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CSE researchers win Best Paper Award at OSDI 2025
They were recognized for their development of Basilisk, an automated approach for formally verifying distributed protocols.Five papers by CSE researchers at OSDI 2025
CSE authors are presenting new research on topics related to operating systems design, from distributed protocol verification to silent error detection.Turning the tables: A benchmark for LLMs in data analysis
A new benchmark designed by U-M researchers reveals the gaps, and potential, of AI models in understanding tabular data.Xu Wang receives NSF CAREER Award to advance intelligent tutoring systems
Wang aims to create more flexible and effective digital education tools by developing example-enhanced intelligent tutoring systems.Anhong Guo receives NSF CAREER Award to develop assistive technologies for people with disabilities
His research aims to enable individuals who are blind or have low vision to customize their technological tools through innovative programming approaches.Eight papers by CSE researchers at STOC 2025
CSE authors are presenting new research on topics related to theoretical computer science, including coding theory, approximation algorithms, and subgraph matching.AI generates data to help embodied agents ground language to 3D world
The model trained on the synthetic dataset, 3D-GRAND, had higher grounding accuracy and hallucinated drastically less compared to their predecessors.Clinically deployed AI guidance for preventing C. difficile spread
The model produced patient risk scores, based on electronic health record data and location in the hospital, that were used to guide infection prevention.Ten papers by CSE researchers at CVPR 2025
CSE-affiliated authors are presenting new research in the area of computer vision, from humanoid robotics to 3D reconstruction.Chris Peikert receives Amazon Research Award for work on efficient, scalable encryption
The award will support his efforts to develop new methods for practical third-generation FHE.University of Michigan faculty lead organization of AAMAS 2025 in Detroit
The conference brought together global leaders in AI research for a week of innovation and collaboration.Computer vision identifies images with a classification tree, including broad and specific categories
A new hierarchical classification model uses segmentation to focus attention on different parts of the same image, surpassing previous models in accuracy and precision.U-M team’s genome sequencing breakthrough featured in CACM Research Highlights
Their work introduces a new computational framework that significantly increases the efficiency of genomic data processing.A new tool to manage slow faults
A new library dynamically adjusts to runtime operating slowdowns, reducing performance degradation under varying slow-fault conditions by 65%.Ten papers by CSE researchers at NAACL 2025
CSE authors are presenting new research on topics related to computational linguistics, from multilingual deception detection to interactive language learning.Five papers by CSE researchers at NSDI 2025
CSE researchers are presenting new research in the area of networked and distributed systems, including slow-fault tolerance, programmable traffic control, and cloud-based deep learning.Six papers by CSE researchers at ICSE 2025
CSE authors are presenting papers on topics related to software engineering, from dynamic debugging models to supportive programming environments.Fourteen papers by CSE researchers at CHI 2025
CSE authors are presenting new research in human-computer interaction, on topics including mixed-reality medical training, student use of LLMs, and surface-based object tracking.Perfect is the enemy of good for distributed deep learning in the cloud
Leveraging deep learning’s resilience, approximating data lost by allowing some servers to time out speeds up model training while preserving performance.Eleven papers by CSE researchers at ICLR 2025
CSE authors are presenting new research on topics related to deep learning, including spatial reasoning in vision-language models, data selection methods, and moral alignment in language models.A new era in AI health research: A Q&A with Jenna Wiens
A co-director of U-M’s AI & Digital Health Innovation discusses the custom-built digital environment that will power tomorrow’s health AI research.Bridging the AI literacy gap in higher education
A new study by researchers in CSE explores student engagement with LLMs at the University of Michigan, identifying areas for enhanced support and policy improvement.AI with, for and by everyone can help maximize its benefits
Involving a wider swatch of people in AI development can help maximize its benefits.Streamlining cloud traffic with a Gigaflow Cache
Gigaflow improves virtual switches for programmable SmartNICs, delivering a 51% higher hit rate and 90% lower misses.Five papers by CSE researchers at ASPLOS 2025
CSE authors are presenting new research on topics related to computer architecture, programming languages, and operating systems.University of Michigan hosts NLP @ Michigan Day
The event drew over 100 researchers to Ann Arbor to discuss the latest research in natural language processing.CSE researchers present four papers at HPCA 2025
CSE authors presented new research on topics related to computer architecture, from in-cache computing optimization to oblivious memory performance improvement.How AI tools can help us understand human behavior
Natural language processing tools can help social scientists process larger and longer-term text datasets to keep up with fast-paced digital communication.U-M Precision Health becoming AI & Digital Health Innovation
Expansion will create unified network to accelerate healthcare-focused AI solutions across U-MA bold experiment: Accelerating scientific progress with AI
CSE researchers have developed the first-ever AI framework targeting experimentation, making the research process less time- and cost-intensive.Countering a flaw in anti-censorship tools to improve global internet freedom
A time-based fingerprint can expose obfuscation proxies, prompting the need for new techniques to protect information accessU-M, OpenAI launch partnership to expand AI research
U-M has established a partnership with OpenAI that will bring additional artificial intelligence resources, research funding, and computing power to campus.Shaping the future of AI: A Q&A with Rada Mihalcea
The director of the AI Lab at the University of Michigan discusses the lab’s rich history and its ambitious future.Six papers by CSE researchers at SIGCSE TS 2025
CSE authors are presenting new research on topics related to computer science education, from personalized learning tools to effective teaching strategies.Digital-learning platform improves reading growth by 9 percentile points, bridging learning gaps
Implementing a conventional reading curriculum as digital, map-like lessons with voice recording features made it engaging for students of all reading levels.Ke Wu receives Stellar Academic Research Grant
The award will support her development of collusion-resistant transaction fee mechanisms for blockchain networks.Bridging gaps in rural health care with AI-powered mobile clinics
General practitioners with AI help could make diagnoses, run and interpret tests, and perform procedures like specialists.Out of the woods: Reshaping collaborative programming with Grove
Recent research by Cyrus Omar introduces a new paradigm for more efficient collaborative coding.Dhruv Jain and Devin McCaslin receive William Demant Foundation grant for AI-driven dizziness diagnosis
The grant will support their pioneering research to improve diagnostics and management of dizziness, a symptom associated with hearing loss, using AI technology.Boosting AI model size and training speed with lightwave-connected chips
AI growth is capped by data transfer rates between computing chips, but transferring data with light could remove the ceiling.Rada Mihalcea and Zhijing Jin win two Best Paper Awards at NeurIPS 2024
They and their coauthors were recognized for their papers on multilingual alignment and gender bias in LLMs.Sixteen papers by CSE researchers at SODA 2025
CSE authors are presenting new research on topics in the area of discrete algorithms ranging from graph theory and optimization to computational geometry and data structures.Theory on the rise
The Theory Lab at Michigan is quickly emerging as a national powerhouse in theoretical computer science.An architecture for universal pathogen detection
CSE researchers are working to develop more accurate and efficient genome sequencing technology for pathogen detection and more.Helping machine learning models identify objects in any pose
A new self-supervised learning benchmark and dataset improve pose estimation, paving the way for more intuitive interactions between technology and the physical world.Computing across disciplines
The PCAS program at U-M is ushering in a new era in interdisciplinary education by providing a hands-on computing curriculum for students in the humanities and sciences.AI for accessibility
U-M researchers are working to empower people with disabilities through accessible AI-powered tech.Seventeen papers by CSE researchers at NeurIPS 2024
Papers by CSE authors cover a variety of topics related to machine learning and neural information processing.CSE researchers win Best Paper Award at ICAIF 2024
They were recognized for the excellence of their research on the impact of liquidity on market manipulation.Elizabeth Bondi-Kelly and Alex Peahl receive Google grant to develop AI-powered reproductive health chatbot
The funding will support Bondi-Kelly and Peahl’s development of MI-OB-Now, a multi-agent AI system that improves access to reproductive health information.Up to 30% of the power used to train AI is wasted. Here’s how to fix it.
Smarter use of processor speeds saves energy without compromising training speed and performance.Accounting for bias in medical data helps prevent AI from amplifying racial disparity
Some sick Black patients are likely labeled as “healthy” in AI datasets due to inequitable medical testing.Five papers by CSE researchers at ASSETS 2024
CSE authors are presenting innovations in the area of accessibility, from non-visual image editing to sound modification in virtual reality.Anhong Guo receives Google funding for live visual description platform for blind people
The grant will support Guo’s continued development of WorldScribe, a system that provides context-aware live visual descriptions of everyday surroundings for those who are blind or have low vision.Dhruv Jain receives Google funding for enhanced sound awareness for deaf and hard-of-hearing individuals
The grant will support Jain’s work to develop a comprehensive auditory scene understanding system.Three papers and keynote by CSE researchers at SPLASH 2024
Prof. Cyrus Omar delivered a keynote lecture on programming experience design and new papers by CSE authors cover a range of topics related to programming languages.CSE researchers win Distinguished Paper Award at OOPSLA 2024
The award recognizes the significance of their research on SQL query equivalence checking.Michigan AI Symposium showcases cutting-edge advances in embodied AI
The event brought together over 300 AI experts for a day of networking and discussions around this evolving field.U-M part of $7.5 million federal grant to revolutionize quantum stack design
Gokul Ravi is co-PI on the project, part of a $65 million DOE effort to support quantum computing research.Eight papers by CSE researchers at UIST 2024
CSE authors are presenting new research and innovations related to user interface technology.Real-time visual description program for people with low vision wins Best Paper at UIST 2024
CSE authors were recognized for their development of WorldScribe, a program that generates live visual descriptions to assist people who are blind or have low vision.Emily Mower Provost delivers keynote at ISBD 2024
She spoke on innovations in speech-based mental health modeling at the top international conference on bipolar disorder.$1.2 million NSF funding for U-M research on surgical training
The researchers will apply computational methods to assess and enhance surgical training and patient outcomes.Electric vehicle lessons cruise into Michigan classrooms
New curriculum in U-M professor’s digital education platform introduces K-8 students throughout Michigan to jobs in one of the state’s emerging industries.Roya Ensafi delivers keynote at PETS 2024
She spoke on the importance of internet freedom at one of the top international conferences on privacy-enhancing technologies.Hacked voting machine donated to Henry Ford museum
The machine was used by Prof. J. Alex Halderman for election cybersecurity research, and in a demonstration during which then-Senator Kamala Harris voted on it.Maggie Makar receives Google Research Scholar award for work on causally motivated AI models
The award will support Makar’s work to develop machine learning models that leverage causal reasoning to detect and manage chronic pain.Censored Planet researcher joins FTC
Hieu Le aims to leverage his experience in developing security and privacy technologies to help protect US consumers.Eleven papers by CSE researchers at VLDB 2024
CSE authors are presenting new research on topics related to data management, analysis, mining, and more.Protecting connected, self-driving vehicles from hackers
New security system leverages data sharing between vehicles to quickly detect and counter falsified data, preventing hard brakes and crashesTen papers by CSE researchers at USENIX Security 2024
New research out of CSE spans the field of computer security, from protecting autonomous vehicles from data attacks to detecting and combating online censorship.You’re just a stick figure to this camera
The anonymity could reduce unnecessary surveillance in an age of smart devices.CSE researchers receive Social Impact Award at NAACL 2024
The award recognizes the importance of their research on cultural biases in large language models.Four papers by CSE researchers at OSDI 2024
New papers by CSE researchers cover topics related to the design and implementation of systems software.Forecasting 'forever chemicals' in U.S. waterways with AI
In collaboration with the Environmental Working Group, researchers at U-M have received a Graham Sustainability Institute Catalyst Grant to develop AI tools that can predict PFAS contamination in water sources across the U.S.Six papers by CSE researchers at STOC 2024
New papers presented by CSE researchers at the conference address a number of topics in theoretical computer science, including dense linear systems, multi-commodity flows, correlation clustering, and more.Fifteen papers by CSE researchers at CVPR 2024
New papers authored by CSE researchers cover a range of topics related to computer vision, including image reconstruction, 3D scene representation, LLM visual grounding, and more.Using AI to decode dog vocalizations
Leveraging a human speech model to identify different types of barks$15M to fund U-M, Los Alamos National Laboratory collaboration
The University of Michigan will partner with Los Alamos National Laboratory to develop advanced computing technologies to address critical challenges.ChatGPT stand-ins: Small Language Models show similar quality at lower cost in a customer-facing AI tool
New tool capable of comparing SLMs and LLMs finds smaller models can reduce costs up to 29 times.Leveraging AI to improve video-based surgical learning
New tool can help surgeons quickly search videos and create interactive feedback, saving time while improving educational value for trainees.Managing screen time by making phones slightly more annoying to use
Delaying a phone’s swiping and tapping functions forces users to think harder, making it easier for them to consider whether to keep scrolling.11 papers by CSE researchers presented at CHI 2024
CSE researchers presented new work in the area of human-computer interaction, on topics including smartphone overuse, privacy-sensitive personalization, human-AI sound awareness, video-based surgeon education, and more.CSE researchers win Best Paper Award at ACM MMSys 2024
The authors were recognized for the excellence of their research on neural-enhanced video streaming.Visiting researcher assesses Starlink as path to avoid government censorship
The study is the first to technically describe how and to what extent Starlink can be used to access the internet from inside Iran.Report issued on state of intelligent vehicle dependability and security
Safe operation of fully autonomous vehicles on public roads is not anticipated in the near future.Harnessing tech to shape the future of pandemic defense
The Computing Community Consortium, including CSE Prof. Rada Mihalcea, has released a new workshop report on the role of computing in preventing and mitigating the effects of pandemics.GenAI in computer science education: Friend or foe?
Dr. Andrew DeOrio’s recent trial of a custom GenAI chatbot in one of his courses revealed that AI can be a helpful tool, instead of just a threat, in the classroom.The hidden brain power behind programming
New research from U-M reveals how stimulation of certain brain regions affects programming performance.CSE researchers receive Mozilla funding for research on AI energy use
The researchers were selected as recipients of the 2024 Mozilla Technology Fund for Zeus, an effort to measure and optimize the energy consumption of machine learning.Widely used AI tool for early sepsis detection may be cribbing doctors’ suspicions
When using only data collected before patients with sepsis received treatments or medical tests, the model’s accuracy was no better than a coin toss.Hearing emotion: Redefining mental health monitoring via voice-based mood detection
Researchers at U-M have received a $3.6 million NIH grant to support their development of new digital phenotyping tools to better detect and measure symptoms of bipolar disorder via audio monitoring.CSE researchers win Distinguished Paper Award at POPL 2024
The authors were recognized for their development of a principled method for localizing and recovering from type and type inference errors in programs.Five papers by CSE researchers to be presented at POPL 2024
New research by CSE authors covers a range of cutting-edge topics related to programming languages.Greg Bodwin wins Best Paper Award at SOSA 2024
The award recognizes Bodwin’s research on light graph spanners, used to design more efficient networks.Clinicians could be fooled by biased AI, despite explanations
Regulators pinned their hopes on clinicians being able to spot flaws in explanations of an AI model's logic, but a study suggests this isn't a safe approach.Open-source training framework increases the speed of large language model pre-training when failures arise
Pipeline templates strike a balance between speed and effectiveness in resilient distributed computing.Danai Koutra receives 2023 ICDM Tao Li Award
The award recognizes her outstanding achievements in the field of data mining and machine learning.NSF funds U-M research on generative AI in STEM education
Prof. Xu Wang of CSE and Prof. Ying Xu of the School of Education have received an NSF award to support their research on teacher-AI collaboration to develop STEM educational resources.Fourteen papers by CSE researchers presented at NeurIPS 2023
CSE authors are presenting new research in the area of machine learning and neural networks.Biases in large image-text AI model favor wealthier, Western perspectives
AI model that pairs text, images performs poorly on lower-income or non-Western images, potentially increasing inequality in digital technology representation.CSE researchers win SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award at ESEC/FSE 2023
PhD student Madeline Endres and Prof. Westley Weimer have been recognized for the excellence of their paper on student contributions to open-source software projects in EECS 481.Ten papers by CSE researchers presented at EMNLP 2023
The ten papers being presented, as well as ten additional papers published in the Findings track of the conference, provide new insight on several topics related to natural language processing, from detecting bias to parsing optical illusions.Z. Morley Mao receives NSF funding to build safe, resilient autonomous vehicles
The four-year grant will support research into improving the safety and reliability of tele-operated vehicles.NSF funds U-M initiative leveraging AI to teach students essay writing
The $850k grant will support a multidisciplinary initiative to use large language models as writing assistants for students.Four papers by CSE researchers appearing at CCS 2023
CSE-authored papers at the conference cover cutting-edge topics related to computer security.Seven papers by CSE researchers presented at FOCS 2023
The papers authored by CSE researchers appearing at the conference cover a range of topics across theoretical computer science.Gokul Ravi earns Innovation Award in ICCAD Quantum Computing for Drug Discovery Challenge
Prof. Ravi and his coauthors won the award for their development of CAFQA, which uses classical simulation to bootstrap variational quantum algorithms, enabling more accurate ground state energy estimation.CSE researchers present new findings and tech at UIST 2023
CSE researchers have 2 papers and 4 demos appearing at the conference, covering new tech that improves accessibility, enhances user experience, and helps surgeons-in-training.CSE researchers receive Distinguished Paper Award at OOPSLA 2023
CSE authors were recognized for the excellence of their research on live pattern matching with typed holes in modern programming systems.New phone case provides workaround for inaccessible touchscreens
Touchscreens are everywhere but not built for everyone. A new device could help bridge that gap, helping users access ticket kiosks, restaurant menus and more.CSE researchers present new findings at OOPSLA and SOSP
Several researchers in CSE are presenting papers at the two conferences on programming languages, operating systems, and more.When LLMs and robots meet
U-M researchers have designed a new 3D visual grounding framework that uses large language models (LLMs) to help household robots better follow instructions and understand everyday environments.Dhruv Jain receives NIH grant to improve health education for people with sensory disabilities
Prof. Jain and his collaborators in Michigan Medicine will develop best practices to increase health literacy and access to information for patients with disabilities.U-Michigan a partner in two CHIPS Act Midwest microelectronics hubs
The latest DoD funding announcements bolster Michigan Engineering’s efforts to support revitalization of the U.S. semiconductor sector.NSF backs U-M research to enhance reliability of distributed systems
Researchers in CSE have received a four-year NSF grant to support their development of semantic checkers for distributed systems.Gokul Ravi and coauthors present new advances in quantum computing, win Best Paper Award at IEEE Quantum Week
Prof. Ravi and his coauthors have three papers appearing at the conference on fault-tolerant quantum computing, variational quantum algorithms, and more, including one that won Best Paper Award.Paper by U-M researchers recognized in IEEE Micro Top Picks
A paper authored by U-M researchers has been recognized as one of IEEE Micro Top Picks from all 2022 computer architecture conferences.Power-hungry AI: Researchers evaluate energy consumption across models
A new tool designed by researchers at the University of Michigan allows users to compare the energy efficiency of AI-powered language models.University of Michigan researchers create screen protection system to fend off shoulder surfers
Eye-Shield uses an innovative pixelation scheme to obscure device screens when viewed from a distance, safeguarding against shoulder surfing attacks.Five papers by CSE researchers presented at USENIX Security 2023
Papers authored by CSE researchers at the conference cover a variety of topics related to computer security and privacy.A look back at 25 years of University of Michigan innovation in computer architecture
Nine papers by EECS researchers have been highlighted as among the most significant of the last 25 years in an ISCA retrospective.Researchers leverage AI to fight online hate speech
University of Michigan researchers have developed a new hate speech detection tool that uses deep learning to more accurately classify hateful content online.Five papers by CSE researchers presented at ICML 2023
The papers authored by CSE researchers appearing at the conference cover a breadth of topics related to machine learning.A surprisingly simple way to foil car thieves
Flicking lights or swiping wipers could one day add extra security to vehicles.CSE researchers win Outstanding Paper Award at ACL 2023
The CSE authors were recognized for the excellence of their paper on grounded vocabulary acquisition in vision-language models.Researchers investigate language models’ capacity for analogical reasoning in groundbreaking study
A team of University of Michigan researchers has explored how language models perform on human cognitive tests to determine their ability to form analogies.Seven papers by CSE researchers presented at ACL 2023
Fourteen researchers in CSE have authored papers appearing at the conference, covering a variety of topics related to computational linguistics and natural language processing.Five papers by CSE researchers presented at STOC 2023
Three CSE faculty have authored papers being presented at the conference on topics ranging from length-constrained computing flows to graph connectivity problems.Nine papers by CSE researchers presented at CVPR 2023
Thirteen CSE researchers have authored papers for the conference, covering topics spanning from object segmentation, 3D vision, biomedical microscopy analysis, and more.New technique for memory page placement integrated into Linux kernel
A novel mechanism designed by CSE researchers that automatically tiers memory pages has been deployed in the Linux operating system.New computer vision technique enhances microscopy image analysis for improved cancer diagnosis
University of Michigan researchers have designed HiDisc, a machine learning tool that classifies biomedical microscopy images to more accurately diagnose cancer.Wei Hu receives Google Research Scholar award for research on deep learning theory for real-world data
Hu has received Google support for his development of novel deep learning theoretical approaches that reflect the complex properties of high-dimensional data.Paul Grubbs and coauthors win IEEE S&P Distinguished Paper Award for research on security risks in modern zero-knowledge proof systems
Their paper explores the dangers of incorrectly applying security measures in modern zero-knowledge proof systems commonly used in cryptocurrencies.With language models on the rise, how can Natural Language Processing be used for good?
A research team led by Prof. Rada Mihalcea and PhD student Zhijing Jin has created a method for identifying and categorizing research that uses NLP to address social problems.Eight CSE faculty earn NSF CAREER Awards
The NSF Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program is the most prestigious award in support of early-career faculty who have the potential to serve as academic role models in research and education.Mosharaf Chowdhury receives Google Research Scholar award for research on resilient deep learning
Chowdhury is working to develop new fault-tolerant techniques to enable deep neural networks to continue training even when failures occurStudy explores drug use in programming jobs, tension between policy and reality
The first qualitative study on the use of psychoactive substances while on the job at software companies revealed a range of motivations, company policies, and workplace stigmas.Five papers by CSE researchers presented at IEEE S&P conference
Ten CSE researchers have authored papers for the conference spanning topics related to security and privacy.Barzan Mozafari receives the EuroSys Test-of-Time award
Prof. Mozafari has been recognized for the sustained impact of BlinkDB, the first massively parallel approximate query engine.Friday Night AI event addresses public’s concerns surrounding ChatGPT
Michigan AI Lab draws large crowd at Friday Night AI event discussing ChatGPT, its abilities, and its limitations.Focused ambitions
While hunger for an artificial intelligence that can think like a human remains unsated, AI continues to appear in our lives in smaller ways.Dhruv Jain named Google Scholar to design accessible technologies for deaf and hard of hearing people
Jain is working to design next-generation accessible technologies to give DHH people better awareness of their surroundings.Sensor enables high-fidelity input from everyday objects, human body
A new technique for recording and analyzing surface-acoustic waves can enable nearly any object to act as a touch input device, and power privacy-sensitive sensing systems.Researchers recognized at CHI for work on human-NLP system to create reading quiz questions
Their paper received an honorable mention for their work in making high-quality quiz questions easier to create.Seven papers by CSE researchers presented at CHI 2023
30 University of Michigan researchers authored and co-authored papers spanning surveillance, virtual reality, algorithmic stigma, assistive technology, and sensing systems.U-M CSE research team advances to top five in Amazon Alexa Prize Simbot Challenge
The challenge is a means of pushing forward with their research into development of next-generation embodied AI agents.Optimization could cut the carbon footprint of AI training by up to 75%
Deep learning models that power giants like TikTok and Amazon, as well as tools like ChatGPT, could save energy without new hardware or infrastructure.Cyrus Omar earns NSF CAREER to design live program sketching environments
Omar aims to bridge the gap between a program sketch and a finished program for novices and experts alike.Xinyu Wang earns NSF CAREER Award to democratize web automation
The AI-based programming assistant will enable users to describe a repetitive task and generate a program to help them automate it.Paul Grubbs earns NSF CAREER Award to build more secure, private networks
His cryptographic techniques will help managed networks like those in schools and companies enforce network policies without the need to access user information.Euiwoong Lee earns NSF CAREER Award to design more efficient data clustering algorithms
Lee seeks to improve performance guarantees in clustering, one of the most fundamental tasks in machine learning.Roya Ensafi receives NSF CAREER Award for efforts to combat censorship worldwide
Her goal is to advance the scientific understanding of contemporary online censorship and develop principled and effective countermeasures.Mahdi Cheraghchi earns NSF CAREER Award to study theoretical roots of error correction and pseudorandomness
Cheraghchi will study why gaps between theory and practice exist in these two interconnected fields of computing theory.Thatchaphol Saranurak earns NSF CAREER Award to study tackle problems in dynamic graphing algorithms
Saranurak will study the connections between these algorithms and a number of important open problems in graph theory, security, and optimization.Are VPNs really the answer?
New research shows that a VPN can be one tool in an internet user’s toolbox but often is not sufficient as the only solution for all privacy needs.Microelectronics researchers plan new initiative, enhanced collaboration to aid semiconductor industry
Leaders in microelectronics from across Michigan Engineering gathered to plan the formation of Michigan's Advanced Vision for Education and Research in Integrated Circuits, with an eye to building industry partnerships and strengthening US leadership.Major breakthrough in dynamic graph algorithms earns Best Paper
Thatchaphol Saranurak and collaborators were recognized at SODA '23 for their work that broke an approximation barrier in dynamic graph matching.Get to know: George Tzimpragos
“If you put your heart and soul into what you do, it will show.”Roya Ensafi named Morris Wellman Professor
Ensafi’s research focuses on Internet security and privacy, with the goal of creating techniques and systems to better protect users online.Tool to analyze the security, privacy of VPNs wins first place for applied security research in 2022
VPNalyzer has revealed a number of shortcomings in the design and implementation of popular virtual private networks. The paper earned first prize at New York University's CSAW '22 Applied Research Competition.Researchers cut down on AI's carbon footprint with new optimization framework
Zeus automatically adapts the power usage of deep learning models to chase clean electricity sources throughout the dayCyber vulnerability in networks used by spacecraft, aircraft and energy generation systems
A new attack discovered by the University of Michigan and NASA exploits a trusted network technology to create unexpected and potentially catastrophic behaviorCutting down on database maintenance with automated tools
With the help of formal methods, Prof. Xinyu Wang is working to make the evolution of databases and its surrounding code less labor intensive and costly during schema changes.Prof. Danai Koutra receives NSF grant for research in graph neural networks
The project aims to advance the theoretical underpinnings of the interplay between graph heterophily and overall performance of graph neural networks.Expert: 4 ways Americans can keep their vote secure and accurate
With election security experts waylaid by years debunking false claims of election fraud, little has improved since 2020.Prof. Emily Mower Provost receives NSF grant for research in personalized emotion recognition
The project aims to create new and personalized speech emotion recognition approaches and to use these approaches to investigate how changes in emotion are related to changes in mental health.CSE theory researchers co-author seven papers at IEEE FOCS 2022
The papers represented work by seven U-M researchers at one of the leading theoretical computing conferences in the world.Prof. Kang G. Shin receives DoD grant to investigate security of semi-autonomous systems
Prof. Shin plans to identify potential attack surfaces and security/safety issues while developing defense mechanisms against attacks on semi-autonomous systems.Decisive differences in healthcare AI
When decisions about your healthcare are informed by AI, bias in machine learning can have dire consequences. Ph.D. student Trenton Chang researches how inequities in healthcare delivery impact machine learning and AI.The same app can pose a bigger security and privacy threat depending on the country where you download it, study finds
Same app, same app store, different risks if you download it in, say, Tunisia rather than in Germany.CSE undergrads finish first, third in ACM MICRO research competition
The student researchers studied how to simulate massive datacenter application data and how to improve datacenter efficiency with payload awareness.System to avoid data center inefficiencies earns Best Paper
Called Whisper, the technique mitigates mispredictions in application control flow via efficient profiling.Six new projects funded by LG AI Research
The projects are a part of LG’s mission to advance AI such as Deep Reinforcement Learning, 3D Scene Understanding, and Reasoning with a Large-scale Language Model and Bias & Fairness related to AI ethics.Todd Austin earns MICRO Test of Time for vulnerability assessment of microarchitecture
The paper introduced a means to estimate how prone a CPU's microarchitecture is to the accumulation of logical errors.NSF Award to streamline graph analysis of large networks
Prof. Greg Bodwin plans to explore the utility of graph sketching, a more cost-effective and energy efficient analysis method of network graph analysis.Paper by U-M researchers selected for Best Paper in IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing
The research on automatic speech emotion recognition is one of the five papers featured in the collection.CSE authors present four papers at MICRO 2022
Thirteen CSE co-authors had work accepted at the conference, including one Best Paper nominee.Twelve papers from ADA Research Center featured in TECHCON 2022
The convention recognizes research in microelectronics by figures at over 100 top engineering universities.Four papers by U-M researchers recognized in IEEE Micro Top Picks issue
A paper authored by researchers including two CSE faculty has been recognized as one of IEEE Micro’s Top Picks, with three more papers including CSE authors chosen as honorable mentions.Paul Grubbs earns Meta award to study interoperability in end-to-end encrypted messaging
Grubbs was one of ten awardees selected as part of the Privacy-Enhancing Technologies Award program.More secure networks with the power of zero knowledge
Paul Grubbs aims to resolve the tension between network policy enforcement and user privacy with a cryptographic technique that can prove something is true without explaining why.Research on key VPN vulnerabilities recognized with USENIX Internet Defense Prize, Best Paper Award
The study authored by Prof. Roya Ensafi's lab found that network administrators, like ISPs and governments, could easily detect and block the use of VPNs on a large scale.Researchers earn USENIX Test of Time for work in exposing network key vulnerabilities
The award recognizes “Mining Your Ps and Qs” for its lasting contributions to the field of security and encryption.Work on debunking 2020 election fraud claims in Antrim County incident recognized with USENIX Best Paper
The paper presents an independent investigation of the county’s election management system and identifies weaknesses, solutions.Open source platform enables research on privacy-preserving machine learning
Virtual assortment of user devices provides a realistic training environment for distributed machine learning, protects privacy by learning where data lives.New NIST post-quantum standards make use of research by Prof. Chris Peikert
Two cryptographic algorithms building on work by Peikert will contribute to NIST’s ongoing post-quantum cryptographic standard, and will be finalized in roughly two years.ADA researchers present at Design Automation Conference
The two papers present work on improving efficiency for developers working with hardware accelerators and improving training performance of deep recommendation systems.CSE researchers present six papers at STOC 2022
The papers represented work by six U-M researchers at the leading general theoretical computing conference in the world.CSE researchers present five papers at ISCA 2022
17 U-M researchers proposed a variety of techniques to speed up complex graph algorithms, encrypted cloud computing, memory-intensive matrix operations, and more.Understanding media narratives with machine learning and NLP
Prof. Lu Wang aims to build a better understanding of how storytelling in mass media impacts the attitudes and beliefs of individuals and communities.Atkins chairs National Academies report on speeding discovery with automated research workflows
Prof. Emeritus Daniel Atkins III chaired and Prof. Al Hero served on a National Academies committee that published a new report describing the impact of artificial intelligence and automated research workflow technologies in propelling research and scientific discovery.Making collaborative online document editing accessible to blind users
The CollabAlly extension pulls together visual information in collaborative editing environments and makes them easy to access and navigate with audio cues.Paper recognized for lasting impact on natural language processing
AAAI recognized Prof. Rada Mihalcea's 2006 paper which devised a way to semantically compare short texts.Designing more accessible augmented reality for people with visual impairments
Prof. Anhong Guo is supported by the Google Research Scholar Program to devise techniques that enable blind users to access collaborative AR experiences.Algorithms, a random walk: A conversation with Nikhil Bansal
Bansal is known for his use of a broad mathematical toolset to find algorithmic solutions to problems once thought unsolvable.System enables automated repair in hardware designs
The new framework lets developers cut down on time spent designing bug fixes for hardware specifications, adapting techniques now used widely in software development.David Fouhey receives NSF CAREER Award for vision system to perceive the interactive world
His goal is to build AI systems that can recognize and understand a 3D and interactive world from a single image.A first step toward more agile hardware design, debugging
A new suite of tools takes advantage of modern reconfigurable devices to enable developers to better address bugs in hardware after it's been deployed.AAAI Best Demonstration Award for developing an AI agent that learns tasks from natural language instructions
From a single training session, Rosie learns to carry out a new task without any further instruction.Open-source patient model tops industry standard
Tested without needing hospitals to share data, the method for developing the model could speed further improvements in medical prediction toolsNSF Grant to add "a teaspoon of computing" to non-CS classes
Teaspoon programming languages can broaden access to computing skills through incorporation in a variety of coursework.New computational framework to understand aggressive cancer cell behavior
Cancer cell biologists have teamed up with computational scientists and experts in artificial intelligence to focus the power of these fields on understanding and overcoming heterogeneity in cancer.How worried should we be about the rise in hospital ransomware attacks? A Q&A with Kevin Fu
"We've reached an inflection point where the degree of connectivity between devices and services in all sectors has exploded."Study finds new opportunities, challenges to broadening CS education
While past research focuses on introductory CS courses, the researchers found another key point of potential bias in the CS curriculum.Multi-institute project "Treehouse" aims to enable sustainable cloud computing
"We are buying thousands of GPUs and running them at full speed, and no one really knows just how much energy is being spent in the process."Tool to analyze VPN security, privacy aids in Consumer Reports review
VPNalyzer was used by Consumer Reports to measure the effectiveness of popular consumer VPN providers.Enabling efficient, globally distributed machine learning
A group of researchers at U-M is working on the full big data stack for training machine learning models on millions of devices worldwide.Tools for "more humane coding"
The Future Programming Lab envisions a more seamless coding experience.Exploring faster ways to think like a software developer
Beginner and expert programmers think about code very differently while they program, an insight that can inform more tailored training.Outstanding Paper Award for helping AI agents develop better human understanding
The researchers have developed a framework and a dataset of collaborative tasks performed by pairs of humans that can teach AI agents how humans understand each other.Ten year impact award for landmark early work on video sentiment analysis
Prof. Rada Mihalcea and collaborators saw an early opportunity to draw usable information from a seemingly infinite stream of online video.Five ways to keep vaccine cold storage equipment safe from hackers
A medical security expert outlines the risks and how hospitals can protect themselves.Famous Paxos distributed protocol automatically determined safe and secure
Two researchers have debunked the common assumption that the famous Paxos consensus protocol is too complex to be proven safe without hours of manual labor.Generating 3D spaces from a single picture
New model PixelSynth creates an interactive experience given just a single image.CSE authors present six papers at MICRO 2021
12 co-authors had work accepted at the conference, including one Best Paper nominee.Best Paper to give robots more planning foresight
The new framework provides a means to help robots plan while faced with different sources of uncertainty.New tool to analyze, improve live streaming services earns best paper
The study produced a new tool to analyze and correct performance issues in major streaming software and services.Wireless electricity and safety: A Q&A with Alanson Sample
How the safety of a wireless charging room stacks up to that of a cell phone.Google Award for preventing Spectre, Rowhammer in the cloud
Kevin Loughlin's project tackles an issue called context isolation on shared computing resources.Using negative probability for quantum solutions
Probabilities with a negative sign have been of great use in quantum physics.$1.1M grant supports learning more about early Alzheimer's with machine learning
Data from patient records could provide a valuable historical perspective on which factors increase Alzheimer's risk.Will power cords go the way of land lines?
Room-size charging system powers lights, phones, laptops without wiresGoogle Award to make widely used software testing technique more effective
Baris Kasikci plans to improve software fuzzers by learning how deployed software is most commonly run by users.Best paper award for simplifying data transformation
The researchers proposed a set of formal tools to make statistical data transformation easier to document and understand.Four papers with Michigan authors at SIGCOMM 2021
ACM SIGCOMM's annual conference is the leading conference in data communications and networking in the world.Get to know: Paul Grubbs
His research at the intersection of cryptography and systems has already had broad impacts across the IT industry.Helping autonomous agents make smarter decisions in chaotic environments
A new algorithm gives autonomous agents the ability to take in batches of multiple instructions at once while responding dynamically to changes in their surroundings.Solution for restoring faulty graphs earns best paper award
Prof. Greg Bodwin has devised a solution to an important open question in graph theory that offers promising new options for repairing and constructing resilient networks.Postdoc Leqi Zhu wins PODC Dissertation Award
The thesis completely solves a longstanding open problem in the theory of distributed computing.Four CSE co-authored papers presented at PLDI 2021
The papers define new ways to reconstruct program failures, program with live graphical elements, and extract information from webpages.Her fight for your rights
U-M researchers present three papers at ISCA 2021
Thomas Wenisch selected as Maurice Wilkes Award Recipient
Less nosy smart speakers
Best paper award for a robot that can see and move transparent objects
Three CSE papers at CHI 2021 recognized with honorable mentions
Human resilience study to benefit from new data privacy technique
Election lessons from Michigan
Lu Wang earns CAREER Award to summarize long text with machine learning
CSE researchers win best paper award at HPCA 2021
Manos Kapritsos earns CAREER Award to apply formal reasoning to software performance
DARPA pitted 500+ hackers against this computer chip. The chip won.
Sensor takes guesswork out of N95 decontamination
Seven papers by CSE researchers presented at AAAI 2021
First IFIP Workshop on Intelligent Vehicle Dependability and Security
The workshop, co-organized by a team including two EECS faculty, focused on ensuring the safety of Level 3 autonomous vehicles, where humans must be ready to take over control.New database sheds light on Michigan’s videogame boom
Todd Austin earns Test of Time Award for early instruction prefetch breakthrough
Hacking reality
Precision health in the palm of your hand
How CS is changing education
Building a testing-free future
After five years, Let’s Encrypt, a non-profit based on tech developed at Michigan, has helped to secure the internet
Major side-channel discovery wins NSA contest
Tool to automate popular security technique earns distinguished paper
Censored Planet: Tracking internet censorship without on-the-ground participation
CSE researchers report over $11M in research grants last quarter
Student NASA award supports work on more dexterous, collaborative space robots
5 ways Americans can keep their vote secure and accurate
Prof. Baris Kasikci recognized as rising star by Intel
Hardware model checker takes gold at international competition
How a COVID-19 app built at U-Michigan is helping businesses stay open
Teaching CS in history class
Roadmap for teachers: U-M free online learning platform paves the way
CSE researchers help organize 10th anniversary workshop on internet freedom
New research teaches AI how people move with internet videos
$1.8M DARPA project aims to protect cars, trucks and spacecraft from hackers
The University of Michigan Extended Reality Initiative: Embracing the virtual future
NIST finalists for post-quantum security standards include research results developed by Prof. Chris Peikert
“Hiding” network latency for fast memory in data centers
Baris Kasikci earns CAREER Award to automatically improve software quality with data from everyday program use
New collaboration promises greater innovation in medical device security
Enabling fairer data clusters for machine learning
Jason Flinn earns Test of Time award for 1999 invention of adaptable battery use in mobile apps
Wireless sensors for N95 masks could enable easier, more accurate decontamination
Students lead the way on State of Michigan web application to help curb the spread of COVID-19
Model helps robots think more like humans when searching for objects
AI-powered interviewer provides guided reflection exercises during COVID-19 pandemic
New method ensures complex programs are bug-free without testing
Open-source software helps youth with disabilities develop scheduling independence
New remote voting risks and solutions identified
Web app, dashboard from U-M to inform Michiganders’ return to work
ADA Center holds 2020 symposium with virtual attendance, highlighting new research into computer design
IEEE security conference features six accepted papers from CSE researchers
Research on human biases in AI learning earns best student paper award
Get to know: Xinyu Wang
How predictive modeling could help us reopen more safely
Faster than COVID: a computer model that predicts the disease’s next move
CS student research and industry connections hit home – from home
The Explore Computer Science Research poster presentation and industry panel is the culmination of student research during the year and a chance to bring the community together.K-12 online learning platform sees big rise in use
Research team takes on food insecurity in Detroit in the face of coronavirus limitations
Building better coronavirus databases with automatic quality checks
Computer scientists employ AI to help address COVID-19 challenges
Undergraduate research on speeding up data centers earns ACM first prize
Analytical model predicts exactly how much a piece of hardware will speed up data centers
Guidance on decontaminating face masks: U-M researchers contribute to national effort
Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship for design of robust, reliable and repairable software systems
Predoctoral Fellowship for mathematically provable hardware design
Researchers to use brain scans to understand gender bias in software development
Programming around Moore's Law with automatic code translation
Five papers by CSE researchers presented at NSDI
The teams designed systems for faster and more efficient distributed and large-scale computing.Real-time monitor tracks the growing use of network filters for censorship
Das recognized as outstanding researcher for work on computational caches
Emotion recognition has a privacy problem – here’s how to fix it
Generating realistic stock market data for deeper financial research
CSE researchers present 9 papers at leading AI conference
The students and faculty submitted projects spanning several key application areas for AI.$1M grant to develop U-M high-capacity research network
Facebook Fellowship for improving high-demand web services
Not enough voters detecting ballot errors and potential hacks, study finds
CSE faculty funded for three precision health projects
Best Student Paper Award for work on faster network classification for machine learning
New student tool gets chips from lab to fab faster than ever
Researchers design new solution to widespread side-channel attacks
How Let’s Encrypt doubled the percentage of secure websites in four years
2019 CSE Graduate Student Honors Competition highlights outstanding research
The competition is the culmination of a process that narrows a field of entrants to a handful of finalists, each of whom gives a summary presentation on an area of their research.How Russia’s online censorship could jeopardize internet freedom worldwide
Researchers take control of Siri, Alexa, and Google Home with lasers
Offensive vehicle security toolbox makes car hacking easier
New tool combats evolving internet censorship methods
Learning the computational mindset – education researchers give perspective
Michigan AI celebrates second annual symposium
Year of vulnerability hunting uncovers potential attacks on Intel Chips, RAM
All three of these attacks put users’ privacy at risk, exploiting new routes to sensitive data.CSE faculty bring significant showing to major systems conference
$2M NSF grant to explore data equity systems
Researchers plan to establish a framework for a national institute that would enable research using sensitive data, while preventing misuse and misinterpretation.$1M NSF grant supports new system for gathering, structuring data with ease
Remote attack on temperature sensors threatens safety in incubators and industry
New attack on autonomous vehicle sensors creates fake obstacles
Taking machine-learning models in health care from concept to bedside
The authors provide an overview of common challenges to implementing ML in a health-care setting, and describe the necessity of breaking down the silos in ML.Creating more efficient data centers for AI
New browser strategy game has players tackle real-life bat catastrophe
Year of growth, experiments for May Mobility
DARPA Award for more responsive AI that combines human and machine
“Mind reading” study looks inside coders’ brains
Automated tool optimizes complex programs better than humans
Paper recognized for lasting contributions to AI decision making
PET Award for making privacy policies easier to read
Best paper award for analysis of a decade of malware reports
25-year paper award for power-saving approach to high-performance computing
Advancing AI for Video: Startup launches powerful video processing platform
New lecture series brings AI to the public
The new event series aims to create an educational environment for the public.A quicker eye for robotics to help in cluttered environments
CAREER Award for deeper insights into interconnected data: from neurons to web searches
Student awarded NSF Fellowship for automating speech-based disease classification
Award for helping popular websites better direct their internet traffic
Paper award for identifying speaker characteristics in text messages
Chowdhury receives VMWare Award to further research on cluster-wide memory efficiency
NDSEG Fellowship for overcoming Moore’s Law with innovative architecture
Army Award to speed up distributed methods over networks
New chip stops hacks before they start
Michigan’s new Election Security Commission holds inaugural meeting on U-M Campus
All things can be part of the Internet of Things with new RFID system
Halderman co-chairs new commission to protect Michigan votes
Chowdhury wins NSF CAREER award for making memory cheaper, more efficient in big data centers
Two solutions for GPU efficiency can boost AI performance
Election security: Halderman recommends actions to ensure integrity of US systems
Personalized knowledge graphs for faster search and digital assistants
Speeding up code with clever data manipulation
Sloan Fellowship for overcoming Moore’s Law in health and AI
Rackham Fellowship for enabling autonomous agents to learn continuously
‘Air traffic control’ for driverless cars could speed up deployment
Facebook Fellowship for research on web privacy, security, and censorship
Online censorship detector aims to make the internet a freer place
Student earns Microsoft Fellowship for research in a new computing paradigm
Transforming tools for some into a language for all
Bridging the “last centimeter barrier” in electronic communications
Taking on the limits of computing power
Helping drivers use smart cars smarter
Using drones, a new software tool can bring LTE networks anywhere
Precision Health Award for measuring moods
Study reveals new data on region-specific website blocking practices
A secure future for US elections starts in the classroom
Understanding at every level
Two papers announced among 10 most influential in healthcare and infection control
The logic of feeling: Teaching computers to identify emotions
Gaining a deeper understanding of how personal values are expressed in text
Making software failures a little less catastrophic
Tyche: A new permission model to defend against smart home hacks
Detecting Huntington’s disease with an algorithm that analyzes speech
Faster, cheaper gene sequencing to make healthcare more precise
Fake news detector algorithm works better than a human
Intel processor vulnerability could put millions of PCs at risk
Beyond Moore’s law: $16.7M for advanced computing projects
Using software to beat Moore’s Law: $9.5M to design the ‘reconfigurable computer’
Michigan chips will be first to test next-generation hardware design tools
Tool for structuring data creates efficiency for data scientists
Jason Corso on artificial intelligence
Finding meaning in varied data
Mars Rover Team tackles major redesign, places in top 10 at competition
Faculty spotlight: Rada Mihalcea
Undocumented immigrants’ privacy at risk online, on phones
Cafarella Receives VLDB Test of Time Award for Structured Web Data Search
Connected cars can lie, posing a new threat to smart cities
Designing a flexible future for massive data centers
Paper award for training computer vision systems more accurately
Exoskeletons compete to boost strength of rescue workers
Building a security standard for a post-quantum future
CSE researchers win Best of SELSE award
Zuckerberg Capitol Hill testimony: Engineering experts offer comments
‘I hacked an election. So can the Russians.’
CSE graduate student earns NSF Graduate Research Fellowship for research on data mining
Michigan researchers discover vulnerabilities in next-generation connected vehicle technology
Preventing deadly hospital infections with machine learning
CSE PhD student Matt Bernhard on the Facebook data breach
Duplicate text detection system now integrated with conference management software
Can sound be used as a weapon? 4 questions answered
Cuba ‘sonic attacks’: A covert accident?
New computing system to enable deep space missions
BMW, Toyota invest in U-M startup May Mobility
Prof. John Laird and CSE Alumna Shiwali Mohan receive award for research on learning in autonomous intelligent agents
Chat tool simplifies tricky online privacy policies
Professor Michael Wellman shares expertise in Asimov Memorial Debate
Emotions predicted by examining the correlation between tweets and environmental factors
Michigan researchers awarded 2018 Applied Networking Research Prize for their work on speeding up the mobile web
Internet-scanning U-M startup offers new approach to cybersecurity
New $32M center reimagines how computers are designed
Unhackable computer under development with $3.6M DARPA grant
FCC repeals net neutrality: Engineering experts offer comments
An armed robber’s Supreme Court case could affect all Americans’ digital privacy for decades to come
Net neutrality repeal: Michigan Engineers weigh in
Chris Peikert Receives TCC Test of Time Award for work in lattice cryptography
Bringing smart banking to market
Michigan researchers win best paper award at DFT 2017
Manos Kapritsos and collaborators win USENIX security paper award
Michigan, Georgia Tech researchers funded to deter financial market manipulation
Improving natural language processing with demographic-aware models
“Learning database” speeds queries from hours to seconds
Mark Ackerman receives European CSCW Lifetime Achievement award
Accelerating the mobile web
Codeon is the intelligent assistant for software developers
Kurator Will Help You Curate Your Personal Digital Content
Movie design for specific target audiences
CHORUS: The Crowd-Powered Conversational Assistant
Social interaction patterns provide clues to real life changes
Designing for our own
BugMD: automatic mismatch diagnosis for bug triaging
Student hybrid rocket team takes first place at inaugural competition
Prof. J. Alex Halderman testifies in front of senate intelligence committee on secure elections
A breakthrough for large scale computing
Smartphone security hole
2017 ISCA Influential Paper Award for groundbreaking research in power-efficient computing
Open ports act as security wormholes into mobile devices
Sonic cyber attacks show security holes in ubiquitous sensors
Wellman participates in AI doomsday prevention workshop
CSE-based startup Clinc receives $6.3M in funding to further develop intelligent banking assistant
Harsha Madhyastha selected for Google Faculty Award
Emily Mower Provost receives NSF CAREER Award to develop emotion and mood recognition for mental health monitoring and treatment
Reetuparna Das receives NSF CAREER Award to develop in-situ compute memories
Prof. Z. Morley Mao selected to receive CoE George J. Huebner, Jr. Research Excellence award
Google-funded Flint water app helps residents find lead risk, resources
Professor to Congress: ‘Internet of Things security is woefully inadequate’
2016 CSE Graduate Student Honors Competition Highlights Outstanding Research
Four finalists presented on an area of their research.Harsha Madhyastha selected for Facebook Faculty Award
Lingjia Tang selected to receive Facebook Faculty Award
Clinc launches Finie, an AI personal assistant for mobile banking
COVE: a tool for advancing progress in computer vision
Shadows in the Dark Web
Secrets lurk in the dark web, the 95 percent of the internet that most of us can't see. One U-M professor is bringing some of those secrets to light, making the digital and the real world a little safer.Engineering an advantage in debates
Chad Jenkins receives NSF National Robotics Initiative Grant to improve robotic control in cluttered environments
Toyota Research Institute Partners with U-M on Artificial Intelligence
Toyota will invest $22 million to begin research collaborations focused on autonomous vehicles and advanced robotics. Profs. Edwin Olson and Ryan Eustice will assume roles at the facility to lead research into perception and mapping/localization.Peter Honeyman receives USENIX Test of Time Award
Several Michigan Papers Presented at 2016 USENIX Security Symposium
A total of five papers authored by CSE researchers were presented.Algorithms can be more fair than humans
Researchers David Adrian and Alex Halderman receive Pwnie Award for work on DROWN attack
CSE-based startup receives funding to develop systems based on intelligent personal assistant technology
Researchers seek to help the disabled with intelligent robotic wheelchair
With over 7 million certificates issued, Let’s Encrypt aims to secure the entire web
New venture is on the path to build continual learning AIs
Prof. Dragomir Radev Teaching Course on NLP Through Coursera
Prof Radev is teaching the 12-week course twice this summer; the course is free and open to the public.CSE alumna Adriane Chapman recognized with Test of Time Award from ACM SIGMOD
Danai Koutra receives 2016 SIGKDD Doctoral Dissertation Award
Two Michigan papers win top awards at IEEE Security and Privacy Symposium
Tracking and mitigating tail latency in data centers
Can slower financial traders find a haven in a world of high-speed algorithms?
Proxy optimizes webpage loading for better user experience
Patented camera calibration tool automates calibration target acquisition
Collecting data to better identify bipolar disorder
Mosharaf Chowdhury receives ACM SIGCOMM Dissertation Award
Two papers by Michigan researchers chosen as IEEE Micro Top Picks
CSE alumnus Hsin-Hao Su selected for Principles of Distributed Computing Dissertation Award
David Chesney awarded funding to research treatment for traumatic brain injury
Michigan and Verisign researchers demonstrate new man-in-the-middle WPAD query attack
Thorny technical questions remain for net neutrality
Rada Mihalcea co-authors new book on text mining
Google, U-M to build digital tools for Flint water crisis
Hacking into homes: Security flaws found in SmartThings connected home system
Walter Lasecki and collaborators win Best Paper at W4A
GridWatch named finalist in Vodafone's eighth annual Wireless Innovation competition
CSE faculty lead university collaboration with Toyota on autonomous vehicles
Startup founded by U-M assoc. professor gets NSF grant
Yu-Wei Chao selected for Google PhD Fellowship
U-M researchers launch fight against C. difficile with $9.2M grant from NIH
Machine learning proves useful for analyzing NBA ball screen defense
Doowon Lee receives Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship to improve the reliability of computer systems
Michael J. Cafarella selected for Sloan Research Fellowship
Honglak Lee selected for Sloan Research Fellowship
MBus is the missing interconnect for millimeter-scale systems
Mosharaf Chowdhury receives Google Faculty Research Award
Jenna Wiens receives NSF CAREER Award to increase the utility of machine learning in clinical care
Barzan Mozafari receives NSF CAREER Award to improve predictability of database systems
Jason Mars receives CAREER Award to advance system architectures for artificially intelligent services and applications
Secure your website now: Let's Encrypt enters Public Beta
U-M, IBM partner on advanced conversational computing system
Cafarella and Lee named Morris Wellman Faculty Development Professors
Censys enables fast searching of actionable internet data
U-M, Ford are first to address autonomous driving on snow-covered roads
Michigan Researchers Win the 2016 Applied Networking Research Prize
Lie-detecting software uses real court case data
Researchers Receive NSF/Intel Award to Develop Visual Recognition System for Wearable Devices
Ford, Michigan Researchers Test First Autonomous Vehicle at Mcity
The Promise and Perils of Predictive Policing Based on Big Data
Computer Scientists Win Best Paper Award at ACM Conference on CCS for Exposing the Vulnerabilities of the Diffie-Hellman Key Exchange
J. Alex Halderman and Collaborators Receive NSF Cybersecurity Award to Develop Rapid-Response Architecture
Michigan Researchers Win Best Paper Award at VLDB 2015
CSE Researchers Win at Texas Instruments Innovation Challenge
Virta Labs Introduces PowerGuard™
Mary Lou Dorf Wins Best Paper Award at ASEE
Researchers Employ Unsupervised Funniness Detection in the New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest
An Autonomous "SmartCart" Testbed is Coming to Michigan
Ron Dreslinski Selected for IEEE TCCA Young Computer Architect Award
Duc Le Selected for Mary A. Rackham Institute Graduate Student Research Assistantship
Michigan Researchers Win Both Best Paper Awards at AAMAS 2015
Michigan Researchers Win Best Poster Award at MobiSys 2015
Two Michigan Papers Share the Best Paper Award at MobiSys 2015
Computer Engineering Research Lab Explores the Bounds of Computer Integration
Emily Mower Provost Receives Oscar Stern Award for Research in Emotion Expression and Perception
Scott Mahlke Receives Micro Test of Time Award
Z. Morley Mao Receives Google Faculty Research Award
Prabal Dutta Selected for Sloan Research Fellowship
J. Alex Halderman Selected for Sloan Research Fellowship
Grant Schoenebeck Receives CAREER Award to Develop a Rigorous Theoretical Understanding of Complex Networks
Jacob Abernethy Receives CAREER Award for Research into the Relationship Between Machine Learning and Microeconomic Theory
HiJack Enables a Smartphone Dongle for Diagnosis of Infectious Diseases
Jia Deng Receives Google Faculty Research Award to Study Relationships Between Entities in Images
CSE Graduate Student Develops Lower-Cost Self-Driving Car Navigation System
Four CSE Faculty Selected for 2014-15 College of Engineering Awards
Career center report shows computer scientists highly sought, best compensated
Researchers Gather at CSE for Midwest Theory Day
C-FAR Annual Review Held at U-M
End of the Road for the Von Neumann Architecture? Not Yet.
Protean Code Allows Data Center Servers to Adapt to Changing Environments with Breakthrough Compiler Technology
Computer science researchers aim to securely encrypt every website
Computer Scientists Win Best Paper Award at 2014 ACM Internet Measurement Conference
Yelin Kim wins Best Student Paper Award at ACM Multimedia 2014 for research in facial emotion recognition
Smita Krishnaswamy's Research Paper Published in Science Magazine
Stephen Plaza's research paper published in Nature Scientific Journal
Prof. Igor Markov's book on VLSI Physical Design Translated into Chinese
Satish Narayanasamy Receives Google Faculty Research Award
Edwin Olson Receives NSF CyberSEES Award for Research in Sustainability of Municipal Solid Waste
Jia Deng Receives 2014 Yahoo ACE Award
Ryan Wolcott Receives Best Student Paper Award at IROS 2014
Jia Deng Wins Best Paper Award at ECCV
1,000 Hackers Expected on North Campus for MHacks IV
Shared Memory in Mobile Operating Systems Provides Ingress Point for Hackers
Researchers Expose Security Flaws in Backscatter X-ray Scanners
Sneak attack through smartphone shared memory
Researchers demo hack to seize control of municipal traffic signal systems
Can our computers continue to get smaller and more powerful?
Dragomir Radev coaches high school linguists in competition at International Linguistics Olympiad
Jeremy Gibson authors book on game design, prototyping, and programming
Barzan Mozafari and collaborators chosen for best demo at ACM SIGMOD
Wakefield and Kieras win Best Paper Award at ICAD 2014
David Kieras wins a Best Paper Award at CHI 2014
Grant Schoenebeck selected for facebook faculty award
Zakir Durumeric Selected for Google PhD Fellowship
High school students explore engineering through music and computer science
Computer architecture innovator Trevor Mudge chosen for top recognition by ACM/IEEE
Benjamin Englard Awarded Thiel Fellowship
Computer scientists author book on hardware prefetching
Doowon Lee Selected for IBM Ph.D. Fellowship
Researchers Identify Security Risks in Estonia's Online Voting System
Making smartphones smarter: hijack adopted for use in commercial product
Leaders in ultra low power cicuits and systems presenting at VLSI Circuits Symposium
Listening to bipolar disorder: smartphone app detects mood swings via voice analysis
Heartbleed: behind the scenes at CSE
CS Students Win at Mobile Apps Challenge
Students build apps for Grace
Jill Bender Chosen for CoE Distinguished Leadership Award
Forest Agostinelli Selected for NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
Branden Ghena Selected for NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
Meghan Clark Selected for NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
Elizabeth Mamantov Selected for NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
Sanae Rosen Selected for Margaret Ayers Host Award
Noble and Wilson Named as Learning Analytics Fellows
Researchers Win Best Paper Award at ISPASS 2014
Technological singularity passes, unnoticed until now
CSE students to attend CRA-W Workshop
CSE Connects at SXSW 2014
Kevin Fu Selected for World Economic Forum Young Scientist Award
Prospective grad students visit, learn about CSE
CSE connects at Tapia Celebration of Diversity in Computing
Video game programmers to demo "Code for Good" at Ann Arbor District Library
Michael Wellman Recognized with ACM/SIGAI Autonomous Agents Research Award
CSE Alum Dongyoon Lee Selected for ProQuest Dissertation Award
New center develops technologies to help youths with disabilities
Daniel Atkins Elected to National Academy of Engineering
Karem Sakallah Continues Commitment to Qatar Computing Research Institute
Prabal Dutta Receives CAREER Award for Research into the Use of Sensors to Monitor Resource Consumption in the Built Environment
Students create card-playing bots to compete in Barracuda Programming Contest
Kyle Lady Elected as First Student Member of IEEE-HKN Board of Governors
Winners announced in Annual Code Optimization Contest
Héctor J. García Selected for Bouchet Graduate Honor Society
EECS 494 Computer Games Showcase Highlights Final Projects
MHacks III to take place in downtown Detroit
Doowon Lee Selected for Rackham International Student Fellowship
Chang-Hong Hsu Selected for Chia-Lun Lo Fellowship
Jia Deng Wins Marr Prize at ICCV
Mark Ackerman Named ACM Fellow
Software class demos projects to help one teen communicate
Rada Mihalcea to study physiological and linguistic signals of human behavior
H.V. Jagadish Awarded Gates Foundation Grant to leverage data for social good
Armin Alaghi Wins Richard and Eleanor Towner Prize for Outstanding PhD Research
John P. Hayes Honored with IEEE TTTC Lifetime Contribution Medal
Two CS student teams advance to the final round of ICCAD 2013 Competition
Four U-M programming teams compete in ACM Regional Contest; one advances to World Finals
Larry D. Leinweber gives $2.4 million to fund students in computer science
Hector Garcia places in Technical Poster Competition at SHPE 2013
Mona Attariyan Selected for SIGOPS Dennis Ritchie Doctoral Dissertation Award
Dragomir Radev assembles two-volume collection of NACLO linguistics puzzles
Student software projects aim to help teen communicate
Over 1200 attend MHacks 2013; recyclable sorter wins at record-breaking event
Rada Mihalcea selected for NSF INSPIRE Award
Big House Hackathon expected to break record
Meghan Clark selected for Microsoft Graduate Women's Scholarship
Iranian internet censorship system profiled for first time
Edwin Olson Awarded DARPA Young Faculty Award
Download ZMap and scan the entire internet in less than 45 minutes
New grant: reducing computer viruses in health networks
Sanae Rosen wins Best Poster Award at CODASPY Conference
Two papers by CSE researchers chosen as IEEE Micro top picks
Elliot Soloway selected for Google App Engine Education Award
Researchers show that high-frequency trading tactic lowers investor profits
Edwin Olson talks robotics at World Science Festival
Researchers' work recognized amongst notable computing books and articles of 2012
Fourth annual data mining workshop brings together close to 200 researchers
Security risks found in sensors for heart devices, consumer electronics
Workshop brings together industry and researchers on medical device security challenges
Researchers develop tools to better leverage tweets in spotting trends
GapSense could alleviate wireless traffic jams; improve network performance
CSE researchers win Best Paper Award at ASPLOS 2013
Researchers funded to develop a leap forward in Processor Architectures
Prof. Kevin Fu Named a Federal 100 Award Winner for 2013
Prof. Dragomir Radev Receives U-M Faculty Recognition Award
CSE Researchers Win Best Paper Award at HPCA 2013
CSE Alum and Entrepreneur Azarias Reda Delivers Best Pitch at SXSW
Duo security introduces hardware-level security, grows more than 400%
Hyoun Kyu Cho Awarded Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship for research aimed at improving the programmability of parallel systems
Student-Run Hackathon draws over 550 participants, generates 127 projects
Student-Run Hackathon brings top University Computer Science talent to Michigan
New $28M Center will develop computers of 2025
Career Center report shows computer scientists highly sought after, best compensated
Karem Sakallah Named ACM Fellow
Kevin Fu testifies on the security of smart cards to access Medicare and Medicaid Services
Computer scientists author book on physical synthesis optimization
Computer scientists author book on Reducing Uncertainty in Logic Circuit Design
Edwin Olson named to Popular Science's "Brilliant 10" list for 2012
Todd Austin Receives A. Richard Newton GSRC Industrial Impact Award for 2012
Jason Flinn Authors Book on Mobile and Pervasive Computing
CSE grad students win best student paper at OSDI 12 symposium
Their paper addresses the challenge of troubleshooting the performance of production software.Two CSE faculty help make the Ibn Sina School for computer science a reality
2012 ICCAD Ten Year Retrospective Most Influential Paper Award to David Blaauw, Trevor Mudge, and EECS alumni Steve Martin and Krisztián Flautner
Researchers win Best Paper Award at IEEE Healthcare Informatics and Systems Biology Conference
Computer scientists win Best Paper Award at 21st USENIX Security Symposium
High school students explore the intersection of music and computer science at summer camp
Computer Scientists Win Best Paper Award at Turing Centenary Conference
Researchers demonstrate firewall vulnerability in cell network
J. Alex Halderman to Teach Course on Electronic and Internet Voting through Coursera
The 5-week course will provide the technical background and public policy foundation that today's citizens need to understand the electronic voting debate.Third Annual Data Mining Workshop Brings Together 100+ Researchers
100+ researchers from across the University of Michigan and from industry gathered on North Campus for the third U-M Workshop on Data Mining.John Laird Authors Book on Soar Cognitive Architecture
Professor John E. Laird, the John L. Tishman Professor of Engineering in the EECS Department, has authored a new book entitled "The Soar Cognitive Architecture," which has been published by MIT Press.Computer Scientists Win Best Paper Award at ISPASS-2012
U-M computer science researchers David Meisner, Junjie Wu, and Professor Thomas F. Wenisch have won the Best Paper Award at the 2012 IEEE International Symposium on Performance Analysis of Systems and Software (ISPASS-2012), which took place April 1-3, 2012 in New Brunswick, NJ.CSE research is highlighted at Michigan Robotics Day
Samuel DeBruin Awarded NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
Jason Clemons Receives NVIDIA Graduate Fellowship
Security researchers publish details of online voting hack
"Computational Sprinting" pushes smartphones till they’re tired
Prof. J. Alex Halderman featured in PBS story on the security of internet voting
Security researchers describe newly discovered vulnerabilities in public key encryption
Energy-recycling computer technology from U-M goes global
Chris McMeeking Wins Funding for ASK Interfaces through Intel Innovators Competition
Researchers funded to create processors that run without battery power
EKG data mined to predict heart attack fatalities
E-MILI could dramatically improve smartphone battery life
Computer scientists funded for new inquiry into non-consumptive research
Computer science researchers introduce Telex to circumvent state-level internet censorship
Making smart dust a reality
Michael Wellman Authors Book on Trading Agents for Electronic Markets
RobustNet research group releases mobile app that measures 3G network performance
U-M and AT&T researchers develop energy efficiency profiling technology for mobile platforms
Valeria Bertacco and CSE Alum Ilya Wagner Author Book on Post-Silicon and Run-Time Verification
CSE researchers win best paper award at ASPLOS 2011
Michael Cafarella receives NSF CAREER Award for work in building and searching a structured web database
Three EECS Teams are winners in 2011 DAC/ISSCC Student Design Contest
Zeeshan Syed receives NSF CAREER Award for work in computationally generated biomarkers
Exploring the upper limits of low-energy computing
EECS Researchers win Best Paper Award at ICCAD 2010
EECS Faculty receive 2010 HP Labs Innovation Research Awards
EECS professors receive research grants from Google
Prof. Karem Sakallah shares 2009 CAV Award for fundamental work on SAT solvers
The award recognizes the researchers' contributions to the development of high-performance Boolean satisfiability solvers.Smart bridges under development with new grant
Work in software defined radio earns Best Paper Award at MICRO-41