Carnegie Mellon University is a global research university with more than 11,000 students. About one-half of the students are graduate level and there are about 4,000 faculty and research professionals across its seven schools and colleges: Carnegie Institute of Technology, College of Fine Arts, College of Humanities and Social Sciences, Heinz College, Mellon College of Science, School of Computer Science and the Tepper School of Business.
From the beginning, innovation has been a part of CMU’s DNA. Recognized for problem solving research and development through collaboration across disciplines, CMU has many centers of activity that can collaborate to advance the mission of Traffic21 including the following.
Robotics Institute
Since its founding in 1979, the Robotics Institute has been leading the world in integrating robotic and artificial intelligence technologies into everyday life including autonomous vehicles.
The General Motors Collaborative Research Labs
This multi-million dollar industry collaboration, led by top researchers in electrical and computer engineering, focuses on next-generation vehicle information technology.
Robot City
At Robot City robots will handle day-to-day activities like snow-clearing, grounds-keeping, security and cleaning. The mission of Robot City is to move Robots from laboratory to life. To do so, people work on robots and robots work for people at a facility with expansive land and diverse outdoor enterprise...but without the contrivances and limitations of laboratories and research centers that characterized the early decades of robot development.
National Robotics Engineering Center
The NREC frequently adapts and refines technology developed at the Robotics Institute for industrial or government use. A typical NREC project includes a rapid proof-of-concept demonstration followed by an in-depth development and testing phase that produces a robust prototype with intellectual property for licensing and commercialization. All through the process, the NREC applies best practices for software development, system integration, and field testing.
NavLab
The Navlab group builds robot cars, trucks, and buses, capable of autonomous driving or driver assistance. The group has produced a series of 11 vehicles, Navlab 1 through Navlab 11. Our applications have included off-road scouting; automated highways; run-off-road collision prevention; and driver assistance for maneuvering in crowded city environments. Current work involves pedestrian detection, surround sensing, and short range sensing for vehicle control.
The Intelligent Coordination and Logistics Laboratory
Located in the Robotics Institute, this Lab has developed many core artificial intelligence technologies for planning and coordination of critical, complex tasks, including space missions. The lab also works on autonomous vehicles and has done preliminary work to improve driver navigation.
Institute for Complex Engineered Systems (ICES)
ICES acts as an agent within Carnegie Mellon University to stimulate growth and new directions in multi-disciplinary research. In this capacity, our Institute is an engine for economic development and a critically important asset to southwestern Pennsylvania. Our research areas not only respond to the changing needs of society, but also focus on new and groundbreaking initiatives, such as the Center for Multiscale Modeling for Engineering Materials (CM2EM).
Center for Sensed Critical Infrastructure Research
CenSCIR, linking civil and environmental engineering with networking experts, is at the forefront of designing the next generation of sensor technologies and optimizing their use to provide more efficient transportation systems.
Pennsylvania Smart Infrastructure Incubator
Today’s infrastructure is a collection of systems, and only a multi-disciplinary team can bring together the ideas and the tools that are needed to create practical solutions for the built environment. At PSII, Carnegie Mellon University’s world-class faculty bring together project teams that can see the whole picture.
Rehabilitation Engineering Research Center on Accessible Public Transportation
The Center does research and development of methods to empower consumers and service providers in the design and evaluation of accessible transportation equipment, information services, and physical environments.
The Human Computer Interaction Institute
Formed in 1994 to foster multidisciplinary research and education in the area of human-computer interaction, HCII combines scientific and engineering knowledge from computing with that of human and social sciences, and adds the qualitative and integrative methods of the field of design. This integrative approach has been adapted to assistive technologies for automobiles and other vehicles, as well as systems to understand and evaluate the cognitive load commuters experience while in driving.
Quality of Life Technology Center (QoLT)
The Center is a National Science Foundation Engineering Research Center (ERC) whose mission is to transform lives in a large and growing segment of the population - people with reduced functional capabilities due to aging or disability. The transformation prominently includes improving mobility.
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. One focus is mobility analytics.
Let’s Go: Present and Future
The Let's Go! project is creating a basic dialog system that enables elderly and non-natives to access transportation information.
Vision and Autonomous Systems Center (VASC)
VASC is a large research group within The Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University. VASC personnel consists of over 100 faculty, students, and staff, visitors, working in the areas of computer vision, autonomous navigation, virtual reality, intelligent manipulation, space robotics, and related fields.
People Image Analysis Consortium
The Consortium develops and distributes technologies that process images and videos to detect, track, and understand people's face, body, and activities. The areas of technology that the PIA Consortium focuses on include detection and tracking of humans, face recognition, facial expression analysis, gait analysis, and activity recognition. The goal of the Consortium is to develop a comprehensive set of imaging and processing tools, systems, or subsystems that work in the real-world environment.
Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center
The Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center provides university, government, and industrial researchers with access to several of the most powerful systems for high-performance computing, communications and data-handling available to scientists and engineers nationwide for unclassified research. PSC advances the state-of-the-art in high-performance computing, communications and informatics and offers a flexible environment for solving the largest and most challenging problems in computational science. As a resource provider in the TeraGrid, a National Science Foundation program of coordinated cyberinfrastructure for education and research, PSC works with its TeraGrid partners to harness the full range of information technologies to enable discovery in U.S. science and engineering.
CyLab
CyLab was founded in 2003 and is one of world’s largest and most prestigious university-based research & education programs for cyber security, dependability & privacy.
Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT)
CERT studies Internet security vulnerabilities, researches long-term changes in networked systems, and develops information and training to improve security.
Machine Learning Department
Carnegie Mellon’s Machine Learning Department with the School of Computer Sciences is the first such academic department. Machine Learning is a scientific field addressing the question "How can we program systems to automatically learn and to improve with experience?" The field includes the study mobile robots that learn how to successfully navigate based on experience they gather from sensors as they roam their environment.
Engineering and Public Policy
Engineering and Public Policy (EPP) is a unique department in the College of Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University which addresses important problems in technology and policy in which the technical details are of central importance. Research in the department focuses on problems in energy and environmental systems; information and communication technology policy; risk analysis and communication; and technology policy and management (including technological innovation and R&D policy).
Center for Climate and Energy Decision Making
Decisions in climate and energy involve multiple factors, with each having aspects unique to it, due to the variety of decision-makers, time horizons, and uncertainties involved. The spectrum of factors ranges from the multitude of strategies available to reduce carbon dioxide emissions over the next fifty years to how to decide which marine ecosystems to protect from an increase in the oceans’ pH levels.
The Center for Atmospheric Particle Studies
This center has world-renowned expertise in air quality analysis, including research on Pittsburgh-based diesel emissions and the nature of our region’s poor air quality.
Remaking Cities Institute
RCI is an urban design research center in the School of Architecture created to promote an improved quality of life through place-making and carefully planned economic and community redevelopment. The ability to capture and evaluate the conditions of neighborhoods and regions as well as their ability to deliver the basic tenets of a shared quality of life including mobility is a primary goal of the RCI.
Entertainment Technology Center
The Entertainment Technology Center (ETC-Global) at Carnegie Mellon University offers a two-year Masters of Entertainment Technology degree, jointly conferred by Carnegie Mellon University's College of Fine Arts and School of Computer Science. Carnegie Mellon is relatively unique among universities in being able to offer this kind of degree, as we have both top-quality fine arts and technology programs.
The Donald H. Jones Center for Entrepreneurship at the Tepper School of Business
The Donald H. Jones Center for Entrepreneurship at Carnegie Mellon University’s Tepper School of Business delivers cutting-edge innovations to the global marketplace by bringing together students, faculty and practitioners with groundbreaking research from the university’s world-class schools and colleges. This center’s program was ranked #6 in the most recent Wall Street Journal rankings of academic disciplines within MBA programs.
The Institute for Social Innovation (ISI) at Heinz College
The ISI fosters innovation and entrepreneurship among people and organizations driven by a social mission, through education, research, and local and global partnerships.
The Center for Technology Transfer and Enterprise Creation (CTTEC)
CTTEC is responsible for facilitating and accelerating the movement of research and technology out of the university and into the marketplace. Our collaborative and problem-solving approach working with researchers to validate, challenge and extend their work fits well within the overall goals of commercialization.
Intel Science and Technology Centers
Carnegie Mellon University's Gregory Ganger and Priya Narasimhan will head two new Intel Science and Research Centers (ISTC) based at CMU that will focus on cloud and embedded computing.
Intel Science and Technology Center - Cloud Computing
The Intel Science and Technology Center for Cloud Computing (ISTC-CC) is an open community of leading researchers devising criticial new underlying technologies for cloud computing of the future. It is headquartered at Carnegie Mellon and includes researchers from Georgia Tech, Intel, Princeton, and UC-Berkeley.