Research
The faculty, staff, and students of the Department of Computer Science contribute to the worldwide research effort in Computer Science. As part of this effort, we are inventing new ways of applying computation to human problems, analyzing the effectiveness of computational techniques, and testing them in applications.
Major Research Areas
Research Opportunities
Research Labs and Groups
The Animation Software Design Lab is a centre for research on computer animation and computer games at the University of Regina. The lab is located in Room 308.20 of the College West Building.
Director: Dr. Howard J. Hamilton
The Computational Learning Theory Lab is dedicated to research on the theoretical aspects of machine learning, an area of study often called
The laboratory equipment was purchased with a grant from the Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI). Additional research support is obtained from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC), through its Discovery Grant program, as well as through the Canada Research Chairs program.
Director: Sandra Zilles
The Constraint Processing Lab, at the University of Regina, is a centre for research on the theoretical and practical aspects of constraint solving and optimization. This Lab is funded by NSERC Discovery and Engage Grants. The lab is located in Room 308.19 of the College West Building and Room 129.9 in the Classroom Building.
Research Interests:
- Constraint Satisfaction
- Constrained Optimization
- Constraint and Preference Learning
- Spatio-Temporal Reasoning
- Reasoning under Preferences and Uncertainty
- Evolutionary Computation
- Metaheuristics
- Scheduling and Planning
- Robot Motion Planning
- Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
- Artificial Intelligence
Director: Dr. Malek Mouhoub
The Granular Computing / Web Based Support Systems Lab is a centre for research on granular computing and web based support systems at the University of Regina. The lab is located in Room 308.4 of the College West Building.
Director: Dr. Jingtao Yao
This lab is a center for research on adaptive machine learning and fraud detection. NSERC Discovery Grants fund this Lab.
Current Research Interests:
- Adaptive machine learning (such as incremental feature learning and ensemble learning) for non-stationary data-generating environments.
- Concept drift detection and learning in data streams.
Director: Dr. Samira Sadaoui
The PRACToR Lab is dedicated to research on cognitive aspects of agents and robots, an area of study sometimes called cognitive agency and/or cognitive robotics. In general, PRACToR members also conduct research on related topics in knowledge representation & reasoning and autonomous agents and multiagent systems.
Faculty Members: Dr. Shakil M. Khan, Dr. Malek Mouhoub, Dr. Yiyu Yao
The Regina Integrative Cognitive Experimentation (RICE) Lab combines expertise in Psychology and Computer Science to do research in experimental psychology and human-computer interaction. It features state-of-the-art eyetracking equipment.
The RICE Lab, located in RI115 on the main floor of the Research and Innovation Centre at the University of Regina, is a resource for businesses in Regina that want to examine cognitive aspects of their software, including studying perceptual tasks or user testing of software.
Director: Chris Oriet, Psychology
Associate Directors: Daryl Hepting, Computer Science and Katherine Arbuthnott, Psychology
The Web Intelligence Lab is a centre for research on web intelligence at the University of Regina. The lab is located in Room 308.11 of the College West Building.
Director: Dr. Yiyu Yao
Associated Labs and Groups
The Laboratory for Computational Discovery is a University of Regina research facility that includes the research groups, originally across 3 faculties (when we were known as the Institute of Computational Discovery), and lately across 4 departments within the Faculty of Science (chemistry, computer science, math and stats, and physics). We work in the fields of data mining and visualization, molecule property predictions, molecular dynamics simulations, mathematical computations, and statistics.
Director: Dr. Howard J. Hamilton
The Web Intelligence Consortium (WIC) is an international, non-profit organization dedicated to advancing scientific research and industrial development in the field of Web Intelligence. WIC promotes collaborations among global WI research centers and organizational members, showcases technology at WI related conferences and workshops, and publishes official books, journals, newsletters, industrial solutions, and standards.
Web Intelligence Academy President: Dr. Yiyu Yao