Where Illinois's Future is Forged
Spanning the third floor of the CDM Building, the
School of Computing’s new CyberLabs are an 11,000+-square-foot hub designed to prepare the next generation of engineers to make smart devices and intelligent systems ubiquitous, safe, secure, and immensely impactful on society.
photo by DePaul University/Jeff Carrion The Spaces
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The Bunker – a real-time command center equipped with two 3×3 video walls that enable students to coordinate, monitor, and respond to simulated threat environments as unified teams. Exercises mirror professional security operations, where attackers and defenders act simultaneously under pressure.
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General Lab for Integrated Tech, Cybersecurity & Hardware (GLITCH) – provides access to real systems such as voting machines, industrial control equipment, medical devices, WiFi analysis tools, and a wide range of mobile and IoT platforms. Students engage in vulnerability discovery across both legacy and modern technologies, gaining insight into how weaknesses emerge in systems built for safety, convenience, or scale.
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Networking & Cybersecurity Lab – developed to engage students with technical networking and cybersecurity work, with a new Server Room housing servers that support those programs and the high-performance computing cloud. Virtual labs within the Server Room offer the capacity to run more than 1,500 virtual machines that can simulate full-scale industries, threat scenarios, and networked systems at enterprise scale.
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Robotics and AI Lab – equipped with robots, a space where students can program robot arms, quadruped or humanoid robots, or even test new machine-learning algorithms controlling a flock of drones.
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Prototyping Lab – hosts equipment used by students to design and build components for their hardware projects.
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Engineering Projects Lab – a space packed with equipment and hardware where students build intelligent hardware systems.
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Engineering Classroom – students master working with hardware via courses such as electronic circuits or embedded systems.
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Computer Lab – students master programming hardware controlled by embedded systems including robots, drones, smartphones, medical monitors, smart tools, appliances, and toys, etc.