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Monday, December 17, 2018

Teaching drones how to learn on the fly

ECE and CMU Silicon Valley Professor Bob Iannucci and ECE Ph.D. candidate Ervin Teng are using machine learning and a simulation training tool to teach drones how to learn in real-time in what they call “autonomous curiosity.”
Tuesday, December 11, 2018

CyLab researchers quoted in NYT

CyLab's Marios Savvides, Lujo Bauer, Jason Hong, Kathleen Carley, Martin Carlisle, and Carolina Zarate were featured in a New York Times piece about various ongoing research thrusts in CyLab to help combat cyberattacks.
Tuesday, December 11, 2018

A universal memory

Professors Larry Pileggi and Jimmy Zhu were recently awarded a patent for a cutting-edge form of memory device which they’ve termed “magnetic shift register.”
Monday, December 03, 2018

One framework to rule them all

ECE Assistant Professor George Amvrosiadis is part of a team from CMU’s PDL and Los Alamos National Lab designing a record-breaking file system framework for the next era of supercomputing.
Monday, November 26, 2018

Strength training deep neural networks

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have grown popular with data-driven technological advances because they analyze and process incomprehensible sums of input. These systems are often swift and efficient. But given the amount of data processed, a DNN also encounters errors and slowdowns. To solve these issues, a team let by Pulkit Grover created a more efficient DNN called PolyDot coding.
Tuesday, November 20, 2018

Support Build18

Help us reach our goal of raising $6,000 to fund 20 teams for the build week in January 2019. Each accepted team receives a $300 budget for the parts for their project.
Monday, November 12, 2018

Former Marine sets up shop at CMU

It has been a decade since Quinn Hagerty’s enlistment in the United States Marine Corps ended, however, the lessons and skills he learned during his service are still valued today in his position as a lab technician in ECE.
Friday, November 09, 2018

Rowe discusses FCC's proposed plans to quicken Wi-Fi

According to Anthony Rowe, this change would provide faster Wi-Fi, nearly tripling the available bandwidth.
Wednesday, November 07, 2018

Researchers develop a new model that enables fast and accurate object detection

Franz Franchetti and research intern Vít Růžička have recently developed a new model that enables fast and accurate object detection in high-resolution 4K and 8K video footage using GPUs. Their research has been featured in Tech Xplore.
Wednesday, November 07, 2018

Graph reordering for an optimal future

In a paper granted the Best Paper Award at the IEEE International Symposium on Workload Characterization (IISWC) 2018, Vignesh Balaji, a Ph.D. candidate in electrical and computer engineering, and assistant professor Brandon Lucia investigated how the performance of graph processing applications could be improved using a technique called Graph Reordering.
Monday, November 05, 2018

Savvides comments on biometrics in airports

Popular Science quoted CyLab/ECE’s Marios Savvides in an article on biometric tech in airports.
Thursday, November 01, 2018

Transcending the transistor

Gianluca Piazza, professor of electrical and computer engineering, has developed a new form of switch called the piezoelectric nanoelectromechanical relay. This device, the subject of a recent patent award, could be the key to replacing semiconductor transistors in many applications.
CMU team to participate in the ARPA-E Grid Optimization Competition
Thursday, November 01, 2018

CMU team to participate in the ARPA-E Grid Optimization Competition

A team comprised of faculty from Carnegie Mellon University and University of Colorado Boulder were one of ten university teams selected to receive funding to participate in the ARPA-E Grid Optimization Competition.
CyLab faculty win big at the IEEE Cybersecurity Development Conference
Wednesday, October 24, 2018

CyLab faculty win big at the IEEE Cybersecurity Development Conference

CyLab faculty members Alessandro Acquisti, Lujo Bauer, Nicolas Christin, and Lorrie Cranor were presented with IEEE Cybersecurity awards at the IEEE Cybersecurity Development Conference, Oct. 2 in Boston.
How vehicle-to-vehicle communication could replace traffic lights and shorten commutes.
Tuesday, October 23, 2018

How vehicle-to-vehicle communication could replace traffic lights and shorten commutes.

A Carnegie Mellon startup aims to manage traffic at intersections by harnessing the radios in tomorrow’s cars.
Savvides voices support for TSA biometrics
Tuesday, October 16, 2018

Savvides voices support for TSA biometrics

The TSA announced a plan to increase its use of biometrics, such as facial recognition, to streamline the airport security process.
Optimizing computing systems
Monday, October 15, 2018

Optimizing computing systems

Joshi, assistant professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE), has been named a recipient of a 2018 IBM Faculty Award for her research in distributed machine learning.
Sekar on ransomware attacks and cybersecurity
Monday, October 08, 2018

Sekar on ransomware attacks and cybersecurity

Vyas Sekar was interviewed about the March 2017 ransomware attack on the Pennsylvania Senate Democratic Caucus.
Carnegie Mellon team dives into DARPA Subterranean Challenge
Monday, October 08, 2018

Carnegie Mellon team dives into DARPA Subterranean Challenge

A team from Carnegie Mellon University will compete in the systems track of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency Subterranean Challenge, a multi-year robotics competition with a $2 million prize in which robots will autonomously search tunnels, caves and underground structures.
Rajkumar on self-driving cars
Friday, October 05, 2018

Rajkumar on self-driving cars

Raj Rajkumar was interviewed about the progress of self-driving cars, and how much more research needs to be done for autonomous vehicles to surpass the driving abilities of humans.
Joe-Wong receives N2Women: Rising Stars in Computer Networking and Communications Award
Thursday, October 04, 2018

Joe-Wong receives N2Women: Rising Stars in Computer Networking and Communications Award

Carlee Joe-Wong, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering, has been named one of ten women in computer networking and communications who should be known and watched, according to N2Woman: Rising Stars in Computer Networking and Communications.
Rajkumar comments on autonomous vehicle company partnerships
Tuesday, October 02, 2018

Rajkumar comments on autonomous vehicle company partnerships

Raj Rajkumar was quoted in a Wired article about Ike’s self-driving trucks.
Rajkumar comments on public transit and minority involvement
Monday, October 01, 2018

Rajkumar comments on public transit and minority involvement

Raj Rajkumar spoke with The New York Times about Phoenix’s rail extension project and minority protests.
Carnegie Mellon Racing has breakout season
Monday, October 01, 2018

Carnegie Mellon Racing has breakout season

Carnegie Mellon Racing achieved multiple victories in the 2017-2018 season, capturing first place overall in the electric vehicle category at both Formula North and Formula SAE.
Providing secure and resilient naval software
Monday, September 24, 2018

Providing secure and resilient naval software

CMU Team Receives $7.5M Office of Naval Research Grant in Collaboration with Penn and Stanford on Software Complexity Reduction.
Secure and Private IoT Initiative
Thursday, September 20, 2018

Secure and Private IoT Initiative

Carnegie Mellon's CyLab launches initiative on IoT security with Amazon Web Services, Infineon Technologies, and Nokia Bell Labs
Koopman on self-driving car accidents
Monday, September 17, 2018

Koopman on self-driving car accidents

Apple’s first ever self-driving car crash occurred in Sunnyvale, CA, when a human-driven Nissan Leaf rear-ended the self-driving car.
An Impressionable Technology: creating shape-aware surfaces
Monday, September 17, 2018

An Impressionable Technology: creating shape-aware surfaces

WiSh, a shape-sensing technology, could shape how we interact with virtual reality and how we create smart cities.
USNWR ranks undergrad computer engineering program No. 1
Monday, September 10, 2018

USNWR ranks undergrad computer engineering program No. 1

USNWR ranks ECE as the #1 undergrad computer engineering program
Krishnan awarded 2018 Innovation Fellowship
Friday, September 07, 2018

Krishnan awarded 2018 Innovation Fellowship

Ashwati Krishnan (ECE postdoctoral researcher) received the fellowship for her work on the instrumentation and hardware development of ultra-high density electroencephalography (EEG).
Call for Code Challenge
Tuesday, September 04, 2018

Call for Code Challenge

Launched by IBM, Call for Code is a global initiative for developers around the world to help with disaster preparedness.
Rajkumar comments on Tesla crash in Wired
Monday, September 03, 2018

Rajkumar comments on Tesla crash in Wired

Wired quoted ECE’s Raj Rajkumar on why Tesla cars’ autonomous mode fails to avoid parked fire trucks.
Datta on discriminatory algorithms
Monday, August 27, 2018

Datta on discriminatory algorithms

Techfestival reported on ECE’s Anupam Datta’s research illuminating discriminatory biases in algorithms.
Vyas Sekar discusses skills gap in cybersecurity
Monday, August 27, 2018

Vyas Sekar discusses skills gap in cybersecurity

CNBC interviewed Vyas Sekar on the myths about cybersecurity employment.
Overcoming the human bottleneck with autonomy
Tuesday, August 21, 2018

Overcoming the human bottleneck with autonomy

On August 4, 2016, the mission of cyber autonomy was declared accomplished. Meanwhile, back in Pittsburgh, a CyLab graduate student quietly hacked away at her own research in cyber autonomy.
Rethinking social networks
Wednesday, August 08, 2018

Rethinking social networks

Radu Marculescu and his colleagues have created a new model of social network formation and evolution driven by the notion of “betweenness.”
Indoor location, location, location
Monday, August 06, 2018

Indoor location, location, location

A CMU team and a CMU spinout took first and second place, respectively, at the 2018 Microsoft Indoor Localization Competition.
PDL team tests new file system on Trinity supercomputer
Tuesday, July 31, 2018

PDL team tests new file system on Trinity supercomputer

A team from the Carnegie Mellon Parallel Data Lab (PDL) recently completed work with Los Alamos National Lab simulating physical phenomena involving as many as a trillion individual particles.
CMU, Bossa Nova to apply AI to retail analytics
Monday, July 30, 2018

CMU, Bossa Nova to apply AI to retail analytics

Carnegie Mellon University has announced a research partnership with Bossa Nova, the leading provider of real-time, on-shelf product data for the global retail industry, to develop and integrate artificial intelligence into service robots in retail stores nationwide.
Koopman comments on hurdles facing self-driving cars
Tuesday, July 24, 2018

Koopman comments on hurdles facing self-driving cars

Philip Koopman commented for TechRadar on the challenges that will need to be overcome in order to achieve safe, widespread deployment of self-driving vehicles.
Koopman explains how to keep self-driving cars safe
Tuesday, July 24, 2018

Koopman explains how to keep self-driving cars safe

Philip Koopman wrote an op-ed for The Hill explaining how automakers can maintain vehicle safety without sacrificing progress and technological innovation.
Multi-armed bandits: using algorithms for sequential decision-making
Monday, July 23, 2018

Multi-armed bandits: using algorithms for sequential decision-making

ECE Assistant Professor Gauri Joshi is investigating multi-armed bandit algorithms to make data-driven inference and decision-making faster and more efficient. She recently received the Berkman Faculty Development Award to aid her research and acquire real-world data sets to validate her findings.
Insight without Incision: Advances in noninvasive brain imaging offers improvements to epilepsy surgery
Monday, July 16, 2018

Insight without Incision: Advances in noninvasive brain imaging offers improvements to epilepsy surgery

Grover and team recently presented their work at the annual meeting of the American Clinical Neurophysiology Society.
Falcon joins the Institute for Defense Analyses
Thursday, July 12, 2018

Falcon joins the Institute for Defense Analyses

Carnegie Mellon University student, Kathleen Falcon joined the Institute for Defense Analyses (IDA) as a Summer Associate in IDA’s Operational Evaluation Division (OED).
Rajkumar quoted by Wired on AVs and pedestrians
Tuesday, July 10, 2018

Rajkumar quoted by Wired on AVs and pedestrians

Wired quoted ECE’s Raj Rajkumar on how autonomous vehicles might determine a pedestrian’s intent to cross a road.
Company that acquired CMU spinoff poised for future competition
Monday, July 09, 2018

Company that acquired CMU spinoff poised for future competition

Ottomatika, a Carnegie Mellon spinoff specializing in autonomous driving technology originally started by ECE’s Raj Rajkumar, was mentioned in a story in Forbes on competition for the future of the autonomous vehicle (AV) market.
Pricing and processing data far from the Cloud: Carlee Joe-Wong on the economics of the IoT
Monday, July 02, 2018

Pricing and processing data far from the Cloud: Carlee Joe-Wong on the economics of the IoT

Carlee Joe-Wong is working to establish the economic foundations for the next generation of computing.
Sekar and team discover internet vulnerabilities
Wednesday, June 27, 2018

Sekar and team discover internet vulnerabilities

The Register quoted a study by Vyas Sekar that uncovered how hackers exploit third-party internet services to hamper or stall website traffic.
Flying high
Monday, June 25, 2018

Flying high

Carnegie Mellon Rocket Command (CMRC) flew away from a NASA competition with a top 10 finish and an altitude award for coming closest to hitting a one-mile target launch altitude. It was the first time the team competed in the competition.
Alumna earns IJCAI Computers and Thought Award
Wednesday, June 20, 2018

Alumna earns IJCAI Computers and Thought Award

Devi Parikh was named recipient of the 2017 International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence Computers and Thought Award, which is considered to be the premier award for artificial intelligence researchers under the age of 35.
CMU and Howard offer dual engineering Ph.D. degrees
Wednesday, June 20, 2018

CMU and Howard offer dual engineering Ph.D. degrees

CMU Engineering and the College of Engineering and Architecture of Howard University are launching a new partnership that will include a dual-degree Ph.D. program and other initiatives.
Bettinger and Fedder create soft hydrogel brain implants
Monday, June 18, 2018

Bettinger and Fedder create soft hydrogel brain implants

BME/MSE’s Christopher Bettinger and ECE’s Gary Fedder are part of a team that created a new soft hydrogel material for use in developing non-invasive brain implants.
Sinopoli co-chairs and co-organizes Automotive CPS conference
Wednesday, June 13, 2018

Sinopoli co-chairs and co-organizes Automotive CPS conference

Bruno Sinopoli co-chaired and co-organized the 2018 MORE on Automotive: Cyber-Physical-Systems (Control, Robustness, Security) workshop at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia (UNIMORE).
Chen and Stamoulis receive 2018 Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship
Monday, June 11, 2018

Chen and Stamoulis receive 2018 Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship

ECE Ph.D. students Zhuo Chen and Dimitrios Stamoulis were awarded the 2018 Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship.
Rajkumar wary of self-driving vehicle manufacturer claims
Saturday, June 09, 2018

Rajkumar wary of self-driving vehicle manufacturer claims

“Consumers need to be extremely cautious about the claims being made,” says ECE’s Raj Rajkumar.
Kumar discusses impact of next-generation wireless technology
Friday, June 08, 2018

Kumar discusses impact of next-generation wireless technology

The Washington Post talked to Swarun Kumar about the various ways in which 5G technology will redefine the future, changing industries from architecture to the Internet of Things.
Your smart home may soon have a smarter way to pair your devices
Thursday, June 07, 2018

Your smart home may soon have a smarter way to pair your devices

Jun Han, a CyLab researcher and recent Ph.D. graduate in the department of Electrical and Computer Engineering presented a study titled "Do You Feel What I Hear? Enabling Autonomous IoT Device Pairing using Different Sensor Types" at the IEEE Security & Privacy Symposium in San Francisco.
Gao and Zhao can identify people by their breathing
Thursday, June 07, 2018

Gao and Zhao can identify people by their breathing

Co.Design reported ECE’s Yang Gao and Wenbo Zhao have researched how to detect occupants in a room by their breathing.
Moutis served as editor-in-chief to an IEEE legacy publication
Wednesday, June 06, 2018

Moutis served as editor-in-chief to an IEEE legacy publication

Panayiotis (Panos) Moutis served as editor-in-chief to an IEEE legacy publication that compiled 37 papers essential to smart grid technology.
Datta quoted on privacy and encryption
Wednesday, June 06, 2018

Datta quoted on privacy and encryption

Scientific American quoted Anupam Datta on privacy and encryption issues with AI assistants.
CMU-Africa to celebrate 5th graduation
Monday, June 04, 2018

CMU-Africa to celebrate 5th graduation

Carnegie Mellon University Africa will celebrate its fifth graduation on Tuesday, June 5, marking another year of the location advancing technology education in one of the fastest growing economic regions in the world. The 45 students will receive degrees in both information technology and electrical and computer engineering.
Rajkumar comments on autonomous trucking development
Monday, June 04, 2018

Rajkumar comments on autonomous trucking development

Raj Rajkumar commented for Ars Technica on how autonomous vehicle technologies are changing the future of the trucking industry.
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