News Stories
The Cat's Meow: Former CSL students revolutionize cat toy industry
03/15/2019 - 09:45 Students that pass through CSL have the potential to change the industries they enter after graduation. The industry these students revolutionized? Cat toys.
Former CSL student receives IEEE recognition of dissertation research
03/12/2019 - 16:30 While former student Mingu Kang is now a research staff member for IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, the research he conducted while at CSL is still being recognized.
Illinois Engineering names Dieckamp Endowed Chair in Engineering
03/07/2019 - 08:45 CSL Professor William H. Sanders was named Herman M. Dieckamp Endowed Chair in Engineering. The professorship is made possible by a gift from Illinois alumnus Herman Dieckamp.
Alleyne featured presenter at Indian Control Conference
03/05/2019 - 10:45 CSL's Andrew Alleyne was one of four plenary speakers at the fifth annual 2019 Indian Control Conference in January at IIT Delhi.
CSL professor looks to solve molecular imaging puzzle
03/04/2019 - 10:00 Using distances between points that can't be seen with the naked eye, CSL Assistant Professor Ivan Dokmanic is attempting to develop labels that would allow him to reassemble molecules.
Al-Hassanieh named Sloan Research Fellow
02/27/2019 - 09:15 CSL Assistant Professor Haitham Al-Hassanieh has been named as one of the 126 recipients of the 2019 Sloan Research Fellowships from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.
New group harnesses student thought process and creativity
02/25/2019 - 12:00 Students that get accepted into an Illinois engineering program are some of the best and brightest in the country. What happens when you give those students room to think and create? That is the idea behind the new startup company Alchemy.
14th Annual CSL Student Conference a success
02/19/2019 - 09:00 The CSL Student Conference has been a mecca for CSL’s graduate students for the last 14 years, and this year was no different.
CSL welcomes eight new faculty members
02/18/2019 - 10:30 This academic year, CSL is pleased to welcome eight new faculty members, all of whom are also new to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Nahrstedt receives the 2018 Robert Piloty Prize for outstanding research
02/14/2019 - 15:45 CSL Director Klara Nahrstedt has received the 2018 Robert Piloty Prize for her contributions to multimedia systems and networks research.
Designing technology with security in mind
02/14/2019 - 09:15 Systems would be safer if security measures were built in from the start - The idea behind CSL Associate Professor Mohamed Belabbas’ project, “Collaborative research: Foundations of secure multi-agent networked systems.”
Miller lays foundation for tomorrow’s blockchain technology
02/12/2019 - 11:00 CSL’s Andrew Miller is working to lay the foundation to expand the ability of blockchains in his new project, “Automated Support for Writing High-Assurance Smart Contracts.”
Experts call for national research integrity advisory board
02/11/2019 - 10:30 It’s been proposed before, but so far no one has heeded the call for an official advisory board to support ethical behavior in research institutions. Recently, leaders in academia with expertise in the professional and ethical conduct of research have formalized a proposal to finally assemble such an advisory board
Kumar and engineers aspire to build computer with 40 GPUs
02/05/2019 - 08:45 CSL Assistant Professor Rakesh Kumar and his team of engineers will be proposing a wafer-scale computer consisting of 40 GPUs at the IEEE International Symposium on High-Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA) this month.
University of Illinois researchers collaborate to reduce labor shortage, develop ag robots
02/04/2019 - 10:15 A diverse group of researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign are working together to develop robots capable of reducing the agricultural industry’s reliance on manual labor.
Future environments: Naira Hovakimyan discusses how imaging and AI can aid farmers
01/31/2019 - 13:45 CSL Professor Naira Hovakimyan discusses how drones, planes, satellites, and artificial intelligence will help farmers meet the food needs of a growing world population.
Clowder awarded $5 Million from NSF
01/28/2019 - 10:00 NSF has awarded $5 million to bring together the Clowder community, an open source data management tool based on active curation, developed at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications in conjunction with CSL and Civil and Environmental Engineering.
After three years, CAEML celebrates its accomplishments
01/22/2019 - 11:45 Now in its third year, the Center for Advance Electronics through Machine Learning (CAEML) is celebrating its accomplishments, while announcing seven new projects.
Chen and Choudhury elevated as IEEE Fellows
01/16/2019 - 10:00 Two CSL Professors have been elevated to IEEE Fellows for their contributions to the industry.