The Computer and Information Technology Institute (CITI) is a research-centric institute dedicated to the advancement of applied interdisciplinary research in the areas of computation and information technology. CITI’s heritage and primary strengths are in the areas of high-performance computing and computational science and engineering. CITI”s goals are to support, foster, and develop a strong community of research and education across a wide area of computing technologies, computational engineering, and information processing.
Our goals are to be a catalyst for research collaboration across school, department, center, and laboratory boundaries and to encourage and develop close partnerships with industry, government, and other universities. Today, CITI is the virtual “home” of about 120 Rice faculty members and senior researchers drawn from across the university. From its roots in Computer Science, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Computational and Applied Mathematics, and Statistics, it has grown to encompass faculty from 17 departments and every school at Rice except Architecture and Continuing Studies.
The institute’s power lies in its ability to look beyond individual faculty members and departments and support the creation of teams that can successfully leverage our key research strengths. Through interaction with industry and frequent visits to funding agencies, we encourage and support the team building necessary to match faculty expertise with opportunities. The institute serves as the catalyst for developing these opportunities and moving them forward.
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