Center for Information Technology Research

As one of the nine Centers of Excellence at the University of Tennessee, the Center for Information Technology Research (CITR) was established in the spring of 2001 to drive the growth and development of leading edge Information Technology Research (ITR) at the University. ITR is a broad, cross-disciplinary area that investigates ways in which fundamental innovations in Information Technology affect and are affected by the research process.

The mission of CITR is twofold. One, it is to build up a thriving, well-funded community in basic and applied ITR at UT in order to help the University capitalize on the rich supply of research opportunities that now exist in this area. And two, it is to grow an interdisciplinary Computational Science program as part of the University curriculum that enables graduate students to augment their degree with computational knowledge and skills from disciplines outside their major.