Research Areas
ISR research focuses on the intersection of software, systems and society. Visit our faculty research pages to learn more about their research and find their publications. The diagram above (generated using the ORA NetScenes software developed at CMU) shows the current faculty research areas. These areas are also listed alphabetically below with the names of faculty who work in each area.
API usability
adaptive social systems
applied formal methods
Jonathan Aldrich
Lujo Bauer
Kathleen M Carley
Matt Fredrikson
David Garlan
Eunsuk Kang
Heather Miller
automatic bug repair
big data
Yuvraj Agarwal
Kathleen M Carley
Nicholas Christin
Fei Fang
Mayank Goel
Heather Miller
Mary Shaw
Bogdan Vasilescu
collaboration & coordination
Kathleen M Carley
Fei Fang
Jim Herbsleb
Raj Reddy
Norman Sadeh
Bogdan Vasilescu
complex socio-technical systems
Travis Breaux
Kathleen M Carley
Jim Herbsleb
Heather Miller
Norman Sadeh
Mary Shaw
Bogdan Vasilescu
computational methods
computational modeling & simulation
Lujo Bauer
Kathleen M Carley
Fei Fang
Jim Herbsleb
Bogdan Vasilescu
computer networking
concurrency
cyber-physical systems
Yuvraj Agarwal
David Garlan
Mayank Goel
David Garlan
Eunsuk Kang
Zico Kolter
Bradley Schmerl
cybersecurity
Jonathan Aldrich
Lujo Bauer
Travis Breaux
Kathleen M Carley
Nicolas Christin
Lorrie Cranor
Matt Fredrikson
David Garlan
Norman Sadeh
Bill Scherlis
Bradley Schmerl
Joshua Sunshine
decision making
distributed systems
embedded systems
hardware
language design
legal compliance
open source & scientific software
organizations
pervasive & mobile computing
program comprehension
rapid prototyping
requirements engineering
reuse
semantic web
smart grids
social media
social network analysis
software analysis & quality assurance
Jonathan Aldrich
Matt Fredrikson
David Garlan
Eunsuk Kang
Christian Kästner
Claire Le Goues
Heather Miller
Bill Scherlis
software architecture
Jonathan Aldrich
David Garlan
David Garlan
Eunsuk Kang
Bradley Schmerl
Mary Shaw
software development tools
software teams
software tools & human cognition
Jonathan Aldrich
Jim Herbsleb
Christian Kästner
Claire Le Goues
Heather Miller
Joshua Sunshine
Bogdan Vasilescu