
Coordinated Science Laboratory (CSL)
The University of Illinois’ Coordinated Science Laboratory is a premier, multidisciplinary research laboratory that focuses on information technology at the crossroads of computing, control and communications.
With a rich history of nearly 60 years of innovation, CSL has developed and deployed new technologies that have achieved international scientific recognition and transformed society.
Led by a faculty of world-renowned experts and researchers, CSL uses these innovations to explore critical issues in defense, medicine, environmental sciences, robotics, life-enhancement for the disabled and aeronautics.
Our current efforts include:
CSL is building the infrastructure today to make these advancements a reality for tomorrow.

William H. Sanders, a world-renowned researcher in information trust, is Acting Director of the Coordinated Science Laboratory.
Sanders, who is a Donald Biggar Willett Professor of Engineering, specializes in dependability and security evaluation, fault-tolerant computing, reliable and secure distributed systems, and computer networks and protocols. Since 2004, he has been the inaugural Director of the Information Trust Institute.
Sanders is a graduate of the University of Michigan and is a faculty member in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and affiliate in Computer Science.