1. Interdisciplinary research on language & speech
Cognitive Science
Cognitive Neuroscience
Artificial Intelligence

2. The Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology
An interdisciplinary research institute devoted to basic research in the physical sciences, computation, engineering, biology, behavior, and cognition.
Beckman Institute research is focused around four research themes:
Biological Intelligence
Human-Computer Intelligent Interaction
Integrative Imaging
Molecular and Electronic Nanostructures

3. Biological Intelligence
Cognitive Science: how higher mental processes and how humans represent knowledge and process information; language & learning
Cognitive Neuroscience: how cognitive and emotional functioning are implemented in the neural architecture of the human brain
NeuroTech: Neural systems and computation; Molecular and cellular neurobiology
Linguists: Chilin Shih; Darren Tanner; Marina Terkourafi
Many other speech and language researchers!

4. Human-Computer Intelligent Interaction
Artificial Intelligence: robotics, vision, knowledge representation, learning, image processing, scheduling, reasoning, decision and information systems, and natural language processing
Human Perception and Performance: mechanisms of human perception and the relations between perception and action
Image Formation and Processing: computerized imaging; image-video transmission, storage, and manipulation; and image and scene modeling and analysis
Linguists: Roxana Girju; Silvina Montrul; Ryan Shosted
Many other speech and language researchers!

5. Illinois Language and Literacy Initiative
Co-chaired by Jennifer Cole and Kara Federmeier
Campus-wide collaborative initiative for studying language and literacy from biological, psychological and engineering perspectives.

6. How can students get involved?
Talk to Beckman faculty
Take classes in areas related to Beckman research
Talk to graduate students currently doing research at Beckman
Attend talks, brown bags, seminars
Visit the Beckman Institute webpage: