The research activities of the division primarily include: high performance computing, electronic design automation, mobile computing, algorithms, computational geometry, pattern analysis and recognition, machine learning, deep learning, brain modeling, computer vision, satellite image analysis, document analysis, handwriting recognition, natural language processing, information retrieval, quantum computing, cryptology and security, bioinformatics and computational biology, and medical image processing.

In addition to the above areas, the division has also been working on some frontier areas such as library automation, knowledge organization, management & classification, and bibliometrics and hypertext & multimedia applications.