CIT Research Centers and Institutes
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.
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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)
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
Carnegie Mellon Electricity Industry Center (CEIC)
Director: 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
Carnegie Mellon|Portugal
Director: Jose M. F. Moura, Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering
Carnegie Mellon Vehicle Electrification Group
Co-Director: Jeremy Michalek, Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering and Engineering and Public Policy
Co-Director: Jay Whitacre, Assistant Professor, Engineering and Public Policy, Materials Science and Engineering
Center for Advanced Process Decision-Making (CAPD)
Director: Ignacio E. Grossmann, University R. Dean Professor of Chemical Engineering
Center for Atmospheric Particle Studies (CAPS)
Director: Neil M. Donahue, Professor of Chemical Engineering, Chemistry, and Engineering and Public Policy
Center for Bioimage Informatics (CBI)
Director: Jelena Kovacevic, Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Electrical & Computer Engineering
Founding Director: Robert F. Murphy, Professor of Biological Sciences and Biomedical Engineering
Center for Bio-Robotics
Director: Metin Sitti, Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Center for Climate and Energy Decision Making (CEDM)
Executive Director: Inês Lima Azevedo, Assistant Research Professor, Engineering and Public Policy
Center for Circuits and System Solutions (C2S2)
Director: Larry Pileggi, Tanato Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering
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
Center for the Environmental Implications of Nanotechnology (CEINT)
Director, CEINT@Carnegie Mellon & Deputy Director, CEINT: Greg Lowry, Associate Professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering
Center for Implantable Medical Microsystems (CIMM)
Director: Gary Fedder, Director of ICES, Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering and Robotics
Center for International Relations and Politics (CIRP)
Director: Kiron K. Skinner, Director, Center for International Relations and Politics and Associate Professor, Department of Social and Decision Sciences
Center for Iron and Steelmaking Research (CISR)
Director: Richard Fruehan, U.S. Steel Professor of Materials Science & Engineering
Associate Director: Sridhar Seetharaman, Assistant Professor, Materials Science & Engineering
Center for the Mechanics and Engineering of Cellular Systems (CMECS)
Director: Philip LeDuc, Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Center for MEMS-Instrumented Self-Configuring Integrated Circuits (MISCIC)
Director: T.E. (Ed) Schlesinger, Department Head and David Edward Schramm Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
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
Center for Nano-enabled Device and Energy Technologies (CNXT)
Director: Elias Towe, Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering and Materials Science & Engineering
Center for Product Strategy & Innovation
Director: Jonathan Cagan, George Tallman and Florence Barrett Ladd Professor in Engineering
Director: Peter Boatwright, Associate Professor of Marketing
Center for Sensed Critical Infrastructure Research (CenSCIR)
Executive Director: Matthew Sanfilippo
Co-Director: Irving Oppenheim, Head, Civil & Environmental Engineering
Co-Director: José M. F. Moura, Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering
Center for Sustainable Engineering (CSE)
Director: Chris Hendrickson, Professor, Civil & Environmental Engineering and Engineering & Public Policy
Center for the Study and Improvement of Regulation (cSIR)
Director: Paul Fischbeck, Professor, Engineering & Public Policy and Social & Decision Sciences
Executive Director: David Gerard
Center for Silicon System Implementation (CSSI)
Director: Shawn Blanton, Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering
Center for Water Quality in Urban Environmental Systems (WaterQUEST)
Director: Jeanne VanBriesen, Associate Professor, Civil & Environmental Engineering
CERT Coordination Center (CERTCC)
Data Storage Systems Center (DSSC)
Director: Jimmy Zhu, ABB Professor of Engineering and Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering
Associate Director: Jim Bain, Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering, Materials Science & Engineering
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: Nady Boules, Director of General Motors' Electrical & Controls Integration Lab
Green Design Institute (GDI)
Director: Chris Hendrickson, Duquesne Light Professor of Engineering, Civil & Environmental Engineering
Institute for Complex Engineered Systems (ICES)
Director: Gary Fedder, Director of ICES, Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering and Robotics
Materials Research Science & Engineering Center (MRSEC)
Director: Gregory S. Rohrer, W.W. Mullins Professor of Materials Science & Engineering
Microsystems Research Cluster
Director: Gary Fedder, Director of ICES, Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering and Robotics
Mobility Research Center
Director: Bob Iannucci, Distinguished Service Professor, Carnegie Mellon Silicon Valley
Associate Director: Ted Selker, Distinguished Service Professor, Carnegie Mellon Silicon Valley
Pennsylvania Smart Infrastructure Incubator
Faculty Co-Director: Gary Fedder, Director, Institute for Complex Engineered Systems
Faculty Co-Director: James Garrett, Professor and Head, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering
Faculty Co-Director: T.E. Schlesinger, David Edward Schramm Professor and Head, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering
Executive Director: Matthew Sanfilippo
Steinbrenner Institute for Environmental Education & Research (SEER)
Director: David Dzombak, Walter J. Blenko Sr. Professor, Civil & Environmental Engineering
SYSU-CMU Joint Institute of Engineering (JIE)
Co-Director: Jimmy Zhu, Director, DSSC
Wilton E. Scott Institute for Energy Innovation
Director: M. Granger Morgan, Lord Professor and Head, Department of Engineering & Public Policy
Associate Director: Andrew Gellman, Lord Professor and Head, Department of Chemical Engineering
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