Institutes & Centers

Institutes and Centers in ICS foster large-scale research efforts focusing on topics that have the potential to transform core areas and application domains of computing. They typically involve faculty from multiple ICS departments and across campus, creating unparalleled opportunities for collaborations that span research groups, academic units, and disciplines.

Below is a list of ICS-wide Institutes and Centers and links to research centers within the School’s academic departments.

AI in Science Institute

AISI provides an organizational structure for interdisciplinary research and training in AI and its applications across all areas of science and engineering. Through interdisciplinary collaborations, we aim to develop AI-based solutions for a broad range of important problems in the physical sciences, life sciences, and social sciences.

Center for Machine Learning and Intelligent Systems

Developing computer algorithms capable of harnessing the explosion of digital data and using this data in an intelligent way to solve a variety of real-world problems.

Center for Responsible, Ethical, and Accessible Technology

CREATE promotes research and education into the challenges of creating technological futures that produce positive change in the world, focusing on principles of equity, accountability, and care.

Connected Learning Lab

Connected learning combines personal interests, supportive relationships, and opportunities. It is learning in an age of abundant access to information and social connection that embraces the diverse backgrounds and interests of all young people.

Cybersecurity Policy & Research Institute

A collaborative effort among UCI's schools of ICS, Engineering, Law, Physical Sciences, Social Ecology, Social Sciences, and the Division of Continuing Education, CPRI explores technology, legal, and policy challenges in combating cyber threats, while working to protect individual privacy and civil liberties.

Data Science Initiative

The Data Science Initiative at UC Irvine coordinates the activities of researchers and students across campus involved in various aspects of data science.

HPI Research Center in Machine Learning & Data Science

Together with researchers from the Hasso Plattner Institute in Germany, this international collaboration explores human-centered artificial intelligence technologies that are adaptive, safe, and explainable.

Institute for Future Health

Empowering individuals to preserve and promote health and wellness through information technology.

Institute for Software Research

ISR works toward advancing software and information technology through research partnerships and educating the next generation of software researchers and practitioners in advanced software technologies.