The Computer Systems Lab at CU consists of about 14 faculty whose expertise generally lies in building practical computer systems.

Most of the Systems faculty are co-located in a single large lab with their students.

Students and faculty receive funding for and work in areas including large scale network systems; cloud and edge computing; distributed systems; virtualization; wireless and mobile systems including IoT, drones, and sensors; privacy preserving networks; network security and anticensorship; computer architecture security; autonomous and software-defined networks; automotive and telematics systems; social computing; data analytics; distributed and embedded machine learning and computer vision; and cybersafety and cyberbullying.