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  • Alum's Invention Gives Radiator Owners Chance to Control Heat Remotely

    Jul 7, 2014 8:00 am0 views

    Recent ECE ILLINOIS alumnus Christopher Moy (BSEE '14) and a team of engineers are creating a system called MyHome, which can help eliminate waste heat from home radiators.

  • Alya Code Scaled to 100,000 Cores on Blue Waters Supercomputer

    Aug 27, 2014 8:00 am0 views

    The Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC) and the Private Sector Program at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) have collaborated to scale BSC's Alya multi-physics code to a previously unprecedented 100,000 cores of NCSA's Blue Waters supercomputer, simulating complex engineering problems such as airflow in the human body, contraction of the heart, and combustion in a kiln furnace.

  • AmpliMy Project to Give a Voice to Those Who Have Trouble Being Heard

    Mar 7, 2016 8:00 am0 views

    A team from the University of Illinois is developing a voice amplifier for U. of I. art history student Alexis Wernsing, front, that will be attached to her wheelchair and that she can control with the nudge of her elbow.

  • An Electric Sock For the Heart

    Mar 7, 2014 8:00 am2 views

    A team of scientists led by John Rogers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has created a web of electronics that wraps around a living heart and measures everything from temperature to electrical activity.

  • A New Pallet for Optical Fibers

    Oct 21, 2013 8:00 am2 views

    ECE researcher Peter D. Dragic and his collaborator at Clemson University, John Ballato, have been researching optical fibers and the materials. While fiber structure has become increasingly complex in recent years, the materials used to construct them have been stuck in one section of the periodic table, within a few spaces of silicon (silica—SiO2—being the predominant fiber component). The materials are monochromatic. Dragic and Ballato are experimenting with fibers created with materials with different optical properties.

  • Angrave Completes Teaching First MOOC on Developing Android Apps

    Mar 21, 2014 8:00 am6 views

    CS Professor Lawrence Angrave recently completed teaching the first MOOC on developing apps for the Android platform.

  • An Illinois-Intel Partnership Leads to Prototype for Debugging Innovations

    Jul 29, 2013 8:00 am0 views

    CS Professors Josep Torrellas and Sam King, together with Intel researchers will unveil a hardware prototype for recording and deterministically replaying parallel programs at the International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA) in June 2013. This system enables the ability to re-execute a program exactly in the same way, and identify where a bug occurred or a security intrusion started. This prototype is called QuickRec, and is composed of an FPGA implementation of an Intel multicore with full support from the Linux operating system.

  • An Innovative Approach for Image-Completion Software

    Jul 14, 2014 8:00 am0 views

    Researchers from ECE ILLINOIS and Microsoft have demonstrated an approach that streamlines image-editing , automatically filling the erased space with content based on patterns and planes within the image. While other photo-mending methods exist, this new technique demonstrates striking improvements.

  • Composite Image with Headshot of Mattia Gazzola on the left and Nancy Amato on the right with an image of a glass-like cube with a stem on a dark table in the middle.

    An NSF Expedition in Computing: Mind in vitro - Computing with Living Neurons

    Apr 25, 2022 10:45 am2 views

    The National Science Foundation awarded a 7-year, $15 million project to a multi-university team led by the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). The resulting ground-breaking and path-finding research, entitled “Mind in vitro - Computing with Living Neurons,” will imagine computers and robots that are human designed, but living.

  • App Authors Project Expands Its Reach, Bringing Coding to Kids at New Sites

    Nov 29, 2017 8:00 am0 views

    The App Authors project, bringing kids and technology together to create apps through a child-centered curriculum, is expanding its reach, working at sites in Maryland and Oregon as well as remaining in Champaign.

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    ARI awarded REMADE grant to recycle aerospace scrap

    Dec 4, 2019 12:00 pm4 views

    Ever wonder what happens to aircrafts at the end of their useful life? They are sent to aircraft graveyards. The Arizona desert is home to several aircraft graveyards. Planes that are no longer in operation are parked there.  The Applied Research Institute at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is hoping to give these planes a new lease on life by recycling the aluminum alloys (principally the high-end AA7075) that are used to build these planes. 

  • ARMORE Project Works to Create Safer Grid for Utility Companies

    Jun 20, 2014 8:00 am0 views

    ITI's Tim Yardley, Rakesh Bobba, Klara Nahrstedt and William H. Sanders were recently awarded a $975,000 grant from the Department of Energy for a three-year project titled Applied Resiliency for More Trustworthy Grid Operation (ARMORE) to address the advancement of cyber attack methodology.

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    Artificial intelligence produces a recipe for lower-carbon concrete

    Apr 29, 2022 11:30 am7 views

    Concrete is the most popular building material in the world, and we use between 10 and 30 billion tons each year. But the price of that progress is a cost to the environment: Cement, an essential ingredient in concrete, is responsible for 8 percent of global anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions. Enter the power of artificial intelligence. Researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Meta, and concrete supplier, Ozinga, partnered on discovering better concrete formulas using AI. The early-stage results found the AI-powered formulas reduce the carbon footprint of the concrete by 40% while maintaining strength and durability. Meta tested the formulas on multiple structures at the company’s DeKalb data center, namely the floor slabs of the guardhouse and construction management team’s temporary offices.

  • A Smaller, More Efficient Grid-Tied Power Converter Garners Top Prize for Researchers

    Jul 11, 2016 8:00 am0 views

    Graduate student Shibin Qin, along with Professor Robert Pilawa, won the Best Paper Award at the IEEE Workshop on Control and Modeling for Power Electronics (COMPEL) Conference in Vancouver, Canada.

  • Assistant Professor Pinshane Huang Receives 2017 MSA Albert Crewe Award

    May 15, 2017 8:00 am0 views

    Assistant Professor Pinshane Huang recently received the 2017 Microscopy Society of America's (MSA) esteemed Albert Crewe Award.

  • Atlas Wang Recognized By Chinese Government, Baidu, and Illinois

    Sep 16, 2016 8:00 am12 views

    ECE PhD student Zhangyang Wang won a Baidu Research Award, a Chinese government award for outstanding graduates abroad, the Thomas and Margaret Huang award for graduate research, and the Illinois graduate college’s dissertation completion fellowship. The awards recognized accomplishments ranging from his excellent academic record to his research into deep learning and computer vision.

  • Augmented Reality App Enables Intelligent Shopping Experience

    Jun 6, 2016 8:00 am0 views

    Researchers from the Advanced Digital Sciences Center (ADSC, a CSL research center in Singapore) and Singapore Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), are combining location-based augmented reality and a large database of online reviews to support an intelligent shopping experience.

  • Automated Safety for Off Road Vehicles

    Oct 26, 2010 8:00 am0 views

    The days of sensor-assisted tractors that safely drive themselves are in the not-so-far future...

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    Automated synthesis allows for discovery of unexpected charge transport behavior in organic molecules

    May 4, 2022 1:45 pm0 views

    A cross-disciplinary UIUC team has demonstrated a major breakthrough in using automated synthesis to discover new molecules for organic electronics applications. The technology that enabled the discovery relies on an automated platform for rapid molecular synthesis at scale—which is a game-changer in the field of organic electronics and beyond. Using automated synthesis, the team was able to rapidly scan through a library of molecules with precisely defined structures, thereby uncovering, via single-molecule characterization experiments, a new mechanism for high conductance. The work was just reported in Nature Communications and is the first major result to emerge from the Molecule Maker Lab, which is located in the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

  • Babu Makes Printing Receipts Obsolete

    Aug 13, 2014 8:00 am0 views

    University of Illinois students are making organizing receipts easy and printing them irrelevant with an receipt reducing app called Babu.

  • Bailey and Team Win 2016 Applied Networking Research Prize

    Sep 21, 2016 8:00 am0 views

    A team of researchers, including CSL and ECE Associate Professor Michael Donald Bailey, has received The Applied Networking Research Prize (ANRP) for their paper, "Neither Snow Nor Rain Nor MITM... An Empirical Analysis of Email Delivery Security."

  • Bailey Applies Crowdsourcing Solutions to Enhance Design Education

    Dec 18, 2015 8:00 am0 views

    An expert on crowdsourcing and design innovation, Bailey had previously developed a web service that allowed people to get feedback on visual designs from either social media or a paid online audience. He wanted to explore whether this type of crowdsourcing solution could address the scaling problem in his course.

  • Bailey Wins ACM Best Paper Award for Heartbleed Research

    Jan 30, 2015 8:00 am0 views

    "The Matter of Heartbleed," a paper co-written by Associate Professor Michael Donald Bailey, won the best paper award at the Association for Computing Machinery's (ACM) Internet Measurement Conference.

  • Banerjee Receives NSF CAREER Award for Work Emulating a Biological Spine in Robots

    Feb 3, 2020 9:30 pm7 views

    Illinois ECE Assistant Professor Arijit Banerjee recently won the NSF CAREER award for his work with bio-inspired design methods for distributed electromechanical actuators to emulate a biological spine. This prestigious award supports early-career faculty who have the potential to serve as academic role models in research and education and to lead advances in the mission of their department or organization.

  • Barth and Pilawa Make a Ripple in Solar Power

    Aug 19, 2013 8:00 am0 views

    Graduate student Christopher Barth and Assistant Professor Robert Pilawa earn top paper award at COMPEL 2013. Their research on dithering digital ripple correlation control has demonstrated a low-cost, low-energy solution for solar systems.

  • Başar, Yuksel Author Book on Networked Control Systems

    Sep 30, 2013 8:00 am4 views

    Professor Tamer Başar and alumnus Serdar Yuksel (MSEE '03, PhD '06) have written a book titled Stochastic Networked Control Systems (Birkhauser). This vanguard work addresses both the stabilization and optimization of networked control systems, which have inherent stochasticity caused by communication constraints.

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    Bashir and Cunningham Develop Inexpensive, Portable Detector that Identifies Pathogens in Minutes

    Apr 27, 2020 10:45 pm0 views

    Most viral test kits rely on labor- and time-intensive laboratory preparation and analysis techniques; for example, tests for the novel coronavirus can take days to detect the virus from nasal swabs. Led by Illinois ECE Professors Rashid Bashir, Abel Bliss Professor of Engineering, and Brian T Cunningham, Donald Biggar Willett Professor in Engineering, researchers have now demonstrated an inexpensive yet sensitive smartphone-based testing device for viral and bacterial pathogens that takes about 30 minutes to complete. The roughly $50 smartphone accessory could reduce the pressure on testing laboratories during a pandemic such as COVID-19.

  • Bashir Researches Human Aspects of Digital Technology, Privacy

    Jul 25, 2016 8:00 am1 views

    Privacy, security, and trust have long been watchwords in the computer science and computer engineering fields. Generally, however, these groups don't prioritize how those issues impact users of the technology they create. GSLIS Assistant Professor Masooda Bashir wants to change that. With a background in math, computer science, and psychology, she has long been interested in the human aspects of digital technology.

  • Bashir to Receive 2018 BMES Pritzker Distinguished Lecture Award

    Apr 18, 2018 8:00 am3 views

    Professor Rashid Bashir has been selected to receive the 2018 Robert A. Pritzker Distinguished Lecture Award, the Biomedical Engineering Society's (BMES) premier recognition for outstanding achievements and leadership in the science and practice of biomedical engineering.

  • Bayram and Feng Awarded Defense University Research Instrumentation Program Grants

    Dec 7, 2020 8:15 pm2 views

    The Department of Defense has awarded Defense University Research Instrumentation Program (DURIP) grants to six University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign professors - two of whom are Illinois ECE faculty members. Illinois ECE Associate Professor Can Bayramand Research Professor Milton Feng, Nick Holonyak, Jr., Endowed Chair Emeritus in Electrical and Computer Engineering, were among the recipients of the grants. The grants were made to 85 institutions for 2021.

  • Bayram and Zhu Receive NSF Career Awards

    Sep 27, 2017 8:00 am0 views

    The National Science Foundation (NSF) announced that ECE ILLINOIS Assistant Professors Can Bayram and Wenjuan Zhu earned 2017 NSF CAREER Awards.

  • Bayram Honored with TASSA Young Scholar Award

    Oct 17, 2018 8:00 am1 views

    ECE ILLINOIS professor Can Bayram was awarded with the Turkish American Scientists & Scholars Association (TASSA) Young Scholar Award which recognizes the accomplishments of young Turkish American scholars across the world

  • Bayram Wins AFOSR Young Investigator Award to Develop Energy Conversion Devices

    Jun 10, 2016 8:00 am0 views

    Assistant Professor Can Bayram has been selected as one of the 56 scientists and engineers nationwide to receive an Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) Young Investigator Award.

  • Bayram Wins IEEE Electron Devices Society's Early Career Award

    Feb 9, 2015 8:00 am0 views

    Assistant Professor Can Bayram has won the IEEE Electron Devices Society's Early Career Award.

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    Bayram wins prestigious ARPA-E OPEN grant to develop novel green LEDs

    Feb 16, 2022 11:30 am0 views

    Imagine you’re part of a nomadic band of early humans, frequently on the move in pursuit of needed resources. Your survival may depend on whether someone’s eye can pick out tiny specks of green on the horizon—telltale signs of the presence of life and water. It isn’t an easy way to live, but a hidden power gives you a leg up: the human visual system has evolved to amplify the color green.

  • Beckman Design Achieved Distinction While Encouraging Collaboration

    Feb 15, 2010 8:00 am0 views

    Their challenge was not a simple one: design a building with a distinctive exterior and an interior with the kind of functionality that encouraged the ideals of teamwork.

  • Beckman Institute's 2022 cohort of postdoctoral fellows in the Beckman lobby with three standing: (left to right): Rong Guo, Matt Lowerison, Eman Hamed and three sitting (left to right): Natalia Krawczynska, Amir Ostadi Moghaddam, Chang Cao.

    Beckman postdoctoral fellows address cancer research, medical imaging grand challenges

    Apr 13, 2022 3:30 pm0 views

    With diverse skillsets and a broad range of experience, the six researchers who make up the 2022 post-doctoral cohort seek to transform how we diagnose, monitor, and treat conditions like colorectal and breast cancer, brain tumors and traumatic brain injuries, osteoarthritis, and Alzheimer's disease. Their innovative projects are a product of creative computation, state-of-the-art imaging technology, and interdisciplinary collaborations on campus and in the community.

  • Beckman Researchers Awarded NIH Brain Initiative Grant

    Feb 15, 2016 8:00 am0 views

    Jonathan Sweedler, professor of chemistry, Martha Gillette, professor of cell and developmental biology, and Rohit Bhargava, professor of bioengineering, head up the project titled "BRAIN Initiative: Integrated Multimodal Analysis of Cell- and Circuit-Specific Activity using Mass Spectrometry Profiling and Correlated Raman Imaging." The cross-disciplinary project allows researchers new methods to examine molecular and chemical structures of the brain with innovative imaging techniques: Sweedler and Gillette work in Beckman’s NeuroTech Group, while Bhargava is from the Bioimaging Science and Technology Group.

  • Beckman Team Members Score Highest at Image Competition

    Sep 13, 2010 8:00 am2 views

    Beckman Institute researcher Tom Huang led a team that finished with the top three scores at the ImageNet Large Scale Visual Recognition Challenge 2010...

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    Beckman team merges microscopy and AI to develop fast, accurate COVID test

    Sep 17, 2021 5:45 pm0 views

    Researchers at the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology combined label-free microscopic imaging with artificial intelligence to quickly detect and classify SARS-CoV-2.

  • Beckman Team Places in Top Three in Alan Alda Flame Challenge

    Jan 23, 2015 8:00 am0 views

    A Beckman Institute team, comprised of ECE Associate Professor Scott Carney, as well as Beckman Postdoctoral Fellows Bradley Deutsch and David Mayerich, and Bioengineering Professor Rohit Bhargava (an ECE ILLINOIS affiliate), decided to enter the Flame Challenge, a competition from the Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science at Stony Brook University in New York—and were named one of the top three finalists in the visual category, out of hundreds of applicants.

  • Beckman Team Wins Awards at Competition on Facial Expression Recognition

    Apr 1, 2011 8:00 am0 views

    A team from the research group of Beckman Institute faculty member Tom Huang collaborated with...

  • Beck, Salapaka Work to Simplify Dynamic Graphs

    Mar 15, 2017 8:00 am0 views

    Through a three-year, $300,000 grant from the National Science Foundation, CSL faculty members Carolyn Beck, an associate professor of industrial and enterprise systems engineering, and Srinivasa Salapaka, an associate professor of mechanical science and engineering, are developing algorithms to simplify and facilitate analysis of large networks.

  • Belabbas Receives NSF CAREER Award

    May 9, 2014 8:00 am0 views

    ECE Assistant Professor Mohamed Ali Belabbas received a CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation.

  • Belabbas to Research Multi-Agent Systems with Localized Objectives

    Oct 7, 2013 8:00 am0 views

    Assistant Professor Mohamed Ali Belabbas recently received a 3-year grant from the National Science Foundation for research on multi-agent systems with localized objectives.

  • Bhamidipati Recognized for Developing Method to Locate Attackers of the Power Grid

    Jul 18, 2018 8:00 am0 views

    Using GPS signals to locate the spoofer during an attack is a novel concept that Bhamidipati has been developing, with the goal of providing real-world solutions to timing attacks on our critical infrastructure. The technique is unique in that it both raises an alarm to an attack and then quickly and accurately locates the spoofer in real-time.

  • Bhattacharya Awarded NSF Graduate Fellowship for Robotics

    Aug 3, 2018 8:00 am0 views

    ECE ILLINOIS senior Anish Bhattacharya was selected as one of the honorees for the 2018 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) from out of more than 12,000 applicants.

  • BibApp 1.0 ReleasedCampus Research Gateway and Expert Finder

    Jul 6, 2010 8:00 am2 views

    The BibApp development team announced the 1.0 release of BibApp, a campus research gateway and expert finder. It matches ...

  • Big Data, Food Sustainability Merge with Startup, Food Origins

    Jul 23, 2014 8:00 am2 views

    Using existing tools in Big Data science, a team from the University of Illinois is creating a technology which will not only be able to trace the origin of produce to the individual farm, but also pinpoint the exact plot of land on which it was grown.

  • Bill Gropp TED Talk: Petascale Computing in Scientific Research

    May 3, 2011 8:00 am1 views

    Illinois professor Bill Gropp talks about how high performance computing can help us understand the world around us...