Labs and Groups
We are home to dozens of research labs and groups, where engineering researchers are bridging disciplines in state-of-the-art facilities.
Game Design Future Lab
The Game Design Future Lab (GDFL) focuses on digital game design, development, infrastructure for games, and emerging media.
Game Innovation Lab
The Game Innovation Lab brings together faculty and students from the School of Engineering and the greater NYU community doing research focused on games as an innovation challenge. The Lab's emphasis is on the technical / engineering / science side of games and simulations.
IDM Audio Lab
The IDM Audio Lab provides IDM faculty, staff and students with a variety of uses including an analog synthesizer studio, sound electronics workshop, and a multi-channel audio room.
IDM XR LAB
Located in the Brooklyn Navy Yard, the IDM XR Lab provides access to the latest XR equipment and informational workshops and tutorials.
Immersive Computing Lab
The ICL, directed by Assistant Professor Qi Sun, conducts cutting-edge research that spans the fields of computer graphics, physics, and computational cognition, with the goal of creating unprecedented virtual and augmented reality systems to revolutionize urban life.
NYU Ability Project
An interdisciplinary initiative dedicated to the study of disability and the development of accessible, assistive and rehab technologies.
Tandon @ The Yard
NYU Tandon @ The Yard is a 14,000-square-foot virtual production and AR/VR/XR research facility within the Brooklyn Navy Yard, bringing research-grade emerging technology within reach of media, entertainment, and cultural sectors of the city.
Visualization and Data Analytics Center
ViDA consists of computer scientists who work closely with domain experts to apply the latest advances in computing to problems of critical societal importance, and simultaneously generate hypotheses and methods that new data demands.