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Institutes and Centers

Harnessing technology for a better world

Computer science can help solve many of the most fundamental challenges of our complex modern world. We’re here to discover those solutions.

Researchers at Khoury College work across disciplines to develop practical, scalable applications of technology. With leading academic, industry, and government partners, our institutes and research centers push the boundaries of computer science.

From protecting critical national security systems to modeling the impacts of pandemic disease, we’re harnessing the power of computing to serve the greater good.

Explore our Institutes and Centers

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Center for Inclusive Computing

Founded in 2019, the Center for Inclusive Computing at Northeastern University partners with colleges and universities to increase the representation of female computing graduates. These partnerships focus on addressing and removing the institutional barriers that exclude women of all races and ethnicities from discovering and thriving in computing programs.

Cybersecurity and Privacy Institute

By collaborating with experts in industry, government, and academia around the world, the Cybersecurity and Privacy Institute’s faculty and students research, develop, and enhance technologies on which the world relies.

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Network Science Institute

The Network Science Institute (NetSI) at Northeastern University is a multidisciplinary research community that supports innovative research and training in network science. Its researchers work to discover and inspire fundamentally new ways to measure, model, predict, and visualize meaningful interactions and interconnectivity of social, physical, and technological systems.

Center for Generative AI

In conjunction with its $9 million NSF grant for a National Deep Inference Fabric (NDIF) — a revolutionary project aimed at unlocking the inner workings of large language models — Khoury College launched the Center for Generative AI to enhance and grow partnerships, and to foster collaboration between industry members and interdisciplinary researchers.

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The Internet Democracy Initiative

The Internet Democracy Initiative studies problems that have widespread implications for information and social media, thus improving our understanding the role of the internet in democracy, society, and markets.

National Internet Observatory

Supported by a grant from the National Science Foundation, the National Internet Observatory aims to help researchers understand how people behave online and how platforms structure what people see.

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Institute for Experiential Robotics

The Institute for Experiential Robotics develops robots that learn and adaptively execute autonomous behaviors from human partners and other robots. Experiential robotics identifies and studies use-driven research problems at the intersection of collective human–robot experience.