Research Institutes

Research Institutes promote and coordinate research in various areas. Most research active staff belong to one or more Institutes. Research grants and contracts are normally held through Institutes.

Centre for Intelligent Systems and their Applications

CISA conducts basic and applied research and development in knowledge representation and reasoning. Through the Artificial Intelligence Applications Institute (AIAI) it has formed an international network of expertise that fosters effective use of AI systems in industry and other organisations around the world.

Institute for Adaptive and Neural Computation

IANC conducts theoretical, in silico, and empirical studies of brain processes and artificial learning systems, drawing on neuroscience, cognitive science, computer science, computational science, mathematics and statistics. The main areas of research are machine learning and neuroinformatics.

Institute for Communicating and Collaborative Systems

ICCS studies all aspects of communication among humans and between humans and machines, using text, speech and other modalities. It draws on machine learning, statistical modelling, and computational, psychological and linguistic theories of communication.

Much of this multidisciplinary research is done within two interdisciplinary centres. The Centre for Speech Technology Research (CSTR) links ICCS to Linguistics in the College of Humanities and Social Science (CHSS); the Human Communication Research Centre (HCRC) links to Linguistics and Psychology in CHSS, and also to Psychology at the University of Glasgow.

Institute for Computing Systems Architecture

ICSA studies the architecture and engineering of future computing systems: performance and scalability, innovative algorithms, architectures, compilers, languages, and protocols.

Institute of Perception, Action and Behaviour

IPAB studies computations that link perception and action, in real or virtual worlds, and includes research in computer vision, mobile and assembly robotics, music perception and visualisation.

e-Science Institute

The eSI works closely with the Edinburgh Parallel Computing Centre (EPCC) to develop and apply new informatics methods, architectures and practices. It enables researchers in many disciplines to process massive data-sets and conduct in silico research. The Institute, in collaboration with Glasgow, hosts the National e-Science Centre.

Laboratory for Foundations of Computer Science

LFCS develops and applies foundational understanding of computation, communication and data: formal models, mathematical theories, and software tools.

Informatics Life-Sciences Institute

ILSI was recently formed to work at the informatics/life-sciences interface.