Can students get involved in research?
Most Rensselaer faculty have an active research program, and participation in research by undergraduates is encouraged. Rensselaer has a program to support undergraduate research for either credit or salary. Among the research areas available to Computer Science majors are computer graphics, computer vision, robotics, database systems, distributed systems including grid and cloud computing, sensor networks, scientific computation, machine learning, social networks, semantic web, artificial intelligence, large-scale data visualization, software development and verification, and software projects with the Rensselaer Center for Open Source Software.