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Jan 07, 2021
$1M DARPA Grant for Intelligent Diagnosis for Machine and Human-Centric Adversaries
ECE Assistant Professor Xue “Shelley” Lin, in collaboration with Michigan State University Professors Xiaoming Liu and Sijia Liu, received $1M funding from DARPA for their project titled Intelligent Diagnosis for Machine and Human-Centric Adversaries.
Jan 07, 2021
Outstanding Paper Award at ISOCC 2020
Electrical Engineering PhD student Yixuan He and ECE Professor Yong-Bin Kim received an outstanding paper award from 2020 IEEE International Soc Design Conference for their paper “An Ultra Low Power Tunable Bump Circuit using Source-Degenerated Differential Transconductor.”

Jan 07, 2021
Kim Awarded South Korean Patent for Autonomous Impedance Calibration on Semiconductor Devices
ECE Professor Yong-Bin Kim was awarded a South Korean Patent for creating an “Impedance calibration device for semiconductor device.”

Jan 07, 2021
Lin won in the U.S. DOT Inclusive Design Challenge
ECE Assistant Professor Xue “Shelley” Lin, in collaboration with University of Maine Professor Nicholas Giudice, won the U.S. Department of Transportation’s (DOT) Inclusive Design Challenge for their project “Autonomous Vehicle Assistant (Ava): Ride-hailing and localization for the future of accessible mobility” and will receive a $300K Stage I cash prize and advance to Stage II […]

Jan 06, 2021
Yeh named IEEE Distinguished Lecturer
ECE Professor Edmund Yeh has been named IEEE Communications Society Distinguished Lecturer for 2021-2022. Professor Yeh will deliver lectures on topics including data-centric network architectures, optimal caching, edge computing, wireless network optimization, and data-intensive science and engineering.

Jan 06, 2021
Wang organized the SpicyFL workshop at NeurIPS 2020
Yanzhi Wang, assistant professor at ECE, organized the SpicyFL Workshop on Scalability, Privacy, and Security in Federated Learning, at NeurIPS 2020. The workshop has 7 keynote talks, 1 panel, 10 paper presentations, and over 30 lightning talks.

Dec 16, 2020
A Better Alternative to One-Time Use Plastics
To reduce the need for one-time use plastics, MIE Assistant Professor Hongli “Julie” Zhu is using sugarcane and bamboo fibers to create biodegradable food containers.
Dec 16, 2020
ECE PhD Student Won 1st Place for Best Presentation at WISE 2020
Computer Engineering PhD student Siyue Wang is the 1st place winner of the best presentation in the Fourth Workshop for Women in Hardware and Systems Security (WISE 2020). She presented her recent work on “Intrinsic Examples: Robust Fingerprinting of Deep Neural Networks” with her advisor Assistant Professor Shelley Xue Lin.