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Welcome to IDeA Labs!
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Alyssa Crezee graduates Magna Cum Laude
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Griffin Holt and Parker Murray's paper gets accepted to CCTA
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Griffin Holt Graduates Summa Cum Laude
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New Undergraduate Lab Alumni
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Brian Brown Receives Award at Student Research Conference
New Grad Students Join the Lab
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Former Alumni Takes the Lead of IDeA Labs
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Michael DeBuse Defends MS Thesis
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Vasu Chetty Defends Ph.D. Dissertation
About Us
Welcome to BYU's Information and Decision Algorithms Laboratories (IDeA Labs). IDeA Labs is a network of laboratories operated by a single, interdisciplinary research group. This group uses systems, control theory, and related tools to analyze and design a variety of complex systems and information processing techniques.
Each laboratory in the network houses projects that are related by a common application area. This focus allows students to investigate concrete problems, work with industrial partners, and collaborate with academic application experts.
By unifying these laboratories with a common group, we concentrate our research on fundamental issues of processing information in complex, uncertain environments. Students working on a project in one lab often discover that the nature of their problem is very similar to an entirely different problem in a completely different area. This focus on the theoretical foundation unifying different application domains helps students to think more deeply about their research.