Research

One of our new faculty members, Professor Anshuman Razdan, has been instrumental in establishing the Applied Technology Innovation Collaboratory (ATIC) this year and serves as its founding director. ATIC is representative of the university – industry relationship that characterizes our campus and is especially focused on providing rapid prototyping / applied R&D projects for small- to medium-sized companies, a group that is often underserved by academia and that can provide exceptional economic opportunity to our region. Professors Harry Koehneman and Kevin Gary have begun a more discipline-focused collaboration (presently called the Distributed Enterprise Applications Consortium – DEAC) with regional industries in the software enterprise arena that also shows great promise.

Growth in our expenditures for applied research has been dramatic – from less than $50K in 2005 to $291K in 2006 and will exceed $750K in 2007. Our faculty are instrumental in fostering interdisciplinary relationships and are especially interested in exploiting the synergy that arises when the frontiers of knowledge in the computing disciplines meet the frontiers of learning in other disciplines that make increasingly creative use of computing as a tool. Our projects include collaborations with geography, environmental studies, anti-terrorism efforts, biotechnology, and education.

The Image & 3D Data Exploitation and Analysis (I3DEA) laboratory is dedicated to developing algorithms that exploit the information contained in 2D, 3D, and higher dimensional datasets. We are focused on techniques for segmenting, classifying, understanding, visualizing, and archiving spatial data such as Geographic Information (under Jiuxiang Hu), 3D Surface Models such as CAD/CAM (under Anshuman Razdan), and Document Imagery under John Femiani).

More information at: I3DEA

The Advanced Technology Innovation Collaboratory (ATIC) is in the Division of Computing Studies, College of Technology and Innovation at ASU Polytechnic. ATIC is an "umbrella organization" for many ASU labs and is dedicated to interdisciplinary innovative technology based collaboration between ASU faculty and small to medium-sized businesses (SME’s). Our goal is to foster this collaboration to solve problems such as proof of new product concept, product development tutoring and advising, developing a functional prototype, software testing, and finally moving new product concepts into a marketing reality. The benefits of working with ATIC on your project include help with proposal preparation, contracts and budgets, connection to funding opportunities, account management, and even student internship opportunities. If you have questions or ideas about a new product concept, please contact us and we can help move your idea into reality.

More information at: ATIC

The Laboratory for Enterprise Application Development (LEAD, http://lead.asu.edu) promotes applied research, teaching, and industry outreach in the areas of distributed and web-based applications, software engineering, and open source. Current projects in the LEAD lab include architecture validation of the open source IGSTK project (funded by NIH through the Georgetown University Medical Center), web search technologies (funded through ATIC grants from Unicon, Inc.), and Web Usability and Analytics (multi-disciplinary research with Drs. Kagan and Acharya in the Morrison School of Agribusiness). Lab directors Drs. Gary, Koehnemann and Lindquist share interests in enterprise computing, J2EE/.NET/LAMP development, UML modeling and MDAs, and in staying abreast of current web development best practices.

These professors, with Senior Lecturer Richard Whitehouse, teach a set of courses geared toward addressing the full enterprise application stack, including presentation layer technologies (Javascript, Flash, XSLT, templating), business logic layer (messaging, ESBs, web application frameworks such as .NET, Struts, EJBs, and Spring), and persistence layer (ORM JPA, Hibernate, iBatis, ADO .NET).

LEAD members organized and promote the Distributed and Enterprise Application Consortium (DEAC, http://deac.asu.edu), an ATIC-support industry partnership group addressing the needs of enterprise-application companies in the greater Phoenix area.