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Jul 24, 2023
Enabling Data Privacy with GPU-Accelerated Encryption
ECE Professor David Kaeli, in collaboration with Ajay Joshi from Boston University, was awarded a $1.2M NSF grant for “Architecting GPUs for Practical Homomorphic Encryption-based Computing.”
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Jul 21, 2023
Securing Scientific Cyberinfrastructures from Advanced Attacks
ECE Assistant Professor Xiaolin Xu is leading a $1.2M NSF grant, in collaboration with ECE Professor Miriam Leeser and Mike Zink from the University of Massachusetts, for “CAREFREE:Cloud infrAstructure ResiliencE of the Future foR tEstbeds, accelerators and nEtworks.”
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Jul 21, 2023
Advancing Worldwide Navigation Security with Distributed AI
ECE Associate Professor Pau Closas and Assistant Research Professor Tales Imbiriba, in collaboration with Tampere University and the University of Vaasa in Finland, was awarded a $1.4M NSF award for “Distributed AI for enhanced security in satellite-aided wireless navigation (RESILIENT).”
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Jul 20, 2023
Enhancing Antenna Defense and Interference Control Using Smart Metamaterials
Vincent Harris, University Distinguished and William Lincoln Smith Professor, electrical and computer engineering, was awarded a patent for “Magnetodielectric metamaterials and articles including magnetodielectric metamaterials.”
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Jul 20, 2023
Advanced Electrochemical Sensors for Early Disease Detection
ECE Professor Nian X. Sun and ChE Associate Teaching Professor Adam Ekenseair were awarded a patent for “Molecularly-imprinted electrochemical sensors.”
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Jul 14, 2023
NSF CAREER Award to Enhance the Security of Machine Learning Hardware Accelerators
ECE Assistant Professor Xiaolin Xu was awarded a $600,000 NSF CAREER Award for “Securing Reconfigurable Hardware Accelerator for Machine Learning: Threats and Defenses.”
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Jul 14, 2023
Improving Efficiency of Data-Centric Computing
ECE Professor Edmund Yeh was awarded a patent for “Network and method for servicing a computation request.”
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Jul 06, 2023
New Faculty Spotlight: David Horsley
David Horsley joins the Electrical and Computer Engineering department in July 2023 as a Professor in Oakland, CA.