Active research collaborations exist with a number of organizations on campus. These relationships provide opportunities for graduate students to participate in joint research projects with groups that include the Graduate Program in Biomedical Engineering, Crystallography Center, Biochemistry Department, and Materials Science and Mechanical Engineering Department. Medical informatics research opportunities are also available on projects in information filtering research in collaboration with Health Information Management. Some projects are affiliated with The Center for Telecommunications Education and Research. Research relationships have also been established with several national laboratories: Lawrence Livermore, Los Alamos, and Argonne. These relationships provide opportunities for graduate students to use facilities at these locations.
The department's research laboratory facilities include a number of Sun SPARCservers and Sun SPARCstation 4, 5, and 20 workstations as well as Personal Computers. Graphics and image processing research is conducted on Silcon Graphics workstations. A cluster of multimedia personal computers comprise the telecommunications and computer networking laboratory.The department also operates a classroom equipped with networked Personal Computers. The department has direct access to the Alabama SupercomputerNetwork Authority CRAY Supercomputer for research and instruction.
The Department is also a University Affiliate of the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. These affiliations facilitate both training and research for CIS students and faculty on state-of-the-art high performance computer systems.
The UAB Sterne Library is an institutional member of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), and the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM).