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Jul 20, 2021
RFDataFactory: Categorized and Searchable Research Datasets
ECE Professor Kaushik Chowdhury (PI), William Lincoln Smith Chair Professor Tommaso Melodia (co-PI), and Assistant Professor Francesco Restuccia (co-PI) are leading a $1.8M NSF grant, in collaboration with Ashutosh Sabharwal from Rice University, for “RFDataFactory: Principled Dataset Generation, Sharing and Maintenance Tools for the Wireless Community.” RFDataFactory aims to make available categorized datasets suitable for research related to machine learning in 5G and beyond networks, and advance fundamental understanding and design tools for accessing, creating, sharing and storing wireless datasets.
Jul 20, 2021
ECE PhD Student Wins Best Student Paper Award at EFTF-IFCS 2021
ECE student Hussein M. E. Hussein, PhD’24, was awarded the 2021 Joint Conference of European Frequency and Time Forum & the IEEE International Frequency Control Symposium (EFTF-IFCS) Best Student Paper Award for Paper “Parametric Acoustic-Based Passive Transponders for Ultra-Sensitive Temperature and Temperature-Threshold Sensing.”

Jul 20, 2021
Investigating the Dynamics of Biochemical Systems
University Distinguished Professor Eduardo Sontag, ECE/BioE, is the PI of a $305K NSF grant for designing “New Techniques for Analyzing the Long-term Behavior of Intracellular Networks.” The project aims to develop an approach to the computer-aided analysis of biochemical networks and is based on research done in the Sontag Lab by Senior Research Scientist Muhammad Ali Al-Radhawi.

Jul 19, 2021
Yeh Named Inaugural Area Editor for IEEE Transactions on Information Theory
ECE Professor Edmund Yeh has been named the inaugural Area Editor in Networking and Computation for IEEE Transactions on Information Theory. The IEEE Transactions on Information Theory is a leading journal that […]

Jul 14, 2021
Automatically Detecting Computer Breaches in the Network
Khoury/ECE Professor Engin Kirda, in collaboration with Gianluca Stringhini from the Boston University, will be working on a $500K NSF grant for “Flanker: Automatically Detecting Lateral Movement in Organizations Using Heterogeneous Data and Graph Representation Learning.”

Jul 13, 2021
HARMONIA: Improved Data Center Resource Management
ECE Assistant Professor Devesh Tiwari, in collaboration with Mississippi State University, is leading a $500K NSF grant for creating “HARMONIA: New Methods for Colocating Multiple QoS-Sensitive Jobs.”

Jul 13, 2021
Pioneering a Data-Centric Approach to Distributed Machine Learning
ECE Associate Professor Stratis Ioannidis and ECE Professor Edmund Yeh, in collaboration with ECE Professor Carlee Joe-Wong from Carnegie Mellon University, have been awarded a $1M grant from the NSF to pioneer a data-centric approach to distributed machine learning.

Jul 09, 2021
Investigating Feedback Systems in Nature and Engineering
University Distinguished Professor Eduardo Sontag, electrical and computer engineering (ECE), jointly appointed in bioengineering, and affiliate faculty in chemical engineering and mathematics, was awarded a $750K grant from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research, titled “Network Motifs and Responses of Nonlinear Systems.”