News Stories
Four new faculty join CSL
01/08/2018 - 08:45 CSL welcomes Jian Huang, Aleksandr Stolyar, Ruoyu Sun, and Vadim Zharnitsky in January.
Wong honored as ACM Fellow for electronic design automation contributions
01/03/2018 - 11:00 CSL researcher Martin D F Wong has been named as a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), the world's largest educational and scientific computing society.
Four CSL faculty members named IEEE Fellows
12/20/2017 - 16:15 Four CSL faculty members have been named Fellows of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE): Olgica Milenkovic, Naira Hovakimyan, Marco Caccamo, and Andrew G Alleyne.
Basar named College of Engineering interim dean
12/19/2017 - 15:30 Tamer Başar has been named the interim dean of the campus’s College of Engineering, effective Jan. 16. A member of the Illinois faculty since 1981, Basar is a CSL faculty member, director of the Center for Advanced Study, and a professor of electrical and computer engineering.
"The Friendly Orange Glow" attracts renewed attention to CSL invention
12/19/2017 - 15:30 A new book is bringing renewed interest and attention to technology created at the Coordinated Science Lab by CSL and ECE Emeritus Professor Donald Bitzer.
Oh and Viswanath receive grant to develop privacy protocols to preserve anonymity online
12/19/2017 - 14:30 CSL Professors Sewoong Oh and Pramod Viswanath have received a grant to understand and help protect anonymous broadcasting online.
CSL team works to improve cyber-physical security
12/19/2017 - 14:00 CSL Professors Naira Hovakimyan, Petros Voulgaris, and Lui Sha receive grants to design more robust defenses against attacks to cyber-physical security systems.
Illinois researchers create method to simplify programming for clusters of computers
12/13/2017 - 14:00 CSL Professor Martin Wong and PhD student Tsung-Wei Huang developed a method to solve compute-intensive problems that use clusters of computers.
Hahn builds tools to monitor the security and understand the vulnerability of the power grid
11/27/2017 - 15:15 CREDC researcher Adam Hahn develops innovative methods to understand power grid vulnerabilities and bolster system security.
Illinois team claims victory at NVIDIA AI City Challenge
11/21/2017 - 11:45 The team from the Illinois Image Formation and Processing (IFP) group led by CSL Professor Thomas Huang won the NVIDIA AI City Challenge. Team members include Honghui Shi, Zhichao Liu, Yuchen Fan, and Xinchao Wang.
Bhamidipati recognized for developing method to locate attackers of the power grid
11/15/2017 - 14:15 CSL researchers Sriramya Bhamidipati and Grace Gao developed a method to locate power grid hackers using GPS signals, earning them a Best Presentation Award at the 2017 ION GNSS+ conference.
Cangellaris named vice chancellor for academic affairs and provost
11/15/2017 - 10:30 Andreas Cangellaris, the Urbana campus’s dean of the College of Engineering and a CSL faculty member, will begin Jan. 16 as the next vice chancellor for academic affairs and provost, pending approval by the University of Illinois Board of Trustees.
Discover Magazine questions modern society's resilience
11/14/2017 - 15:45 Discover magazine recently examined the potential resiliency of modern society through a historical, archeological lens. ITI Director David Nicol weighs in.
New curriculum will equip students when faced with ethical dilemmas in cybersecurity
11/02/2017 - 17:00 University of Illinois researchers are working to develop an academic curriculum focused specifically on cybersecurity ethics, with the goal of helping students to think through ethical challenges inherent in cybersecurity while they are developing technological skills.
Krishna recognized as a 2018 Siebel Scholar
10/31/2017 - 11:30 CSL and ECE graduate student Varun Badrinath Krishna’s work at the intersection of machine learning, computer security, and energy systems has earned him a spot in the Siebel Scholars Class of 2018.
Events explore how technology, creativity interact to imagine the future
10/25/2017 - 15:45 A series of events called Speculative Futures, on Nov. 3-4 and co-organized by CSL and the Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities, will bring artists together with technology innovators with the goal of sparking new creative projects at the intersection of computer science and science fiction.
Sanders testifies at Congressional hearing on resiliency
10/18/2017 - 16:00 ECE Department Head and CSL Professor William H. Sanders speaks to Congress about electric grid and cyber resiliency.
Illinois leads $25 million alliance to develop Internet of Battlefield Things
10/03/2017 - 08:30 The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has been selected to lead a $25 million initiative to develop the scientific foundations of a next-generation Internet of Battlefield Things (IoBT), designed to enable new predictive battlefield analytics and services.
Teachable, ultra-compact, autonomous, phenotyping robot introduced to investors, market
09/19/2017 - 14:30 Investors and executives in the agricultural industry are getting a first look at TerraSentia, a new-to-the-market agricultural robot that autonomously measures crop traits, developed at the University of Illinois.