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  • Novel Nanotechnology Technique for Table-Top Production of Flat Optics

    Jun 13, 2016 8:00 am3 views

    Researchers from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have developed a simplified approach to fabricating flat, ultrathin optics. The new approach enables simple etching without the use of acids or hazardous chemical etching agents.

  • Rutenbar Receives Donald O. Pederson Best Paper Award

    Jun 14, 2013 8:00 am3 views

  • Flight Control Breakthrough Could Lead to Safer Air Travel

    Jun 15, 2015 8:00 am3 views

    Commercial air travel safety could see significant improvements thanks to a breakthrough in aircraft flight control technology from researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

  • Liang Contributes to Super-Fast MRI Technique That Captures Dynamic Vocal Movement

    Jul 15, 2015 8:00 am3 views

    Professor Zhi-Pei Liang has helped develop a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) technique that allows for viewing dynamic images of vocal movement at 100 frames per second - a speed far more advanced than any other in the world.

  • Kumar Awarded Best Student Paper at the International Conference on Pattern Recognition

    Dec 17, 2014 8:00 am3 views

    Kumar won the IAPR Piero Zamperoni award for his paper titled Generalized Radial Alignment Constraint for Camera Calibration.

  • Image Formation and Processing Group Dominates International Contest

    Feb 11, 2019 8:00 am4 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).

  • It displays the photo of Illinois ECE Assistant Professors Subhonmesh Bose

    ECE Faculty Receive 2021 Jump Arches Grants

    Apr 19, 2021 5:15 pm4 views

    Seven research projects are sharing slightly more than $400,000 in funding through the Jump ARCHES research and development program to address challenges and expand on lessons learned about COVID-19 vaccinations and testing. The Jump ARCHES program is a partnership between OSF HealthCare and the Grainger College of Engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (U of I) and its College of Medicine in Peoria. Illinois ECE Assistant Professors Subhonmesh Bose and Suma Pallathadka Bhat are two of the recipients of the Jump ARCHES grant.

  • Study Offers Clearest Picture Yet of How HIV Defeats a Cellular Defender

    Apr 25, 2016 8:00 am4 views

    U. of I. physics professor Klaus Schulten, right, postdoctoral researcher Juan Perilla and their colleagues used experimental data and computer simulations to determine how a human protein that aids HIV infection binds to the HIV capsid.

  • Electronic Device Performance Enhanced with New Transistor Encasing Method

    May 1, 2015 8:00 am4 views

    Professor Joseph Lyding and graduate student Jae Won Do led a research team to develop a new method of soldering gaps between carbon nanotubes, a new type of transistor.

  • CS @ ILLINOIS MOOC Enrollment Continues to Soars as New Specializations Launch

    May 11, 2015 8:00 am4 views

    Developed at CS @ ILLINOIS as part of a partnership between Coursera and the University of Illinois, two computer science specializations are now available: one in data mining, and one in cloud computing. Already the courses in these specializations have already acquired over 75,000 learners.

  • Three people in lab coats, goggles, gloves, and face masks hold squares of fabric in a clear plastic trough and spray them.

    Making a Homemade COVID Mask? Study Explains Best Fabric Choices

    May 11, 2020 11:30 pm4 views

    Health authorities believe COVID-19 spreads by the transmission of respiratory droplets, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends homemade cloth face coverings for use in public spaces. Starting today, Illinois joins many other states in requiring people to wear masks while out. However, initial uncertainty regarding the masks’ effectiveness in reducing exhaled droplets leaves some people unsure or skeptical of their usefulness during the current COVID-19 pandemic. Mechanical science and engineering professor Taher Saif spoke with News Bureau physical sciences editor Lois Yoksoulian about a study that he and his graduate students, Onur Aydin and Bashar Emon, performed on the effectiveness of common household fabrics for use in homemade masks.

  • Mellon Foundation Supports CIRSS Research on Linked Open Data, Digitized Special Collections

    Jul 15, 2016 8:00 am4 views

    The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has been awarded a new research grant by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to explore the benefits for users of linked open data (LOD) for digitized library special collections. Timothy Cole (MS '89), mathematics librarian in the University Library and coordinator for library applications within the Center for Informatics Research in Science and Scholarship (CIRSS) at the Graduate School of Library and Information Science (GSLIS), will serve as principal investigator.

  • Lyding Wins Foresight Institute Feynman Prize

    Jul 27, 2015 8:00 am4 views

    Joseph Lyding received the Foresight Institute Feynman Prize, a premier honor for his research and development in the field of nanotechnology.

  • Girls dive into computer science during GEMS

    Sep 6, 2011 8:00 am4 views

    Instead of spending their summer at the pool this year, 38 middle-school girls plunged headfirst into learning with hands-on experiments with math, science, and programming concepts...

  • Symphony of Nanoplasmonic and Optical Resonators Leads to Magnificent Laser-Like Light Emission

    Sep 22, 2014 8:00 am4 views

    Professor J. Gary Eden and his team have created microscopic optical systems that are capable of amplifying light and creating ultra-narrowband spectral output, paving the way for power-on-a-chip applications.

  • Hari to Attend Inaugural Heidelberg Laureate Forum

    Sep 25, 2013 8:00 am4 views

    CS graduate student Siva Kumar Hari has been selected to attend the Heidelberg Laureate Forum in September as one of 200 young researchers in the field of computer science and mathematics.

  • University of Illinois Part of $25 Million Software Institute to Enable Discoveries in High-Energy Physics

    Nov 9, 2018 8:00 am4 views

    The NSF announced its launch of the IRIS-HEP. The software-focused institute will tackle the unprecedented torrent of data that will come from the high-luminosity running of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC)

  • Blue Waters is Back!

    Nov 14, 2011 8:00 am4 views

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

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    New Project to help scientists mitigate risks of environmental pollutants

    Dec 10, 2021 9:30 am4 views

    In addition to killing insects and weeds, pesticides can be toxic to the environment and harmful to human health. A new project led by Associate Professor Dong Wang and Huichun Zhang, Frank H. Neff Professor of Civil Engineering at Case Western Reserve University, will help scientists mitigate the environmental and ecological risks of pollutants such as pesticides and develop remediation strategies for cleaner water, soil, and air. The researchers have received a three-year, $402,773 National Science Foundation (NSF) grant for their project, "Machine Learning Modeling for the Reactivity of Organic Contaminants in Engineered and Natural Environments."

  • Graphic Figure with "Individual Social Activity" on the y axis and "Time" on the x axis. Instead of a graph, there are 3 graphics. The first depicting three susceptabile (green) individuals inside a house while above three more indivudals labeled S are dancing with an infected (I) individual. An arrow links one of the dancing S individuals to the house. In the second pannel, similar set up to the first but only 2 S individuals are in the house while 2 S, 1 R (recovered/removed), and 2 I individuals are dancing. An upward arrow links the house to one of the infected individuals. In the last panel, 2 individuals are in the house, one S and the other R while 2 S, 2 R, and 1 I dance above. A green upward arrow links the house to the infected individual while a blue downward arrow links an R individual to the house.

    New model accurately describes COVID-19 waves and plateaus: adding random nature of social activity to traditional model, graphs match waves and plateaus of regional U.S. data

    Dec 15, 2021 9:00 am4 views

    A team of scientists has developed an epidemiological model that encompasses the randomness and dynamic variability of individual social interactions, as well as individual differences in the size of social networks. The team reports that this newly accounted-for random dynamic factor will always produce waves or plateaus of infections—like those seen throughout the pandemic—whether or not the model also accounts for individuals’ changing their social behavior based on knowledge of current infection rates. The new model, which builds on the team’s earlier findings published in April of this year in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences is validated against empirical data taken from four U.S. regions prior to the introduction of COVID-19 vaccines. The model further tells us that COVID-19 may be here to stay—it shows a clear path for it to become endemic in the global population, much like the common cold or the flu.

  • PhD Student Advances Precision Medicine through Research

    Jan 31, 2018 8:00 am5 views

    Big data analytics has endless possibilities in health care, Arjun Prasanna Athreya, a PhD student, advised by ECE ILLINOIS Professor Ravishankar K Iyer, works at the forefront of this precision medicine work with Mayo Clinic.

  • 'Shot in the Dark' Provides a Path Toward Collaborative Research That Better Predicts COVID-19 Severity

    Feb 1, 2021 9:30 pm5 views

    The radiologist for DuPage Medical Group only knew Forsyth as a leading expert in Artificial Intelligence. Their lack of a relationship didn't undo the excitement he had to form a collaborative research effort, though. His goal was to guide medical imaging in a new direction, one that could offset a few growing trends in this country’s healthcare system.

  • Illinois Researchers Incorporating "Internet of Personalized Things" into World of Healthcare

    Mar 23, 2018 8:00 am5 views

    University of Illinois researchers are building at-home personalized healthcare systems.

  • Schiffer Team Creates Multidimensional Artificial Magnet at Nanoscale

    Apr 6, 2016 8:00 am5 views

    Physicist Peter Schiffer of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, in collaboration with scientists at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory's Advanced Light Source, and with other researchers nationwide, has realized a nanoscale, artificial magnet by arranging an array of magnetic nano-islands along a geometry that is not found in natural magnets.

  • Professors Receive Grant to Develop Protocols to Preserve Cyber Anonymity

    Apr 13, 2018 8:00 am5 views

    Professors Pramod Viswanath and Sewoong Oh are investigating protocols to guarantee privacy and anonymity online, especially in applications that demand it, such as cryptocurrency transactions including Bitcoin and online platforms that guarantee user anonymity for whistleblowing and other applications.

  • Unexpected Spin Alkali Atoms Unlock MRI Possibilities

    Apr 25, 2018 8:00 am5 views

    Research conducted at the Laboratory for Optical Physics and Engineering Professor Eden, alumnus J.D. Hewitt, and post-doctoral researcher Andrey Mironov demonstrated an optical process by which the electron spin of the alkali metals, such as cesium and rubidium, can be specified.

  • Project Will Help Researchers Explore Big Data in Hathitrust Digitized Library

    May 20, 2016 8:00 am5 views

    Illinois English professor Ted Underwood wants to know how the language describing male and female characters in works of fiction has changed since the late eighteenth century. He's using data mining tools to gather information from thousands of books to answer that question.

  • Chen and Collaborators Receive Best Paper Award at ICCAD

    Jun 3, 2016 8:00 am5 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.

  • New Sensor Will Help Predict Yield in Bioenergy Crops

    Jun 17, 2015 8:00 am5 views

    A "look-ahead" sensor that converted the bending load of napiergrass to a measure of yield was one of four yield-sensing approaches developed by University of Illinois researchers. The study was conducted in Lorida, Florida and funded by the Energy Biosciences Institute (EBI).

  • Illinois Biophysicists Measure Mechanism That Determines Fate of Living Cells

    Jun 26, 2013 8:00 am5 views

    New tension gauge tether (TGT) laboratory method developed at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has broad applications for research into stem cells, cancer, infectious disease, and immunology.

  • Cell Phone Software Creates New Possibilities for Precision Medicine

    Jun 27, 2018 8:00 am5 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.

  • Researchers Develop Prosthetic Hand That Allows for Touch Feedback

    Jun 29, 2016 8:00 am5 views

    Aadeel Akhtar, an M.D./Ph.D. candidate in neuroscience, is building a prosthetic hand that will allow for touch feedback and joint location sensing, also known as proprioception.

  • New Control Algorithm Improves Electrical Prosthetic Feedback

    Jul 27, 2018 8:00 am5 views

    University of Illinois researchers led by ECE ILLINOIS alumnus Aadeel Akhtar (MS '16), have developed a control algorithm that regulates current so prosthetic users feel steady sensation, even when the electrodes begin to peel off or when sweat builds up.

  • ECE Alum's App Provides Instant Translation of Foreign Languages

    Aug 18, 2014 8:00 am5 views

    Rogowski co-founded Waygo, an app that allows users to hover their mobile devices over Chinese or Japanese words (with more lanaguages to come) and have their English translation instantly appear over them.

  • Grad Student Wins Best Poster Award in San Diego

    Aug 26, 2016 8:00 am5 views

    Graduate student Cesar Augusto Uribe Meneses won the Best Poster Award at the 2016 Stochastic Networks Conference hosted at the University of San Diego.

  • Now You Can "Build Your Own" Bio-bot

    Aug 28, 2017 8:00 am5 views

    Bioengineering Professor Rashid Bashir's research group is sharing the recipe for the current generation of bio-bots. Their how-to paper was the cover article in Nature Protocols.

  • Seeing the Future: BIOE Grad Student Applies Google Glass Technology for OCT Research

    Sep 9, 2013 8:00 am5 views

    Bioengineering graduate student Guillermo Monroy will put to use his new pair of Google Glasses for the research he is doing on campus. Monroy won the opportunity to purchase the glasses through a contest held by Google called "If I Had Glass."

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

    Sep 17, 2014 8:00 am5 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.

  • Genome Sequencing Work Illuminates Microbial Dark Matter

    Sep 18, 2013 8:00 am5 views

    Liu, a professor and Civil and Environmental Engineering Excellence Faculty Scholar at Illinois, is part of a team led by researchers from the U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute. The researchers applied single-cell genomics to target and sequence 201 previously uncultivated archaeal and bacterial cells from nine diverse habitats and belonging to 29 major, mostly uncharted branches of the tree of life, so-called "microbial dark matter."

  • Individual Quantum Dots Imaged in 3D for First Time

    Sep 19, 2018 8:00 am5 views

    Professor Martin Gruebele and graduate student Duc Nguyen led a team that is the first to demonstrate imaging of individual nanoparticles at different orientations while in a laser-induced excited state.

  • Glassenberg's App Helps Doctors Master Procedures Virtually Before Treating Patients

    Sep 25, 2017 8:00 am5 views

    ECE ILLINOIS alumnus Sam Glassenberg (BSCompE '02), founder of Level EX, is developing medical applications that could help train doctors on surgical maneuvers before the procedure takes place.

  • Magnetic Charge Crystals Imaged in Artificial Spin Ice

    Oct 16, 2013 8:00 am5 views

    A team of scientists, led by University of Illinois physicist Peter Schiffer, has reported direct visualization of magnetic charge crystallization in an artificial spin ice material, a first in the study of a relatively new class of frustrated artificial magnetic materials-by-design known as “Artificial Spin Ice.” These charges are analogs to electrical charges with possible applications in magnetic memories and devices. The research team's findings appear in the August 29 issue of the journal Nature.

  • New Insights from Schroeder Group Will Guide Solution-Based Processing for Next-Gen Functional Materials

    Nov 17, 2017 8:00 am5 views

    New research from Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the University of Illinois offers new insight into the self-assembly of electrically-active biohybrid materials, which consist of natural peptides linked to synthetic conductive polymers. The results, published recently in ACS Central Science, promise to aid solution-based processing of next-generation optoelectronic materials such as flexible organic semiconductors.

  • New Algorithm Fuses Quality and Quantity in Satellite Imagery

    Dec 5, 2018 8:00 am5 views

    Using a new algorithm, University of Illinois researchers may have found the solution to an age-old dilemma plaguing satellite imagery -- whether to sacrifice high spatial resolution in the interest of generating images more frequently, or vice versa.

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    Kindratenko Named Director of the Center for Artificial Intelligence Innovation at NCSA

    Dec 6, 2021 9:45 am5 views

    The National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) is pleased to announce the appointment of Illinois ECE Adjunct Associate Professor Volodymyr Kindratenko as Director of the Center for Artificial Intelligence Innovation (CAII). In this new role, he will be responsible for providing the overall leadership, oversight, and management of the center, including developing partnerships and projects at regional and national levels, and overseeing day-to-day operations. Dr. Kindratenko will also be fostering and actively participating in a vigorous research program, with responsibilities for which he is especially adept thanks to his prior experience.

  • New Imaging System Could Lead to Breakthroughs in Nanomedicine

    Dec 13, 2013 8:00 am5 views

    A $300,000 grant from the Roy J. Carver Charitable Trust has made possible the purchase of a high-sensitivity live animal imaging system for the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The new system will primarily be used by campus researchers in the area of nanomedicine.

  • Headshot of Sheldon H. Jacobson in front of autumn trees

    Models predict optimal airplane seating for reduced viral transmission

    Jan 5, 2022 10:00 am6 views

    CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — As airline ticket sales have soared during the holiday season and the omicron variant causes surges of COVID-19 cases, a new University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign study may help passengers and airlines reduce risk of COVID-19 transmission by optimally seating passengers to minimize potential virus spread.

  • Copiers: A Playful Look at How They Work

    Jan 7, 2011 8:00 am6 views

    Professor Bill Hammack uses power tools to take apart a photocopier. He shows how it works...

  • Iyer Helps Develop Tools to Aid in Alzheimer's Diagnosis and Prognosis

    Feb 5, 2020 4:00 pm6 views

    A team of researchers, led by Illinois ECE Professor Ravishankar K Iyer, George and Ann Fisher Distinguished Professor of Engineering, is working to create tools that could help improve the diagnosis of the illness and produce more accurate prognoses.

  • Four Grad Students Won IEEE APEC Best Presentation Awards

    Feb 9, 2018 8:00 am6 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).