Research & Innovation Centre
Where the next decade of software is invented.
Ten laboratories. Faculty, advanced students and industry partners collaborating on publications, open-source projects and applied research delivered through IASE Labs engagements.
Laboratories
Ten labs. One frontier.
AI Research Lab
Foundational research on reasoning, agents and multimodal models.
Dr. Adaeze Okafor
Enterprise Software Lab
Reference architectures for global-scale systems.
Prof. Henri Laurent
AI Agent Innovation Lab
Autonomous systems for enterprise operations.
Dr. Kenji Watanabe
Spatial Computing Lab
XR, digital twins and volumetric interfaces.
Prof. Amara Diallo
Robotics & Automation Lab
Physical AI and process automation.
Dr. Elena Rossi
AI Healthcare Lab
Clinical decision support and biomedical AI.
Prof. Rahul Mehta
Financial AI Lab
Risk, markets, compliance and infrastructure.
Dr. Sofia Almeida
Cybersecurity Lab
Offensive & defensive AI security research.
Prof. Idris Bello
AI Education Lab
How humans learn — augmented by intelligent tutors.
Dr. Naledi Khumalo
Climate Technology Lab
Software for planetary-scale resilience.
Prof. Lars Halvorsen
Open problems
Questions we are actively pursuing.
- Q01Long-horizon planning and memory for autonomous agents.
- Q02Deterministic evals for open-ended generative systems.
- Q03Trust boundaries in mixed human/agent workflows.
- Q04Sub-cent inference for high-volume regulated workloads.
- Q05Spatial reasoning at planetary scale for digital twins.
Publications
Research that ships.
IASE publishes technical papers, white papers, open-source libraries, reference architectures and applied case studies from active industry engagements.