Research Areas

The Center’s research areas are diverse and cover distributed robotics, expressive and hybrid networks, mobile computing, wireless networks, cyber security, computer vision and image processing, RF systems, microwave sensors, wireless sensor networks, computational genetics and protein docking, computational neurobiology, virtual reality, effective bandwidth utilization, wireless protocols, wireless ad hoc networks and wireless gateways.  Our research topics range from materials to components to systems and address devices and communications, networking, software systems, and solutions/applications for vertical markets.  Please click here to view our Research Activities.

Commercialization

Since its inception, the Center has focused initially on three major markets; health care systems, transportation systems, and m-commerce systems. The $1.3 trillion U.S. health care market remains plagued by low productivity and rapidly rising costs. The $1 trillion U.S. transportation market critically needs to reduce costs and improve safety and reliability. E-commerce and m-commerce markets continue to grow rapidly.  The technologies emerging from the Stony Brook Center of Excellence now serve as driving forces in advancing these three important markets.  We are now including the financial markets as another focus area for research and commercialization.

Education, Training & Outreach

Building upon Stony Brook's successful past educational efforts, the Center has also developed innovative efforts to address the critical shortage of information technology workers, at both entry and advanced levels.  As IT labor demand continues to increase, a key Center priority will be to develop a continuum of innovative training programs in collaboration with its industry partners, to prepare entry level IT workers and to provide continuous access to both advanced degree training and short courses.  This will enable companies to keep employees on the cutting edge of advanced technology.  Increased State and industry support has already made it possible for Stony Brook to double the size of its incoming class in Computer Science and Information Systems.  Stony Brook ranked #1 in producing Computer Science graduates from all engineering schools in the nation in 2003 and our Computer Science Department is ranked in the top quartile of all computer science departments in the country. 

In December of 2006, CEWIT announced OPLITE--Outreach Program for Long Island Technology Education.  OPLITE is a new initiative whose mission is to reach and educate high school students about the re-emergence of technology as both an area of study and career goal. The goal of OPLITE is to coordinate the outstanding efforts of Stony Brook’s, as well as other academic institutions’ outreach programs with the efforts of local and nationally based corporations, who are also reaching out to Long Island and Metropolitan New York area students.  Our hope is that a coordinated effort combining the resources and creativity of corporations and academic institutions will have a greater impact on our local high school population and maximize the effectiveness of all outreach efforts.  We hope OPLITE will facilitate outreach to more levels of students, K-12, at more school districts throughout our area and with greater frequency.