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Oct 04, 2023
AI Impact: Claims It Could Lead to Shorter Work Week, Extended Lifespan
Ram Hariharan, an associate teaching professor and associate director of program management in Seattle, was featured in The National Desk article “AI Impact: Claims It Could Lead to Shorter Work […]
Oct 04, 2023
Using Iron Powder as a Renewable Energy Source
MIE Professors Yiannis Levendis, Hameed Metghalchi, and Associate Professor Randall Erb were awarded a $600,000 NSF grant, titled “A Study on Burning Iron Particles as Carbon-Free Circular Fuels With Co-Generation of Value-Added Nanomaterials,” to improve the process of burning iron to produce carbon-free renewable energy.
Oct 04, 2023
Sherman Center Venture Co-op: FindHer
Ananya Shah, a Venture Co-op student at the Sherman Center for Engineering Entrepreneurship Education, embodies what it means to be a woman in business. As a fourth-year data science and finance major, she has begun the initiative of taking what she has learned in the classroom and applying her skills to her growing company: FindHer.
Oct 04, 2023
Ergun Elected INFORMS Fellow
Ozlem Ergun, COE distinguished professor, MIE, was elected a Fellow of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) for her applications of operations research methods to humanitarian and health systems, emergency response, and transportation and logistics problems; and establishing a community of operations research professionals with interest in public programs.
Oct 03, 2023
Methods To Prevent Cyberattacks in Self-Driving Cars
ECE/Khoury Professor Kevin Fu is researching methods to prevent cyberattacks in self-driving cars caused by optical illusions.
Oct 02, 2023
From Classroom Project to Presented Paper
Electrical and computer engineering students Justin Kawakami, E’23, and Dominik Zajac, E’24, who both took the class EECE 4632 Hardware-Software Codesign for FPGA-Based Systems with Professor Miriam Leeser, turned one of their classroom projects into a paper that was presented at the IEEE High Performance Extreme Computing Conference.
Sep 28, 2023
AI and Machine Learning Help Researchers Get Audio From Still Images and Silent Videos
ECE/Khoury Professor Kevin Fu developed a machine learning tool called Side Eye that can extract audio from pictures and even muted videos.
Sep 28, 2023
Ganguly Leads New AI for Climate and Sustainability Focus Area
Auroop Ganguly, COE distinguished professor of CEE and director of the Sustainability and Data Sciences Laboratory (SDS Lab), is leading a new AI for Climate and Sustainability (AI4CaS) focus area to develop sophisticated new solutions around climate risk, resilience, and sustainability.