Centers & Labs
Our Major Centers
At the heart of our research enterprise, the major centers we support advance interdisciplinary science and scholarship that will have a positive impact on society. Several of these centers involve cross-institutional participation from federal agencies or other academic institutions. For more information on how to join a UMIACS center or lab, go here.
MC2 Maryland Cybersecurity Center
CBCB Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
CML University of Maryland Center for Machine Learning
QuICS Joint Center for Quantum Information and Computer Science
RQS NSF Quantum Leap Challenge Institute for Robust Quantum Simulation
MBRC Maryland Blended Reality Center
MIXR Center for Medical Innovations in Extended Reality
CfAR Center for Automation Research
Major Labs
In addition to individual faculty labs, we support two multidisciplinary labs that join faculty and graduate students from multiple academic units across campus.
CLIP Computational Linguistics and Information Processing Lab
HCIL Human-Computer Interaction Lab
Research Partners
We also partner with several independent research centers and labs on scientific areas of interest, education and outreach, and industrial collaborations.