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Could censorship end the internet as we know it? Not if Roya Ensafi can help it.

The award recognizes Prof. Wenisch’s contributions to memory persistency and energy-efficient systems.

The ability to precisely tune electrical polarization switching through molecular beam epitaxy is a gamechanger

The researchers look to increase the diversity of the STEM workforce.

Scarborough was recognized by the European Conference on Antennas and Propagation for developing a superior method to model and simulate traveling-wave modulation along two dimensions in metamaterials.

"Our discovery is a real game-changer. I’ve never seen such stability."

The paper introduces new hardware and software design principles to improve the performance of several important large-scale irregular workloads.

By putting a twist on new “2D” semiconductors, researchers have demonstrated their potential for using single photons to transmit information.

University of Michigan’s MORPHEUS technology emerges unscathed from bug bounty effort.

A new wireless system can sense when N95 facemasks are properly decontaminated in moist-heat.

Twelve students and faculty co-authored papers spanning several key application areas for AI.

Prof. Mingyan Liu is a key member of a project to mitigate bias in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning systems for long-term equitable outcomes.

More than 250 students had a hand in a satellite launching on January 10th, the first in space for a project to keep nanosats in orbit by harnessing Earth’s magnetic field.

Research led by Prof. Stephen Rand, Director of the Center for Dynamic Magneto-optics (DYNAMO), has important potential for energy conversion, ultrafast switching, nanophotonics, and nonlinear optics.

Rather than installing new “2D” semiconductors in devices to see what they can do, this new method puts them through their paces with lasers and light detectors.

Today, over 225 million websites are protected by free certificates issued by Let’s Encrypt.

Johanna Mathieu is one of four principal investigators on a project to improve home energy efficiency and to lower monthly utility bills.

In S1E1, Prof. Zetian Mi talks unlocking quantum properties to close the loop on carbon emissions.

New technology provides a contactless method to add respiratory rate and heart rate to temperature readings .

In a project funded by National Geographic, ECE researchers are teaming up with the department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology to advance our understanding of monarch butterfly migration with the most ambitious iteration of the Michigan Micro Mote yet.

The award recognizes early career faculty who show great promise in developing future computing technologies.

University of Michigan researchers have been awarded an NSF grant to design an open source framework for robotic prosthetic legs that function more naturally and offer a wider range of capabilities.

A self-erasing chip for security and anti-counterfeit tech.

Plasma science has the potential to speed advances in medicine, energy, electronics and more—including helping us deal with pandemics.

By reflecting nearly all the light they can’t turn into electricity, they help pave the way for storing renewable energy as heat.

Computing is a tool for getting things done. Let’s teach it that way.

Prof. Yogesh Gianchandani and Dr. Yutao Qin received an “Outstanding Paper Award” for their fully electronic micro gas chromatography system.

Research led by Prof. Zetian Mi to advance LEDs for high-efficiency, high-performance displays is recognized with the Distinguished Paper Award from the Society for Information Display.

Prof. Euisik Yoon and his team are recognized for their work designing low-noise, multisite/multicolor optoelectrodes that will help neurologists learn more about neural connectivity in the brain.

ECE postdoc Melissa Haskell works on improving functional magnetic resonance imaging so we can better measure and understand brain activity.

The WAND wireless sensor developed in a collaboration between Total, an oil & gas company, and the University of Michigan is revolutionizing well monitoring

Ironpatch could head off growing danger of security vulnerabilities in vehicle systems.

Transparent solar panels on windows could take a bite out of a building’s electricity needs.

Brighter, crisper screens that draw half the power and lasts twice as long are possible with NS Nanotech’s next-gen LEDs.

A new secure code is needed to protect private information from the power of quantum computing.

A new system called Leap earned a Best Paper award at USENIX ATC ‘20 for producing remote memory access speed on par with local machines over data center networks.

Guo is working to boost the visibility of autonomous cars for improved safety, and Mi is building a prototype solar hydrogen production system that could out-compete electric cars.

Getting rid of some gears enabled a free-swinging knee, regenerative braking and brought the noise level down from vacuum cleaner to fridge.

Prof. Kamal Sarabandi and ECE PhD student Navid Barani won a best paper award for their research on how biological cells may use electromagnetic signal transmission to communicate.

Michigan Engineers change the game by making a conductive coating that’s also anti-reflective.

“The technology can give users the confidence they deserve when reusing respirators or other PPE.”

A new application for an ongoing NSF project could bolster contract tracing efforts.

To improve the prediction and identification of stem-like cancer cells, Prof. Euisik Yoon’s group developed a method that is 3.5 times faster than the standard approach.

‘Noncritical’ in-person research begins ramping up, with public-health protocols.

The symposium highlighted new developments in computer architecture, and included a session on how the center's research can contribute to limiting the impact of pandemics.

It will now be possible to study brain activity when timing is important, such as the consolidation of memory.

A major defense project pivots to explore how to encourage COVID-safe behavior effectively.

The algorithm can pick out weak signals from nuclear weapons materials, hidden in ordinary radiation sources like fertilizer.

Prof. David Wentzloff’s paper examining the trends and techniques to achieve ultra-low power receivers was honored by the IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference

Daily webinars available for teachers interested in exploring the free customizable tools.

Room-temperature plasma beams could essentially dissolve away bacteria and viruses.

Five multidisciplinary research teams are working on projects to assist with the coronavirus outbreak and to help find solutions to pressing problems.

Prof. Ahmadi will contribute to the science and technology of efficient, high-frequency, high-power transistors for 5G and beyond

Voxel51, a U-M startup led by Prof. Jason Corso, uses custom AI to continuously track vehicle, cyclist, and pedestrian traffic in real time at some of the most visited places in the world.

A wrist-worn device detected disrupted sleep 24 hours before study participants began shedding flu viruses.

Collaborative website launched while U-M researchers continue advanced testing.

Subarno Banerjee uses program analysis to improve software systems’ safety and security.

Accurate gyroscopes are a bottleneck for backup navigation systems in autonomous vehicles.

Mahdavifar is preparing for a future of billions of connected devices and an unprecedented increase in mobile traffic.

Prof. Al-Thaddeus Avestruz and PhD student Xin Zan were honored at the IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition for their work improving the efficiency and reliability of wireless power transfer.

By looking at tissue oxygen and cell metabolism at the same time, doctors could have a fast and noninvasive way to monitor the health of brain cells.

Researchers demonstrated the use of stacked, transparent graphene photodetectors combined with image processing algorithms to produce 3D images and range detection.

Kim takes an interdisciplinary approach to tackle challenges in heterogeneous classes of energy-efficient and versatile communication systems.

A catalyst on a solar panel can make methane, the main component of natural gas, with carbon dioxide, water and sunlight.

Prof. Hun-Seok Kim helped design iGYM, an augmented reality system that allows disabled and able-bodied people to play physical games together.

Prof. Euisik Yoon and his team developed a new machine learning tool that enables large-scale testing of cancer drug effectiveness with microfluidics.

The CSE faculty include Prof. David Fouhey, Prof. Danai Koutra, Prof. Rada Mihalcea, and Research Scientist Veronica Perez-Rosas.

Thin film transistors stacked on top of a state-of-the-art silicon chip could help shrink electronics while improving performance.

U-M researchers have created a new means of enabling reliable wireless underwater communication, which could aid military, environmental, and conservation purposes.

The three-petawatt system could unlock secrets of the universe, advance cancer treatments, improve security screenings for nuclear threats, and much more.

Prof. Ahmadi will investigate promising new materials needed for an increasingly electrified world

Phillips – who specializes in optoelectronic devices for next generation infrared detectors, solar cells, and thin film electronics – shares his goals for the 13,500 sq. ft. state-of-the-art cleanroom facility.

Hero and Lindquist took a few minutes to talk about the impact of machine learning on Signal Processing and Control Systems, and what they plan to do about it

Pioneering computer technology that is spurring innovation and disruption across industries has earned David Blaauw and Dennis Sylvester, professors of electrical engineering and computer science, this year’s Distinguished University Innovator Award.

Prof. Stephen Forrest, who serves as co-chair of the commission, attended the forum to address concerns and give updates on the plan of action.

Cassie Blue, the bipedal robot, takes advantage of the 2019 polar vortex to set a record-breaking walk.

With the help of two NSF awards totaling $1.7m, Prof. Hessam Mahdavifar is tackling new problems to improve the reliability of communication systems for 5G and beyond.

Finally, proof that organic photovoltaics can be as reliable as inorganic, with real-life desert testing

CE undergrad Amulya Parmar designed a machine learning algorithm to curb fake news as part of the Tavtech Fellowship program.

Up to this point, no attacks had been discovered targeting a car’s LiDAR system—but a major new finding from researchers at the University of Michigan has demonstrated what that might look like.

The team was awarded a Best New Application Paper Award by the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society for their work developing reliable control systems for Lane Keeping and Adaptive Cruise Control.

As a fungal infection ravages bat populations, the new game hopes to promote public awareness of ongoing research to combat the issue.

May Mobility intends to gradually acclimate the public to the experience of autonomous driving.

Predicting future disasters is an important goal of those participating in the IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium

The goal of Lasecki’s proposal is to create methods for making AI systems more robust and flexible.

Using real-time fMRI readings, researchers linked spatial reasoning with CS problem solving.

Erie provided database repairs that were previously performed exclusively by human programmers.

The new working group showcased Michigan’s strength in Quantum Science at a workshop attended by researchers throughout the University of Michigan.

The research impacts development of high-efficiency, micro LEDs, used in a variety of applications.

Baveja’s paper tackled the difficult problem of giving artificial intelligence a way to understand and represent knowledge collected over time.

For the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing, U-M ECE takes a look back – and a look forward – to how our professors, students, and alums have made their mark on the field.

Circuit elements that store information in their electrical resistances enable a brain-like form of computing, storing and processing information in the same place.

The research generated a chatbot to help users sift through important details in privacy policies.

The research suggests that common blacklist-based prevention systems are ineffective.

The symposium brings together 82 young engineers from different technical areas from around the country.

Second Prize overall went to doctoral student Xiuzhang Cai for his radar target classification research applicable to autonomous vehicles.

Mostafa Zaky has built an award-winning model that helps estimate the amount of water stored in snowpacks, which could improve climate change and flood forecasting, as well as overall water resource management.

The rays used by airport scanners might have a future in medical imaging.

Mudge’s paper examined the power-saving needs of high-performance computing.

Willingale’s research in plasma physics advances many research areas from spectacular astrophysical phenomena to cancer treatment to fusion power.

From Long Beach, CA, to a Nepalese national park and world heritage site, undergrads Ashley Gee and Camille Burke came away with unforgettable experiences and a greater appreciation for how engineering can change the world for the better.

The frame in which a human marks out the boundaries of an object makes a huge difference in how well AI software can identify that object through the rest of the video.

Voxel51 uses AI processing to identify and track objects and activities through video clips.

A new project funded by ARPA-E partners Achates Power and the University of Michigan in the development of a novel hybrid electric engine.

MRover placed 7th overall at the annual challenge where rovers use AI to navigate tough terrain while collecting soil samples to practice testing for evidence of life in the universe.

Terahertz and sub-terahertz imaging can provide superior results in some biomedical imaging, spectroscopy, and water saturation detection.

The Michigan Micro Mote gets a new gallium arsenide solar cell for added power and adaptability.

Researchers built the first visual SLAM processor on a single chip that provides highly accurate, low-power, and real-time results.

New algorithm can help robots go from structured environments like factories to complex, unstructured places like our homes.

Danai Koutra earned the award for her proposal to innovate the way we use networks to understand the world and speed up our technology.

Capturing cancer cells from blood samples offers a non-invasive way to observe whether the cancer is disappearing or whether it is becoming resistant to the treatment.

Perez’s research focuses on analyzing speech patterns of patients with Huntington Disease.

Edge Fabric offers providers real-time performance analysis and a way to incorporate this data into routing decisions.

The goal of the work was to identify seven things about who the subject was talking to just by analyzing text messages.

Chowdhury’s work has produced important results that can make memory in data centers both cheaper and more efficient.

Eckert is working to expand the role of memory and give it a dual responsibility to both store and compute data.

Danai Koutra has earned an Army Young Investigator Award to speed up graph methods for distributed applications.

The meeting began the commission’s review and assessment of election security in Michigan.

Sensing technology could keep seniors safe.

Researchers built the first millimeter-scale transmitter and antenna that can talk Bluetooth Low Energy with ease.

New device caught more than three times as many cancer cells as conventional blood draw samples.

Prof. Stephen Forrest is co-chair of U-M’s Commission on Carbon Neutrality as part of U-M’s commitment to combat climate change and craft a sustainable future for all.

The effort seeks to protect the integrity of every vote.

Chowdhury connects all unused memory in a data cluster and treats it as a single unit.

EECS-ECE PhD student Navid Barani received the IEEE APS Doctoral Research Award for his work modeling how bacteria use electromagnetic waves to communicate, which could lead to medical breakthroughs.

Gérard Mourou, Professor Emeritus of EECS, returned to campus to discuss winning the Nobel Prize and his work in high-intensity optics.

Chowdhury’s lab multiplied the number of jobs a GPU cluster can finish in a set amount of time

Lasers of tomorrow might neutralize nuclear waste, clean up space junk and advance proton therapy to treat cancer, says Gerard Mourou.

Prof. Stephen Forrest is developing an automated high-yield roll-to-roll process to manufacture organic LEDs for lighting.

In congressional testimony, professor urges $370M in federal funding to replace outdated machines.

Graphs that are customized, stored locally, and able to change over time can enable faster and more accurate searching and digital assistants

Kasikci presents a method to improve a program’s ability to use data in a straightforward, efficient way

To meet computing demand in a post Moore’s Law future, Das develops new architectures that improve performance by orders of magnitude.

Prof. Johanna Mathieu of EECS and Prof. Catherine Hausman of Public Policy are heading a new project to explore the social costs and benefits of battery energy storage on the electrical grid.

PhD student Brandon Russell is awarded the Rackham International Student Fellowship for his research on magnetic fields in high-energy plasmas, which could help advance the development of clean energy and our understanding of energetic astrophysical phenomena.

“What I’m doing is trying to come up with ideas to let the agent continue learning different skills across its life.”

Human-generated responses could remotely assist autonomous vehicles decision’s during times of uncertainty.

In an approach that won’t disrupt consumers, researchers will tackle two of the biggest issues in the energy industry.

Prof. Robert Dick and advisee Ekdeep Singh Lubana developed a new technique that significantly improves the efficiency of machine vision applications

Mathieu will develop optimization and control methods to leverage the flexibility available from distributed energy resources.

McDonald works to develop better privacy and security tools for marginalized communities

Censored Planet could provide new insight into the flow of online information

Kassa is developing a framework that will look at the computations of an application and decide in real time which components will best handle it

With $7.5M MURI grant, Professor Anthony Grbic is developing metamaterials for a new generation of integrated electromagnetic and photonic systems.

The efforts of computing education researcher Mark Guzdial span the challenges facing a young field

Michigan Engineering researchers led by Prof. Pinaki Mazumder have created a new chip interconnect technology using terahertz surface-wave interconnects that will enable ultra fast data transmissions.

Competition and cooperation, which regulate the strengthening and weakening of connections in the brain, can now be modeled directly.

By harnessing the power and speed of graphics processing units, a University of Michigan startup can dramatically accelerate gene sequencing, shortening tasks that took multiple days to a single hour.

Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) faculty and students at Michigan are part of the revolution in data science that is happening today.

Havel Liu is working on a project to revolutionize satellite systems, improving communications during natural disasters and providing a blueprint for receiving future interplanetary voicemails

This conversational in-vehicle digital assistant can respond to drivers’ questions and commands in natural language

New sustainability research garners support from Department of Energy’s Solar Energy Technologies Office.

SkyCore is a complete software solution to deploying mobile networks on unmanned drones

Windows in the buildings of the future could double as efficient solar cells.

The result will be new measurement methods to determine how moods are shaped by both the behavior of an individual and daily interactions over time

Subscription service offers real-time monitoring

A team of researchers unearthed new data on geographic denial of access to web content in a new paper.

A new special topics course on election cybersecurity gives students an examination of the past, present, and future of US elections.

From quantum physics to computer systems: a profile of Pinaki Mazumder, professor of electrical engineering and computer science.

After Europe and Asia surpassed U.S. in high intensity laser research in the early 2000s, the Department of Energy is funding new collaborative research network to make the U.S. more competitive.

This device, the size of a match head, can bend light inside a crystal to generate synchrotron radiation in a lab.

The papers provide data-driven solutions to hospital infection and the use of machine learning in healthcare.

A Q&A with machine learning expert Emily Mower Provost.

Researchers used hierarchical trees to provide a better idea of how concepts are represented and related in a collection of text.

Researchers have implemented a new way to diagnose software failures with a high degree of accuracy and efficiency.

“The work is an important step towards understanding how to make tradeoffs between usability and security.”

Prof. Zetian Mi talks about a new way to create energy from the sun – borrowing from the idea of photosynthesis.

Kira was recognized for his pioneering contributions to the theory of semiconductor quantum optics.

Rare in engineering education research, the project involves a randomized control trial to determine if it’s effective.

Professors Ku and Steel are applying their expertise to take key next steps toward practical quantum computing

Keeping time in the Internet of Things with frequency scaling

New, preliminary research found automated speech test accurately diagnoses Huntington’s disease 81 percent of the time and tracks the disease’s progression.

Genome sequencing could be as affordable as a routine medical test with highly efficient computing.

Eric Michielssen has discovered a new way to rapidly analyze electromagnetic phenomena, and it’s catching on.

The law of small numbers could impact the next generation of tools that deal with data.

System sniffs out fakes up to 76 percent of the time.

To dial in on exact wind speeds, researchers needed to reverse engineering the signals from satellites.

Patches can provide protection.

Inspired by startup funding models, Michigan Engineering reinvents its internal R&D grant structure.

AI, weather forecasting and data science would all benefit from computers that store and process data in the same place. Memristors could be up to the task.

DARPA’s initiative to reinvigorate the microelectronics industry draws deeply on Michigan Engineering expertise.

Transmuter can change how programs use the hardware available to them in real time, effectively acting as a reconfigurable computer.

U-M team will serve as model for nimble and innovative system-on-chip design.

The speedy and efficient system-on-chip could unify wireless communication.

Six-month hardware design process will be turned into 24-hour automated task.

Foofah is a tool that can help to minimize the effort and required background knowledge needed to clean up data.

The most exciting use of AI for me focuses around a better collective use of our available resources, says Corso.

Jie Song devised a method to combine summarized datasets that group information by incompatible units.

This year’s model, “Phoebe,” received a major design overhaul that gave her a speed boost and new codebase that can be used for years to come.

Kim’s research is expected to impact the future design and wireless operation of the next generation of Internet of Things (IoT) devices

The latest from IBM and now the University of Michigan is redefining what counts as a computer at the microscale.

Rada Mihalcea is a rock star professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at U-M’s College of Engineering and a champion for the growth and retention of women in that field.

When it comes to their smartphones, immigrants struggle to apply instinctive caution, according to a study by a team of University of Michigan researchers.

With a bit of metal, nanoparticles shine in colors based on size.

This award is given to the VLDB paper published ten years earlier that has had the most influence since its publication.

The day when cars can talk to each other – and to traffic lights, stop signs, guardrails and even pavement markings – is rapidly approaching.

A new approach recreates the power of a large server by linking up and pooling the resources of smaller computers with fast networking technology.

PhD student Jean Young Song offers an improved solution to the problem of image segmentation.

Mingyan Liu, recipient of the 2018 Distinguished Innovator of the Year award, gave a talk about her startup company and participated on a panel discussing data science commercialiation.

Five college teams test robotic suits that could enhance humans’ abilities.

In recognition of demand response research.

Dissertation recognized as unusually creative, ambitious and impactful.

A large quantum computer could retroactively decrypt almost all internet communication ever recorded.

New device doubles previous efficiency, opens path to commercial viability.

Electron states in a semiconductor, set and changed with pulses of light, could be the 0 and 1 of future “lightwave” electronics or room-temperature quantum computers.

Three researchers with Michigan CSE affiliations have won the the best paper award at the 14th Workshop on Silicon Errors in Logic – System Effects (SELSE).

New tools could fight crime, protect financial system

U-M profs weigh new business model, European-style regulation

Professor Alex Halderman and the New York Times staged a mock election to demonstrate voting machine vulnerability.

Tara Safavi’s research focuses on scalable and adaptive data mining algorithms using tools like hashing and sampling.

The vulnerability allows an attacker to manipulate a new intelligent traffic control algorithm and cause severe traffic jams.

Model successfully applied to data from medical centers with different patient populations, electronic health record systems

In this video, CSE PhD Student Matt Bernhard weighs in on the matter Facebook data harvesting, such as that done by Cambridge Analytica.

The system is currently being used by IEEE and ACM, and helps them enforce their new 30%-policy.

What happened to people inside the U.S. Embassy in Havana?

‘We’ve demonstrated a scenario in which the harm might have been unintentional.’

A new radiation-hardened, multi-processor, Arm-based spacecraft processor is being developed at Michigan in a project led by Boeing and funded by NASA.

Other investors include Detroit Venture Partners, Maven Ventures, SV Angel, Tandem Ventures, Trucks Ventures, and YCombinator.

The award is for papers that present ideas and visions that can stimulate the research community to pursue new directions, such as new problems, new application domains, or new methodologies.

Automated chatbot uses artificial intelligence to weed through fine print

The debate was held at the American Museum of Natural History and was hosted by Neil deGrasse Tyson.

External factors, ranging from weather, news exposure, social network emotion charge, timing, and mood predisposition may have a bearing on one’s emotion level throughout the day.

The researchers, including Prof. Harsha Madhyastha and CSE graduate students Vaspol Ruamviboonsuk and Muhammed Uluyol, received prize for their paper, “Vroom: Accelerating the Mobile Web with Server-Aided Dependency Resolution.”

Censys is the first commercially available internet-wide scanning tool. It helps IT experts to secure large networks with a constantly changing array of devices.

Compared to conventional methods of wireless power, which require a specific distance and alignment, Prof. Mortazawi’s version operates over a range of distances and orientations without a drop in power.

Buildings, clothing could generate power.

‘You shouldn’t need a Ph.D. to design new computing systems.’

Powered by a broadband infrared laser, the device can zero in on the ‘spectral fingerprint region’.

The researchers say they’re making an unsolvable puzzle: ‘It’s like if you’re solving a Rubik’s Cube and every time you blink, I rearrange it.’

A long-standing tenet of the internet was overturned today.

This series of talks features world-renowned faculty with a long history at Michigan.

How much can your cellphone reveal about where you go?

On Dec. 14, the FCC will vote on the rules that today ensure internet service providers treat all web content equally.

Prof. Peikert and his co-author received the award at the Fifteenth Theory of Cryptography Conference for their paper on efficient collision-resistant hashing on cyclic lattices.

Jason Mars, CEO of Ann Arbor startup Clinc, was named #2 in Bank Innovations’s “10 Most innovative CEOs in Banking 2017” list. Clinc is leading the pack for development of intelligent banking assistant software.

Prof. John Hayes and CSE graduate student Paishun Ting received the award for their paper entitled “Eliminating a Hidden Error Source in Stochastic Circuits.”

The new partnership will provide scalable storage and an analytic software framework available to all U-M researchers.

DARPA is trying to build a system that can turn large data sets into models that can make predictions, and U-M is in on the project.

It could enable tabletop particle and X-ray sources as well as the investigation of astrophysics and quantum dynamics.

Their paper introduces a new programming language and tool called Vale that supports flexible, automated verification of high-performance assembly code.

How a building’s thermal energy can help the power grid accommodate more renewable energy sources.

Increasingly, market manipulators are attacking market integrity through complex computer-controlled attacks.

Word associations vary across different demographics, allowing researchers to build better natural language processing models if they can account for demographics.

Scar tissue left over from heart attacks creates dead zones that don’t beat. Bioengineered patches could fix that.

Prof. Jessy Grizzle has long said that his work in robotics could one day be used to help the disabled. Now he and his group, alongside French company Wandercraft, are working to make that claim a reality in the form of walking exoskeletons.

Built to handle falls, and with two extra motors in each leg, the new robot will help U-M roboticists take independent robotic walking to a whole new level.

Verdict can make databases deliver answers more than 200 times faster while maintaining 99 percent accuracy.

Prof. Ackerman recognized quite early how social context could harness computing technologies for the development of systems in expertise finding and sharing, as well as in collaborative information access.

Prof. Shai Revzen’s lab in ECE has developed an inexpensive technique to rapidly fabricate a variety of useful robots.

New Vroom software could double its speed.

With Codeon, developers can request help by speaking their requests aloud within the context of their Integrated Development Environment (IDE).

Kurator is a hybrid intelligence system leveraging mixed-expertise crowds to help families curate their personal digital content, including videos and photos.

Researchers are working to design a successful movie that will attract the interest of a targeted demographic by leveraging user ratings, reviews, and product characteristics.

Researchers have developed a crowd-powered conversational assistant, Chorus, and deployed it to see how users and workers would interact together when mediated by the system.

Phillips, Lenaway, Daly, and Foley concluded that early exposure to EE technical areas was likely the best way to draw more students to the field further down the line.

The identified changes in social media behavior may point to real events and changes, some of which can benefit from intervention.

CSE students designed technology for a fellow student who returned after a decade away because of a brain hemorrhage.

The paper outlines a better way to quantify forest structure, which has been successful in two tree species.

Bugs that are not caught before a product is released can cost companies billions of dollars.

A new NSF Tech Hub will put tools to rapidly advance our understanding of the brain into the hands of neuroscientists.

Fred Buhler founded Aweslome to provide custom-build chips for a broad range of applications, including machine learning, neural networks, security, and circuits testing.

The Michigan Aeronautical Science Association (MASA) won the first ever Spaceport America Cup, an intercollegiate rocket engineering competition with over 110 teams from colleges and universities in eleven countries.

His remarks focused on vulnerabilities in the US voting system and a policy agenda for securing the system against the threat of hacking.

Two electrical engineering students, Paul Giessner and Noah Mitchell-Ward, were awarded scholarships from the Utility Variable-Generation Integration Group (UVIG) to support their education in wind and solar power.

By developing a fast algorithm to map out the paths light takes through yogurt, researchers aim to someday see through skin.

New software finally makes ‘memory disaggregation’ practical.

New memristor chips can see patterns over pixels.

Anna Stuhlmacher, PhD in electrical engineering, is looking for ways to change the world through power and energy.

‘Open port’ backdoors are common.

Michigan engineers release individual cells from a specially-designed chip using laser pulses.

Alumnus develops platform that allows instructors to turn almost any course into a multiplayer online game.

This award recognizes the paper published 15 years ago (2002) that has had the biggest impact on the field

A biologist turned roboticist takes a closer look at dog gaits to help design better movements for four-legged robots.

Yektakhah’s system improves on the speed, portability, and accuracy of many commercial models

Prof. Mathieu is partnering with IOE faculty to improve the nation’s grid system

Researchers have for the first time characterized a widespread vulnerability in the software that runs on mobile devices.

How to build fast and cheap robots

A little silver goes a long way to improving touchscreens, displays, and much more

Michigan Engineering researchers discuss and demonstrate the sound-based attacks they leveled at the accelerometers found in everyday electronics.

Extremely short, configurable “femtosecond” pulses of light demonstrated by an international team could lead to future computers that run up to 100,000 times faster than today’s electronics.

As a member of the DDOTS to PICS MURI, Revzen will advance modeling and control of dynamic systems.

Michael Wellman, a U-M Engineering professor, recently took part in a workshop to anticipate and prevent possible adverse outcomes of artificial intelligence.

Finelli takes on the future of educating engineers

Award for outstanding doctoral candidates near the end of their study.

Clinc has built Finie, the world’s most advanced voice-controlled A.I. platform for banking.

New walking robot based on birds

Professors Blaauw and Sylvester showcase capabilities of tiny computing

Liu’s most recent research involves online learning, modeling of large-scale internet measurement data, and incentive mechanisms for security games.

Prof. Madhyastha seeks to enable the cloud provider to monitor traffic on behalf of all the web services hosted on its platform.

Cassie is the first offering from new startup Agility Robotics, and is loosely modeled on the cassowary, a flightless bird similar to an ostrich.

Prof. Mower Provost’s research interests are in human-centered speech and video processing, multimodal interfaces design, and speech-based assistive technology.

Das’ research seeks to design specialized data-centric computing systems that dramatically reduce time and energy required to move data from storage to computing units.

Prof. Mao has led inquiries into issues of Internet routing, measurement and security, wide-area and enterprise network management, malware behavior analysis and host-based security in general.

In this project, Prof. Peterson will develop new alloys of amorphous oxide semiconductors with precisely tuned semiconductor energy band structures, in order to enable new categories of electronic and opto-electronic devices.

The first-ever Engineering Research Center in Wireless Integrated Microsensing and Systems has forged advances in many fields.

Mywater-Flint is an app built to help with the Flint water crises funded by Google and developed by Michigan Engineers.

Office of Naval Research has awarded Dmitry Berenson, an assistant professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, $1.1 million to help advance emergency response capabilities for robots.

Prof. Kanicki expects breakthroughs in both the flat-panel display and imager industries using his-ITZO TFT technology in the near future.

Systems to study cancer stem cells, new methods to remotely measure snow and ice thickness, radar for autonomous vehicles, navigation systems that don’t rely on GPS, nanowire lasers, and methods to model lithium-ion batteries were just a few of the many winning projects presented by ECE students

Michigan Engineering professor Kevin Fu spoke in front of congress on Nov. 16, 2016.

Movellus Circuits won $25,000 in the University Research Highlight and People’s Choice categories

Prof. Madhyastha’s recent research has focused on enabling latency-sensitive web services to optimize user experience.

She recently helped develop a modular load tester platform for data centers, which is designed to help measure and mitigate tail latency.

Some believed early Michigan brain researchers were engaging in “science fiction” – until development of an advanced tool for forging breakthroughs proved them wrong.

Prof. Deotare’s work will deepen our understanding of the underlying physics of exciton-mechanics interactions and help engineer novel devices for energy harvesting and up-conversion.

Finie, which can be referred to as the “Siri” of personal banking, is an artificial intelligence platform for banks that helps customers talk to their bank accounts in a natural and conversational way.

Centralizing available data in the intelligent systems community through a COmputer Vision Exchange for Data, Annotations and Tools, called COVE.

Researchers at the University of Michigan have developed an algorithm that can analyze and measure the amount that one candidate linguistically matches their opponent and have found that matching your opponent in a debate leads to higher polling numbers.

Just 10 percent shade cover can drop electricity production by 50 percent. A new U-M-led project aims to change that.

This project aims to improve goal-directed dexterous robotic manipulation in cluttered and unstructured environments.

During his 30-year career, Prof. Singh enlightened students into the physics and mysteries of electrical engineering, and sharing his belief that technology can enhance healthy and peaceful living

Prof. Ozay’s award-winning work will be used in future space missions

The USENIX Test of Time Awards recognizes papers presented at its respective conference from at least 10 years ago that have had a lasting impact on their fields.

Still, it’s not guaranteed, as seen in Amazon’s same-day delivery service. Algorithm designers may not even realize a problem has crept in.

IPAN sent eight undergraduates to Germany for a month of lab work, learning about the intricacies of the brain.

DROWN allows attackers to break encryption used to protect HTTPS websites and read or steal sensitive communications.

With the help of the grant, improved devices, in combination with a new coating from a U-M engineering lab, could make concentrated solar power cheaper and more efficient.

Clinc has built Lucida, its state-of- the-art, open-source intelligent assistant and machine learning platform that allows developers and the open-source community to easily create and deploy personalized voice and vision-based intelligent assistants.

Vulcan, the intelligent robotic wheelchair, aims to help the elderly and those with disabilities effortlessly move around their environment.

In order to bring HTTPS to everyone, Prof. Halderman joined forces in 2012 with colleagues at Mozilla and the Electronic Frontier Foundation to found Let’s Encrypt, a non-profit certificate authority with the mission of making the switch to HTTPS vastly easier.

Cogitai was formed with the aim of developing AI technology that empowers machines to learn from interaction with the real world.

The SIGMOD Test of Time Award recognizes the best paper from the SIGMOD proceedings 10 years prior.

The annual SIGKDD doctoral dissertation award recognizes excellent research by doctoral candidates in the field of data mining and knowledge discovery.

One of the paper describes and demonstrates a malicious hardware backdoor. The other demonstrated security failings in a commercial smart home platform.

High tail latency has been identified as one of the key challenges facing modern data center design.

For now, Grizzle and his graduate students are only attempting the easiest routes, between the grassy two- to three-foot moguls, over smaller undulations that he calls “merely very difficult.”

A frequent call market may help prevent ‘flash crashes.’

Klotski seeks to improve users’ perceptions of how quickly a page loads by maximizing the amount of important content on the page that is fetched and displayed within the user’s attention span.

Armin’s research is focused on the development of a sub-millimeter-wave radar system for the next generation of navigation and imaging sensors.

Choi has developed a new technique for testing these antennas based on very-near-field measurements and a newly-developed, high-precision formula to compute the antenna’s radiation fields.

Mohammad has developed a new way to remotely measure the thickness of ice and snow with a technology he calls wideband autocorrelation radiometry (WiBAR).

This innovative software guides users through the process of collecting a set of images of a calibration target.

Prof. Emily Mower Provost is collaborating to develop new technologies that provide individuals with insight into how the disease changes over time.

Prof. Chowdhury bridges the gap between application-level performance and network-level optimizations through the coflow abstraction.

The two papers from Michigan introduced the Sirius personal digital assistant and the MBus bus for modular microcomputing systems.

Hsin-Hao’s thesis provides efficient algorithms for fundamental graph problems that arise in networks.

ICAN bring engineers and neuroscientists together to review the recent advancement in neurotechnology and neuroscience, define the need for next-generation tools, and enhance the translation of technology to the scientific community.

Analytic software company FICO of San Jose, Calif., bought QuadMetrics to help in its development of a FICO Enterprise Security Score.

The NRI is a multi-agency effort to accelerate the development and use of robots that work beside or cooperatively with people.

This device could not only be useful in the ICU or field hospital setting, but also during long military patient transport, and especially in situations in which limited personnel and resources are available.

This platform has enabled a variety of sensors that can fit inside the human body, made possible by several breakthroughs in ultra-low power computing.

With a radio specifically designed to communicate through tissue, researchers from the Electrical and Computer Engineering are adding another level to a computer platform small enough to fit inside a medical grade syringe.

New security ramifications exist when laptops and smartphones configured for enterprise systems are used outside the enterprise in the realm of the wider web.

Not all online traffic is the same; should we treat it the same anyway?

A pilot program will bring together researchers from different universities to collaborate on advancing research that may lead to a better understanding of the human brain.

Text Mining brings together a broad range of contemporary qualitative and quantitative methods to provide strategic and practical guidance on analyzing large text collections.

QuadMetrics offers a pair of services to help companies both assess the effectiveness of their security and decide the best way to allocate (or increase) their security budget.

The robot’s feedback control algorithms should be able to help other two-legged robots as well as powered prosthetic legs gain similar capabilities.

Prof. Wei Lu and former student Dr. Sung Hyun Jo co-founded Crossbar, Inc. to tackle the physical limitations of conventional memory technology.

CSE students and faculty will collaborate as a part of a larger team to help respond to the crisis.

New vulnerabilities form when hardware like electronic locks, thermostats, ovens, sprinklers, lights and motion sensors are networked and set up to be controlled remotely.

The goal of the class project was to control the safe landing of a rocket booster after it disengaged from the portion of the rocket that would continue into Space.

The paper explores how automated speech recognition and crowd-sourced human correction and generation of transcripts can be traded off to improve accuracy and latency.

The power goes out. The aurorae stretch to the tropics. Could a major solar storm mean a year without electricity?

GridWatch can detect power outages by monitoring changes to its own power state, locally verifying these outages using a variety of sensors that reduce the likelihood of false power outage reports, and corroborating actual reports with other phones through data aggregation in the cloud.

Faculty members Edwin Olson and Ryan Eustice are joining TRI as area leads.

Healthcare security company Virta Laboratories, Inc. has received a $750,000 grant from the National Science Foundation Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program.

Yu-Wei is a third year PhD student whose research focuses on computer vision and machine learning.

Prof. Wiens will continue to use machine learning techniques to study the disease.

The team used machine learning to extract information from NBA sports data for automatically recognizing common defense strategies to ball screens.

His research addresses the problem of diminishing reliability in future computer systems.

Shannon theorized the binary code of zeros and ones that makes cell phones, email and the Internet possible.

While 3D films are currently made using multiple cameras to reconstruct each frame, this new type of camera could record in 3D on its own.

He has built software systems for information extraction, database integration, and feature engineering and applied these to problems in the social sciences.

His work impacts computer vision, audio recognition, robotics, text modeling, and healthcare.

Mr. Battel is an expert on low-noise instrumentation power systems and is internationally recognized for his expertise in the design and development of space high voltage systems.

The M3 is a fully autonomous computing system that acts as a smart sensing system.

The project aims to create a new software stack for analytics over geo-distributed datasets.

Cyber-physical systems are smart, networked systems with embedded sensors, processors, and actuators that are designed to interact with the physical world.

Her primary research interests lie at the intersection of machine learning and healthcare.

Prof. Mozafari is passionate about building large-scale data-intensive systems that are more scalable, more robust, and more predictable.

The award will enable Prof. Mars to understand how future cloud and mobile systems should be designed to support increasing demand from users of intelligent assistants.

Let's Encrypt allows anyone to request a free website security certificate without needing an invitation.

The award supports research that will help our understanding of how tissues form distinct shapes and structure to become organs, such as lungs, salivary glands, and mammary glands.

IoT applications are the next wave of computing and the next driving force of the semiconductor industry. The startup PsiKick [now Everactive] is helping shape this future.

The project aims to develop a cognitive system that functions as an academic advisor for undergraduate computer science and engineering majors at the university.

The professorship is awarded to junior faculty members in recognition of outstanding contributions to teaching and research.

The software enables users to ask questions about the hosts and networks that compose the Internet and get an immediate reply.

The solution Ford and U-M are working on involves high-resolution 3D maps. U-M researchers have developed these maps and Ford’s test vehicles are equipped with them.

In their paper, the researchers present the first report on global adoption rates of SMTP email security extensions.

The new probes can control and record the activity of many individual neurons, and are believed to be the smallest implantable LEDs ever made.

U-M researchers are building a unique lie-detecting software that works from studying real world data from real, high-stakes court cases.

The researchers are finding a solution to implement state-of-the-art vision systems in wearable devices where there is little heat dissipation

The scope of the project consists of a number of thrusts including a key research collaboration led by Profs. Edwin Olson and Ryan Eustice, who are playing a leading role in the development of the critical sensing and decision-making found in the Ford test vehicles.

Such tactics, even if effective in reducing crime, raise civil liberty concerns.

A “dream team” of experts in sensors, electronics, data analysis and neuroscience has been awarded a $5 million grant to help unravel the mysteries of the brain and cross-train a group of internationally-connected neuroscientists and engineers.

Diffie-Hellman is a popular algorithm used for encrypted communications, including emails VPNs, HTTPS, and other protocols where a client and server negotiate a shared secret key for communication

Eric is an international leader in the field of computational electromagnetics and specializes in the development of fast-solution methods and optimization algorithms.

This project strives to positively impact the availability and reliability of the Internet and provide the security community with tools, platforms, and comprehensive vulnerability measurement data.

The results of Lin’s research can help us better understand how introducing DES affects the environmental impact of a power system.

By borrowing from kirigami, the ancient Japanese art of paper cutting, researchers at the University have developed solar cells that can move with the sun.

The paper addresses the question of whether introducing an interactive textbook into introductory STEM courses can improve student grades.

In their study, the researchers took a computational approach to studying the contest to gain insights into what differentiates funny captions from the rest.

Ultra-low dose CT scans that provide superior image quality could not only benefit patients, but they could open up entirely new clinical applications.

Over the next year, U-M researchers will develop autonomy capabilities and build a mobile phone interface users can use to request a ride.

Hamid is studying ways to increase the use of renewable energy sources on the grid.

One of the most promising avenues for achieving new target levels of high peak intensity and high average power in an ultrafast laser system is to turn to fiber lasers.

Directed by Kamal Sarabandi the new program aims to create theoretical models for remote sensing of ice and snow.

Dr. Dreslinski conducts research in the area of energy efficient processor architectures

Stephanie seeks to provide continuous energy balancing on the grid by automatically controlling loads.

KACST will provide manpower and will collaborate with Michigan faculty and students on their projects.

Duc is interested in using the computer’s modeling power to better understand the inner workings of the human mind, and using this understanding to create more intelligent software programs.

The small-scale embedded wireless systems Alyssa works with are used in a variety of applications spanning many fields; from structural to ocean engineering.

The two winning papers were selected from a field of 127 full paper submissions in the main technical track.

It describes their work in measuring important network phenomena for debugging problems at the edge of a cellular network.

In an unusual turn of events, we've tied with ourselves for this one.

Why do some cancer cells break away from a tumor and travel to distant parts of the body? A team of oncologists and engineers from the University of Michigan teamed up to help understand this crucial question.

Mr. Bell is investigating the potential of electrodynamic tether propulsion technology to enhance the capabilities of an emerging class of smartphone-sized satellites.

The CE Lab is the successor to the Department’s Advanced Computer Architecture Lab (ACAL).

The tether could be used to deorbit out-of-use spacecraft, push spacecraft from low Earth orbit into higher orbits, or even push spacecraft out of Earth’s orbit altogether.

Thomas and his group are working to improve upon artificial neural network design through a process called sparse coding.

The center, to be built on North Campus, will offer state-of-the-art facilities in a 3-story, 100,000 square foot building.

Technology continues to transform the health care industry, and researchers at the University have utilized mobile apps to expand the impact of their work.

Her research interests include analog, digital, and mixed-signal designs.

Profs. Shai Revzen and Herbert Winful spoke about their passion for their work at the sixth annual conference, themed “Constructive Interference”.

Prof. Forrest is widely acknowledged as one of the most successful academic inventors and entrepreneurs today.

Her dissertation focused on “opacity,” which captures whether a given secret of the system can be inferred by intruders who observe the behavior of the system.

The proposed work investigates computational methodologies to differentiate emotion perception patterns of healthy controls and individuals with Major Depressive Disorder or Bipolar Disorder.

His 1992 paper describes problems associated with utilizing conventional compiler support for predicated execution, a technique for dealing with conditional branches in application programs, on superscaler processors. It introduces the hyperblock, a structure to overcome those shortcomings.

Mao’s goal was to create a diagnosis tool to achieve responsive and energy-efficient mobile apps that work well in diverse network conditions.

Prof. Halderman’s research interests span software security, network security, data privacy, anonymity, electronic voting, censorship resistance, digital rights management, computer forensics, ethics, and cybercrime, as well as the interaction of technology with law, governmental regulation, and international affairs.

Schoenebeck's research is in theoretical computer science, linear and semidefinite programs, the intersection of computer science and social networks, the intersection of computer science and economics, NP-complete optimization problems, and computational complexity theory.

Abernethy's research is in machine learning, with additional interests in game theory, decision theory, optimization, market mechanism design, and other financial applications.

HiJack is a hardware/software platform that utilizes the headset jack on a smartphone as a universal power/data interface.

Prof. Deng’s primary research interest is in the area of computer vision, with a focus on image and video understanding, human computation, and large-scale machine learning.

The SMAP mission is NASA’s most ambitious sensing project yet for measuring global soil moisture levels.

The technology enables self-driving cars to navigate using a single video camera, delivering the same level of accuracy as laser scanners at a fraction of the cost.

Congratulations to the following CSE Faculty recipients of 2014-15 College of Engineering Awards.

Computer science is proving to be a great way to get popular!

This event is a semiannual tradition among CS theorists in the Midwest.

So went the vote held in the debating chamber of the University of Cambridge Union.

The book is part of the Royal Society of Chemistry’s Smart Materials series.

Protean Code is an enabling technology for dynamically recompiling native applications and rebalancing the use of Warehouse Scale Computers resources as demands dictate.

The grant is aimed at advancing organic photovoltaics, a carbon-based version of solar technology that promises to change the way the sun’s energy is collected.

The research aimed to find a happy medium between fuel economy and drivability in hybrid electric vehicles.

A project is underway which will offer a free, automated, and easy process for converting webservers from HTTP to HTTPS that is implemented with a single command.

She computationally measures, represents, and analyzes human behavior data to illuminate fundamental human behavior and emotion perception, and develop natural human-machine interfaces.

The IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society is a remote sensing organization with more than 3700 members around the globe.

Kyusang developed an innovative new fabrication technique to build lightweight, flexible devices not possible with conventional silicon.

The professors addressed two very different problems the industry faces with current technology.

The paper focuses on computational methods to analyze single cell data in order to obtain a better understanding of how cells process signals.

Plaza’s paper provides key insights into neuronal computations.

The book introduces and evaluates algorithms used during physical design to produce a geometric chip layout from an abstract circuit design, and presents the essential and fundamental algorithms used within each physical design stage.

The grant is part of a new $12.5M initiative by the National Science Foundation to encourage computing innovations for a sustainable society.

Mathieu is working how best to integrate wind and solar power into the nation’s established electrical grid system.

His research focus is on addressing concurrency issues in mobile and cloud systems, which increasingly rely upon event-driven programming and customized processor accelerators.

The goal of the research is to revolutionize how Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) is managed to provide a transformative means of extracting utility-scale energy from waste.

Peterson’s findings could be used in wireless sensing and actuation systems, including those that deal with monitoring of the environment and medical conditions.

Deng’s research in computer vision focuses on image and video understanding through big visual data, human computation, and large-scale machine learning.

Yoon is leading a team that will design new light sources with lasers capable of zooming in on individual neuron circuits within the brain.

Researchers at the University have extended the lifetime of blue organic light emitting diodes by a factor of ten.

Since coming to the University in 1984, Bhattacharya has pioneered several important technological advances.

The paper presents a new visual localization algorithm that allows an autonomous car to precisely know where it is at with sub-lane precision.

Tal is researching fabrication techniques for a micro rate-integrating gyroscope, using a vacuum mold and blowtorch.

This advance could be important for fighting lung cancers, as symptoms often appear too late for effective treatment.

Iverson developed an experimental facility to simulate key characteristics of the space environment.

A weakness believed to exist in Android, Windows and iOS operating systems could be used to obtain personal information from unsuspecting users, research at the University of Michigan has shown.

These faculty deepen ECE’s areas of expertise in computer vision, communications and information theory, environmental remote sensing, and laser-plasma interactions.

At MAC, Peter’s been able to combine his passions for scientific research and entrepreneurial creation.

The 12th International Linguistics Olympiad (IOL) was held in Beijing, China from July 21 through 25th, 2014.

The researchers believe that metasurfaces could one day be used to completely control the phase, amplitude, and polarization of light.

The Mikio Takagi Student Prize is given to the top three Student Prize Paper Awards granted at the IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium.

Faculty and staff alike will miss his cheerful and gentle presence.

The paper addresses how to manage multiple sources so that the user can maximize the information gained from each acoustic source.

The fundamental objective of the research initiative is to uncover, explain, and exploit dynamic magneto-optical processes and materials for new technological capabilities.

The findings show, for the first time, exactly how some memristors remember.

With precarious particles called polaritons that straddle the worlds of light and matter, University of Michigan researchers have demonstrated a new, practical and potentially more efficient way to make a coherent laser-like beam.

U-M researchers demonstrated a unique terahertz detector and imaging system that could bridge the terahertz gap.

All of the research being presented focuses on getting the absolute best performance from the tiniest circuits, sensors, and electronic devices.

The detector developed by University of Michigan engineering researchers doesn’t need bulky cooling equipment to work.

The idea behind Keravnos Energy is for there to be an energy transfer between three entities: the building, a large stationary battery, and the car.

The cells, believed to be the first semi-transparent, colored photovoltaics, have the potential to vastly broaden the use of the energy source.

Researchers at the University of Michigan and Queens College used light to create links between organic and inorganic semiconductors in an optical cavity.

Michigan Engineering professor Duncan Steel explains how quantum computing works, using quantum bits that take on superpositions of 0 and 1 simultaneously.

One promising area of cancer treatment is photodynamic therapy, which combines the agents of a photosensitive drug, light, and oxygen.

This work will provide a way to efficiently reveal relationships between even distant entities in a network.

What if smartphones could act as mentors in mindfulness?

The Fellowship will help Song to continue his studies in the area of optoelectronics.

Chen’s work can be used in community detection in social networks, network vulnerability assessment in communication systems, and more.

MARLO and its counterparts represent the second bipedal robot model in the world with a gait that isn't flat-footed.

Several of the cubes enabled research to progress to the point that faculty are applying for larger grants to continue the work.

“The trip made me more aware of some of the practical things … like the sound of the turbines, and how they alter the look of the land.”

Their technique utilizes backscatter analysis to construct “perfectly transmitting” wavefronts.

The headpiece design is a big departure from today’s figure 8-shaped devices made of just two coils.

Wentzloff aims to remove the necessity of a power outlet or even a battery to power miniature sensors.

The three microdevices created at Michigan are each particularly suited to specific applications.

The goal of the study seeks to enhance the accuracy of determining ocean surface windspeed.

Lu plans to design and fabricate a computer chip based on so-called self-organizing, adaptive neural networks.

SHM systems are critical for monitoring aging structures and infrastructure in a cost-effective manner.

RRAM is a new form of nonvolatile memory that has the potential to replace the flash memory commonly used in tablets, digital cameras and solid-state drives.

The research group developed special fabrication processes that allows them to stack and bond seven different devices in layers.

“We present a novel strategy to scale up the number of electrodes with minimized risk.”

“The paper introduces a new management paradigm: ensure the desired lead time while maximizing the throughput.”

This research is targeted at developing a precision master clock for a chip-scale Timing and Inertial Measurement Unit.

By shining the laser on a target and analyzing the reflected light, researchers can tell the chemical composition of the target.

“This workshop is a first step toward developing a roadmap for practical innovations in nano/micro-manufacturing.”

“It is no longer a scientific curiosity. It’s a real device.”

The research provides a way to efficiently reveal relationships between even distant entities in a network.

The challenge problem required the participants to interpret data sets in a way that could be used to predict social behavior.

The new device improves upon the current technology and is much easier to make.

The project proposes to produce a parallel heterogeneous 3D near-threshold computing system with unprecedented energy efficiency.

The technology could potentially identify a hidden weapon from a distance in less than a second.

A BEC is an unusual state of matter in which a group of boson particles can exist in a single quantum state, allowing scientists to observe novel quantum phenomena.

These new insights could one day help engineers design steadier robots and improve doctors’ understanding of human gait abnormalities.

Revzen believes that his findings can be used to engineer better man-made devices, including prosthetic limbs and complete robots.

The research could lead to advanced color e-readers, more energy efficient electronic devices, and improved data storage and cryptography.

His research addresses critical needs in the area of wireless communication for the growing field of ubiquitous, energy-autonomous sensing devices.

The use of graphene-based hot carrier optoelectronics is the key novelty of Prof. Zhong’s research.

The goal of MCubed is to jumpstart novel, high-risk and transformative research projects.

Thanks to HERCULES, scientists are now able to study very dense plasmas — a crucial step in nuclear fusion and astrophysical research.

“We believe this could be used as an invisible knife for noninvasive surgery,” Guo said. “Nothing pokes into your body, just the ultrasound beam.”

Imagine a future when you could predict whether or not you are at risk of becoming sick.

McCullagh is working to develop energy harvesting devices and circuits to power wireless sensor nodes which can monitor bridge health.

Lee believes that graphene will play a pivotal role in realizing high speed, mechanically compliant, and transparent electronic systems in the future.

Roberts is helping to develop low-power sensor nodes that will be worn on the body to detect certain medical conditions.

The research addressed voltage scaling of processors at the point where, at very low voltages, voltage leakage begins to dominate the computational power consumption.

Researchers have found a way to improve a computer’s human-tracking accuracy by looking at where the targets are going, but also at what they’re doing.

The program aims to create wearable systems that monitor a person’s environment and health in search of connections between pollutants and chronic diseases.

Prof. Zhaohui Zhong and his team of graduate students have built the first flexible, transparent digital modulator for high speed communications.

The project involved designing new boards and writing test software, as well as writing software to control instruments and some integrated circuit design.

With an origami-like approach, manufacturers could use existing machinery to make high-tech “paper” that can be folded into the desired device.

Prof. Rais-Zadeh intends to develop a chip-scale timing unit that offers an order of magnitude higher performance compared to existing solutions.

The method can be useful in the design of low-profile antennas integrated into body panels of vehicles.

“We have pioneered an integrated scene understanding framework that enables the automatic tracking of structural changes, allowing data to be collected easily.”

The UVIG works with the U.S. Department of Energy to provide a forum for the critical analysis of wind and solar technology.

Though a number of research challenges remain to realize the potential of microdischarge-based devices, the authors’ work demonstrates their promise.

Yang’s research is focused on designing plasmonic nano-structures to enhance efficiency of conventional photoconductive terahertz emitters.

The goal is to be able to monitor the soil moisture with as few measurements as possible and with a high degree of accuracy.

Nick’s primary research involves creating algorithms that decipher what the cameras and lasers are detecting to generate a map.

The five year project includes multiple research institutions, partners in industry, and educational outreach to the next generation of computer scientists.

“This hybrid circuit is a critical advance in developing intelligent machines.”

The work advances the scientific understanding of laser cooling technologies currently being pursued to explore the boundary between classical and quantum physics.

The proposed emitter incorporates plasmonic photoconductors to more efficiently convert power from incident laser light into terahertz radiation.

Crossbar is developing a new nonvolatile memory technology that will offer unprecedented density and power improvements in tomorrow’s electronics.

The primary advance shown in this research as compared to earlier work is the successful use of a 3-D potential force field.

“We’re excited to be adding Veo to the measures we already have in place to ensure that we get diagnostic images using the lowest amount of radiation possible.”

Prof. Nadakuditi plans to provide an analytical characterization of the fundamental limits of multi-modal sensing of weak signals.

Nadakuditi’s research has applications in biomedical signal processing, wireless communications, geophysical signal processing, array processing, and finance.

Bao’s research is in Semantic Structure from Motion, a new framework for jointly recognizing objects as well as reconstructing their underlying 3D geometry.

The researchers succeeded in drastically suppressing the thermal emission rate in GaSb/GaAs quantum dots — resulting in more efficient solar cells.

The researchers have optimized an optical resonator to take an infrared signal from relatively cheap telecommunication-compatible lasers and boost it to an ultraviolet beam.

The carbon nanotube carpet is about half the thickness of a sheet of paper and absorbs 99.9 percent of the light that hits it.

“ePack utilizes state of the art micromachining technology to provide a cost effective and high performance packaging service for micro- and milli-scale devices.”

Prof. Hofmann intends to design, build and test a 30kW brushless, self-excited synchronous field winding prototype machine that overcomes the weaknesses of the current technology.

Applications of this research range from soil sensors which allow for increased understanding of global climate change to futuristic sensory skins which can monitor the integrity of an object.

The sensor network addressed in the paper assesses the operating conditions of a power plant. It is intended to measure process variables and assess plant status.

“We are proposing an integrated solution that will combine the construction of well-positioned storage facilities that will route excess energy to where it needs to be.”

Professor Jay Guo has developed the reflective photovoltaic color filter device that can convert absorbed light to electricity.

Freyman is studying Electrical Engineering and is a member of the Michigan Integrated Circuits Laboratory.

Ambiq Micro could revolutionize ubiquitous computing, with energy-efficient microcontrollers that are 10 times more energy efficient than conventional microprocessors.

This MURI has the goal of laying the foundation for a new systems information theory that applies to general controlled information gathering and inference systems.

“Advances in photonics depend critically on new materials, and this new center brings together top minds to focus on two of the most exciting new directions in materials for nanophotonics.”

The laser could treat acne by targeting the oil-producing sebaceous glands, which are known to be involved in the development of the skin disease.

If scientists can understand what happens at the genome level that makes people more or less susceptible to viral illness, they could potentially develop therapies to prevent illness.

The technique involves a visualization method that renders clinical flow cytometry data more interpretable to pathologists.

This research is expected to have a fundamental and long term impact on a diverse set of applications ranging from energy conservation to health care.

MABEL, at one time the world’s fasted running bipedal robot, now sits in the biomechanics exhibit at the Chicago Field Museum.

Lee’s primary motivation is to apply his research methods to hematopathology, the study of blood-related diseases.

The antenna is typically the largest wireless component in mobile devices, and shrinking it could leave more room for other gadgets and features.

The implant is called the BioBolt, and unlike other neural interface technologies that establish a connection from the brain to an external device such as a computer, it’s minimally invasive and low power.

Stark’s research relates to wireless networks and understanding their fundamental limits in terms of energy efficiency and bandwidth efficiency.

The researchers have built a complete system that integrates a high-quality energy-harvesting piezoelectric material with the circuitry that makes the power accessible.

This new technique could make solar power cheaper and, with improved materials, more efficient.

“Energy will be the major concern in the United States for my generation,” Connor says. “Now is the time to research and invest in the technologies that will power our future.”

The goal of the research is to develop an alternative method to x-ray imaging that is safer and uses nothing stronger than radio frequency waves.

Berry is designing an emitter to operate as a light-weight, local oscillator for a terahertz spectroscopy system suitable for use in space.

Through visiting professorships, summer programs and more, the U-M community will contribute to the revitalization of the nation.

U-M faculty have developed what is believed to be the first complete millimeter-scale computing system, with applications in radio communication and wireless sensing.

The contest is highly competitive and features the best student projects from the largest and most prestigious conferences in their respective fields.

The authors analyzed performance and accuracy for a variety of dynamic thermal analysis techniques and used their findings to develop a new analysis technique. Congratulations!

The proposed research addresses the frontiers of error-correction coding and very-large-scale integration by advancing algorithms and circuit techniques.

Until now, ubiquitous computing has been hampered by the size of necessary batteries—but Ambiq Micro is changing that, with their energy-efficient micro-controllers.

By using the wiggling motion of electrons in a plasma bubble generated by the ultrashort laser pulse, researchers produced X-rays comparable to that produced in a synchrotron facility.

Their paper introduces new techniques that improve speed, solution quality, simplicity, and integration with other optimizations for global placement technology.

Can the laser’s pulse propagate in such a way that it does not change its energy, and leaves the system in the excited state? Does the pulse speed up during propagation?

The resulting 65nm CMOS test chip achieved an energy efficiency of 21 pJ/bit making it a promising candidate for low-power, high-performance applications.

Moghaddam will oversee the design and fabrication of the AirMOSS instrument, a high-powered, low-frequency radar that NASA/JPL collaborators will build for the project.

The team is working toward building organic lasers that, like many inorganic lasers today, can be excited with electricity rather than light.

“Imagine a microprocessor so tiny and long lasting that it can be implanted in the eye of a glaucoma sufferer to measure the progress of the disease.”

The WIMS has impacted health care, environmental monitoring, the national infrastructure while CUOS specializes in ultrafast lasers.

SMAP is a satellite mission for mapping surface soil moisture and freeze/thaw states for the purpose of scientific advances and societal benefits.

The system could enable new biomedical implants as well as home-, building- and bridge-monitoring devices.

The Award engages rising research stars and provides high-impact funding to develop their ideas in the context of Department of Defense needs.

The award acknowledges Jarrahi’s efforts to develop a new generation of compact high power terahertz sources.

The work, published in 2006, will be acknowledged at the EUSIPCO Conference in Denmark.

The energy-harvesting devices are highly efficient at providing renewable electrical power from arbitrary, non-periodic vibrations.

The research funded by Google involves redesigning servers and data centers to improve their energy efficiency.

Lu was awarded an NSF CAREER grant for his research project, which intends to develop unconventional, high-performance memory and logic systems.

The PECASE is the highest honor bestowed by the U.S. government on outstanding scientists and engineers beginning their independent careers.

The paper addresses the importance of knowing where networks of sensors are located once they’ve been deployed.

The award was given at the IEEE Conference on Automation and Engineering. Congratulations, Lindsay!

The award will support Professor Carmon in three years of basic research on continuous on-chip extreme UV emitters.

Steel will concentrate his efforts on solid state systems, specifically with epitaxially grown InAs/lGaAs semiconductor quantum dots.

The research that will be conducted at the center could lead to more efficient solar cells, finer-featured microchips and new medical tools.

“The main goal of this project,” explained Opila, “is to bring advanced methods to HEV and plug-in HEV design.”

Long’s work describes a new algorithm for performing model-based methods in a way that requires less computation yet provides improved image quality.

Wentzloff is working to develop a wireless 3D interconnection fabric that can provide communication channels and crossbar routing.

“The paper studies the key enabling technologies of Cognitive Radio and makes contributions in two key areas: sensing and learning.”

The paper explores logic and memory circuit topologies for a new type of transistor in development at IBM.

The grant is to be used to develop new techniques for assessing the impact of wind generation on power system voltage control and transient stability.

Nazari’s research is focused on an information theoretic approach to the problem of multi-terminal communications systems.

Thiel’s detection method allows the analysis of human backscattering within a realistic building environment.

For his research, Benson plans to utilize SAR in order to estimate variable vegetated parameters and monitor the planet’s crustal movement.

The monitoring system will collect data from surface and penetrating sensors, then wirelessly relay the information to an inspector on site or miles away.

The winning paper describes a commercial prototype processor that targets wireless baseband processing for the next generation of cellular phones.

The research has applications in health care, environmental monitoring, security, energy conservation and exploration, and more.

This work investigates the fundamental effects of illumination on amorphous InGaZnO thin-film transistors.

Guo’s computer chip imprinter is one of more than 300 inventions that researchers disclosed last year to U-M’s Technology Transfer office.

Comprised of electrical engineers, astrophysicists, physicists, materials scientists, biomedical engineers, and doctors, CUOS explore ultrafast laser applications.

Professor Winful sheds light on one of the most perplexing mysteries of quantum tunneling.

Tkaczyk hopes that his technique will be used to further the understanding, diagnosis, and treatment of cancer. Congratulations!

His work involves the conception and realization of synthetically modulated semiconductor structures and nanophotonic devices.