The main areas of scientific activity of the department correspond to the scientific mission of HSE Tikhonov Moscow Institute of Electronics and Mathematics in the aspect of engineering education in the direction of "Informatics and Computer Science" and science in the field of computer engineering.
- Network and communication technologies;
- Energy-efficient high-performance computing systems;
- Wireless sensor networks and applied projects of the Internet of things;
- 3D visualization and computer graphics;
- Computer modeling in engineering and technology and applied solutions;
- Information-analytical systems and trained computers;
- Distributed systems for collecting and storing data;
- Intelligent control systems and robotics;
- Computer technologies in education;
- Processing of texts in natural language.
Many scientific projects in the areas of research are carried out on orders from enterprises in various industries, as well as within the framework of the implementation of design and educational groups, where students are involved as performers. And also within the framework of the implementation of projects in the form of scientific and educational groups. Students, graduate students, teachers and researchers and interested persons from enterprises are actively involved in conducting scientific seminars in the field of specializations:
- Computer and network systems;
- Computer and network systems;
- Automated systems.
Also, within the framework of the Institute and the Department of Computer Engineering, together with the Institute of Applied Mathematics. M.V. Keldysh RAS and MSTU. N.E. Bauman, an annual scientific and practical seminar "New information technologies in automated systems" is held.