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Jul 26, 2023
Chowdhury Selected as Finalist for Blavatnik National Award in Physical Sciences & Engineering
ECE Professor Kaushik Chowdhury was selected as a finalist for the 2023 Blavatnik National Awards for Young Scientists in Physical Sciences & Engineering for addressing the global need of telecommunications spectrum scarcity, as well as improve connectivity by designing next generation wireless systems and machine learning-based network operations.
Jul 25, 2023
Enhancing Security for Brain-Inspired Computing
ECE Assistant Professor Xiaolin Xu, in collaboration with Shaolei Ren from the University of California-Riverside, was awarded a $600,000 NSF grant for “Securing Brain-Inspired Hyperdimensional Computing Against Design-time and Run-time Attacks for Edge Devices.”
Jul 24, 2023
$1.2M NSF Award for Enabling Data Privacy With GPU-Accelerated Encryption
ECE Professor David Kaeli, in collaboration with Ajay Joshi from Boston University, was awarded a $1.2 million NSF grant for “Architecting GPUs for Practical Homomorphic Encryption-based Computing.”
Jul 21, 2023
$1.2M NSF Award for Securing Scientific Cyberinfrastructures From Advanced Attacks
ECE Assistant Professor Xiaolin Xu is leading a $1.2 million 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.”
Jul 21, 2023
$1.4M NSF Award for 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, were awarded a $1.4 million NSF award for “Distributed AI for Enhanced Security in Satellite-aided Wireless Navigation (RESILIENT).”
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.”
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.”
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.”