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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.

Dreslinski is working with a $9.5million DARPA grant to overcome the limitations of Moore’s Law

Prof. Kevin Compton has retired after 34 years at the University of Michigan in the Computer Science and Engineering Division of the EECS Department.

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.

The Michigan AI Lab at CSE celebrated 30 years of leading research with its first annual AI Symposium, AI for Society.

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

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

Conrad discussed his lifelong career in software and how he was drawn to the field for its creativity as much as its technical side.

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

The new $2.5 million endowment to support a professorship is the second U-M sponsorship from Toyota

The College of Engineering’s annual Graduate Symposium displays the latest in graduate student research, representing the cutting edge in areas spanning each department’s field of impact.

The competition is the culmination of a process that narrows a field of entrants from each of the department research areas to a handful of finalists.

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.

“His course really opened my eyes to the difficulties that some people have when using a universally designed product.”

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

“When you constantly feel like you’re a minority, it is reassuring to attend events like GHC to remind you that you are not alone.”

Lynn Conway is a leader in the microchip design revolution that made cell phones and laptops possible, and an internationally-recognized advocate for transgender rights.

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.

Austin is a recognized leader in the area of computer architecture research.

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

The highest accolade from the Michigan Engineering Alumni Board goes to a thought leader with a track record of predicting the industry’s future.

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

Eight students from CSE traveled to the conference this year, marking a new highpoint in attendance.

Over the course of his career Scott became internationally recognized for his work on digital computer logic and design.

“We are trying to change the stereotypes.”

As part of a celebration of the film’s 50th anniversary, leading researchers discussed artificial intelligence and deep space travel.

CS KickStart is a free week long summer program for incoming first-year students that aims to improve the enrollment and persistence of women in CS.

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.

Jonathan Kummerfeld is recognized for his work in artificial intelligence, with a particular focus on language.

Mihalcea and Wendlandt believe a key strategy to increasing the number of women in computing research is to introduce them to the research process early on.

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

Patches can provide protection.

7,500 miles of riding, wrenching and coding.

MDST brings together students from many fields to get their hands dirty with real data science problems and tools.

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.

UpRound works with national and local firms to accelerate the entrepreneurial ecosystem of the region.

Through EduTech, CS student Divyansh Sharma is working to deliver free video courses directly to Indian people in need of basic education.

CS students want to empower party-goers and democratize the dancefloor.

The University of Michigan offered the state’s first invitational competition run by Olympiad alumni.

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 the team tackled their first autonomous aircraft.

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.

Carvalho plans to pursue research at the intersection of reinforcement learning, machine learning, and computational cognitive science.

Throughout the semester, students will work with Prof. Rada Mihalcea and PhD student Laura Wendlandt to see how computers connect to real-world applications in many disciplines.

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.

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.

The researchers identified movement between industry, academia, and government work, tracked the growth of important organizations, and built predictive models for career transitions and employer retention.

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

Inspired by a class on managing professional relationships, five recent University of Michigan graduates are developing an app that would mesh with Alexa to help nudge people when they’re out of sync with what they want.

Even though we interact with different web services in different ways, there are clues in the data that can indicate trends and identify a unique profile.

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

Das is passionate about promoting diversity and mentoring women in computer science.

Stander has given 33 years of exceptional service to the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science as a Hardware and Electronics Technician

We want all people, everywhere, to be at the table creating the technologies that will change our lives.

Prof. Irani was a model faculty who made important contributions to the EECS department, was always supportive of students, and who supported the department at critical times throughout the years.

The Victors, a U-M student programming team, competed in the prestigious 2018 ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC) World Finals in Beijing, China.

Undergraduate student Arthur Shi communicates the highs and lows of CS via the blogging platform Medium.

For the past year Stearns has served as President of CSEG, whose membership comprises the entire body of over three hundred CSE graduate students.

The annual SIGMOD Jim Gray Doctoral Dissertation Award recognizes excellent research by doctoral candidates in the database field.

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).

The Professor of the Year Award is voted on by all undergraduate and graduate students of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.

Aldeneh’s research focuses on identifying the features of speech that make human interaction feel natural.

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

Profs. Jia Deng, Roya Ensafi, and Manos Kapritsos have been selected to receive Google Faculty Research Awards.

Xinchen Yan was selected for both fellowships to support his research in machine learning and its application in computer vision, graphics and robotics.

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

SambaNova’s approach, stemming from work by Olukotun and co-founder Christopher Ré at Stanford University, seeks to create a new platform from scratch that is optimized specifically for AI operations.

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

Olukotun is often called “the father of multi-core processors” for his early contributions to this now commonplace technology.

To address the growing concern of fake news, U-M has formed the School of Information Center for Social Media Responsibility, and hired EECS alumnus Garlin Gilchrist II.

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.

He has answered over 3800 questions on the Q&A site, with over 41 million views.

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

Prof. Deng was selected for his work in computer vision and machine learning.

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.

Dr. Rutenbar (MSE, PhD CICE 1979, 1984), senior vice chancellor for Research at the University of Pittsburgh, was honored in a February 8th ceremony at the Glasshouse in San Jose, CA.

The award recognizes his significant and consequential contributions in service to the academy and his professional communities.

Students looking to use computational and statistical techniques to extract actionable knowledge from Big Data can now apply to the University of Michigan’s Master’s Program in Data Science.

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.”

Congratulations to these recipients of the EECS Outstanding Achievement Award

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.

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

This award program recognizes undergraduate students in North American colleges and universities who show outstanding potential in an area of computing research.

In this video, CSE PhD student Dhanvin Mehta talks about his work in getting robots to navigate safely amongst pedestrians.

Driverless shuttles hit the streets in downtown Detroit.

Profs. Danai Koutra and Walter Lasecki have been awarded two grants from Trove, an Ann-Arbor based startup built on the vision of improving communication using artificial intelligence.