Information Trust Institute University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Professor Adve's broad research interest lies in using compilers (more generally, program analysis and transformation techniques) as tools for improving the performance, programmability, and security of modern computer systems. His research emphasizes the development of novel systems, compilation techniques, and (where necessary) language features to address these problems.

Professor Hwu's work addresses the problems associated with delivering effective software/hardware performance solutions for the computing industry. He leads the IMPACT Research Group, which developed the IMPACT Research Compiler, which has been widely used in industry and academia to investigate new techniques for enhancing instruction-level parallelism in a variety of architectures.

Professor Iyer is interested in developing and analyzing techniques for developing secure and reliable systems. He leads several projects in this area. One project is the Reconfigurable Reliability and Security Engine. A common processor-level framework that can provide application-aware reliability and security is attractive and timely.

Dr. Kalbarcryk is interested in developing and analyzing techniques for developing secure and reliable systems. He is involved in the DEPEND project, among others. The DEPEND project is developing a framework for designing dependable systems. DEPEND is a simulation-based environment that supports the design of systems for fault tolerance and high availability.

Professor Lumetta and his students are investigating the issues of security and reliability in optical networks. Recently his group has worked on network access protocols for optical networks. As part of the work, they developed discrete event simulators to evaluate, fix, and extend network access protocols.

Professor Patel's research team is developing enabling technology for future-generation computing systems. They are developing computer architectures that deliver high performance at low power and operate in a highly reliable manner.

Professor Snir is interested in various aspects of parallel computing and large-scale distributed processing. His theoretical work in this area includes studies of parallel computation models and of parallel algorithms. His work in parallel computer architecture includes work on parallel interconnection networks and on mechanisms for efficient large-scale shared memory support.

Professor Torrellas's research focuses on new processor, memory, and system technologies and organizations to build novel computer architectures. The goal is to design high-performance computers that are very easy to program, reliable, and built out of commodity components.