News Stories
Prosthetic arms can provide controlled sensory feedback, study finds
04/27/2018 - 09:15 Aadeel Akhtar, an M.D./Ph.D. student and CSL alumnus at Illinois, developed a control algorithm to give prosthetic arm users reliable sensory feedback along with CSL & AE Prof. Timothy Bretl
Grace Gao receives NSF CAREER award for UAV research
04/25/2018 - 14:15 Grace Gao will research autonomous systems, such as self-driving cars and unmanned aerial vehicles, through the National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program.
Three CSL faculty receive Chan Zuckerberg Initiative grants
04/20/2018 - 07:30 Olgica Milenkovic, Idoia Ochoa, and Lav Varshney have received grants from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative DAF.
Waldrop and Qin awarded NSF grant to model hydrogen atoms in atmosphere
04/17/2018 - 09:00 CSL Assistant Professor Lara Waldrop's research team has been awarded a grant by the NSF for a proposal on modeling hydrogen atoms in the terrestrial atmosphere.
Adve, Team Awarded $5.6 Million to Streamline Complex Modern Software
04/16/2018 - 14:30 CSL Professor and Interim CS Department Head Vikram Adve will lead a five-year, $5.6 million effort to reduce the complexity and size of modern software systems, using his groundbreaking work creating the LLVM compiler infrastructure as part of the project.
New atmospheric wave phenomenon observed after solar eclipse
04/11/2018 - 11:00 CSL Professor Jonathan J. Makela, his students, and others have discovered evidence of a "long hypothesized atmospheric phenomenon, a giant wave traveling thousands of miles triggered by the abrupt night of the eclipse."
Hu builds defense against attacks on Internet of Things devices
04/02/2018 - 10:15 CSL Professor Yih-Chun Hu, associate professor of electrical and computer engineering, received an NSF grant to develop a technique to stop a type of cyberattack called distributed denial-of-service (DDoS).
Bernhard becomes interim director of the Applied Research Institute
03/29/2018 - 13:30 Donald Biggar Willett Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering Jennifer Bernhard has been named as the interim director of the Applied Research Institute (ARI) while continuing her current role as associate dean for research in the College of Engineering.
Ag robot speeds data collection, analyses of crops as they grow
03/15/2018 - 14:00 Agricultural and biological engineering and CSL professor Girish Chowdhary is leading a team that includes crop scientists, computer scientists and engineers in developing TerraSentia, a crop phenotyping robot.
Senate hearing highlights grid defense
03/14/2018 - 11:15 On March 1, ECE ILLINOIS Department Head William H Sanders was part of a hearing in front of the U.S. Senate that advocated for the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to stop issuing new cybersecurity standards to allow the electric industry to develop innovative defenses to vulnerable industrial control systems.
Kumar encourages India to have a more accepting approach to cryptocurrencies
03/07/2018 - 14:30 ECE and CSL Associate Professor Rakesh Kumar penned an opinion piece for The Statesman, noting how the combined value of cryptocurrencies recently broke past half a trillion dollars which is higher than the GDP of several top-20 world economies.
Miller uses toxic waste data to help keep Zcash transactions secure
03/07/2018 - 10:15 CSL Professor Andrew Miller used measurements from radioactive decay to help secure Zcash, a privacy-oriented cryptocurrency.
Sanders returns to DC to discuss cybersecurity
02/27/2018 - 13:15 The United States Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources has invited William Sanders to testify at a full committee hearing on Thursday, March 1, 2018, at 9 a.m. CST.
Kumar recognized for exemplary cooperation with students
02/27/2018 - 13:00 ECE Associate Professor and Coordinated Science Lab researcher Rakesh Kumar has been honored with the Stanley H. Pierce Faculty Award.
Hovakimyan's groundbreaking flight control system undergoes third round of testing
02/27/2018 - 11:45 CSL Professor Naira Hovakimyan is poised to enter into an unprecedented third round of flight tests using her L1 adaptive control system.
Hwu elected IEEE TCuARCH chair
02/20/2018 - 14:30 CSL Professor Wen-Mei W Hwu, AMD Jerry Sanders Chair of Electrical and Computer Engineering, was recently elected the IEEE Technical Committee on Microprogramming and Microarchitecture (TCuARCH) Chair.
Voulgaris secures grant to develop fast, distributed optimization methods
02/19/2018 - 11:30 CSL Professor Petros Voulgaris has received a three-year collaborative grant from the National Science Foundation.
Researchers find tweeting in cities lower than expected
02/15/2018 - 16:00 CSL Professor Lav Varshney and his team studied tweeting behavior in urban communities, finding there is less tweeting per capita in larger cities.
Four CSL faculty win College of Engineering faculty awards
02/15/2018 - 14:30 This year, the College of Engineering at Illinois list of faculty award recipients includes four CSL faculty members: Tim Bretl, Lui Sha, Sayan Mitra, and Wen-Mei Hwu.