We are an interdisciplinary center that focuses on the intersection of technology and social issues in smart and sustainable societies.
Our work emphasizes IoT-based technologies in Energy, Healthcare, Transportation and Agriculture, as well as sustainability and social issues in those domains.
Featured Research Areas
Building privacy-preserving and security-first IoT systems which secure data collections and help anonymize sensitive data for publication, and developing RFID systems for object tracking.
Enabling novel platforms and machine learning algorithms for mobile and wearable health sensing which capture signals from the environment or the wearer and map them to relevant biological and behavioral measurements.
Developing computational methods for sustainability, decarbonization, and automation of engineered systems and infrastructure, including transportation systems, cloud computing, energy systems, and the built environment.
Sustainability SEMINAR SERIES
The Center for Smart and Sustainable Society, in collaboration with the Manning College of Information and Computer Sciences, will present a seminar series on sustainability in computing during the Spring 2026 semester. Watch this page for updates!
Latest News & Activities
- Shlomo Zilberstein featured as Spotlight Scholar for Contributions to Artificial Intelligence.
Oct 2025 - Deepak Ganesan and Collaborators Awarded $600,000 from NSF to Repurpose Smartphones Into Environmental Sensors.
Sep 2025 - CS2 Faculty organized 2025 Turing Summer Program for local high school students.
Aug 2025 - Jay Taneja selected for 2025 SPARC seed grant.
Jun 2025 - Shlomo Zilberstein and Collaborators Awarded $500,000 to Advance AI Safety Research.
Jun 2025
Events
- Sustainability Seminar – Romaric Duvignau (Chalmers University), Data-Driven and Efficient Algorithms for Enhanced Communication at the Edge
15 Oct 25 - Seminar – P. Anandan, Translating AI Innovations into Solutions in the Global South
15 Oct 25 - Systems Lunch – Sushmita Mitra (Machine Intelligence Unit of the Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata), Harnessing Artificial Intelligence for Healthcare
30 Sep 25 - Sustainability Seminar – Nico Christianson (Caltech), End-to-End Learning for Reliable Decision-Making in Energy and Sustainability
18 Oct 24