With expertise from 16 departments in four colleges, HCI researchers analyze and optimize user interfaces, task analysis, design rationale, and applications ranging from desktop videoconferencing to visualization of scientific processes to community computing.

CPES is developing intelligent power electronics modules designed to enable greater integration within power electronics systems and end-use applications. A multi-university consortium based at Virginia Tech, CPES is the commonwealth’s only NSF-chartered engineering research center (ERC).

FEORC is the nation’s leading university-based fiber optics and electro-optics research and instructional group. Its research has spawned 18 spin-off companies developing and marketing its advances in specialized optical materials, optical and fiber micro-devices, a variety of optical fiber sensors and systems, and fiber communications networks.

Operating as a partnership of 12 research groups at four state universities, including Virginia Tech, the InternetTIC assists companies with the development and deployment of Internet products and services. The InternetTIC stands ready to mobilize Virginia’s wide array of intellectual resources in helping the state’s companies meet their technical and commercial needs.

OSER directs the Virginia Tech component of a three-way technology partnership with the Carilion Health System and the University of Virginia under the Carilion Biomedical Institute in Roanoke. Through this interdisciplinary institute, Virginia Tech performs research, prototype-development, commercialization, and spin-off activities.

A Commonwealth of Virginia initiative located at Virginia Tech, VBI is a world-class bioinformatics research program with astonishing potential to harness IT in enhancing human health. Collaborations with industry, cross-disciplinary partnerships, and federal support will make this an unprecedented engine for leading-edge IT research, entrepreneurship, and economic development.

For nearly twenty years, Virginia Tech’s SRC, established in partnership with the Navy, has worked with government agencies, the Department of Defense, and leading national corporations on complex, exploratory R&D projects involving core IT areas, including software methodologies, systems integration, dependability analysis, simulation techniques, operating systems, and systems engineering.

CPT's mission is to be a world leader in the research and development of photonic sensors for harsh environments. CPT performs education and contracted research in all major areas related to photonic sensors for a wide range of military and industrial fields.