Research in the Department of Computer Science is organised in the following sections
- Artificial Intelligence (section head: Prof. Dr. Koen Hindriks)
- Bioinformatics (section head: Prof. Dr. Jaap Heringa)
- Computer Systems and Security (section head: Prof. Dr. Henri Bal)
- Sustainable Digital Society (section head: Prof. Dr. Patricia Lago)
- Theoretical Computer Science (section head: Prof. Dr. Wan Fokkink)