Research is a Driving Force for Faculty and Students

CIT has a wealth of research projects, working collaboratively across departments and colleges and with partners in academia, industry, and government. The centers below represent college-level centers. Use the links below to review an overview of our research centers or go directly to their website.

To see how our faculty and students work across disciplines, check out an interactive look at our commitment to interdisciplinary innovation.

Bone Tissue Engineering Center (BTEC)

Director: Jeffrey O. Hollinger, D.D.S., Ph.D. Biomedical Health Engineering (BHE), Biological Sciences (Carnegie Mellon), Orthopedic Surgery and Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery (UPMC)

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Carnegie Mellon CyLab

Founding Director: Pradeep Khosla, Dean, College of Engineering, Philip and Marsha Dowd Professor, College of Engineering and School of Computer Science

Co-Director: Richard D. Pethia, Director, CERT

Co-Director: Virgil Gligor, Director

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Carnegie Mellon Electricity Industry Center (CEIC)

Co-Directors:

Lester B. Lave, University Professor of the Tepper School of Business and Engineering & Public Policy

M. Granger Morgan, Head, Department of Engineering & Public Policy; University and Lord Chair Professor

Executive Director:
Jay Apt, Professor Engineering & Public Policy and Tepper School of Business

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Center for Advanced Process Decision-Making (CAPD)

Director: Ignacio E. Grossmann, University R. Dean Professor of Chemical Engineering

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Center for Atmospheric Particle Studies (CAPS)

Director: Neil M. Donahue, Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering and Chemistry

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Center for Bioimage Informatics (CBI) 

Co-Directors: Jelena Kovacevic, Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Electrical & Computer Engineering

Co-Directors: Robert F. Murphy, Professor of Biological Sciences and Biomedical Engineering

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Center for Circuits and System Solutions (C2S2)

Director: Rob Rutenbar, Jatras Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering and Computer Science

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Center for Complex Fluids Engineering (CCFE)

Director: Robert Tilton, Professor of Chemical Engineering and Biomedical Engineering

Director, Colloids, Polymers and Surfaces (CPS) Educational Program:

Dr. Annette Jacobson, Teaching Professor of Chemical Engineering

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Center for the Environmental Implications of Nanotechnology (CEINT)

Director, CEINT@Carnegie Mellon & Deputy Director, CEINT: Greg Lowry, Associate Professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering

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Center for Implantable Medical Microsystems (CIMM)

Director: Gary Fedder, ICES Department Head, Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering and Robotics

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Center for Iron and Steelmaking Research (CISR)

Director: Richard Fruehan, U.S. Steel Professor of Materials Science & Engineering

Associate Director: Shridar Seetharaman, Assistant Professor, Materials Science & Engineering

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Center for Multiscale Modeling for Engineering Materials (CM²EM)

Director: Amit Acharya, Professor, Civil & Environmental Engineering and Materials Science & Engineering

Associate Director: Michael Widom, Professor of Physics

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Center for Nano-enabled Device and Energy Technologies (CNXT)

Director: Elias Towe, Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering and Materials Science & Engineering

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Center for Product Strategy & Innovation

Director: Jonathan Cagan, George Tallman and Florence Barrett Ladd Professor in Engineering

Director: Peter Boatwright, Associate Professor of Marketing

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Center for Sensed Critical Infrastructure Research (CenSCIR)

Co-Director: Jim Garrett, Head, Civil & Environmental Engineering

Co-Director: José M. F. Moura, Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering

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Center for Sustainable Engineering (CSE)

Director: Cliff Davidson, Professor, Civil & Environmental Engineering and Engineering & Public Policy

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Center for the Study and Improvement of Regulation (cSIR)

Director: Paul Fischbeck, Professor, Engineering & Public Policy and Social & Decision Sciences

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Center for Silicon System Implementation (CSSI)

Director: Shawn Blanton, Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering

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Center for Water Quality in Urban Environmental Systems
     (WaterQUEST)

Co-Director: Jeanne VanBriesen, Associate Professor, Civil & Environmental Engineering

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CERT Coordination Center (CERTCC)

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Climate Decision Making Center (CDMC)

Director: M. Granger Morgan, Head, Department of Engineering & Public Policy; University and Lord Chair Professor

Center Administrator: Meryl Sustarsic

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Data Storage Systems Center (DSSC)

Director: Jimmy Zhu, ABB Professor of Engineering and Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering

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General Motors Collaborative Laboratory at Carnegie Mellon

Co-Director, Carnegie Mellon: Ragunathan (Raj) Rajkumar, Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering and Computer Science

Co-Director, General Motors: Patrick Popp, Director of General Motors' Electrical & Controls Integration Lab

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Green Design Institute (GDI)

Director: Lester B. Lave, University Professor of the Tepper School of Business and Engineering & Public Policy

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Information Networking Institute (INI)

Director: Dena Haritos Tsamitis, Director of Education, Training, and Outreach, CyLab Adjunct Faculty, H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management

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Information and Communication Technologies Institute (ICTI)

Director: Jose M. F. Moura, Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering

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Institute for Complex Engineered Systems (ICES)

Director: Gary Fedder, ICES Department Head, Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering and Robotics

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Materials Research Science & Engineering Center (MRSEC)

Director: Gregory S. Rohrer, W.W. Mullins Professor of Materials Science & Engineering

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Microsystems Research Cluster

Director: Gary Fedder, ICES Department Head, Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering and Robotics

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Mobility Research Center

Co-Director: Martin Griss, Associate Dean for Research, Carnegie Mellon Silicon Valley

Co-Director: Priya Narasimhan, Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering

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Steinbrenner Institute for Environmental Education & Research
     (SEER)

Director: David Dzombak, Walter J. Blenko Sr. Professor, Civil & Environmental Engineering; Associate Dean for Graduate & Faculty Affairs

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