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  • It displays the photo of Professor Yurii Vlasov

    Prof. Yurii Vlasov Elected to National Academy of Engineering

    Feb 10, 2021 7:00 pm2 views

    Yurii A Vlasov, Founder Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering, has been elected to the National Academy of Engineering. He is recognized for his contributions to the development and commercialization of silicon photonics for optical data communications.

  • 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.

  • Image Formation and Processing Group Dominates International Contest

    Feb 11, 2019 8:00 am1 views

    A team from the Image Formation and Processing (IFP) Group housed at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign's Beckman Institute has won the first place in all three human parsing tracks in the Look Into Person (LIP) Challenge organized at the 2018 International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR).

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    New Seizure-Monitoring Baseball Cap Innovated by CARLE ILLINOIS STUDENTS

    Feb 11, 2022 11:00 am1 views

    A new seizure-monitoring baseball cap could help doctors diagnose patients with epilepsy more quickly and comprehensively. The innovation is called Epicap. It uses a small video camera built into the visor of the cap, to allow doctors to begin monitoring patients when seizures are suspected, rather than wait until they occur and are discovered in a traditional inpatient setting.

  • 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.

  • Professor Josep Torrellas Receives DARPA PERFECT Award

    Feb 13, 2013 1:00 am2 views

    A project led by Illinois computer science professor Josep Torrellas has been chosen to receive $2.8 million from DARPA to explore how to improve power-efficiency in embedded computer systems.

  • 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.

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    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.

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    Former MatSE postdoc Young Min Song develops novel silk-based digital security device

    Feb 14, 2022 9:45 am3 views

    The global hike in consumerism comes with its own share of problems—counterfeit goods and cyberattacks. Although digital security systems help us combat many of these adverse situations, hundreds of security breaches occur every single year. Former MatSE at Illinois postdoc and current Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology professor Young Min Song created a physical unclonable function made of silk fibers to ease authenticity efforts.

  • 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.

  • Solomonik Wins Householder Prize

    Feb 16, 2018 8:00 am3 views

    Assistant Professor Edgar Solomonik was one of two winners of the Householder Prize XX, announced in June at the Householder Symposia in Virginia. The 27-year-old joins a short list of people who have received the prize since it was first awarded in 1971.

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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.

  • 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.

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    New Understanding of Condensation Could Lead to Better Power Plant Condenser, De-icing Materials

    Feb 17, 2020 5:15 pm3 views

    For decades, it’s been understood that water repellency is needed for surfaces to shed condensation buildup – like the droplets of water that form in power plant condensers to reduce pressure. New research shows that the necessity of water repellency is unclear and that the slipperiness between the droplets and solid surface appears to be more critical to the clearing of condensation. This development has implications for the costs associated with power generation and technologies like de-icing surfaces for power lines and aircraft.

  • 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.

  • Visiting Student Xiaoyan Xiong Discovers Revolutionary X-Parameter Modeling Method

    Feb 18, 2015 8:00 am4 views

    During her time at UIUC, Xiong and her advisers discovered a method to model the X-Parameter, which is a mathematical representation of nonlinearity in frequency domain in microwave devices and systems. Their findings are revolutionary because X-parameters would have to be regenerated every time the input signal arbitrarily changed, and this is no longer necessary with their new model.

  • 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.

  • Stephani Wins NASA Early Career Faculty Award

    Feb 19, 2016 8:00 am2 views

    MechSE assistant professor Kelly Stephani was selected as one of eight recipients for the NASA Early Career Faculty Award. Funded by the Space Technology Research Grants Program, the ECF awards grants to accredited U.S. universities on behalf of outstanding faculty researchers early in their careers.

  • 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.

  • Varshney Featured in "The Age of A.I.," a Youtube Originals Series

    Feb 19, 2020 2:00 pm4 views

    Illinois ECE Assistant Professor Lav R Varshney is featured in a new YouTube Originals series “The Age of A.I.”  Varshney shares his expertise as the episode explores using artificial intelligence to build a better human.  Hosted by Robert Downey Jr., the episode investigates augmenting human abilities with A.I. and our reliance on A.I. to make decisions for us.

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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.

  • Mitra and Johnson win award for research on machine models

    Feb 20, 2013 7:00 am1 views

    ECE Assistant Professor Sayan Mitra and ECE graduate student Taylor Johnson recently won the best paper award at the IFIP International Conference on Formal Techniques for Distributed Systems (FMOODS/FORTE 12).

  • 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.

  • Kim Received the ACM SIGARCH and IEEE-CS TCCA ISCA Influential Paper Award

    Feb 21, 2018 8:00 am0 views

    CSL Associate Professor Nam Sung Kim has been awarded the 2017 ACM SIGARCH and IEEE-CS TCCA ISCA Influential Paper Award.

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    Advanced Imaging, AI distinguish healthy from injured cells

    Feb 21, 2022 10:15 am0 views

    Beckman researchers use artificial intelligence and advanced imaging to distinguish healthy cells from injured cells. Groundbreaking research from the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign can determine the state of a cell without the limitations inherent to some current methods.

  • NSF Grant Will Establish Dedicated nanoBIO Node to Network for Computational Nanotechnology

    Feb 22, 2013 7:00 am0 views

    A team of researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, along with other university partners, has received a five-year $700,000/year grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to establish a dedicated nanoBIO node to the Network for Computational Nanotechnology (NCN), as part of a comprehensive plan with nation-wide reach to support nanoBIO research and education.

  • $1M Mellon Grant

    Feb 22, 2016 8:00 am2 views

    A four-year, $1 million grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation will help University of Illinois humanities scholars identify digital publishing options and produce new publications that will best disseminate their research.

  • New Cubic GaN Method Produces Brighter and More Efficient Green LEDs

    Feb 22, 2017 8:00 am0 views

    ECE Assistant Professor Can Bayram has developed a new method for making brighter and more efficient green light-emitting diodes (LEDs). Using an industry-standard semiconductor growth technique, Bayram created gallium nitride (GaN) cubic crystals grown on a silicon substrate that are capable of producing powerful green light for advanced solid-state lighting.

  • Cunningham Named Distinguished Lecturer For IEEE Photonics Society

    Feb 22, 2019 8:00 am2 views

    Donald Biggar Willett Professor of Engineering Brian T Cunningham has been named as a distinguished lecturer by the IEEE Photonics Society Distinguished Lecturer Program. Cunningham is also the director of the Micro + Nanotechnology Laboratory. This program was designed to honor excellent speakers who have made technical, industrial, or entrepreneurial contributions to the field of photonics and to enhance the technical programs of the IEEE Photonics Society chapters. Chapters may request distinguished lecturers to present at chapter meetings, chapter-related events or technically co-sponsored conferences organized by a chapter.

  • Adve Named a Fellow of ACM

    Feb 23, 2015 8:00 am0 views

    CS Professor Vikram Adve has been named a 2014 Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). In his citation he was recognized "[f]or developing the LLVM compiler and for contributions to parallel computing and software security." He is one of 49 ACM members being recognized this year for their contributions to computing.

  • Graduate Student Wins IEEE Power Electronics Fellowship

    Feb 23, 2018 8:00 am8 views

    Enver Candan was named as the winner of the IEEE 2017 Joseph J. Suozzie INTELEC Fellowship in Power Electronics for his project "A Series-Stacked Power Delivery for 48V Data Center Power Architecture."