
Welcome to IDeA Labs!

Vasu Chetty Defends Ph.D. Dissertation

Visitor from France Talks about Granger Causality in Networks

Charles Johnson Awarded ORCA Scholarship to Research Connection between Cascading Failures and Network Instability.

Emily Prigmore Awarded ORCA Scholarship to Model Ecological Phenomenon of Yellowstone National Park

Alumnus Enoch Yeung Speaks in CS Department Colloquium

Alumnus Anurag Rai visits from MIT

IDeA Labs Students Attend Conference on Decision and Control in Las Vegas

Professor Beck Visits from UIUC

Professor Warnick Invited to Speak at Oak Ridge National Labs and the INFORMS Annual Meeting
About Us
Welcome to BYU's Information and Decision 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.