Computer Graphics and Interactive Systems Laboratory (CGIS) is carrying out research and education activities within the Computer Science Department, Automation and Computer Science Faculty of the Technical University of Cluj-Napoca. It has been certified as research entity by the Technical University on 22 July, 2010 (certification document).

CGIS Laboratory provides expertise in interactive application development, user interaction techniques, usability evaluation, human senzorial data processing and analysis, Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality application development, computer games development methodology, artificial intelligence, spatial big data, and satellite images. CGIS Laboratory has carried out research projects in the fields of high performance graphical processing and visualization, parallel and distributed processing on cloud infrastructures, interoperability of HPC platforms, software platforms and applications for spatial data processing and visualization, visual analytics, machine learning based satellite data classification, interdisciplinary research in the domains of Earth Sciences and Earth Observations.

The Laboratory has been engaged in national and international research projects such as ChemiNova (HORIZON-RIA), EMPOWER (HORIZON-RIA), CERES (PN-III), NEARBY (ROSA STAR), HORUS (ROSA STAR), BIGEARTH (ROSA STAR), PECSA (PN-II), enviroGRIDS (FP7), IASON (FP7), mEducator (eContentplus), SEE-GRID-SCI (FP7), GiSHEO (ESA – European Space Agency), I-Trace (Minerva), and MedioGrid (CEEX). The CGIS team was involved in the development of the CloudUT infrastructure, for the scientific and contractual research activity of the UTCN scientific community. The team has coordinated the carrying out of the AITECH institutional project for the development of research of excellence in the field of artificial intelligence and massive data.

The team has developed software tools and platforms like NEARBY, HORUS, HorusApp, BIGEARTH, WorDeL, gSWAT, gSWATSim, GreenLand, ESIP, gProcess, eGLE, GreenView, and eTrace.

CGIS team supports activities at all three levels of education – Bachelor, Master and Doctoral in the domains of Computer Science and Information Technology. CGIS provides courses in the fields of Fundamentals on Computer Graphics, Graphical Processing Systems, User Interface Design, Interactive Systems, Virtual Reality, Multimedia Technologies, Graphics Cluster based High Performance Computation, and Cloud Technology.