Heinz College has an international reputation for the quality of its research. Our interdisciplinary environment creates exciting opportunities for collaboration and produces a breadth of research work not typically found in schools of our size.
Our faculty and research centers consistently receive funding support from government agencies, foundations and corporate partners, like the National Science Foundation; the Heinz Endowments; The Mellon Foundation; the U.S. Departments of Defense, Commerce, Health and Human Services, and Housing and Urban Development; the Sloan Foundation and the National Institute of Justice.
We host or are closely associated with these Carnegie Mellon research centers:
iLab
iLab at Carnegie Mellon's Heinz College is an inter-disciplinary research center consisting of faculty and students from the Heinz College, the Department of Statistics, the Department of Machine Learning, the School of Computer Science and the Tepper School of Business.
Center for Behavioral Decision Research (CBDR)
The Center for Behavioral Decision Research (CBDR) supports new and existing research in the realm of Decision Science at Carnegie Mellon. Behavioral decision research builds on the fields of psychology, economics, neuroscience, and public policy to answer applied and theoretical questions of decision making. These goals are met through the Center's seminar series, small grants program, working paper series, and public experiment scheduling site.
Center for the Future of Work (CFW)
The Center for the Future of Work is an interdisciplinary research center that has been established at Heinz College with a seed gift from Cognizant Technology Solutions. The center draws on university-wide, interdisciplinary research capabilities to study the interaction between physical and virtual work spaces that will enable major breakthroughs in the design of work processes and environments for network-enabled organizations of the future.
Program of Research and Outreach on Gender Equity in Society (PROGRESS)
The Program for Research and Outreach on Gender Equity in Society (PROGRESS) seeks to undertake and disseminate research on issues related to gender equality and to develop partnerships with other organizations to help women gain equity in society. Women often suffer from gross economic inequities in society and PROGRESS strives to address these disparities by targeting young women to teach them the importance of negotiation and how to do it effectively. Working with partners that focus on young women, we hope to overcome socialized behaviors in them that may be hindering the progress of women as they become adults and enter the workforce.
CyLab
Advances in computer technology unfortunately come along with security vulnerabilities that can harm everyone from the home computer user to small businesses, large corporations and anyone dependent on the nation's telecommunications and financial systems. To counter that threat, Carnegie Mellon University has launched a security initiative designed to protect all computer users from interference by cyber terrorists and hackers. The interdisciplinary team that will make up CyLab includes more than 50 researchers and 80 students from Carnegie Mellon's College of Engineering, School of Computer Science, H. John Heinz III College and the CERT Coordination Center.
Traffic21
Traffic21 is a multi-disciplinary research initiative of Carnegie Mellon University. Its goal is to design, test, deploy and evaluate information and communications technology based solutions to address the problems facing the the transportation system of the Pittsburgh region. Traffic21 will leverage Carnegie Mellon University’s leadership in relevant areas such as critical infrastructure, transportation access, transportation routing, human factors, artificial intelligence, web applications and autonomous vehicles.
Living Analytics Research Centre
Heinz College at Carnegie Mellon University has teamed with the School of Information Systems at Singapore Management University to establish the Living Analytics Research Centre (LARC). The center draws on the cross-disciplinary strengths of SMU and CMU faculty and span the two university campuses. It is physically anchored at SMU’s School of Information Systems in Singapore and at Heinz College's iLab in Pittsburgh. The LARC develops new approaches to understanding consumer and social behavior that will benefit consumers, producers and distributors of digital goods and services.