The Department conducts extensive, high-quality, broad-based research, ranging from basic research to direct applications in collaboration with industry. Research at the Department is at the forefront internationally in several areas.

Different aspects of reliability, both in the development of software and hardware, are a common theme in several of the Department’s research groups. One example is basic research into how programming languages should be designed to make it easy to write error-free programs in these languages. Another example is methodology for developing reliability in the complex computer systems that are built into, for example, aircrafts.

The Chalmers Foundation is investing strongly in the IT field and because of the Foundation the Department has developed strong research activities within Software Engineering, Human - Computer Interaction, and Bioinformatics.