News

Nov 25, 2019
Sun Receives Prestigious Humboldt Research Award
ECE Professor Nian Sun was awarded the prestigious Humboldt Research Award by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.

Nov 22, 2019
Restuccia Wins ISSNAF Mario Gerla Award
ECE Associate Research Scientist Francesco Restuccia was selected by the ISSNAF to receive the 2019 Mario Gerla Award for Young Investigators in Computer Science.

Nov 20, 2019
Martinez-Lorenzo Awarded Patent to Detect Security Threats
MIE/ECE Assistant Professor Jose Martinez-Lorenzo awarded a patent for creating an “Ultrasonic-based system for detection of metallic security threats containers on cargo”.
Nov 15, 2019
$100k Konica Minolta Gift award for Raymond Fu
ECE Professor Yun “Raymond” Fu’s received $100k Gift from Konica Minolta for his research on generic video understanding.

Nov 15, 2019
Finding Deep Neural Network Vulnerabilities
ECE Assistant Professor Xue “Shelley” Lin designed a t-shirt to prevent a deep neural network from detecting it, which will allow them to improve the security of the systems.

Nov 14, 2019
ECE Wins Best Paper Award at WiNTECH
Computer Engineering PhD student Lorenzo Bertizzolo, along with co-authors PhD student Leonardo Bonati, ECE Research Assistant Professor Emrecan Demirors, and Professor Tommaso Melodia won the Best Paper Award at the 13th ACM Workshop on Wireless Network Testbeds, Experimental evaluation & Characterization (WiNTECH) in Los Cabos, Mexico.
Nov 13, 2019
Graduate Students Awarded Fellowships
Congratulations to the College of Engineering PhD students who were awarded the Alsaif Fellowship and Dissertation Completion Fellowships.

Nov 12, 2019
ECE Team Wins Best Paper Award at IEEE DySPAN 2019
ECE PostDoc Andrey Gritsenko, Computer Engineering PhDs Zifeng Wang, Tong Jian, Professor Jennifer Dy, Associate Professor Kaushik Chowdhury, and Assistant Professor Stratis Ioannidis received the best paper award at the IEEE DySPAN 2019 conference for their paper on “Finding a ‘New’ Needle in the Haystack: Unseen Radio Detection in Large Populations Using Deep Learning”.