The EECS Department offers a broad range of world-class research programs.
Undergraduate students can get involved in research as early as freshman year. Contact Ekincan Ufuktepe, director of undergraduate studies, to get started.
Graduate students are integral to our research and teaching mission. Questions should be directed to Yi Shang, director of graduate studies.
Electrical Engineering & Computer Science research areas:
- AI, Machine Learning, Image & Video Processing, Computer Vision
- Bioinformatics, Biomedical Imaging and Systems, Computational Biology
- Cloud Computing, Networking, High Performance Computing
- Communications, Signal Processing
- Computer Architectures, Cyber-Physical Systems
- Computing Theory and Algorithms, Scientific Computing
- Cybersecurity
- Database, Data Science, Information Retrieval
- Nano/Micro Technology
- Neuroscience, Neural Engineering
- Physical Electronics and Applied Physics
- Power Electronics and Power Systems
- Social Computing, Human-Computer Interaction
- Software Engineering, Programming Languages
- System Modeling, Control and Robotics
Departmental Research Laboratories
- Analog/Mixed-Signal VLSI and Devices Laboratory
- Bioinformatics and Machine Learning Lab (BML)
- Computational Imaging and VisAnalysis Lab
- Computational Intelligence Signal Processing Laboratory
- Dependable Cyber-Physical Systems (DCPS) Laboratory
- Distributed and Intelligent Computing Lab
- Microsystem Research Lab (MRL)
- Mizzou INformation and Data FUsion Laboratory (MINDFUL)
- Neural Engineering Laboratory
- Scalable Data Science (SDS) Lab
- Virtualization, Multimedia and Networking (VIMAN) Laboratory
- Vision-Guided and Intelligent Robotics Lab
Featured Research Projects
Praveen Rao
Title: Harnessing FABRIC for scalable language model training and inference
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $500,000
Project Period: 7/1/25-6/30/27
Tanu Malik
Title: Reproductible containers for advancing process-oriented collaborative analytics
Sponsor: NASA Goddard Space Flight Ctr
Amount: $413,871.97
Project Period: 7/1/25/-6/30/26
Prasad Calyam
Title: Low overhead zero trust solution for the tactical warfighting edge
Sponsor: Booz Allen Hamilton
Amount: $500,000
Project Period: 5/27/25-9/5/26
Title: CyberTraining: Implementation: Small: Application-inspired Cloud DevOps Training using an online self-service learning platform
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $480,000
Project Period: 8/1/24-7/31/27
Sean Goggins
Title: Scientific open source project health and sustainability
Sponsor: Wellcome Trust
Amount: $557,888
Project Period: 12/13/24-1/30/26
Title: CHAOSS: building sustainability
Sponsor: University of Nebraska Omaha
Amount: $406,755
Project Period: 4/1/23-4/30/26
Taesic Kim
Title: Development of a high-efficiency smart power conversion system applying AI based C&PD platform technology
Sponsor: Kumoh National Institute of Technology
Amount: $376,001
Project Period: 11/1/24-10/31/27
Satish Nair
Title: CyberTraining: Implementation: Small: Advanced cyberinfrastructure training for next-generation neuroscience learning and research
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $454,977
Project Period: 8/1/24-7/31/27
Jianlin Cheng
Title: FET: Small: Deep transformers for interring gene regulatory networks from omics data
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Amount: $598,103
Project Period: 7/1/24-6/30/27