound; Statistical Genetics and Genomics; Bioinformatics; Biostatistics; Health Informatics

Computing Education

Research Areas: Mental Models; Information Representation; Rural Digital Literacy; Education, Engagement, and Retention; STEM Education; Online Learning; Technology Adoption; Student Persistence in STEM

Cyber-Physical Systems

Research Areas: Cyber-Physical Systems; Internet of Things; Smart Home Building, Community and Grid; Smart Transportation; Smart Health; Underwater Communications and Networks

Cybersecurity

Research Areas: Cybersecurity; Information Security and Biometrics; Privacy Protection; Trusted Software Engineering; Security in Mobile Computing and Wireless Communications

Data Science

Research Areas: Data Sciences; Big Data and Data-intensive Computing; Artificial intelligence and Machine Learning; Pattern Recognition; Signal and Image Processing; Sensor and Data Fusion

Human-Centered Computing

Research Areas: Multimodal Interactions; Human-Agent Interactions; Assistive Technologies and Intelligent Health; Software Education; Novel Interfaces; Computational Modeling

Scalable Architectures and Systems

Research Areas: Scalable Computer Architecture and Systems; Heterogeneous Parallel and Distributed Computing for Information Processing; Embedded Systems; Dependable Computing; Formal Methods; Fault Tolerant Systems; VLSI design and CAD; Architectures for Secure Systems; Virtualization; Scalable Algorithms