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  • Blake Builds Claim Framework to Analyze and Synthesize Medical Research

    Aug 7, 2015 8:00 am2 views

    Blake has developed the Claim Framework, a rhetorical structure that captures how scientists make claims and a set of tools that use natural language processing to pull out claims made within the journal articles. By attempting to solve the information problem behind the glut of published scientific data, Blake can reveal where there are uncertainties or gaps in the medical literature, as well as provide a detailed analysis of comparative claims.

  • Two images of people using PURE wheelchairs. On the left, a blonde person facing to the left and grinning. On the right, the back of a person wearing a sweatshirt, on a track.

    Bleakney and collaborators want to disrupt the wheelchair market

    Sep 28, 2020 12:30 am1 views

    As coach of the Illinois wheelchair track team, Adam Bleakney knows about the chronic overuse of shoulders and elbows by his athletes. But as a daily wheelchair user himself, he also knows about the challenges of navigating life.

  • Blue Waters: "A dynamite system"

    Jul 15, 2010 8:00 am2 views

    Irene Qualters joined the National Science Foundation in December 2009 as a program director in the office of Cyberinfrastructure, with responsibility for the Blue Waters project. She recently talked with Access' Barbara Jewett about Blue Waters, as well as the future of high-performance computing.

  • Blue Waters "Early Science System" delivered to NCSA

    Apr 9, 2012 8:00 am0 views

    The first cabinets of the new Blue Waters sustained-petascale supercomputer have arrived at the University of Illinois' National Center for Supercomputing Applications.

  • Blue Waters is Back!

    Nov 14, 2011 8:00 am0 views

    NCSA has finalized a new contract with Cray Inc to provide the supercomputer for NSF's Blue Waters project...

  • Blue Waters Supercomputer Now Open for 24/7 Science!

    Apr 2, 2013 6:30 am1 views

    [T]he Blue Waters supercomputer at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign entered production, meaning the behemoth capable of performing quadrillions of calculations every second and working with quadrillions of bytes of data is now crunching numbers around the clock to help scientists and engineers across the country tackle a wide variety of science and engineering challenges.

  • Bodony Takes Part in $7.4 Million Defense Department MURI Project

    Oct 17, 2016 8:00 am0 views

    The MURI will develop computational and experimental techniques for controlling the primary breakup process that liquid jets undergo, as well as develop novel metrics and techniques for controlling dispersed sprays. Electrostatic forces and acoustic waves are to be used for primary breakup and spray dispersion control, while fuel injector design is also a critical component for breakup.

  • Boppart Reviews Optical Imaging Technologies for Point-Of-Care

    Sep 17, 2014 8:00 am0 views

    In a review article in Science Translational Medicine, ECE Professor Stephen Allen Boppart, who is also affiliated with the Department of Bioengineering, describes several optical imaging technologies for use in point-of-care (PoC) and point-of-procedure (PoP) settings, and provides the infrastructure needed to integrate them into widespread clinical use.

  • Boppart's PhotoniCare Wins 2018 SPIE Startup Challenge

    Mar 19, 2018 8:00 am0 views

    PhotoniCare, founded by Professor Boppart, was named the winner of the 2018 SPIE Startup Challenge with their pitch for a non-invasive ear inspection for potential ear infections in children.

  • Boppart's Startups Win Propel Awards

    May 6, 2016 8:00 am0 views

    Two of Professor Stephen Boppart's startups, Diagnostic Photonics and PhotoniCare, won first and second place respectively at the iBIO Propel Center's business plan competition last fall in Chicago. The startups received $15,000 for first place, and $2,500 for second.

  • Borisov Identifies "Motion Sensor Fingerprinting" Smartphone Privacy Threat

    Oct 24, 2016 8:00 am0 views

    Online technology magazine Motherboard featured Professor Borisov's recent research about a possible method to track smartphone users by analyzing the device's unique motion sensing data. Every smartphone’s unique hardware settings, user specifications, and other personalized information can be used to assemble a unique profile or "fingerprint," and advertisers can use that customized profile to track a smartphone's web activities - a technique called "motion sensor fingerprinting."

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    Bose proposes risk-sensitive design to address uncertainty in electric markets

    Nov 29, 2021 9:00 am0 views

    Power production from green energy resources such as wind and solar is uncertain because no one controls when the wind blows, or the sun shines. As the government pushes for more wind and solar to be integrated into the nation’s electric grids, there’s a growing need to alter grid operations to accommodate uncertainties in their energy supply.

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    Breaking the Temperature Barrier in Small-Scale Materials Testing

    Mar 24, 2020 8:15 pm0 views

    Researchers have demonstrated a new method for testing microscopic aeronautical materials at ultra-high temperatures. By combining electron microscopy and laser heating, scientists can evaluate these materials much more quickly and inexpensively than with traditional testing.

  • Bresler and Singer Honored at Champaign County Innovation Celebration

    Apr 15, 2013 6:15 am0 views

    ECE professors Yoram Bresler and Andrew Carl Singer were awarded at the Eighth Annual Champaign County Innovation Celebration in recognition of their innovative ideas and leadership for entrepreneurial endeavor and economic development in the community.

  • Bresler's Team Wins $950,000 Big Data Grant

    Feb 11, 2015 8:00 am0 views

    A team led by Professor Yoram Bresler has won an almost $950,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to develop more efficient algorithms and computational methods for analyzing Big Data and extracting useful information.

  • Bretl Projects Merge Robotics and Neuroscience

    Apr 27, 2016 8:00 am0 views

    Aerospace Engineering at Illinois Associate Prof. Tim Bretl investigates two distinct areas of research: robotics and neuroscience. Yet Bretl's research, enabled by a multidisciplinary team of students, merges the two disparate areas in applications that aim to positively impact society.

  • Brett Jones Helps Unveil Microsoft's IllumiRoom

    May 22, 2013 2:30 pm0 views

    Microsofts IllumiRoom project, where CS graduate student Brett Jones is one of the principal researchers . . ., is a proof-of-concept system that augments the area surrounding a television with peripheral projected illusions to enhance traditional gaming viewing experiences.

  • Bringing Ancient Technology into the Light

    Nov 6, 2013 8:00 am7 views

    Assistant Professor Gang Logan Liu has used ancient Roman nanotechnology to create a highly sensitive, low-cost biosensor.

  • Brooks Coauthors Paper on Social Media Use during Ebola Outbreak

    Mar 12, 2018 8:00 am0 views

    According to a team of international researchers, including iSchool Research Scientist Ian Brooks, understanding the social media activity around a health crisis, like the 2014 Ebola outbreak, can help health organizations improve their communication strategies and prevent misinformation and panic.

  • Browser Boss

    Jan 13, 2020 2:15 pm0 views

    As a senior engineering director overseeing Google Chrome, Parisa Tabriz—aka the “Security Princess”—helps keep your computer safe against assaults by bedroom hackers, hostile nation states and everything in between.

  • Jie Feng, Zhengyu Yang and Bingqiang Ji standing around set up of a high-speed camera, sample holder, and back lit screen.

    Bubbling up: Previously hidden environmental impact of bursting bubbles exposed in new study

    Nov 19, 2021 10:45 am1 views

    Bubbles are common in nature and can form when ocean waves break and when raindrops impact surfaces. When bubbles burst, they send tiny jets of water and other materials into the air. A new study from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign examines how the interplay between bubble surfaces and water that contains organic materials contributes to the transport of aerosolized organic materials – some of which are linked to the spread of disease or contamination – into the atmosphere.

  • Bugs View Inspires New Digital Cameras Unique Imaging Capabilities

    May 20, 2013 2:30 pm0 views

    An interdisciplinary team of researchers has created the first digital cameras with designs that mimic those of ocular systems found in dragonflies, bees, praying mantises and other insects. This class of technology offers exceptionally wide-angle fields of view, with low aberrations, high acuity to motion, and nearly infinite depth of field.

  • Building a Biochemistry Lab on a Chip

    Mar 27, 2013 6:30 am0 views

    Miniaturized laboratory-on-chip systems promise rapid, sensitive, and multiplexed detection of biological samples for medical diagnostics, drug discovery, and high-throughput screening. Using micro-fabrication techniques and incorporating a unique design of transistor-based heating, researchers at the University of Illinois are further advancing the use of silicon transistor and electronics into chemistry and biology for point-of-care diagnostics.

  • Building the Future Internet

    Aug 27, 2010 8:00 am0 views

    Tarek Abdelzaher and his research team are part of a new $7.9 million effort to create a next-generation Internet...

  • Built In Chicago Features Alumni's Autonomous Robot Friend For Cats

    Jul 30, 2018 8:00 am0 views

    Built In Chicago shone a spotlight on a team of ECE ILLINOIS alumni who created autonomous robot-mouse friends for cats.

  • By Providing Proper Risk Assessment, Steady Mobile App Hopes to Prevent Falls Common in Older Adults

    May 5, 2017 8:00 am4 views

    Sosnoff is leading a startup designed to evaluate seniors for fall risk using mobile health technology - with the hopes of preventing falls before they occur.

  • C3SR Collaboration Leverages Data to Integrate Machine Learning into Our Daily Lives

    Oct 3, 2018 8:00 am0 views

    A collaboration between ECE ILLINOIS, CS @ ILLINOIS, and IBM seeks to leverage vast data sets and advances in computing into useful tools for everything from medicine and education to helping banks manage risks.

  • Caccamo Honored with Humboldt Foundation Professorship

    May 2, 2018 8:00 am0 views

    Professor Marco Caccamo has been awarded a prestigious professorship from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, and he plans to use the 5 million Euro prize to set up a new interdisciplinary institute to apply his expertise in real-time embedded computing to smart factories, autonomous vehicles and other areas.

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    Cancer Center at Illinois program leader develops fast, low-cost blood test for detecting early-stage liver cancer

    Mar 23, 2022 10:00 am0 views

    Cancer Center at Illinois and Mount Sinai researchers have developed a low-cost, portable, point-of-care technology capable of diagnosing early-stage liver cancer within 30 minutes. The study, led by Brian Cunningham, Cancer Center at Illinois program leader and professor of electrical and computer engineering, and Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology (IGB) postdoctoral fellow Bin Zhao, uses a toaster-sized device comprised of a red LED light, microscope objective, and webcam to detect gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) that attach to target RNA.

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    Carle Illinois Machine Learning System for EEG Analysis Wins IEEE Honors

    Jan 21, 2022 12:00 pm3 views

    A new machine learning system developed by a Carle Illinois College of Medicine student could unlock the vast amounts of untapped data found in a common neurological test. The team recently won ‘best paper’ honors at the 2021 IEEE Signal Processing in Medicine and Biology Symposium for their publication describing the new system to analyze and classify data from patient EEG tests for use by both clinicians treating patients and researchers seeking out new discoveries.

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    Carle Illinois Welcomes Haran and Oelze

    Feb 19, 2021 3:15 pm7 views

    Eight faculty from The Grainger College of Engineering have joined Carle Illinois College of Medicine with Health Innovation Professor appointments including Illinois ECE professors Kiruba Sivasubramaniam Haran and Michael L Oelze. The new faculty deliver on Carle Illinois’ strategy to leverage the University of Illinois’ exceptional faculty to serve as agents of change in medical education, innovation, and research at the world’s first engineering-based college of medicine.

  • CDI Co-Sponsors, Participates in CIRN Conference

    Dec 18, 2013 8:00 am0 views

    Representatives from the Center for Digital Inclusion (CDI) are slated to participate and present at the 2013 Community Informatics Research Network (CIRN) Conference. The topic of the conference, scheduled for October 28-30 in Prato, Italy, will be "Nexus, Confluence, and Difference: Community Archives Meets Community Informatics." CDI is a sponsor of the event.

  • CEE Biomechanics Researchers Making Important Contributions to Medicine

    Jun 7, 2017 8:00 am0 views

    CEE faculty, including assistant professor Ahmed Elbanna, are conducting research in biomechanics. As a result, Elbanna and other CEE at Illinois researchers are finding biomedical applications for their work in mechanics, opening doors for challenging new areas of research and interdisciplinary collaboration.

  • Cell Phone Software Creates New Possibilities for Precision Medicine

    Jun 27, 2018 8:00 am0 views

    In a study published in Telemedicine and e-Health, Dr. Bruce Schatz and his coauthors described their latest step forward--a demonstration that the new version of their software can be used to monitor a patient's status while they perform everyday tasks outside of the hospital.

  • Cellphone Technology Helps Horses Recover from Surgery

    Jun 17, 2013 8:00 am0 views

    Technology that is used in smartphones and other electronic devices also is being used by veterinarians at the University of Illinois to help horses recover safely from anesthesia.

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    Center for Advanced Electronics through Machine Learning (CAEML) receives Phase II funding from NSF

    May 6, 2022 12:00 pm2 views

    The Center for Advanced Electronics through Machine Learning (CAEML), which has been funded as a Phase I IUCRC by the National Science Foundation since 2017, has just received funding from NSF to proceed with a second five-year phase. Phase II research will officially kick off on August 1, 2022. AEML’s research vision is to apply machine learning to the design of optimized microelectronic circuits and systems, thereby increasing the efficiency of electronic design automation (EDA) and resulting in reduced design cycle time and radically improved reliability.  

  • Chamorro Aims to Improve the Power Grid, Wind Energy Systems

    Mar 13, 2017 8:00 am0 views

    Assistant Professor Leonardo Chamorro received a National Science Foundation grant for a research proposal in collaboration with ECE Professor Hao Zhu and Professor Sven Schmitz at Penn State.

  • Champaign-Urbana Public Health District Teaming with HCESC for VR Training

    Oct 29, 2018 8:00 am2 views

    CUPHD worked with the University of Illinois Healthcare Engineering Systems Center to create a unique VR training module.

  • Chang Creating Tools That Listen to Social Universe

    Feb 20, 2017 8:00 am0 views

    CS @ ILLINOIS faculty member Kevin Chen-Chuan Chang co-founded Cazoodle based on technology developed in his lab nearly 10 years ago. Cazoodle creates new and better search engines--like the online funding search and recommendation service GrantForward used by more than 200 universities and research institutions--by enabling deep data-aware vertical web searching that can crawl and transform unstructured HTML content into structured databases.

  • Charged Graphene Gives DNA a Stage to Perform Molecular Gymnastics

    Nov 21, 2014 8:00 am0 views

    In a new study published in the journal Nature Communications, University of Illinois physics professor Aleksei Aksimentiev and graduate student Manish Shankla applied an electric charge to the graphene sheet, hoping that the DNA would react to the charge in a way that would let them control its movement down to each individual link, or nucleotide, in the DNA chain.

  • Charles Sing Received NSF CAREER Award

    Sep 18, 2017 8:00 am4 views

    Charles E. Sing, Assistant Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the University of Illinois, received a 2017 National Science Foundation CAREER Award for his proposal, "Developing the design rules of charge sequence to inform polymer self-assembly."

  • Chemical Etching Method Helps Transistors Stand Tall

    Jan 18, 2017 8:00 am0 views

    University of Illinois researchers have developed a way to etch very tall, narrow finFETs, a type of transistor that forms a tall semiconductor "fin" for the current to travel over. The etching technique addresses many problems in trying to create 3-D devices, typically done now by stacking layers or carving out structures from a thicker semiconductor wafer.

  • Chen and Collaborators Receive Best Paper Award at ICCAD

    Jun 3, 2016 8:00 am1 views

    Professor Deming Chen, along with his graduate students and colleagues from Intel and Ohio State University, recently received the William J. McCalla Best Paper Award at the IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer Aided Design.

  • Chesson Receives Alumni Award for Distinguished Service

    Sep 12, 2014 8:00 am1 views

    On April 11, CS @ ILLINOIS alumnus Gregory Chesson (MS CS '75, PhD '77) received an Alumni Award for Distinguished Service from the College of Engineering. Chesson was recognized for "outstanding contributions to early UNIX operating systems and to the design and development of high-performance and wireless computer networks."

  • Chip Bruce Discusses Net Neutrality

    Sep 14, 2010 8:00 am0 views

    Chip Bruce, a professor of library and information science at the University of Illinois, talks about the Google-Verizon partnership and its impact on network neutrality...

  • Choquette Becomes Fellow of AAAS

    Jun 5, 2013 8:00 am0 views

    ECE Professor Kent Choquette is now a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).

  • Choquette Elected President of IEEE Photonics Society

    Apr 8, 2015 8:00 am0 views

    Professor Kent D. Choquette was elected president of IEEE Photonics Society.

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    Choudhury Comments on Future of Remote Work in the Wall Street Journal

    Apr 2, 2021 5:15 pm0 views

    With the COVID-19 pandemic turning remote work into the new norm, the laptop has become the key focus of work-from-home technology. However, this heavy reliance on the laptop has brought light to several significant issues ranging from sound quality to security and privacy. In a recent article from The Wall Street Journal, several experts came together to discuss what developments are and should be coming for the improvement of remote work. Illinois ECE Professor Romit Roy Choudhury, W.J. "Jerry" Sanders III - Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. Scholar in Electrical and Computer Engineering, is one of the experts who provided commentary on filtering background noise in remote work settings. 

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    Chowdhary Tackles Agricultural Challenges with Autonomous Robot

    Jan 29, 2020 12:00 pm4 views

    Illinois ECE affiliate faculty member and director of the Field Robotics Engineering and Sciences Hub Girish Chowdhary was recently featured on a OneZero article, highlighting his work with his startup EarthSense. EarthSense sells an autonomous agriculture robot that Chowdhary developed to phenotype plants for breeders.

  • Chowdhary Wins Best Paper Award for Crop Counting Robot

    May 29, 2019 4:45 pm1 views

    Led by Professor Girish Chowdhary, a team of Illinois researchers developed a robot to find these proverbial needles in the haystack was recognized by the best systems paper award at Robotics: Science and Systems, the preeminent robotics conference held last week in Pittsburgh.