News
Feb 07, 2014
Reconfigurable RF systems
ECE Assistant Professor Matteo Rinaldi received a $524K DARPA grant to develop high level intrinsically switchable and programmable MEMS filter arrays. This proposal seeks the development of an intrinsically switchable and frequency programmable piezoelectric Micro Electro Mechanical System (MEMS) resonator technology platform capable of delivering field programmable filtering in an extremely miniaturized form factor (< […]
Jan 30, 2014
David Kaeli pioneers crowd threat analysis
Dave Kaeli, professor of electrical and computer engineering Kaeli is designing crowd analytics platforms to automatically identify suspicious behavior in vulnerable gathering places, such as transportation hubs and concert halls—and he is the first in this field to solve the data processing issues by employing graphics processing units. Continuous detection of individual threats in crowded […]
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 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. […]
Jan 21, 2014
Fu Receives INNS Young Investigator Award
Electrical and Computer Engineering and College of Computer and Information Science Assistant Professor Y. Raymond Fu received the 2014 International Neural Network Society’s Young Investigator Award for his contributions in the field of Neural Networks. The INNS Young Investigator Award is presented to researchers with no more than five years of postdoctoral experience for significant contributions in the […]