Carnegie Mellon West’s world-class faculty members have unique and powerful backgrounds, pairing their significant academic experience with extensive industry experience.  Senior faculty members include respected authors, speakers, professors, industry consultants, and IEEE and ACM fellows.  Research centers run by these faculty members explore the intersection between their research and how it can be applied to further the software industry.

CyLab Mobility Research Center
Carnegie Mellon CyLab is launching a new Mobility Research Center leveraging its campus in the heart of Silicon Valley.  The planned research program is intrinsically multi-disciplinary and experimental, combining novel work in technology, usability, behavior, business and policy.  The Center builds upon our strengths in agile software engineering, human-computer interaction, software agents, sensor-enabled environments, networking, security, robotics, and open source software.  We will focus on context-aware applications and services, serendipitous collaboration, social networking and games, and the use of rich semantic information to enable novel data and media management, access and visualization.
Contact:  Martin Griss; Martin.Griss@west.cmu.edu

Center for Open Source Investigation (COSI).  Carnegie Mellon West has created the Center for Open Source Investigation to address the technical, managerial, and business issues raised by the growth and acceptance of open source software. COSI draws upon Carnegie Mellon's international renown in software engineering practice and experience. The goal of COSI is to serve as a trusted and impartial center of expertise and innovation on open source as well as an effective communication mechanism among companies, the research community, and the providers of open source products and services. 
Contact:  Tony Wasserman; Tony.Wasserman@west.cmu.edu

SmartSpaces   This project combines intelligent software agents, mobile appliances, and robots in a sensor-rich environment to provide context-aware personal assistance to individuals and teams. Carnegie Mellon West is researching application and service configuration driven by location, preference, and task. This research will be extended to several assisted living, travel, industrial, and shopping scenarios and builds on previous work using agents to arrange meetings, manage email, enable intelligent device collaboration, and provide location-aware travel services to mobile professionals.
Contact:  Martin Griss; Martin.Griss@west.cmu.edu

High Dependability Computing  We have developed a new, testbed-based approach to the analysis, design, and implementation of dependable and cost-effective software mission-critical management and control systems.  These systems typically involve both computational and non-computational hardware, often are distributed geographically, and have to process large amounts of streaming data in a fixed time. Contact:  Vadim Kotov; Vadim.Kotov@west.cmu.edu

Carnegie Mellon Innovations Laboratory (CMIL)  CMIL’s focus is to identify, research, and maturate forward-looking ground and aerospace technologies with applications to mobile vehicles. CMIL brings expertise in R&D, operation, and commercialization of micro vehicle platforms, aircraft, spacecraft, and associated technologies. Combining cutting-edge NASA and Carnegie Mellon expertise, CMIL has a history of avionics and control systems R&D successfully applied towards high profile endeavors (featured on History Channel’s Modern Marvels). CMIL is home to the groundbreaking MAX rover, and has successfully spun off Senseta, Inc. (www.senseta.com), a leader in compact mobile robotics. 
Contact:  Khalid Al-Ali; alali@cmu.edu, http://cmil.west.cmu.edu