Networks, Distributed Systems, and Security








Research thrusts broadly include development of innovative theories and techniques, efficient and scalable mechanisms and protocols, and novel network architectures and services. These techniques enhance the availability, reliability, quality-of-service, mobility, manageability, privacy and security for current and future Internet, emerging wireless, sensor, peer-to-peer systems, Grid systems and applications, large-scale storage networks, networked multimedia systems and applications.
Faculty











Labs and selected projects
- Networking Research Group Zhi-Li Zhang
- Distributed Computing Systems Group Jon Weissman and Abhishek Chandra
- Distributed Systems Research Anand Tripathi
- MESS: Minnesota Embedded Sensor System Tian He
Related centers and programs
Latest research projects, publications, and talks

EMP: Edge-assisted Multi-vehicle Perception [conference paper]
Posted January 31, 2022
27th Annual International Conference On Mobile Computing And Networking (MobiCom 2021)

MC-DGCNN: A Novel DNN Architecture for Multi-Category Point Set Classification [preprint]
Posted December 22, 2021
Majid Farhadloo (Ph.D. student), Carl Molnar (M.S. student), Gaoxiang Luo (undergraduate research assistant), Yan Li (Ph.D. student), Shashi Shekhar (professor), Rachel L Maus, Svetomir N Markovic, Raymond Moore, Alexey Leontovich

Identification and characterization of a fungal-selective glutaminyl tRNA synthetase inhibitor with potent activity against Candida albicans [journal]
Posted December 17, 2021
Alice Xue, Amanda Veri, Xiang Zhang, Ci Fu, Emma Lash, Kali Iyer, Nicole Revie, Nicole Robbins, Charles Boone, Chad Myers (professor), Leah Cowen
Access Microbiology

About a Proof Pearl: A Purported Solution to a POPLMARK Challenge Problem that is Not One [preprint]
Posted December 17, 2021
Gopalan Nadathur (professor)

Perceptions of Visual and Multimodal Symbolic Mediated Social Touch: Role of Technology Modality, Relationship, and Task Emotional Salience [journal]
Posted December 17, 2021
Svetlana Yarosh (associate professor), Xizi Wang, Yuan Yao
International Journal of Human-Computer Studies

A Label Correction Algorithm Using Prior Information for Automatic and Accurate Geospatial Object Recognition [conference paper]
Posted December 15, 2021
Weiwei Duan, Yao-Yi Chiang (associate professor), Stefan Leyk, Johannes H. Uhl, Craig A. Knoblock
IEEE International Conference on Big Data (IEEE BigData)

Guided Generative Models using Weak Supervision for Detecting Object Spatial Arrangement in Overhead Images [conference paper]
Posted December 15, 2021
Weiwei Duan, Yao-Yi Chiang (associate professor), Stefan Leyk, Johannes H. Uhl, Craig A. Knoblock
IEEE International Conference on Big Data (IEEE BigData)

AggNet: Cost-Aware Aggregation Networks for Geo-distributed Streaming Analytics [conference paper]
Posted December 14, 2021
Dhruv Kumar (Ph.D. student), Sohaib Ahmad, Abhishek Chandra (professor), Ramesh Sitaraman
6th ACM/IEEE Symposium on Edge Computing

Early Stopping for Deep Image Prior [preprint]
Posted December 11, 2021
Hengkang Wang (Ph.D. student), Taihui Li (Ph.D. student), Zhong Zhuang (Ph.D. student), Tiancong Chen (Ph.D. student), Hengyue Liang, Ju Sun (assistant professor)

TempoQR: Temporal Question Reasoning over Knowledge Graphs [preprint]
Posted December 10, 2021
Costas Mavromatis (Ph.D. student), Prasanna Lakkur Subramanyam, Vassilis N Ioannidis, Soji Adeshina, Phillip R Howard, Tetiana Grinberg, Nagib Hakim, George Karypis (professor)
More About Research areas
- Architectures, Compiler Optimization, and Embedded Systems
- Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
- Data Mining, Databases, and Geographical Information Systems
- Graphics and Immersive Computing
- High Performance Computing
- Human Computer Interaction (HCI)
- Robotics and Artificial Intelligence
- Software Engineering and Programming Languages
- Theoretical Foundations