CSL Director William H. Sanders, a Donald Biggar Willett Professor of Engineering, has been named interim head of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering.

Twenty years ago, most people didn’t own a cell phone, let alone a phone that could connect to the Internet, take photos or memorize voice recordings. The computer chips in these old phones, or other devices such as appliances, cars or even power plants, weren’t attractive targets to cyber intruders; however, as these devices have advanced, they have become a prime target for malicious attacks.

CSL researcher Rob Rutenbar was selected as one of the recipients of the 2013 Donald O. Pederson Best Paper Award.

CSL Professor Sayan Mitra recently received a 1-year, $108,682 grant from Samsung’s Global Research Outreach Program to look into the problem of debugging mobile-cloud applications.

CS Professor Vikram Adve was named a recipient of the ACM Software System Award for his work on LLVM, an infrastructure designed to help build compilers and other programming tools for a variety of programming languages.

CSL professor Shobha Vasudevan was named the 2013 ACM SIGDA Outstanding New Faculty Award recipient. Vasudevan, an assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering, will be presented the award at the Design Automation Conference (DAC) in June. DAC, the premier conference for design automation, is attended by several thousand of researchers, academics, engineers and designers each year.

CSL Professor Rakesh Kumar and University of Minnesota Assistant Professor John Sartori, a former CSL graduate student, have received a $300,000, 3-year grant from the National Science Foundation and the Semiconductor Research Corporation