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  • Upgrading Programming for Mobile Cloud

    Feb 2, 2015 8:00 am0 views

    CS Professor Gul Agha, along with CS Associate Professor Darko Marinov, proposes a new methodology for building mobile cloud applications that can leverage cloud resources in a scalable way, while dramatically simplifying the development effort.

  • CS Alumnus Shannon Chen Receives SIGMM Outstanding PhD Thesis Award

    Feb 2, 2018 8:00 am0 views

    Chien-Nan (Shannon) Chen (PhD CS '16) won the SIGMM Outstanding PhD Thesis Award.

  • polarization lenses for silicone smartphone chips

    Gruev discusses implications of polarization techonology

    Feb 2, 2022 11:30 am0 views

    IMAGINE A CAMERA that's mounted on your car being able to identify black ice on the road, giving you a heads-up before you drive over it. Or a cell phone camera that can tell whether a lesion on your skin is possibly cancerous. Or the ability for Face ID to work even when you have a face mask on. These are all possibilities Metalenz is touting with its new PolarEyes polarization technology. (WIRED Magazine)

  • Illinois Receives $4.2 Million to Train Students in Cyber Security

    Feb 3, 2014 8:00 am0 views

    The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has received a four-year, $4.2 million grant from the National Science Foundation to renew a program that trains students in cyber security, a field that is projected to experience an annual shortage of 20,000 to 40,000 skilled workers for the foreseeable future, according to a 2012 Reuters report.

  • Hutchinson, Chung Developing Solution for GPS-Denied Environments

    Feb 3, 2016 8:00 am0 views

    Professor Seth Hutchinson and Aerospace Assistant Professor Soon-Jo Chung are working to create algorithms that can map areas where GPS signals aren't available.

  • Khandelwal Receives CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher Award

    Feb 4, 2015 8:00 am0 views

    CS senior Urvashi Khandelwal was one of four recipients of the 2015 CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Researchers Award. This award recognizes undergraduate students in North American colleges and universities who show outstanding research potential in an area of computing research.

  • Singer, Illinois Engineering Doubling Down on Entrepreneurship

    Feb 4, 2019 8:00 am0 views

    With the Technology Entrepreneur Center (TEC) as its anchor, the College of Engineering has been working across the University to build a reputation as one of the leaders in commercializing innovative ideas.

  • Cunningham Named Fellow of OSA and NAI

    Feb 5, 2014 8:00 am0 views

    Professor Brian T. Cunningham, an alumnus of the department, was recently appointed a Fellow of both The Optical Society and the National Academy of Inventors.

  • PhD Student Leads Team to Success at Global Visual Recognition Challenge

    Feb 5, 2018 8:00 am0 views

    Honghui Shi, an ECE ILLINOIS PhD student with affiliation at Beckman Institute and the Coordinated Science Lab, led a team that placed second in all four categories of object detection and tracking from video

  • Milenkovic Looks for Big Data Storage Solution in DNA

    Feb 6, 2015 8:00 am0 views

    Associate Professor Olgica Milenkovic is looking to use DNA as a way to store Big Data, in an attempt to replace today's traditional devices, such as flash drive memories, hard disks and magnetic recording devices.

  • Office of Diversity, Equity, and Access Honors Wireless Elevator Remote Control

    Feb 6, 2017 8:00 am0 views

    ECE ILLINOIS staff member and alumnus Dan Mast (BSEE '84) is a member of the University of Illinois project, Wireless Elevator Remote Control (WERC). Mast and other members of WERC were recognized for their "Excellence in Access and Accommodations" by the Office of Diversity, Equity, and Access (ODEA).

  • Optical-Electric Switch Could Boost Computer Speeds

    Feb 7, 2018 8:00 am0 views

    Engineers are unveiling an upgrade to the transistor laser that could be used to boost computer processor speeds -- the formation of two stable energy states and the ability to switch between them quickly.

  • NICER Makes Strides Toward Creating "Friendly" Robots

    Feb 8, 2016 8:00 am0 views

    Aptly titled, NICER, or Non-Intrusive Cooperative Empathetic Robots, aims to develop mobile robots with which humans feel comfortable. Robots have the potential to benefit humans in the workplace and home -- they could help seniors with daily living tasks, for example -- but to accomplish that, humans must trust robots to help and not harm them.

  • Rosenbaum Leads NSF-Funded Center Advancing Silicon Chip Design and Verification

    Feb 8, 2017 8:00 am0 views

    The new Center for Advanced Electronics through Machine Learning (CAEML) will leverage machine-learning techniques to develop new models for electronic design automation (EDA) tools, which semiconductor companies use to create and verify chip designs for mass production.

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    Illinois ECE Researchers Publish Article Describing Illinois Rapidvent Emergency Ventilator

    Feb 8, 2021 5:15 pm0 views

    The design, testing, and validation of the Illinois RapidVent emergency ventilator has been published in the journal Plos One. The article, “Emergency Ventilator for COVID-19,” with contributions by multiple Illinois ECE researchers, is the first of its kind to report such details about an emergency ventilator that was designed, prototyped, and tested at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020.

  • 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.

  • Four Grad Students Won IEEE APEC Best Presentation Awards

    Feb 9, 2018 8:00 am0 views

    Enver Candan, Christopher Brandon Barth, Andrew R Stillwell, and Thomas Peter Foulkes, all ECE ILLINOIS graduate students advised by Assistant Professor Robert Pilawa-Podgurski, won best presentation awards at the 2017 IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference (APEC).

  • Dankowicz Authors "Recipes for Continuation"

    Feb 10, 2014 8:00 am0 views

    A joint effort by MechSE professor Harry Dankowicz and Dr. Frank Schilder from the Technical University of Denmark, "Recipes for Continuation" explores methods for numerical continuation, the computational analysis of nonlinear problems, and their solutions. Published in May 2013, the book is meant to be used in tandem with a MATLAB-based software platform, the Computational Continuation Core (COCO).

  • Access to Big Data Is Crucial for Credibility of Computational Research Findings, Says Stodden

    Feb 10, 2016 8:00 am0 views

    Science is being transformed so that massive computation is central to scientific experiments, with scientists using computer code to analyze huge amounts of data. Computational science might be used to study climate change, to simulate the formation of galaxies, for biomolecular modeling or for mining a vast set of data looking for patterns. But, Stodden says, this relatively new form of scientific inquiry has not yet developed standards for communicating the details of how the work was done or for validating results. The lack of such standards is causing a credibility crisis, Stodden says. Her research looks at the "reproducibility" of computational science -- how findings can be verified and an experiment replicated or used as a basis for further research.

  • Latest Awards Demonstrate Positive Energy for Startup Touch Light

    Feb 10, 2017 8:00 am0 views

    Student Swarnav Pujari's Touch Light Innovations is pioneering the way the world harvests ambient energy to power daily tools and create a green environment. Its flagship product, Power Pad, is a low-profile device that sits beneath any moderate to heavy foot traffic location. Each step a passerby takes on the Power Pad generates up to 10 watts of power. By targeting the commercial building market space in city locations, Touch Light is able to offer a clean technology product that is designed for city-like environments.

  • 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.

  • Forsyth Named ACM Fellow

    Feb 12, 2014 8:00 am0 views

    CS Professor David Forsyth has been named a Fellow by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). He is one of 50 so honored for 2013, and he was recognized "for contributions to computer vision," according to the ACM.

  • Power Electronics Group Finalist in Google's Little Box Challenge

    Feb 12, 2016 8:00 am0 views

    A team from ECE ILLINOIS' Power Electronics group is one of 18 finalists for Google's and IEEE Power Electronics Society's Little Box Challenge.

  • Illinois IFP Places Second in ImageNet Challenge

    Feb 12, 2018 8:00 am0 views

    For the second time in three years, a team from the University of Illinois has placed high in the global ImageNet Large Scale Visual Recognition Challenge (ILSVRC 2017).

  • Computational Redistricting: Drawing the Maps

    Feb 12, 2020 1:15 pm0 views

    The 2020 decennial census count will begin on April 1, with results announced by the end of the year.  A critical outcome of the count is the number of congressional seats allocated to each state.  Once announced, state legislatures set in motion a process to create district maps for their states, with all the associated challenges.  This process will impact every voter in the United States, since who represents them in Congress will be determined by this mapping process.

  • Research: Tablet Computers Good Medium for Educational Materials

    Feb 13, 2015 8:00 am0 views

    The paper, co-authored by Dilip Chhajed, published in the journal E-Learning and Digital Media, is based on research conducted in 2011 that studied the effects of mobile technology on student performance in a graduate professional business program.

  • Six Illinois Faculty Members Elected AAAS Fellows

    Feb 13, 2017 8:00 am0 views

    Jianjun Cheng, Brian T. Cunningham, Kevin T. Pitts, Bruce L. Rhoads, Chad M. Rienstra and Josep Torrellas are among the 391 new Fellows chosen for their efforts to advance science applications that are deemed scientifically or socially distinguished.

  • ECE Illinois Alumna Becomes First Chief Talent Officer of Thoughtworks

    Feb 13, 2019 8:00 am0 views

    ECE Illinois alumna Joanna Parke (BSEE '00) has recently been named to assume the inaugural position of chief talent officer of Chicago-based ThoughtWorks, a global software and digital transformation consultancy.

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    ACM Recognized Meseguer, Tong for Contributions to the Computing Field

    Feb 13, 2021 12:00 am0 views

    Two Illinois CS faculty recently earned recognition by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), the world’s largest educational and scientific computing society, for achievements in computing.

  • Two Engineering at Illinois Professors Receive 2012 IEEE Computer Society Sidney Fernbach Award

    Feb 14, 2013 8:00 am0 views

    Two Illinois professors--Laxmikant Sanjay Kale and Klaus Schulten--have been named the recipients of the 2012 IEEE Computer Society Sidney Fernbach Award, for outstanding contributions to the development of widely used parallel software for large biomolecular systems simulation.

  • High-Level Synthesis on Fire: Research Receives Recognition from Academia, Industry

    Feb 14, 2014 8:00 am0 views

    Professor Deming Chen's research on high-level synthesis has recently garnered three grants and one best paper award. High-level synthesis is a new trend in design automation for generating register transfer level code, such as Verilog or VHDL code, automatically from design entries written in high-level languages, such as C or C++.

  • Researchers Create First Significant Examples of Optical Crystallography for Nanomaterials

    Feb 14, 2018 8:00 am0 views

    Researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have developed a novel way to determine crystal type based on optics--by identifying the unique ways in which these crystals absorb light.

  • Noyan Sevuktekin

    Illinois ECE Student Leads Research Team to Explore Parallells Between Human Brain and Machine

    Feb 14, 2020 2:30 pm0 views

    The University of Illinois has been a champion of supercomputing since 1985, when the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) became part of the National Science Foundation Network (NSFNET) – at a time when the internet, and modern-era computers, had just entered the early stages of development. Illinois continued to advance the computational game when the first widely used web browser, Mosaic, was built. However, there is one computer even these researchers can’t seem to beat: the human brain. For this reason, Illinois ECE student Noyan Cem Sevuktekin is looking to learn from it, instead.

  • 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 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.

  • FlexBrite Revolutionizes Liquid Composition Analyzation

    Feb 15, 2017 8:00 am0 views

    ECE ILLINOIS alumnus Zhida Xu (MS '11, PhD '14) and ECE Associate Professor Gang Logan Liu have introduced a revolutionary method of molecule detection that can easily answer what substances, and how much of each, are in a liquid.

  • Roberts to Receive EFF's Pioneer Award

    Feb 15, 2019 8:00 am0 views

    iSchool alumna Sarah T. Roberts (PhD '14) will receive a 2018 Pioneer Award from the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) for her groundbreaking content moderation research. Awarded every year since 1992, EFF's Pioneer Awards recognize the leaders who are extending freedom and innovation on the electronic frontier.

  • Tuning up applications

    Feb 16, 2011 8:00 am0 views

    An Illinois team is helping scientists tune their applications for Blue Waters...

  • Illinois Researchers Develop Social Sensing Game to Detect Classroom Bullies

    Feb 16, 2015 8:00 am0 views

    A social sensing game created at Illinois allows researchers to study natural interactions between children, collect large amounts of data about those interactions and test theories about youth aggression and victimization.

  • Diagram of Green LEDs

    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.

  • Improving Early-Stage Cancer Detection with Biosensors

    Feb 17, 2014 8:00 am0 views

    Professor Brian T. Cunningham recently received a grant through the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Innovative Molecular Analysis Technologies Program, to develop biosensing equipment for early-stage detection of breast cancer and for human papillomavirus, a common precipitate of cervical cancer. Both diseases could be detected with just a minute amount of blood.

  • Students' Smartphone Computer Is Runner-Up in Smartphone Encore Challenge

    Feb 17, 2016 8:00 am0 views

    Neo, the smartphone-turned-computer, created by two ECE ILLINOIS students, was the runner-up in the Sprint Smartphone Encore Challenge in May 2015.

  • ECE Illinois Students Accurately Predicted Trump's Victory

    Feb 17, 2017 8:00 am0 views

    Since June 2016, Tweetsense co-founders and ECE Illinois students William Widjaja and Cody Pawlowski were predicting that Trump would be the next President.

  • VASUDEVAN TO COLLABORATE WITH SYNOPSYS ON VERIFICATION

    Feb 18, 2013 7:00 am0 views

    ECE Assistant Professor Shobha Vasudevan has begun a collaboration with Synopsys in the area of functional verification. Functional verification is the process of determining that a particular hardware design conforms to its specifications and performs as intended. In concert with this collaboration, Synopsys has entered into a licensing agreement for one of the tools developed by Vasudevan's group, evaluating its potential for commercialization.

  • New Tissue-Imaging Technology Could Enable Real-Time Diagnostics, Map Cancer Progression

    Feb 18, 2019 8:00 am0 views

    Illinois researchers developed a tissue-imaging microscope that can image living tissue in real time and molecular detail, allowing them to monitor tumors and their environments as cancer progresses.

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    Jump ARCHES Funding Provides an Excellent Opportunity to Merge CS Research with Real-World Applications

    Feb 18, 2022 2:30 pm0 views

    For two Illinois Computer Science professors – Gang Wang and Yuxiong Wang – newly funded projects through the Jump ARCHES research and development program offer up a powerful opportunity for real-world applications through collaborative research.

  • Massive Simulation Shows HIV Capsid Interacting with Its Environment

    Feb 19, 2018 8:00 am0 views

    It took two years on a supercomputer to simulate 1.2 microseconds in the life of the HIV capsid, a protein cage that shuttles the HIV virus to the nucleus of a human cell. The 64-million-atom simulation offers insights into how the virus senses its environment and completes its infective cycle.

  • New Research Looks at How Online Information Can Be Manipulated

    Feb 20, 2015 8:00 am0 views

    Bailey, who focuses his work in security and also has an appointment with the Information Trust Institute, was recently awarded a $225,000 NSF grant titled "EPICA: Empowering People to Overcome Information Controls and Attacks," that will look at situations where personalized information services on the Internet may be a new feeding ground for attackers to compromise the integrity of input data and affect outputs.

  • 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.

  • Nanotubes Can Solder Themselves, Markedly Improving Device Performance

    Feb 21, 2014 8:00 am0 views

    University of Illinois researchers, led by Professor Joseph Lyding , have developed a way to heal gaps in wires too small for even the world’s tiniest soldering iron; the Illinois team published its results in the journal Nano Letters.