Currently, the areas of active research in the David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science are:
- Algorithms and Complexity
- Artificial Intelligence
- Bioinformatics
- Computer Algebra and Symbolic Computation
- Computer Graphics
- Cryptography, Security and Privacy
- Databases
- Formal Methods
- Health Informatics
- Human-Computer Interaction
- Information Retrieval
- Machine Learning
- Programming Languages
- Quantum Computing
- Scientific Computing
- Software Engineering
- Systems and Networking