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Jan 30, 2014
Wil Robertson outthinks the cybercriminals
William Robertson, assistant professor of computer and information science and electrical and computer engineering Among researchers focused on cleaning up the world’s black market of Internet insecurity, Robertson is a leader—in large part because he has learned to think like a cybercriminal. This highly sophisticated set of hackers, members of a global Internet mafia, sit […]
Jan 30, 2014
Carey Rappaport makes security measures more transparent
Carey Rappaport, professor of electrical and computer engineering Rappaport and his team are developing technology for airport scanning that will make your trip through the security checkpoint faster—and that could make your flight safer. Existing millimeter wave scanners—the kind you’d walk through at any airport from Boston to Beijing—are good at distinguishing between skin and […]
Jan 29, 2014
Mosallaei Gets $500K Grant
ECE Associate Professor Hossein Mosallaei received a $500K AFOSR grant to investigate a new paradigm for light manipulation, Nanoantennas for Engineering Waves on the Surface. Dr. Mosallaei's research interests include Physics and Modeling of Materials, Hybridized Materials and Microwave and Photonic Systems.
Jan 29, 2014
Mi Receives $350K Air Force Young Investigator Award
ECE Assistant Professor Ningfang Mi received a $350K Air Force Young Investigator Award to Create An Integrated Management Layer To Administer Heterogeneous Resources in Dynamic Workflow Clusters. The United States Air Force Office of Scientific Research announced this month that Dr. Ningfang Mi will be among the 42 nationwide awardees of this year's prestigious Air […]
Jan 27, 2014
Students Win Paper Competition
Healthcare Systems Engineering Institute (HSyE) IE students Serpil Mutlu (PhD) and Rachel Miller (MS) won the 2014 Institute of Industrial Engineers graduate student healthcare paper competition for their paper "Optimizing Resident Based Teamlet Schedules to Improve Continuity in Primary Care". HSyE students seek to improve healthcare through research and engineering application methods. The Institute offers […]
Jan 23, 2014
Snow falls differently on the nanoscale
This time of year it’s not hard to imagine the world buried under a smooth blanket of snow. A picnic table on a flat lawn eventually vanishes as trillions of snowflakes collect around it, a crystalline sheet obscuring the normally-visible peaks and valleys of our summertime world. This is basically how scientists understand the classical theory […]
Jan 22, 2014
Huang Selected as Fellow
MIE Chair & Professor Hanchen Huang was selected to become a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) for his contributions to nanomechanics and nanofabrication. Dr. Huang's affiliations also include the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the Chinese Mechanical Engineering Society.
Jan 21, 2014
ECE Professor David Kaeli Delivers 2014 European HiPEAC Conference Keynote
ECE Professor David Kaeli delivered the keynote address on Monday in Vienna, Austria for the 2014 European Network of Excellence on High Performance and Embedded Architecture and Compilation (HiPEAC) conference. His address, entitled "The Road to New Programming Models and Architectures for Future Heterogeneous Systems," examined the widening gap between hardware technology and programming models. […]