News Stories
President's Executive Leadership Program Fellow
08/15/2018 - 14:00 Out of more than 60 nominations from across the three Illinois universities in the system, CSL professor Jennifer Bernhard has been announced as one of the 2018-19 President's Executive Leadership (PELP) Fellows.
Lu wins 2018 sigmetrics Test-Of-Time award
08/07/2018 - 15:30 CSL Associate Professor Yi Lu was awarded the 2018 ACM SIGMETRICS Test of Time Award for her group's work "Counter braids: a novel counter architecture for per-flow measurement."
Illinois to lead $8.3 million initiative to design energy-efficient computing for autonomous platforms
07/26/2018 - 12:30 The team will develop novel computing technologies that addresses the needs of autonomous sensory platforms that make mission-critical decisions in real-time, within strict thermal limits and while withstanding high-radiation space environments.
University of Illinois, Micron enhance speed and battery life of mobile, IoT devices with deep in-memory architecture
07/25/2018 - 10:15 The research team, led by University of Illinois Professor Naresh Shanbhag, recently won a best paper at the 2018 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits & Systems (ISCAS) for work that applies DIMA to NAND flash, a solid-state memory.
Srikant recognized with IEEE Koji Kobayashi Computers and Communications Award
07/24/2018 - 15:15 CSL Professor R. Srikant, who conducts research at the Coordinated Science Lab, was recently awarded the IEEE Koji Kobayashi Computers and Communications Award "for contributions to congestion control and scheduling in computer communication networks."
Illinois receives $1.5 million to lower cost, improve viability of DNA data storage
07/17/2018 - 13:30 The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is undertaking a $1.5 million effort to produce new DNA-based storage nanoscale devices using chimeric DNA, a hybrid molecule made from two different sources.
CSL graduate student receives Microsoft grant for work on augmented listening tech
07/17/2018 - 10:30 Corey was recently awarded a 2018 Microsoft Research Dissertation Grant, one of 11 recipients selected from nearly 200 applicants, to develop devices and algorithms that will enhance audio signals in noisy environments.
Illinois' crop-counting robot earns top recognition at leading robotics conference
07/10/2018 - 10:00 A robot developed by the University of Illinois to find genes that produce high-yielding, hardy traits in crop plants' DNA was recognized by the best systems paper award at Robotics: Science and Systems, the preeminent robotics conference held last week in Pittsburgh.
Infographic: Changing the Future of Cognitive Computing with C3SR
06/22/2018 - 17:15 IBM is in partnership with CSL and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign research group - The Center for Cognitive Computing Systems Research (C3SR). Together, they are working on solutions that will help accelerate innovation in the world of cognitive computing.
IFP team takes first in international human parsing contest
06/20/2018 - 16:30 The winning team consists of members from Illinois, Beijing Jiaotong University, and IBM as part of the research efforts sponsored IBM-ILLINOIS Center for Cognitive Computing Systems Research (C3SR), a multi-year collaboration based at CSL.
Graduate student, alumna win at Midwest Machine Learning Symposium
06/20/2018 - 12:30 A team of researchers, including ECE ILLINOIS graduate student Cesar Augusto Uribe Meneses, recently won one of three Best Poster Awards at the 2018 Midwest Machine Learning Symposium in Chicago.
Oelze named ECE ILLINOIS Associate Head for Graduate Affairs
06/13/2018 - 10:30 Oelze served many years on the departmental Graduate Committees and several faculty search committees and has been honored many times on the "List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent By Their Students."
C3SR Collaboration Leverages Data To Integrate Machine Learning Into Our Daily Lives
05/31/2018 - 15:45 A collaboration between ECE ILLINOIS, CS @ ILLINOIS, CSL and IBM seeks to leverage vast data sets and advances in computing into useful tools for everything from medicine and education to helping banks manage risks.
Infographic: Learning to See in the Dark - A Peek at Progress
05/24/2018 - 13:45 We interviewed ECE and CSL PhD student Chen Chen on a published paper he worked on called, "Learning to See in the Dark." Grainy and dark photos may soon be thing of the past.
Hassanieh receives NSF CAREER Award to leverage benefits of new high frequency spectrums
05/17/2018 - 12:00 CSL researcher Haitham Hassanieh, assistant professor in electrical and computer engineering and computer science, was recently awarded a 5-year, $550,000 NSF CAREER Award to address the challenges of mmWave bands.
Sanders Honored for Leadership with Campus Award
05/17/2018 - 09:00 ECE ILLINOIS Department Head and CSL Prof. Sanders, was one of four University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign faculty members who were honored on April 25 with Campus Awards for Excellence in Faculty Leadership.
CSL alumnus, faculty receive College of Engineering awards
05/14/2018 - 09:00 This spring, six CSL faculty and alumni received awards for their contributions. Each year, Illinois’ College of Engineering honors faculty, alumni and students for their excellent work in their respective fields.
Infographic: A Peek at Progress
05/03/2018 - 11:30 How can we get deep neural networks on devices? Check out our new infographic series to learn about how Prof. Varshney and his student Sourya Basu created a lossless algorithm that can compress a deep neural network onto a device.
CREDC Researchers Leverage Blockchain To Protect Power Grid Supply Chain
05/01/2018 - 12:00 Andrew Miller and Sachin Shetty are leading a research project that seeks to develop a blockchain-based tool that will provide provenance for the power grid supply chain.