The Spaces
Spanning the entire third floor of the CDM Building, CyberLabs is an 11,000-square-foot suite featuring state-of-the-art facilities in cybersecurity, robotics, and engineering.
- 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.
- 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.
- Networking & Cybersecurity Lab – engages 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 2,500 virtual machines that can simulate full-scale industries, threat scenarios, and networked systems at enterprise scale.
- Robotics & AI Lab — a hardware lab equipped with four UR3e robot arms for dexterous manipulation, various types of ground robots and drones, quadrupeds, a cage area for drone testing, and a Vicon motion capture system to measure robot and drone positions with sub-millimeter precision. It is a space where student can immerse themselves in robotics and faculty perform robotics research, from building robots and drones to testing new machine-learning robot control algorithms.
- Prototype Maker Lab — an extension of the Engineering Projects Lab, it is where students and faculty design, build and assemble components for their hardware projects and research. It includes a half dozen soldering stations as well prototyping tools including Formlabs 3L and Bambu Lab X1 Carbon 3D printers, a Glowforge Pro laser cutter and engraver, and a Carvera Desktop CNC machine.
- Engineering Projects Lab — a lab with four electronics benches equipped with the same standard benchtop electronics tools as the Engineering Classroom—including digital multimeters, waveform generators, oscilloscopes, DC power supply sources, and logic analyzers—but accessible to students all day. It is where students and faculty build the next generation intelligent hardware systems.
- Engineering Classroom — a classroom where students master working with electronics hardware in courses such as electronic circuits, signal processing, or embedded systems. The classroom has twelve electronics benches with standard benchtop electronics tools including digital multimeters, waveform generators, oscilloscopes, DC power supply sources, and logic analyzers. Note: consider the Engineering Projects Lab when this classroom is being used for a class.
- Computer Lab — a computer lab classroom where students are introduced to computer programming, whether in an introductory class on Python coding or an advanced class on programming hardware controlled by embedded systems including robots, drones, smartphones, medical monitors, smart tools, appliances, and toys, etc.
Faculty
Collaborate directly with faculty affiliated with CyberLabs on research and projects.
Ryan Haley
Faculty, Full Time
School of Computing
Professional Lecturer
rhaley@depaul.edu
Muhammad Umer Huzaifa
Faculty, Full Time
School of Computing
Assistant Professor
mhuzaifa@depaul.edu
Janine Spears
Faculty, Full Time
School of Computing
Associate Professor
jspears2@depaul.edu
Vincent Kurtz
Faculty, Full Time
School of Computing
Assistant Professor
vkurtz1@depaul.edu
Filipo Sharevski
Faculty, Full Time
School of Computing
Associate Professor
fsharevs@cdm.depaul.edu
David Hanley
Faculty, Full Time
School of Computing
Assistant Professor
dhanley2@depaul.edu
Casey Bennett
Faculty, Full Time
School of Computing
Assistant Professor
cbenne33@depaul.edu
Stefan Mitsch
Faculty, Full Time
School of Computing
Associate Professor
smitsch@depaul.edu
Jean-Philippe Labruyere
Faculty, Full Time
School of Computing
Senior Professional Lecturer
JLabruyere@cdm.depaul.edu
David Ramsay
Faculty, Full Time
School of Computing
Assistant Professor
david.ramsay@depaul.edu