EECS News for 2013

Recent alumnus Dr. Hector J. Garcia (CSE PhD 2013) has been selected for induction into the Bouchet Graduate Honor Society. The Society is a network of preeminent scholars who serve as examples of scholarship, leadership, character, service, and advocacy for students traditionally underrepresented in the academy. [Full Story]

Related Topics:  Lab-Computer Engineering (CE Lab)  

Students in Prof. Scott Mahlke's Advanced Compilers course (EECS 583) recently competed in the Annual Code Optimization contest to create a compiler that generates the fastest applications. The overall winner was CSE graduate student Balaji Soundararajan. [Full Story]

Related Topics:  Graduate Students  Lab-Computer Engineering (CE Lab)  Mahlke, Scott  

Agilent featured the course, EECS 314, on their Educator's Corner. The course, designed by Dr. Ganago, teaches EE to non-EECS majors, with a little help from music. [Full Story]

After powering through equipment failures, false starts, discovering surprising breakthroughs, writing papers, giving presentations, mentoring students, receiving awards, but most importantly, accomplishing groundbreaking research , these students received their doctoral degrees in 2013. [Full Story]

On Friday evening, December 13, Tishman Hall in the Beyster Building was packed as an enthusiastic crowd of attendees tried out new video games at the 2013 Computer Games Showcase. This highly anticipated event showcases the final projects of CS seniors who have taken EECS 494, Computer Game Design and Development, which is is taught by Jeremy Gibson. [Full Story]

Related Topics:  Undergraduate Students  

Prof. Alfred O. Hero received the 2013 IEEE Signal Processing Society (SPS) Technical Achievement Award, "for information-theoretic advances in statistical signal processing and machine learning." This award honors a person who, over a period of years, has made outstanding technical contributions to theory and/or practice in technical areas within the scope of the SPS. [Full Story]

Related Topics:  Hero, Alfred  

Jason Davis, Alumni Relations Coordinator for Electrical and Computer Engineering, is a recipient of the 2013 University of Michigan Distinguished Diversity Leaders Award. This award recognizes individuals and teams that have demonstrated extraordinary commitment and dedication to diversity and inclusion. [Full Story]

Avish Kosari, a graduate student in the Electrical Engineering program, received a Rackham International Student Fellowship to continue her studies as a doctoral student in Prof. David Wentzloff's research group. [Full Story]

Related Topics:  Graduate Students  Lab-Michigan Integrated Circuits (MICL)  

Pin-Yu Chen, a graduate student in the Electrical Engineering:Systems program, received a Rackham International Student Fellowship to continue his studies in big data. Mr. Chen is a doctoral student in Prof. Al Hero's research group. [Full Story]

Related Topics:  Graduate Students  

Byeongseop Song, a second year master's student in the Electrical Engineering program, received a Rackham International Student Fellowship to continue his studies in the area of optoelectronics. [Full Story]

Related Topics:  Graduate Students  

Mridul Mishra, a graduate student in the Electrical Engineering:Systems program, received a Rackham Non-Traditional Fellowship to pursue his studies in wireless communications. [Full Story]

Related Topics:  Graduate Students  

Student organizers have announced that the third MHacks hackathon will take place in downtown Detroit on Martin Luther King weekend, Jan. 17-19, 2014. Detroit was chosen for its central location and its emergence as an entrepreneurial hub. [Full Story]

Related Topics:  Undergraduate Students  

We received some creative photos in our annual "A Week in the Life at CSE" photo contest. This year's winner is Denis Bueno for his entry, "SOS -- someone forgot to feed the grad students." See all the entries here. [Full Story]

There was a puzzle hidden in the Beyster Building for CSEdWeek, and a few were able to find it. Click to see the leaderboard. The top puzzler was graduate student Eric Wustrow, aka somenoob. [Full Story]

Prof. Jia Deng has won the Marr Prize at ICCV for his paper, "From Large Scale Image Categorization to Entry-Level Categories." Named for neuroscientist David Marr, the Marr Prize is a prestigious biennial award and is considered one of the top honors for a computer vision researcher. [Full Story]

Related Topics:  Deng, Jia  Lab-Artificial Intelligence  

Doowon Lee, a graduate student in the Computer Science and Engineering program, has received a Rackham International Student Fellowship for 2013-14 for his work in improving the dependability of computer systems by both efficient design-time validation and run-time fault tolerance techniques. [Full Story]

Related Topics:  Graduate Students  

Chang-Hong Hsu, a graduate student in the Computer Science and Engineering program, has received a Chia-Lun Lo Fellowship for 2013-14 for his work in developing solutions to ensure the correctness and reliability of modern microprocessors. [Full Story]

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Dr. Anatoly Maksimchuk, ECE Research Scientist and a leader in the High Field Science research group at the Center for Ultrafast Optical Science (CUOS), was elected Fellow of the American Physical Society "for major contributions to the understanding of short pulse high intensity laser-plasma interactions, in particular for innovative experimental work in electron and ion acceleration and radiation generation." [Full Story]

Related Topics:  Lab-Optics and Photonics  Maksimchuk, Anatoly  Optics and Photonics  

Prof. Mark Ackerman, George Herbert Mead Collegiate Professor of Human-Computer Interaction and a Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and in the School of Information, has been elected a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) "for contributions to human computer interaction, with an emphasis on finding and sharing expertise." [Full Story]

Related Topics:  Ackerman, Mark  Lab-Interactive Systems  

Students in Dr. David Chesney's EECS 481 class will demo games/apps/communications devices this week for use by a young woman with cerebral palsy. [Full Story]

Related Topics:  Chesney, David  Engineering for the Greater Good  Undergraduate Students  

Prof. H.V. Jagadish, the Bernard A. Galler Collegiate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, has won a grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation for a project that uses big data to achieve social good as a part of the Foundation's Grand Challenge Explorations. [Full Story]

Related Topics:  Big Data  Jagadish, HV  Lab-Software Systems  

In this Freedom to Tinker blog entry, CS undergrad Alex Migicovsky discusses a smartphone app for collaborative cheating and how increasingly small and inconspicuous technology form factors will pose future testing and broader security challenges. Alex's work in this area has been advised by Dr. Jeff Ringenberg and Prof. J. Alex Halderman. [Full Story]

Related Topics:  Security (Computing)  Undergraduate Students  

Prof. Mingyan Liu has been elected IEEE Fellow, Class of 2014, for contributions to modeling of wireless ad-hoc and sensor networks. Prof. Liu's research interests are in optimal resource allocation, performance modeling and analysis, and energy efficient design of wireless, mobile ad hoc, and sensor networks. [Full Story]

Related Topics:  Diversity and Outreach  Liu, Mingyan  

Prof. Rada Mihalcea is co-PI for a new two-year grant from the National Science Foundation that will explore a new generation of computational tools for joint modeling of physiological and linguistic signals of human behavior with a focus on deception detection. [Full Story]

Related Topics:  Computational Linguistics  Lab-Artificial Intelligence  Mihalcea, Rada  

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With prosthetic feet and hips that can swing sideways for stability, the University of Michigan's newest two-legged robot has taken its first steps outside. The machine named MARLO is the third-generation bipedal robot for Prof. Jessy Grizzle. While its predecessors were connected to lateral support booms and confined to the lab, MARLO can venture out into the sunlight. [Full Story]

Related Topics:  Control Systems  Grizzle, Jessy  Robotics  

The College of Engineering at UC Davis presents a lecture by Pallab Bhattacharya at 4 p.m. on Tuesday, Dec. 3, 2013 in 1065 Kemper Hall on the university campus. Bhattacharyas presentation is titled Strong Coupling Phenomena, Polariton Lasers and Room Temperature Bose-Einstein Condensation. [Full Story]

Related Topics:  Bhattacharya, Pallab  

Dr. Sheila Hemami (BSE EE '90) has been named Chair of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Northeastern University in Boston, MA. She received her master's and PhD degrees from Stanford, and most recently was a professor at Cornell University. Her research interests include multimedia signal processing, image & video compression & transmission, and visual psychophysics.
Related Topics:  Diversity and Outreach  

Zacharay Lemnios (BSE EE '76) was named Fellow of IEEE "for leadership in advanced technologies for defense and security systems." Mr. Lemnios is Assistant Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering for the US Department of Defense.

Ivan LaHaie (MSE PhD EE '77 '81) has been elected Fellow of IEEE, "for contributions to near-to-far field radar signature transformations and radar measurement error mitigation." Dr. LaHaie is principal scientist at Integrity Applications, Inc., at the Ann Arbor office.

Alumnus Maysam Ghovanloo (MSE PhD EE '03 '04), professor at Georgia Tech, was in the news recently for inventing a wheelchair control that uses a headset and a barbell tongue piercing. The work appeared in Science Translational Medicine, and was covered by NBC, BBC, and other news sources. [Full Story]

Nancy Benovich Gilby, now an associate professor at U-M's School of Information, is a serial entrepreneur. Over the course of two decades, Nancy headed efforts to design and develop a stream of innovative products that opened or addressed new markets. Many plowed the ground for the more recognizable names that would follow, sometimes years later. [Full Story]

Related Topics:  Alumni  Entrepreneurship  

Andrew Farah is one of the lead designers of the Chevy Volt, one of the most successful hybrid electric vehicles on the market. A fix for limited range, it is an extended range electric vehicle that offers inexpensive all-electric mileage for daily commuting trips, but also a regular combustion engine for uninterrupted longer trips. [Full Story]

Related Topics:  Alumni  Automotive industry  Electric Vehicles and HEVs  

Khalil Najafi, Schlumberger Professor of Engineering and Chair of Electrical and Computer Engineering, received the 2013 IEEE Sensors Technical Field Award, "For leadership in microsystem technologies and seminal contributions to inertial sensors and hermetic wafer-level packaging." [Full Story]

Related Topics:  Najafi, Khalil  

The first annual MCubed Symposium served as a showcase for the 200+ projects that came into being thanks to the MCubed initiative. In ECE, the program enabled research to progress to the point that our faculty are applying for major grants to continue the work, submitting papers to conferences and journals, and founding new companies. [Full Story]

PhD candidate Armin Alaghi has received the Richard and Eleanor Towner Prize for Outstanding PhD Research for his poster presentation at the 8th Annual Engineering Graduate Symposium. [Full Story]

Related Topics:  Graduate Students  

Students in Prof. Ian Hiskens Electricity Networks and Markets (EECS 598) class and members of his research group recently took a field trip to DTE Energy Companys first company-owned wind farm, called Echo. Students left with a deeper understanding of the reality and challenges of alternative energy. [Full Story]

Related Topics:  Graduate Students  Sustainability  Wind Technology  

Prof. Jeff Fessler received the 2013 IEEE Edward J. Hoffman Medical Imaging Scientist Award, For contributions to the theory and application of statistical image reconstruction methods in nuclear medicine, x-ray CT and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). His group's research has led to improved medical images in hospitals. [Full Story]

Related Topics:  Fessler, Jeffrey  

Research in electrical and computer engineering was on grand display at the 2013 CoE Graduate Symposium. With nearly 100 ECE posters displayed, current and prospective students were able to get a glimpse at the range of research happening in the department, and meet the graduate students making it all happen. [Full Story]

John P. Hayes, Claude E. Shannon Professor of Engineering Science, has been honored with the IEEE TTTC Lifetime Contribution Medal for his outstanding contributions to test technology. [Full Story]

Related Topics:  Hayes, John  Lab-Computer Engineering (CE Lab)  

Two teams of computer science undergraduate students, advised by Prof. Igor Markov, have placed highly in the competitive ICCAD 2013 CAD Contest. A total of 87 teams worldwide, predominantly consisting of graduate students, competed in the contest's three topic areas this year. [Full Story]

Related Topics:  Lab-Computer Engineering (CE Lab)  Markov, Igor  Undergraduate Students  

Four U-M programming teams have competed in the 2013 ACM East Central North America Regional Programming Contest, with one team finishing second and qualifying to compete in the upcoming ACM World Finals in Ekaterinburg, Russia in June 2014. [Full Story]

Related Topics:  Compton, Kevin  Lab-Theory of Computation  Programming  

Michigan-based entrepreneur and business leader Larry D. Leinweber sees an opportunity to help build a stronger economic foundation for the state. He envisions Michigan as a home for more software companies and wants to help build a pipeline of talent to make that vision a reality, with a special emphasis on retaining University students whose home state is Michigan. [Full Story]

PhD candidate Hector Garcia has placed third in the technical poster competition at the SHPE 2013 Conference for his poster, Quipu: Simulation of Quantum Circuits via Stabilizer Frames. Garcia was awarded a Google Scholarship to attend. [Full Story]

Related Topics:  Diversity and Outreach  Graduate Students  

The University of Michigan student chapter of IEEE was named best IEEE student branch in Southeastern Michigan for 2012-2013. Matt Kneiser and Alex Hakkola, the current president and vice president of IEEE at Michigan, accepted the award on behalf of the student chapter at the IEEE Southeast Michigan Section (SEM) Fall Conference, November 6, 2013. [Full Story]

Related Topics:  Undergraduate Students  

Dr. Mona Attariyan (CSE PhD 2012) has received the inaugural Dennis Ritchie Doctoral Dissertation Award from ACM SIGOPS for her dissertation, "Improving Software Configuration Troubleshooting with Causality Analysis." [Full Story]

Related Topics:  Lab-Software Systems  

Four finalists presented on their research at the 10th annual CSE Graduate Student Honors Competition. Zakir Durumeric was chosen as the top presenter for describing and illustrating his work on ZMap: Fast Internet-Wide Scanning and its Security Applications. [Full Story]

Related Topics:  Graduate Students  

Steve Mollenkopf (MSE EE '93), President and COO of Qualcomm, Inc., presented a standing-room only talk to faculty and students when he returned to campus as the 2013 ECE Alumni Merit Award winner. Watch his talk, What it takes to lead in technology, and the brief Q&A session that we recorded. [Full Story]

Curtis Jin, a graduate student in electrical engineering, is part of a research team that has developed theory and algorithms that can mitigate or even overcome loss in transmission power due to the multiple scattering of light in non-transparent (ie, scattering) media. [Full Story]

Related Topics:  Michielssen, Eric  Nadakuditi, Rajesh Rao  Rand, Stephen  Sensors  Signal & Image Processing and Machine Learning  Theory of Computation  

Not long into an otherwise perfectly normal lecture in Prof. J. Alex Halderman's security class on Halloween, strange and spooky things began to happen. [Full Story]

Related Topics:  Hacks  

Prof. David Wentzloff is helping to make a worldwide Internet of Things more than a dream through his research in low-power wireless communication, and more recently, through his new startup company called PsiKick. [Full Story]

Related Topics:  Integrated Circuits and VLSI  Internet of Things  Lab-Michigan Integrated Circuits (MICL)  Millimeter-scale Computing  Wearable electronics  Wentzloff, David  Wireless Communications  

Kyu Hyun Kim, Ph.D. candidate in electrical engineering, received an Emil Wolf Outstanding Student Paper Competition award at the 2013 OSA Frontiers in Optics conference for his work in microfluidic optomechanics. Potential applications of this research range from ultrasound mapping of a single living cell to fundamental quantum optomechanical experiments with superfluids. [Full Story]

Related Topics:  Health  Lab-Optics and Photonics  Optics and Photonics  Optoelectronics  

A brain stimulation technique that is used to treat tough cases of depression could be considerably improved with a new headpiece designed by University of Michigan engineers. [Full Story]

Related Topics:  Applied Electromagnetics and RF Circuits  Brain  Grbic, Anthony  Health  Metamaterials  Michielssen, Eric  

EECS students helped build, test, and drive Generation, the newest solar car built especially for the 2013 World Solar Challenge. Their roles included Head and Race Strategists for the team, Micro Electrical Engineer, and Power Electrical Engineer. One thing they could not anticipate was the gust of wind that blew the car off the road in the middle of the race. [Full Story]

Related Topics:  Student Teams and Organizations  Undergraduate Students  

Allan Evans (MSE PhD EE 07 10), CTO, Ed Tang (BSE EE 11), CEO, and their new company, Avegant, are making headlines with their prototype device that demonstrates a revolutionary display technology called Virtual Retinal Display. It promises an entirely new way to view video that differs from similar-looking devices by projecting light directly into your eye in a way that mimics natural vision. Read more: New York Times, CNET (with video interview), or just google Avegant.

In this article in Foreign Affairs, Prof. J. Alex Halderman and Nadia Heninger of University of Pennsylvania describe how recent NSA actions have diminished computer security for everyone and harmed US national cyberdefense interests in a number of ways. [Full Story]

Related Topics:  Halderman, J. Alex  Lab-Software Systems  Networking, Operating Systems, and Distributed Systems  Security (Computing)  

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Related Topics:  Gianchandani, Yogesh  Najafi, Khalil  

ECE researchers have built three different types of record-breaking micro scale vacuum pumps that could greatly extend the capabilities of electronics and sensing devices that use these devices, such as gas analyzers for homeland security, healthcare, search and rescue, and other applications. They have also taken an important step towards building an integrated, easily manufactured, micro gas chromatography system that incorporates a vacuum micro pump. [Full Story]

Related Topics:  Electronic devices  Gianchandani, Yogesh  Health  MEMS and Microsystems  Najafi, Khalil  Security (national and personal safety)  Sensors  

Prof. Dragomir Radev has edited Puzzles in Logic, Languages, and Computation, a two-volume set of the best English-language problems created for students competing in the North American Computational Linguistics Olympiad. [Full Story]

Related Topics:  Computational Linguistics  Lab-Artificial Intelligence  Radev, Dragomir  

Research by Dr. Paul Shearer, Prof. Alfred O. Hero, III and Prof. Anna Gilbert, earned Best Paper Award at the 2013 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing. The researchers tackled the problem of "camera shake," which is inevitable in cases where a tripod is either not available or practical for taking pictures. [Full Story]

Related Topics:  Hero, Alfred  Signal & Image Processing and Machine Learning  

Undergradate students in Dr. David Chesney's senior-level software engineering course are devising systems that could make it easier for a 13-year old with cerebral palsy to communicate, play, or act more independently at school or home. [Full Story]

Related Topics:  Chesney, David  Engineering for the Greater Good  Undergraduate Students  

MHacks 2013, the hackathon organized and run by student groups Michigan Hackers and MPowered Entrepreneurship, concluded this weekend with a record 1,214 participants from roughly 100 schools across the country in attendance, making it the world's largest collegiate hackathon. The top hack was a recycling sorter built by University of Maryland students. [Full Story]

Related Topics:  Undergraduate Students  

In this brief overview of nanotechnology research in ECE, well look at how research at the nanoscale is impacting lighting, medicine, displays, electronics, information security and the far-out world of quantum computing. Our faculty are also looking into how to manufacture these devices. [Full Story]

Related Topics:  Bhattacharya, Pallab  Electronic devices  Energy Science and Engineering  Forrest, Stephen  Graphene  Guo, L. Jay  Health  Ku, Pei-Cheng (P.C.)  LEDs  Lab-Optics and Photonics  Lab-Systems  Lasers  Lu, Wei  MEMS and Microsystems  Memristor  Metamaterials  Norris, Theodore B.  Optics and Photonics  Peterson, Becky (R. L.)  Phillips, Jamie D.  Quantum Science and Technology  Solar Cell Technology  Steel, Duncan  Yoon, Euisik  Zhong, Zhaohui  

David Chen, graduate student in electrical engineering, received a NASA Earth and Space Science Fellowship for the 2013-14 academic year to pursue research that will help improve extreme weather prediction. His research will address a potential shortcoming inherent to the L-band remote sensing of ocean surface winds, which is essential for weather forecasting. [Full Story]

Related Topics:  Graduate Students  

Prof. Rada Mihalcea has been awarded an INSPIRE (Integrated NSF Support Promoting Interdisciplinary Research and Education) Award from the National Science Foundation for an interdisciplinary project on tracking cultural diversity. [Full Story]

Related Topics:  Computational Linguistics  Lab-Artificial Intelligence  Mihalcea, Rada  

More than 1,200 students from across the country are expected to converge on Michigan Stadium on September 20 for a 36-hour blitz of creative coding at what could be the world's largest student-run collegiate hackathon, MHacks 2013. [Full Story]

Related Topics:  Undergraduate Students  

Ninety Michigan Engineering alumni brought their children or grandchildren to a day-long summer camp this past August 9, called Xplore Engineering. The event offered a day of experiential learning through a selection of nine different workshops hosted by the different engineering departments. Here in EECS, they were introduced to the world of Nanotechnology and Robotics. [Full Story]

Prof. Jim Freudenberg has been named the new director of the U-M master's program in Automotive Engineering. One of his goals is to educate our electrical and engineering students about the ever-expanding opportunities that await them in this field. [Full Story]

Related Topics:  Freudenberg, James S.  

Have you ever worked in a lab or wanted to work in a lab? Have you ever worked near a lab or wondered what goes on in one? The ECE Safety Committee is committed to keeping students safe in the labs and in their work environments. To emphasize the importance of safety in the lab, ECE created a series of 4 brief videos to emphasize the importance of specific aspects of lab safety. We hope you laugh, learn, and share the message. [Full Story]

Our staff has been very busy welcoming our new students to ECE. 215 new graduate students are getting to know each other and the program. New undergraduate students will declare next year, but they are part of one of the largest, most diverse, and best prepared classes ever to enter the College of Engineering. [Full Story]

The ECE Division is delighted to announce the addition of four new faculty: Somin Lee, Johanna Mathieu, Necmiye Ozay, and Becky Peterson. They broaden and deepen ECE's areas of expertise in several areas, including nanophotonic tools for medical applications, environmentally-focused power system design, designing better cyber-physical systems, and micro and nanomanufacturing. [Full Story]

Related Topics:  Lee, Somin E.  Ozay, Necmiye  Peterson, Becky (R. L.)  

The CSE Division is pleased to announce the addition of six new faculty, beginning in Fall 2013. From contributions to big data and cloud explorations to servers and architectures, they'll help to lead and teach us as we enter a world increasingly shaped by computer science and engineering. [Full Story]

Related Topics:  Abernethy, Jake  Deng, Jia  Lab-Artificial Intelligence  Lab-Computer Engineering (CE Lab)  Lab-Software Systems  Mars, Jason  Mihalcea, Rada  Mozafari, Barzan  Tang, Lingjia  

CSE graduate student Meghan Clark has been selected as one of ten to receive a Microsoft Graduate Women's Scholarship for her work in the areas of embedded systems, ubiquitous computing, and security. [Full Story]

Related Topics:  Diversity and Outreach  Graduate Students  

Prof. J. Alex Halderman and two anonymous coauthors have published the first peer-reviewed technical study of Iran's national censorship infrastructure, revealing much about the extent and nature of one of the largest and most sophisticated Internet censorship regimes in the world. [Full Story]

Related Topics:  Halderman, J. Alex  Security (Computing)  

Prof. Edwin Olson has been awarded a DARPA Young Faculty Award for "Mutual Modeling for Human/Robot Teaming with Minimal Communications," his research in the area of autonomous intelligent robotics. [Full Story]

Related Topics:  Artificial Intelligence  Lab-Artificial Intelligence  Olson, Edwin  Robotics  

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Cheng Zheng, a Ph.D. candidate in electrical engineering, has been awarded an Optics and Photonics Education Scholarship by the International Society for Optics and Photonics (SPIE) to advance his research in the areas of nanophotonics and nanofabrication. His work could impact next-generation displays as well as biomedical imaging. [Full Story]

Related Topics:  Graduate Students  Guo, L. Jay  Optics and Photonics  

Three U-M computer science researchers have released ZMap, a new open-source tool that can perform a scan of the entire public IPv4 address space on the Internet in less than 45 minutes - over 1000 times faster than with previous tools. [Full Story]

Related Topics:  Halderman, J. Alex  Lab-Software Systems  Networking, Operating Systems, and Distributed Systems  Security (Computing)  

Prof. Kevin Fu and Research Prof. Michael Bailey will establish methods to scientifically study the extent of malware in hospital networks under the new five-year Trustworthy Health and Wellness project that has received $10 million from the National Science Foundation. [Full Story]

Related Topics:  Fu, Kevin  Lab-Software Systems  Security (Computing)  

Loosely inspired by a biological brain's approach to making sense of visual information, Prof. Wei Lu is leading a project to build alternative computer hardware that could process images and video 1,000 times faster with 10,000 times less power than today's systems, all without sacrificing accuracy. [Full Story]

Related Topics:  Flynn, Michael  Integrated Circuits and VLSI  LNF  Lu, Wei  Memristor  Sensors  Signal & Image Processing and Machine Learning  Solid-State Devices and Nanotechnology  Zhang, Zhengya  

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Jae Young Park, a recent doctoral student in the Electrical Engineering:Systems program, received a Best Student Paper Award at the Signal Processing with Adaptive Sparse Structured Representations (SPARS 2013) conference. The method described in the paper is expected to increase the longevity of battery-based sensor devices that record structural information, increase the accuracy of basic data analysis techniques, and decrease the memory requirements of such tasks. [Full Story]

Related Topics:  Sensors  Signal & Image Processing and Machine Learning  

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Crossbar, Inc., co-founded in 2010 by Prof. Wei Lu, announced its emergence from stealth mode after its recent development of a working Crossbar memory array at a commercial fab. With its improvements in speed, power consumption, and endurance combined with half the die size, Crossbar is expected to enable a new wave of electronics innovation for consumer, enterprise, mobile, industrial and connected device applications. [Full Story]

Related Topics:  Lu, Wei  Memristor  Technology Transfer  

The Michigan Autonomous Aerial Vehicle student team is headed to the annual International Aerial Robotics Competition on August 7, in which they hope to be the first team to complete all mission objectives for the current challenge. [Full Story]

Related Topics:  Student Teams and Organizations  Undergraduate Students  

Dragomir Radev, Professor in Computer Science and Engineering, the School of Information, and in the Department of Linguistics, has coached North American high school students to successful competition at the 11th International Linguistics Olympiad (IOL), which was held in Manchester, UK, from July 22 through 26th, 2013. [Full Story]

Related Topics:  Computational Linguistics  Diversity and Outreach  Radev, Dragomir  

Dr. Hasso Niemann (BSE MSE PhD EE '61 '63 '69), a notable NASA scientist "whose instruments probed the atmospheres of Jupiter and Saturn's largest moon, Titan," passed away at the age of 80. His life and career are fondly remembered by his colleagues. [Full Story]

Anthony Fadell graduated from U-M with a degree in computer engineering, and moved to Silicon Valley to pursue his fortune. He eventually landed at Apple, where he led development of the iPod, and later became strategic advisor to Steve Jobs. After leaving Apple to spend more time with family, he founded Nest Labs and created the self-programming Nest Learning Thermostat. [Full Story]

Chris Berry received Best Student Paper Award (2nd place) at the IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation and USNC-URSI National Radio Science Meeting for his paper Plasmonic Photoconductive Antennas for Significant Terahertz Radiation Enhancement. The paper was co-authored by Mohammed R. Hashemi, Mehmet Unlu, and his advisor, Prof. Mona Jarrahi.
Related Topics:  Graduate Students  

Kamal Sarabandi, Rufus S. Teesdale Professor of Engineering, has been selected to receive the 2013 IEEE GRSS Education Award for outstanding contributions to education in the field of Geoscience and Remote Sensing. He received the award during the 2013 International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS'2013). [Full Story]

Related Topics:  Sarabandi, Kamal  

Prof. Honglak Lee has been named to the prestigious list of AI's 10 to Watch, an acknowledgement of rising star researchers in artificial intelligence (AI) that is published every other year by IEEE Intelligent Systems. [Full Story]

Related Topics:  Artificial Intelligence  Lab-Artificial Intelligence  Lee, Honglak  

CSE PhD candidate Sanae Rosen has won the Best Poster Award at the Conference on Data and Application Security and Privacy for "AppProfiler: a Flexible Method of Exposing Privacy-Related Behavior in Android Applications to End Users." [Full Story]

Related Topics:  Diversity and Outreach  Graduate Students  

Professor Eric Michielssen was recently named Associate Vice President (AVP) for Research, Advanced Research Computing (ARC). As AVP, Prof. Michielssen will work with the campus research community to ensure that U-Ms advanced research computing infrastructure meets the complex and evolving needs of University researchers in a wide range of disciplines. [Full Story]

Related Topics:  Michielssen, Eric  

Bharan Giridhar, a Ph.D. candidate in Electrical Engineering, has been selected to receive an Intel Corporation Ph.D. Fellowship to pursue his research in VLSI chip design, with an emphasis on developing circuit techniques for adaptive and reliable, high-performance computing. [Full Story]

Related Topics:  Blaauw, David  Graduate Students  Lab-Michigan Integrated Circuits (MICL)  

In a pellet of glass the size of an apple seed, Electrical and Computer Engineering researchers have packed seven devices that together could potentially provide navigation in the absence of the satellite-based Global Positioning System (GPS.) [Full Story]

Related Topics:  GPS  MEMS and Microsystems  Najafi, Khalil  Peterson, Becky (R. L.)  Rais-Zadeh, Mina  

Prof. Semyon Meerkov and postdoctoral researcher Dr. Chao-Bo Yan received a Best Paper Prize for the paper, "Production Lead Time Problem: Formulation and Solution for Bernoulli Serial Lines," presented at the Int. Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC) Conference on Manufacturing Modeling, Management and Control. [Full Story]

Related Topics:  Control Systems  Meerkov, Semyon M.  Production Systems Engineering  

Doctoral student Fan Wu received an Outstanding Oral Paper Award at the 17th Int. Conference on Solid-State Sensors, Actuators and Microsystems for the paper, "A Multi-shank Silk-backed Parylene Neural Probe for Reliable Chronic Recording," co-authored by Lee Tien, Fujun Chen, Prof. David Kaplan, Prof. Joshua Berke, and his advisor, Prof. Euisik Yoon. The researchers designed and obtained the first in vivo recording of a biodegradable silk-backed neural probe [Full Story]

Related Topics:  Health  MEMS and Microsystems  Yoon, Euisik  

Doctoral students Zhengzheng Wu, Vikram Thakar, Adam Peczalski, and their advisor Prof. Mina Rais-Zadeh received a Best Poster Award at the 17th Int. Conference on Solid-State Sensors, Actuators and Microsystems for their paper, "A low phase-noise Pierce oscillator using a piezoelectric-on-silica micromechanical resonator." The paper reports on a high-performance electrical oscillator using a fused silica micro-electromechanical resonator. [Full Story]

Related Topics:  Diversity and Outreach  MEMS and Microsystems  Rais-Zadeh, Mina  

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EE:Systems graduate student Michael Hand (BSE EE 2011) is the recipient of the 2013-14 Bosch Sustainability Fellowship to explore ways to improve diesel efficiency through advanced control and diagnosis strategies. Popular Mechanics is calling 2013 The Year of the Diesel, due to the introduction of several new diesel models by major auto manufacturers. [Full Story]

Related Topics:  Graduate Students  

Marius Eriksen, 2004 BSE in Computer Engineering and Principal Engineer at Twitter, is profiled in Wired as a leader in the tech industry. His recent project Finagle is being used to rewrite Twitter. [Full Story]

Two papers authored by U-M computer science researchers have been selected for IEEE Micro's Top Picks from the 2012 Computer Architecture Conferences. Top Picks is an annual special edition of Micro magazine that acknowledges the most significant research papers from computer architecture conferences in the past year based on novelty and potential for long-term impact. [Full Story]

Related Topics:  Computer Architecture  Lab-Computer Engineering (CE Lab)  Narayanasamy, Satish  Papaefthymiou, Marios  Parallel Computing  Wenisch, Thomas  

Prof. Zhengya Zhang has been selected to receive s a 2013 Intel Early Career Faculty Honor Program award. This award was created to connect Intel with the best and brightest early career faculty members who show great promise as future academic leaders in disruptive computing technologies. Prof. Zhang's research is in the area of low-power and high-performance VLSI circuits and systems. [Full Story]

Related Topics:  Lab-Michigan Integrated Circuits (MICL)  Zhang, Zhengya  

A new laser that can show what objects are made of could help military aircraft identify hidden dangers such as weapons arsenals far below. "For the defense and intelligence communities, this could add a new set of eyes," said Prof. Mohammed Islam. [Full Story]

Related Topics:  Islam, Mohammed  Lab-Optics and Photonics  Lasers  Optics and Photonics  Security (national and personal safety)  

When Daniel Molzahn arrives at Michigan this fall to begin his work as a postdoctoral researcher, he will come as a Dow Sustainability Fellow. His research will be aimed at upgrading the current electric system for the 21st century. [Full Story]

Related Topics:  Lab-Systems  

Chris Berry, a doctoral student in the Electrical Engineering program, received Best Student Paper Award (3rd place) at the 2013 International Microwave Symposium for his paper Nanoscale Contact Electrodes for Significant Radiation Power Enhancement in Photoconductive Terahertz Emitters. [Full Story]

Related Topics:  Graduate Students  

Sponsored and judged by KLA-Tencor, first place went to Gopal Nataraj, Brandon Oselio, and Yash Shah for their technique for speeding up the processing time of MRI scans. Second place went to Taining Liu, Xiaolin Song, and Jinze Yu for using a novel approach to improve weaknesses in the image processing technique known as frame rate up conversion. EECS 556 covers the theory and application of digital image processing, which has applications in biomedical images, time-varying imagery, robotics, and optics. [Full Story]

Related Topics:  Graduate Students  

Prof. Elliot Soloway, Arthur F. Thurnau Professor and Professor in Computer Science and Engineering, School of Education, and School of Information, has received a Google App Engine Education Award to support the development of the WeCollabrify Mobile Platform. [Full Story]

Related Topics:  Lab-Interactive Systems  Soloway, Elliot  

Prof. Brian Noble has been selected to serve as Associate Dean for Undergraduate Education at the College of Engineering by David Munson, Robert J. Vlasic Dean of Engineering. He succeeds James Holloway, who is stepping down to become the U-M Vice Provost for Global and Engaged Education. [Full Story]

Related Topics:  Lab-Software Systems  Noble, Brian  

CSE graduate student Mark Gordon has been selected to receive a Google PhD Fellowship in Mobile Computing for the 2013-14 academic year. Mark was chosen as a Google Fellow on the basis of his work in applying operating system techniques to the mobile platform. [Full Story]

Related Topics:  Graduate Students  

Research conducted by Prof. Michael Wellman and CSE doctoral student Elaine Wah illustrates how high-frequency trading strategies that exploit today's fragmented equity markets have led to a technical arms race and reduce investor profits overall. [Full Story]

Related Topics:  Artificial Intelligence  Economic Systems  Graduate Students  Lab-Artificial Intelligence  Wellman, Michael  

Try out SHOUT and help test this new microblogging app for Android developed by Michigan students. SHOUT provides a way to communicate with others close by - without being dependent on the Internet. The students were advised by Professors Robert Dick, Z. Morley Mao, and Dan Wallach (Rice University). [Full Story]

Related Topics:  Dick, Robert  Lab-Software Systems  Mao, Zhuoqing Morley  Mobile Computing  

Prof. Rais-Zadeh is one of about 100 outstanding young engineers selected to participate in the 2013 US Frontiers of Engineering Symposium, sponsored by the National Academy of Engineering. The symposium will be held Sept. 19-21 in Delaware, and the main topics are: Designing and Analyzing Societal Networks, Cognitive Manufacturing, Energy, and Flexible Electronics. [NAE press release]
Related Topics:  Diversity and Outreach  Rais-Zadeh, Mina  

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This is the 50th anniversary of the Design Automation Conference, and David Blaauw, Igor Markov, and Dennis Sylvester have been recognized with special awards for their contributions to the conference. Among the awards is the DAC Top 10 Cited Author award, given to David Blaauw, for being a top 10 cited author in the past 50 years. [Full Story]

Related Topics:  Blaauw, David  Lab-Computer Engineering (CE Lab)  Markov, Igor  Sylvester, Dennis  

Prof. Edwin Olson spoke on his work in the realm of robotics at the annual World Science Festival in New York City on Sunday, June 2. His presentation was a part of the Festival's acclaimed Cool Jobs program, which features a series of thought-provoking and inspirational lectures on technical occupations aimed at young people and their families. [Full Story]

Related Topics:  Diversity and Outreach  Lab-Artificial Intelligence  Olson, Edwin  Robotics  

Earlier this month, the Department held its annual Graduate Student Instructor (GSI) / Instructional Aide (IA) Awards Event to honor top student instructors and aides for their remarkable service. Congratulations! [Full Story]

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Research conducted by Michigan computer scientists has been selected for ACM Computing Review's Notable Computing Books and Articles of 2012. [Full Story]

Related Topics:  Halderman, J. Alex  Lab-Software Systems  Security (Computing)  

A recent workshop on Nano and Micro Manufacturing brought together more than 140 nano/microscale device and material manufacturers, researchers, and end users of these technologies to discuss how to rapidly and effectively translate university research into practical products. [Full Story]

Related Topics:  Gianchandani, Yogesh  LNF  MEMS and Microsystems  Solid-State Devices and Nanotechnology  Technology Transfer  WIMS/WIMS2  Wise, Kensall  

Prof. Thomas F. Wenisch has been selected to receive the Henry Russel Award, one of the highest honors the university bestows upon faculty members early in their academic careers who already have demonstrated an extraordinary record of accomplishment in scholarly research and/or creativity, as well as an excellent record of contribution as a teacher. [Full Story]

Related Topics:  Lab-Computer Engineering (CE Lab)  Wenisch, Thomas  

Based on student input, Dr. Andrew DeOrio and Prof. Fawwaz Ulaby were selected as the 2012-2013 HKN Professors of the Year by U-M Eta Kappa Nu, the local chapter of the national honor society for electrical and computer engineers. [Full Story]

Related Topics:  DeOrio, Andrew  Ulaby, Fawwaz  

Student Group Michigan Hackers has been featured in the Spring issue of LSA Magazine. The article describes the group's activities in creative coding and profiles some of the LSA students that have discovered the joys of hacking and computer science. Link is to a PDF. [Full Story]

Related Topics:  Undergraduate Students  

Close to 200 researchers from across the University of Michigan and from industry gathered in the Bob and Betty Beyster Building on North Campus for the fourth U-M Workshop on Data Mining in order to make connections and share their experiences and results. [Full Story]

Related Topics:  Big Data  Cafarella, Michael  Lab-Artificial Intelligence  Lab-Software Systems  Radev, Dragomir  

Congratulations to the following faculty who received promotions this year: Tal Carmon, Jamie Phillips, Silvio Savarese, Thomas Wenisch, and David Wentzloff. Keep up the great work! [Full Story]

Related Topics:  Phillips, Jamie D.  Wenisch, Thomas  Wentzloff, David  

Students in the graduate level course, Integrated Analog/Digital Interface Circuits (EECS 511), competed for cash prizes while presenting their final design projects thanks to the support of Analog Devices, Inc. The winning projects were designed for battery-operated mobile applications as well as instrumentation and measurement applications. [Full Story]

Related Topics:  Lab-Michigan Integrated Circuits (MICL)  

Beth Stalnaker, Graduate Program Coordinator for the electrical engineering program, has been selected to receive the 2013 College of Engineering's Judith A. Pitney Staff Service Career Award. This award recognizes the significant contributions of a single CoE staff member with at least 10 years of service. [Full Story]

NSF announced two projects to expand the frontiers of cyber-physical systems. Prof. Jessy Grizzle will lead the four-year $4M project called, Correct by Design Control Software Synthesis for Highly Dynamic Systems. Prof. Demos Teneketzis will lead U-Ms effort in the UC-Berkeley based project called, Foundations of Resilient Cyber-Physical Systems (FORCES). [NSF press release] [Full Story]

Related Topics:  Communications  Control Systems  Cyber-physical systems  Grizzle, Jessy  Hiskens, Ian  Teneketzis, Demosthenis  Theory of Computation  

The Henry Russel Lectureship is considered the University's highest honor for a senior faculty member, and recognizes exceptional achievements in research, scholarship or creative endeavors, and an outstanding record of teaching, mentoring and service. Prof. Ulaby will deliver the lecture in 2014. [Full Story]

Related Topics:  Ulaby, Fawwaz  

An international team of researchers including Prof. Kevin Fu has demonstrated that the type of sensors that pick up the rhythm of a beating heart in implanted cardiac defibrillators and pacemakers are vulnerable to tampering. The researchers were able to forge an erratic heartbeat with radio frequency electromagnetic waves in controlled laboratory conditions. [Full Story]

Related Topics:  Fu, Kevin  Lab-Software Systems  Medical Device Security  Security (Computing)  

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Prof. Pallab Bhattacharya and his group have demonstrated a paradigm-shifting polariton laser that's fueled not by light, but by electricity. Prof. Bhattacharya calls the device, which was first suggested in 1996, truly transformative. The device requires at least 1,000 times less energy to operate than a conventional laser. [Full Story]

Related Topics:  Bhattacharya, Pallab  CPHOM  Lasers  Optics and Photonics  Solid-State Devices and Nanotechnology  

Over 60 professionals from medical device manufacturers and level-I trauma centers and security researchers attended the two-day Archimedes Workshop run by Prof. Kevin Fu through his Archimedes Research Center for Medical Device Security. [Full Story]

Related Topics:  Fu, Kevin  Lab-Software Systems  Medical Device Security  Security (Computing)  

Researchers including Prof. Michael Cafarella and grad student Dolan Antenucci are developing tools that will allow economists to more quickly and accurately generate key data on economic activity using social media signals. [Full Story]

Related Topics:  Big Data  Cafarella, Michael  Lab-Software Systems  

In their second year of competition, the Michigan Hybrid Racing team and their car, Spark, overcame several obstacles on their way to a 4th place finish in the 2013 Formula Hybrid Racing Competition, held at the New Hampshire Motor Speedway April 29-May 1. They also took 2nd place in the Chrysler Innovation Award. [Full Story]

Related Topics:  Electric Vehicles and HEVs  Hofmann, Heath  Student Teams and Organizations  Undergraduate Students  

Need a little help to stay on track with your life goals? CSE alum Daniel Reeves (CSE PhD 2005) has created Beeminder, an on-line service that leverages your monetary pledge to help you stick to your goals. [Full Story]

Related Topics:  Lab-Artificial Intelligence  

Computer vision professor Silvio Savarese and colleagues have been awarded the 2013 J. James R. Croes Medal from the American Society of Civil Engineers for developing a method to automatically track structural changes happening in construction sites, while enabling data to be collected simply and inexpensively. [Full Story]

Related Topics:  Robotics  

The research by Prof. Al Hero, ECE graduate student Zhaoshi Meng, and Dr. Dennis Wei provides a way to efficiently reveal relationships between even distant entities in a network, whether it be a social network or a network of sensors. The group will present their research at the 16th Int. Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics. [Full Story]

Related Topics:  Hero, Alfred  Machine Learning  Networking, Operating Systems, and Distributed Systems  Signal & Image Processing and Machine Learning  

Dr. Kevin Xu (MS PhD EE:Systems '09 '12) took first prize at the Challenge Problem competition sponsored by the 2013 Int. Conference on Social Computing, Behavioral-Cultural Modeling, and Prediction Conference. The challenge problem required the participants to discover ways to interpret given data sets in a way that could be used to predict future social behavior. [Full Story]

Related Topics:  Lab-Systems  

Congratulations Nick Clift for being crowned Mr. Michigan for 2013. The U-M Mr. Michigan pageant raises money for worthwhile causes, and raises awareness of the participating students' chosen team or group. Nick is a board member of The Detroit Partnership, a student-run non-profit that strives to connect the Detroit and U-M communities. [Full Story]

CSE doctoral students Brad Campbell and Patrick Pannuto have been awarded a $50K prize and received an Honorable Mention for the 2013 Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship for their proposal entitled, "Decoupling Synchronization from Communication is Key to Continued Scaling of Indoor Wireless Sensors." [Full Story]

Related Topics:  Lab-Computer Engineering (CE Lab)  

CSE doctoral student Scott Reed has been selected for two prestigious graduate fellowships to support his ongoing studies in computer science and engineering. His work has focused on developing new machine learning methodologies to solve problems in computer vision and other domains. [Full Story]

Related Topics:  Artificial Intelligence  Lab-Artificial Intelligence  

Researchers led by Kang Shin, the Kevin and Nancy O'Connor Professor of Computer Science, have developed new software called GapSense to control wireless network traffic between dissimliar devices, such as WiFi laptops, Bluetooth headsets, ZigBee sensor nodes. [Full Story]

Related Topics:  Lab-Software Systems  Networking, Operating Systems, and Distributed Systems  Shin, Kang G.  Wireless Communications  

CSE doctoral student Patrick Pannuto has been selected for two prestigious graduate fellowships to support his ongoing studies in computer science and engineering. His work is in the area of wireless sensor networks. [Full Story]

Related Topics:  Lab-Computer Engineering (CE Lab)  

Ethan Stark has been awarded a prestigious NSF Graduate Research Fellowship to continue his studies at the University of Michigan. Ethan will receive his undergraduate degree in electrical engineering this term, and begin his first semester as an EE graduate student in the fall. He is currently investigating visible light emitters using GaN microstructures for quantum dot and nanowire-based LEDs and lasers. [Full Story]

Related Topics:  Lab-Solid State Electronics (SSEL)  

A silicon-based single-photon emitter developed by Prof. Pallab Bhattacharya and his group is simpler and more efficient than those currently available, and can be made using traditional semiconductor processing techniques. [Full Story]

Related Topics:  Bhattacharya, Pallab  LNF  Optics and Photonics  Quantum Science and Technology  Security (Computing)  Solid-State Devices and Nanotechnology  

Team Trident, a student team including CSE graduate student Pankit Thapar, CS undergraduate Benjamin Vandersloot, two UCSD students, and coached by Prof. Igor Markov, has won two awards in the 2013 ISPD Discrete Gate Sizing Contest. [Full Story]

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CSE experienced record interest in its graduate program when 54 prospective students visited for an in-depth look at the people, labs, projects and flying blue sharks that compose the intellectual landscape in CSE at Michigan. [Full Story]

Prof. Mona Jarrahi and her group developed a laser-powered terahertz source that will allow for deeper imaging of tissue, and the sensing of smaller quantities of drugs and explosives from farther distances than is currently possible. [Full Story]

Related Topics:  Applied Electromagnetics and RF Circuits  Health  Medical Imaging  Sensors  

The 5th Annual University of Michigan Alumni and Friends Mixer at ISSCC (International Solid-State Circuits Conference) was a great success as old and new friends gathered to discuss the day, catch up with friends, and simply relax together. Alumni in the area are always invited, and several came to reconnect with their Maize and Blue colleagues. [Full Story]

A team of U-M researchers including CSE Prof. Thomas F. Wenisch, CSE Chair Marios Papaefthymiou, Prof. of Mechanical Engineering Kevin Pipe, and ME graduate student Lei Shao have won the Best Paper Award at the International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems for their paper, "Computational Sprinting on a Hardware/Software Testbed." [Full Story]

Related Topics:  Computer Architecture  Lab-Computer Engineering (CE Lab)  Papaefthymiou, Marios  Wenisch, Thomas  

Cyclos Semiconductor, co-founded by CSE Chair Marios Papaefthymiou, has received The Linley Group's Analysts' Choice Award for Best Processor Technology for its achievements in replacing conventional clock-signal trees with a resonant clock mesh and easing the design of high-performance chips. [Full Story]

Related Topics:  Computer Architecture  Lab-Computer Engineering (CE Lab)  Papaefthymiou, Marios  Technology Transfer  

Dr. David Chesney spoke at "Untapped," the fourth annual TEDxUofM, which took place April 5th at the Power Center for the Performing Arts. His talk was entitled, "Shouts and Whispers: Small Events Leading to Big Changes." [Full Story]

Related Topics:  Chesney, David  Diversity and Outreach  Engineering for the Greater Good  

Thanks to the sponsorship of Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., students in the Fall 2012 EECS 427 (VLSI Design I) class competed against their classmates for cash prizes in the 7th Annual AMD/Michigan Student Design Contest. This year, more than 60 students took this team project-oriented, major design experience course. [Full Story]

Related Topics:  Lab-Michigan Integrated Circuits (MICL)  

DeepField, the cloud analytics company founded by computer science alums Joe Eggleston and Craig Labovitz, is establishing a new office in the Liberty Street Technology Corridor and will hire additional engineers. [Full Story]

A team of researchers led by Trevor Mudge, Bredt Family Professor of Engineering and Director of the ARM Research Center at Michigan, has been funded for research and development of hardware and software techniques that directly support and make practical a new generation of energy efficient, high performance multi-layer processor systems for use in embedded computing systems. [Full Story]

Related Topics:  Blaauw, David  Computer Architecture  Dreslinski, Ron  Embedded Computing and Systems  Integrated Circuits and VLSI  Lab-Computer Engineering (CE Lab)  Mahlke, Scott  Mudge, Trevor  Near-threshold computing  Sylvester, Dennis  Zhang, Zhengya  

Computer Science undergraduate Rachael Miller has won the Best Undergrad Poster Award at the Michigan Celebration of Women in Computing Conference for her project, "A Natural User Interface for 3D Environments." [Full Story]

Related Topics:  Diversity and Outreach  

The team called "Noisy Wolverines" made it through the first round of competition to be among the top 15 teams in the nation to compete in the DARPA Spectrum Challenge competition. They hope to take home the prize for best communication system design. [Full Story]

Related Topics:  Student Teams and Organizations  

Prof. Mona Jarrahi, together with Prof. Jordan Green, an assistant professor of Biomedical Engineering at The Whitaker Institute at Johns Hopkins, have received a Grainger Foundation Frontiers of Engineering Grant by the National Academy of Engineering to explore genetic therapy methods to treat diseases. [Full Story]

Related Topics:  Applied Electromagnetics and RF Circuits  Genetics  Health  

In the aftermath of the Newtown school shooting, Prof. Kamal Sarabandi envisions a new use for a weapons-detecting radar system he's been developing for the past few years. [Full Story]

Related Topics:  Applied Electromagnetics and RF Circuits  Remote Sensing  Sarabandi, Kamal  Security (national and personal safety)  Weapons detection  

Prof. Kevin Fu has been named by Federal Computer Week to its Federal 100 Award list for 2013. The 24th annual list recognizes government, industry and academic leaders who have played pivotal roles in the federal government IT community. [Full Story]

Related Topics:  Fu, Kevin  Lab-Software Systems  

Prof. Dragomir Radev has been selected to receive a U-M Faculty Recognition Award. This award recognizes "mid-career faculty who have demonstrated remarkable contributions to the University through outstanding achievements in scholarly research and/or creative endeavors; excellence as a teacher, advisor and mentor; and distinguished participation in the service activities of the university and elsewhere." [Full Story]

Related Topics:  Lab-Artificial Intelligence  Radev, Dragomir  

Dongsuk Jeon, a graduate student working with Zhengya Zhang and IEEE Fellows David Blaauw and Dennis Sylvester at the University of Michigan, in Ann Arbor, outlined an approach to drastically lower the power of the very first stage of any vision systemthe feature extractor. That system uses an algorithm to draw out potentially important features like circles and squares from an overall image. [Full Story]

Related Topics:  Blaauw, David  Integrated Circuits and VLSI  Lab-Michigan Integrated Circuits (MICL)  Sylvester, Dennis  Zhang, Zhengya  

A team of CSE researchers including U-M graduate student Richard Sampson and Prof. Thomas F. Wenisch have won the Best Paper Award at the International Symposium on High Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA) for their paper, "Sonic Millip3De: Massively Parallel 3D-Stacked Accelerator for 3D Ultrasound." [Full Story]

Related Topics:  Computer Architecture  Lab-Computer Engineering (CE Lab)  Wenisch, Thomas  

Meritful, a startup conceived by CSE alumnus and entrepreneur Azarias Reda (PhD CSE '12), has placed first and won $100,000 in prizes in the new business pitch competition at the South by Southwest Conference in Austin, Texas. [Full Story]

Related Topics:  Lab-Software Systems  

Kevin Fu, Director of the Security and Privacy Research Lab, has been interviewed by Healthcare Info Security about the evolving malware and security risks associated with implantable and bedside medical devices. Article includes audio interview. [Full Story]

Related Topics:  Fu, Kevin  Lab-Software Systems  Medical Device Security  Security (Computing)  

Prof. Dennis Sylvester was selected to receive a U-M Faculty Recognition Award. This award recognizes "mid-career faculty who have demonstrated remarkable contributions to the University through outstanding achievements in scholarly research and/or creative endeavors; excellence as a teacher, advisor and mentor; and distinguished participation in the service activities of the university and elsewhere." [Full Story]

Related Topics:  Lab-Michigan Integrated Circuits (MICL)  Sylvester, Dennis  

The University of Michigan and Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Israel will forge a research partnership to collaborate on developing renewable technologies. The partnership grew out of U-M's VP for Research Stephen Forrest's visits to Israel over the past five years, and will focus on the areas of advanced vehicle fuels, solar energy, and thermoelectric materials, which convert heat to electricity. [Full Story]

Related Topics:  Energy Science and Engineering  Forrest, Stephen  International Partnerships  Sustainability  

Each year the College of Engineering awards the Towner Prize for Distinguished Academic Achievement to outstanding graduate students (Master's or Ph.D.). This year, EECS students Mads Almassalkhi, Andrew Hollowell, and Mehrzad Samadi claimed the prize. [Full Story]

Each year the College of Engineering awards the Towner Prize for Outstanding GSIs to the top graduate student instructors throughout the College. This year, three of the four awards granted went to EECS students Apoorva Bansal, Jay Patel, and Holly Tederington. [Full Story]

CSE Master's student Yunxing Dai has been selected as the first Barracuda Networks Fellow. This newly-funded fellowship provides support for a promising full-time master's student who is pursuing a course of study leading to a career in the computer science industry. Yunxing's interests are security in network and data storage. [Full Story]

Related Topics:  Lab-Software Systems  

A team of four U-M students, including Sam DeBruin (BSE CE '12 and current CSE graduate student) and Ryan Moore (BSE CE '11), has formed a venture that aims to produce autonomous flying robots for infrastructure inspection. [Full Story]

Ann Arbor-based Duo Security, founded by alums Dug Song (CS BS 1997) and Jon Oberheide (CSE PhD 2011) has announced new hardware-level security for recent Android phones and record growth in sales. [Full Story]

Related Topics:  Lab-Software Systems  

Niels Provos (MSE PhD CSE 2000, 2003) is a cryptographer and Principal Software Engineer at Google who spends his weekends forging Viking swords. Read about it and see the video in this article from Wired. [Full Story]

Related Topics:  Lab-Software Systems  

Biruk Mammo, a graduate student in the Computer Science and Engineering program, has received a Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship to support his research while he completes his dissertation entitled, The Brain-like Microprocessor: Self-organizing, Redundant and Reliable. [Full Story]

Related Topics:  Diversity and Outreach  

Hyoun Kyu Cho, a graduate student in the Computer Science and Engineering program, has received a Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship to support his research while he completes his dissertation entitled, Combining Static Analysis and Dynamic Control for Avoidance of Concurrency Bugs. [Full Story]

Related Topics:  Lab-Computer Engineering (CE Lab)  

Bharan Giridhar, a graduate student in the Electrical Engineering program, received a Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship to support his research while he completes his dissertation entitled, Circuit Techniques for Adaptive and Reliable, High-Performance Computing. [Full Story]

Related Topics:  Lab-Michigan Integrated Circuits (MICL)  

Gyouho Kim, a graduate student in the Electrical Engineering program, received a Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship to support his research while he completes his dissertation entitled, Ultra-Low Power Optical Interfaces for Nearly Invisible Cubic-Millimeter Wireless Sensor Nodes. [Full Story]

Related Topics:  Lab-Michigan Integrated Circuits (MICL)  

Prof. Pallab Bhattacharya and a team of researchers have created and directly observed what they believe to be a near-equilibrium room temperature Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC). A BEC is an unusual state of matter in which a group of boson particles can exist in a single quantum state, giving scientists the rare opportunity to directly observe novel quantum phenomena. [Full Story]

Related Topics:  Bhattacharya, Pallab  CPHOM  LNF  Optics and Photonics  Solid-State Devices and Nanotechnology  

Prof. David Blaauw writes about his work on a fault-monitoring microprocessor design can save power or allow overclocking. [Full Story]

Related Topics:  Blaauw, David  Integrated Circuits and VLSI  Internet of Things  Lab-Michigan Integrated Circuits (MICL)  

Running cockroaches start to recover from being shoved sideways before their dawdling nervous system kicks in to tell their legs what to do. This new insight by Prof. Shai Revzen and colleagues into how biological systems stabilize could one day help engineers design steadier robots and improve doctors understanding of human gait abnormalities. [Full Story]

Related Topics:  Biomimicry  Health  Revzen, Shai  Robotics  Security (national and personal safety)  

Nicholas Triantafillou is the university's most recent recipient of the prestigious Churchill Scholarship, which funds a year of graduate study in mathematics, biological and physical sciences, and engineering at the University of Cambridge. The senior from Saginaw is double majoring in honors mathematics and honors computer science. [Full Story]

Prof. David Blaauw and Prof. Dennis Sylvester have been named two of the top 16 contributing authors in the last 60 years to the International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC), which is the flagship conference of the Solid-State Circuits Society. [Full Story]

Related Topics:  Blaauw, David  Lab-Michigan Integrated Circuits (MICL)  Sylvester, Dennis  

Prof. Shai Revzen pioneered a method, called Data Driven Floquet Analysis (DDFA), which he is currently using to test scientific theories of neuromechanical control in animals and humans, and extract principles that may guide future robotic design. [Full Story]

Related Topics:  Biomimicry  Health  Revzen, Shai  Robotics  

Prof. Jay Guo and his group have found a way to lock in so-called structural color, which is made with texture rather than chemicals. This could lead to advanced color e-books and electronic paper, as well as other color reflective screens that don't need their own light to be readable. [Full Story]

Related Topics:  Biomimicry  Displays  Electronic devices  Guo, L. Jay  LNF  Solid-State Devices and Nanotechnology  

The College of Engineering has highlighted work in the department on technologies under development at Michigan that will continue to enable the mobile computing revolution. See their digital multimedia experience here. [Full Story]

Related Topics:  Austin, Todd  Blaauw, David  Computer Architecture  Lab-Computer Engineering (CE Lab)  Lu, Wei  Mobile Computing  Mudge, Trevor  Papaefthymiou, Marios  Sylvester, Dennis  Wenisch, Thomas  

More than 550 students from across the country participated in the first-ever MHacks Hackathon, creating a total of 127 projects, the most ever at a student-run event of this kind. [Full Story]

Kyla McMullen, CSE MSE 2007, PhD 2012, has become the first African American woman at the University of Michigan to graduate with a PhD in Computer Science and Engineering. She is now an Assistant Professor at Clemson University's School of Computing. [Full Story]

Prof. Wei Lu and graduate student Patrick Sheridan talk about their research developing a new type of electronic switch that mimics the behavior of a biological neuron in the human brain. Resulting computers can learn without being programmed. [Full Story]

Related Topics:  Brain  Electronic devices  LNF  Lu, Wei  Memristor  Solid-State Devices and Nanotechnology  

Imagine a future when you could predict whether or not you are at risk of becoming sick. Prof. Al Hero is working to make that a reality with his research into the human genome's response to viral illnesses. Watch the video to learn more. [Full Story]

Related Topics:  Genetics  Health  Hero, Alfred  Signal & Image Processing and Machine Learning  

Jeff Fessler is working with U-M radiologists to create high-quality CT scans with lower radiation in a much faster time frame than currently possible. Technology developed by Prof. Fessler and his research group is in use at U-M hospital. Watch the video to see his algorithms in action. [Full Story]

Related Topics:  Fessler, Jeffrey  Health  Medical Imaging  Signal & Image Processing and Machine Learning  

Can large-output lasers be used to identify materials at long distances? Prof. Mohammed Islam is working to create lasers that can identify items that are more than a kilometer away. Watch the video to learn more. [Full Story]

Related Topics:  Islam, Mohammed  Lasers  Optics and Photonics  Security (national and personal safety)  Solid-State Devices and Nanotechnology  

Engineering TV visited Michigan recently to talk with Prof. Heath Hofmann and hear what was going on in the area of power electronics. In three separate videos, Prof. Hofmann talks about his research, about power electronics at Michigan, and about the student team Michigan Hybrid Racing. [Full Story]

Related Topics:  Hofmann, Heath  Lab-Systems  

Professor Emerita Lynn Conway, who revolutionized Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) design, has been featured in a special edition of IEEE Solid-State Circuits Magazine. The issue includes her 24-page memoir and related articles by colleagues who offer their perspectives on the VLSI revolution. [Full Story]

Related Topics:  Computer Architecture  Conway, Lynn  Lab-Computer Engineering (CE Lab)  

Students in Prof. Elliot Soloway's Learning Apps for Primary Education course have built a suite of educational apps for K-12 students that are designed to spark self-directed, creative, and effective learning. The apps are being tested by the students in Singapore classrooms. Includes video. [Full Story]

Related Topics:  Diversity and Outreach  Lab-Interactive Systems  Mobile Computing  Soloway, Elliot  Technology for Education  

Former Associate Chair of Computer Science and Engineering Martha E. Pollack has been selected to serve as provost and executive vice president for academic affairs of the University of Michigan by President Mary Sue Coleman. Pollack has served as the university's vice provost for academic and budgetary affairs since 2010. [Full Story]

Related Topics:  Lab-Artificial Intelligence  Pollack, Martha  

Prof. David Wentzloff, assistant professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, was recently awarded an NSF CAREER award for his research project, "Ultra-Low Power Radios for Energy-Autonomous Systems." [Full Story]

Related Topics:  Integrated Circuits and VLSI  Internet of Things  Lab-Michigan Integrated Circuits (MICL)  Millimeter-scale Computing  Sensors  Wentzloff, David  Wireless Communications  

Prof. Zhaohui Zhong, assistant professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, was recently awarded an NSF CAREER award for his research project, "Graphene Heterostructures Based Hot Carrier Optoelectronics." [Full Story]

Related Topics:  Graphene  Optics and Photonics  Optoelectronics  Solid-State Devices and Nanotechnology  Zhong, Zhaohui  

Dr. Kurt Metzger, Associate Research Scientist Emeritus, was recognized with a special award by the department in recognition of his outstanding contributions to student understanding and appreciation of applied signal processing, and in particular, of extraordinary contributions to the major design course EECS 452: Digital Signal Processing Laboratory. [Full Story]

The EECS Outstanding Achievement Awards are presented annually to faculty members for their outstanding accomplishments in teaching, research, and service. The recipients of the 2013 EECS Outstanding Achievement Award are David Blaauw, Wei Lu, and Z. Morley Mao. [Full Story]

Related Topics:  Blaauw, David  Lab-Software Systems  Lu, Wei  Mao, Zhuoqing Morley  

An anticipated 500 student hackers from across the country and Canada will converge on Ann Arbor by the busload this weekend for MHacks, a two-day hackathon organized by University of Michigan student groups Michigan Hackers and MPowered Entrepreneurship. [Full Story]

Mark Kushner, George I. Haddad Professor of EECS, has been appointed to the advisory board for the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) for a four-year term. PPPL is a major U.S. Department of Energy funded research center established for collaborative work in fusion energy research. [Full Story]

Related Topics:  Kushner, Mark J.  

Ten different ECE faculty are teaming up with colleagues across the University - from Epidemiology to Political Science, Ophthalmology to Psychiatry, Neurosurgergy to Astronomy - to pursue new initiatives deemed to have major societal impact in the U-M MCubed program. [Full Story]

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Thanks to the University of Michigan MCubed program, EECS faculty are teaming up with colleagues across the University - from Epidemiology to Political Science, Ophthalmology to Psychiatry, Neurosurgergy to Astronomy - to pursue new initiatives deemed to have major societal impact. Take a look at the 15 projects successfully cubed. [Full Story]

Students in the course Monolithic Amplifier Circuits earned cash prizes for their final projects, all implemented in a commercial 0.13m CMOS process. The winning projects were "A Rail to Rail Class AB Amplifier" and "Ultra Low Power Crystal Oscillator." [Full Story]

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For the first time, researchers probed the interior of highly dense plasmas using the world's most intense tabletop laser called HERCULES, located in the Center for Ultrafast Optical Science (CUOS). Scientists are now able to study very dense plasmas, which has important implications for nuclear fusion energy and astrophysical research. [Full Story]

Related Topics:  Center for Ultrafast Optical Science (CUOS)  HERCULES  Lasers  Plasma Science and Engineering   

The University of Michigan is home to the new Center for Future Architectures Research, which is led by Prof. Todd Austin. The center includes the participation of researchers from 14 other major institutions and is funded by the Semiconductor Research Corporation. Six additional EECS faculty are participating as investigators at C-FAR or at three other newly-funded SRC centers. [Full Story]

Related Topics:  Austin, Todd  Bertacco, Valeria  Computer Architecture  Fu, Kevin  Lab-Computer Engineering (CE Lab)  Mahlke, Scott  

Three EECS faculty have received awards from the College of Engineering: Peter Chen (Undergraduate Teaching Award), Jeffrey Fessler (Research Excellence Award), and Andrew Yagle (Service Excellence Award). Congratulations! [Full Story]

Related Topics:  Chen, Peter M.  Fessler, Jeffrey  Lab-Software Systems  Yagle, Andrew E.  

Arbor Photonics, co-founded in 2007 by Prof. Almantas Galvanauskas, was recently acquired by nLIGHT, a semiconductor laser maker. Prof. Galvanauskas, who will be on their technical board, "pioneered the development of a proprietary technology it calls Chirally-Coupled Core (3C)." The technology "is said to enable state-of-the-art high-power fiber lasers with peak powers of up to 100 kW." [Optics.org article] [Full Story]

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