Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

ISU Software Systems Group

Our goal is to advance the state-of-the-art research and education in design, modeling, and algorithmic techniques for building reliable, secure software often for safety and mission critical applications. The specific focus includes (1) modeling, design, verification, and automated analysis and synthesis of complex software; (2) design and analysis of novel resource management and security algorithms for real-time and distributed computing systems; and (3) design and analysis of efficient algorithms for computationally challenging problems that arise in computational biology, computational physics, weather forecasting, and precision agriculture.

Recent Noteworthy Achievements

  • Professor Aluru played lead role in acquiring BlueGene supercomputer in 2006, through funding from the National Science Foundation and Iowa State University, to conduct research in bioinformatics and computational science.  
  • Professor Kothari's software engineering research has led to the formation of a company called EnSoft. The company provides tools to several major companies in the United States, Europe, and Japan.

  • Two of our professors have won NSF CAREER awards for their research: Assistant Professor Yong Guan in 2007 for research in wireless security, and Professor Aluru in 1997 for research on parallel algorithms and software for irregular scientific applications. Aluru has also won the IBM Faculty Award in 2002.
  • Best paper awards or selected paper recognition in reputed IEEE and ACM conferences that include IEEE Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS) 2004 and 2006, IEEE Computational Systems Bioinformatics (CSB) conference 2006, ACM Symposium on Parallel Algorithms and Architectures, (SPAA) 2002, and IEEE Conference on High Performance Computing (HiPC) 1999.
  • Our graduate students have received prestigious fellowships (e.g., IBM Fellowship), have been hired by high-tech companies (e.g., IBM, Microsoft, google) and have become faculty in reputed research universities.
  • Our faculty haven active in technical leadership roles in reputed IEEE conferences and symposia as Technical Program Chair, Program Vice-Chair, Workshops Chair, Tutorials Chair, Tutorial Speaker, Distinguished lecturer, Publication Chair, Session Chair, and Program Committee member.

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