Research centres and groups

Our faculty work together under the auspices of research centres and groups to address research questions which require a multidisciplinary focus:

Automated Testing Lab (atLAB) - Research areas include automated testing, combinatorial test generation, grammar-based test generation, and network vulnerability testing, especially of SCADA and PCS devices.

Centre for Advanced Materials and Related Technology (CAMTEC) - CAMTEC's objectives are to carry out fundamental and applied research in advanced materials, to train technical and academic personnel in these areas, and to disseminate the knowledge gained from the research through scientific publications, conferences, workshops and seminars.

Combinatorial Algorithms Group (CAG) - Research interests include graph theory and graph algorithms; combinatorics and combinatorial algorithms; computational geometry; randomized algorithms; computational complexity; network reliability; topological graph theory; computational biology; cryptography and design theory.

Communication Networks Laboratory (CNL) - Group members are active in the area of computer communications networking, with special interests in network protocol and architecture design supporting emerging multimedia traffic over wired/wireless, mobile, ad hoc, and sensor networks.

Computational Electromagnetics Research Laboratory (CERL) - The group's mission is to develop novel methods and procedures for the numerical modeling of guiding and radiating structures for electromagnetic waves.

Computational Fluid Dynamics Lab (CFD) - Dedicated to the development of computational fluid dynamics, its use for fundamental research and its application to engineering design.

Crystal Growth Laboratory - Growth of single crystals of semiconductors for various applications including medical imaging devices, x-ray and gamma ray detectors, solar energy conversion, lasers, and infra-red detectors.

Digital Signal Processing Group (DSPG) - The group consists of faculty and students working in many fundamental and applied areas of DSP such as digital filter design, adaptive filtering, digital audio, image reconstruction, image/video compression, DSP applications in communications, optimization techniques, genomic signal processing, and others.

Digital System Design Group (DSD) - Research areas include distributed java, multiple valued logic, decision diagrams, hw/sw codesign, cellular automata, multimedia, pseudo random patterns, and testing.

Graphics Group (PirateSpaceCamp) - Research areas include computational aesthetics, computational photography, gaming, education and computer science, modeling and implicit surfaces, non-photorealistic rendering and colour for computer graphics.

Information Security and Object Technology (ISOT) - The main research thread pursued in the ISOT Lab lies in rigorous development of secure and dependable computing systems and in the protection of these systems.

Information Security and Privacy Research (InSPiRe) - The lab's research projects focus on addressing systems-level security/privacy and distributed systems issues within large-scale IT systems and networks.

Institute for Integrated Energy Systems (IESVIC) - IESVic promotes feasible paths to sustainable energy systems by developing new technologies and perspectives to overcome barriers to the widespread adoption of sustainable energy.

Integrated MicroSystems Research Group (IMS) - The group's research focuses on the analysis, modeling, design, synthesis, and implementation of high-performance low-power integrated multi-processor microsystems.

Laboratory for Advanced Wireless Communication Research (LAWCR) - Projects include link adaptive techniques for wireless systems, evolution of multiuser MIMO systems, and energy-efficient design for wireless communications.

Laboratory for Applied Computer Vision Algorithms (ACVA) - The group's research focuses on the development of novel algorithms for a variety of computer vision-related applications.

Laboratory for Automation Communications and Information Systems Research (LACIR) - Specific research areas include adaptive optics systems, ocean technology and micro-machining.

Laboratory for Parallel and Intelligent Systems (LAPIS) - The group's research is focused on the general area of computer engineering with specific interests in multiprocessor systems and interconnection networks; neural networks; synthesis automation; and fault detection and diagnosis of large communication networks.

Music Information and Sound Technology Interdisciplinary Centre (MISTIC) - Research areas: music, information, and sound technology.

Numerical Analysis - Research areas: numerical analysis, numerical linear algebra, linear programming, scientific applications software, nonlinear optimization, combinatorial matrix analysis, and numerical modeling.

Ocean Engineering Research (OER) Group - The group's research covers a broad spectrum of activities both above and below water. These activities include autonomous and remotely operated underwater vehicles; subsea fibre-optic linked observatories; high resolution acoustic imaging and mapping; acoustical oceanography; acoustic communications; subsea navigation; ocean power generation, marine mammal tracking; and benthic monitoring.

Optical Systems and Technology Laboratory (OSTL) - Researchers in this well-equipped research laboratory build innovative optical systems, advance optical device technologies and bridge novel approaches to real applications.

PANDA Research Group (Parallel and Distributed Computing) - The objective of the group is to investigate problems related to networking and in general of parallel and distributed computing with respect to the operating system, architecture, programming language, and networking points of view.

Remote Sensing Software Engineering Group (RSENG) - The group's primary objective is to develop intelligent computer vision and data fusion methods and systems to dynamically select from hyperspectral and radar sensors features to achieve the highest recognition accuracies at the lowest costs.

Rigi - A visual tool for understanding legacy systems - Rigi is an interactive, visual tool designed to help better understand and re-document software. The researchers' main goals are to provide an infrastructure for research and practice in program understanding and to discover abstractions in large software systems and pass this information on to software engineers for maintenance and reengineering purposes.

Robotics and Mechanisms Laboratory (RAM) - The Robotics and Mechanisms (RAM) Laboratory, University of Victoria, is concerned with the design and implementation of manipulation devices including robots and mechanisms. Research is performed on both analysis and synthesis topics.

Signal Processing in Communications (SPROCOM) - Research topics include gestural sensors and controllers for computer music; error concealment in audio and video communication; radio propagation measurements; array processing for maximizing capacity of wireless systems; feature extraction and clustering for source coding, compression and classification; ship detection in sea clutter; spectral analysis and estimation; and multiple signal separation.

SIMBIOSES Research Group: Sensors and Imaging for Biomedical Systems - This interdisciplinary research group conducts research and development on the intersection of software engineering, imaging and biomedical sciences.

Software Engineering and Systems - Research areas include software engineering; software specifications and testing; compilers; programming language implementation; data and software reverse engineering; experimental software engineering; human computer interaction; and information visualization.

Software Engineering Global Interaction Lab (SEGAL) - SEGAL members carry out research and develop tools to improve the collaboration of geographically distributed software development teams.

The CADMIC Group: Computer-Aided Design of Microwave Integrated Circuits - Focusing on the computer-aided design of front-end systems, antennas and components in wireless/RF/microwave/millimeter-wave communication technology.

UVic Microfluidics Lab - Focusing on developing an understanding of transport phenomena in micro- and nanostructures and applying this understanding to develop devices with new functionality and applicability.