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The three students were given Honorable Mentions for their interdisciplinary projects.

Co-chaired by Dr. David Chesney, the team was formed to address how disabled students experience campus.

This round of funding strongly encourages pioneering work with the potential for major expansion.

Mihalcea is recognized for her outstanding research on natural language processing.

Koutra specializes in advancing network methods to speed up a variety of big data applications.

The panel covered a number of challenges to expect working as a computer scientist, and the skills they found necessary to overcome them.

The team of twelve students is one of ten worldwide working to give Amazon’s Alexa more human-like conversational skills.

Jenkins was recognized for his work on human-robot interaction and methods that enable robots to learn human skills.

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

Comparing graphs the team’s tool is up to an order of magnitude faster than competitive baselines.

The open-source system cuts a key step in chip testing down from days or weeks to a couple hours, on average.

Student programmers from Michigan are competing in the ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest, the world’s most prestigious student programming competition.

The proposal provides a chip-level safeguard against sensitive data being transmitted after it’s accessed.

A Q&A with J. Alex Halderman, who co-founded the nonprofit organization.

The nation is using inexpensive commodity equipment to block 170K domains on more than 1K privately-owned ISPs.

The newly discovered microphone vulnerability allows attackers to remotely inject inaudible and invisible commands into voice assistants using light.

Prof Jagadish is an internationally recognized expert in the field of very large databases.

The new system is designed to save security researchers time and effort spent reverse-engineering the message format of every vehicle they study.

Technology pioneered by Michigan researchers can circumvent many effective website blocking tools

The workshop brings together outstanding women interested in pursuing academic careers in electrical engineering and computer science.

The authors argue that modern children already think with computation after being shaped by the prolific digital tools that fill their lives

The goal of the symposium is to facilitate conversations between AI practitioners from Michigan and beyond.

Sanders has spent the past 25 years of his career at the University of Illinois, working on secure and dependable computing and security for critical infrastructures.

Bertacco will advocate for and support university initiatives that create opportunities for action-based and engaged student learning.

Researchers designed three new systems to speed up code at several key bottlenecks.

Nominees were selected based on their career accomplishments, impact in their field, and contributions to their community.

Pennock’s research is focused on designing intelligent markets to crowdsource forecasts and improve decision making.

The team’s new tool will combine of software and data to make gathering structured data dramatically easier.

The researchers demonstrated that an adversary could remotely manipulate the temperature sensor measurements without tampering with the targeted system or triggering automatic temperature alarms.

The new additions to the department offer a breadth of research and educational experience, with projects spanning robotic interaction and the future of programming languages.

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

Tang’s project will redesign data center systems to support large-scale use of hardware accelerators to meet future computational demand.

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

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

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

Ten students from Ethiopia have completed a new summer-long exchange program in engineering at the University of Michigan.

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

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

Wiens is transitioning to Co-Director from a successful role as a Co-Lead for Precision Health’s Data Analytics & IT Workgroup, which expanded access to data and research tools across the university.

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

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

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

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

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

The STARX suit helps first-responders bear greater weights and spend less energy.

Top Picks is an annual special edition of IEEE Micro magazine that acknowledges the 10-12 most significant research papers.

With the help of a VR headset, three students helped a doctor stay focused in the operating room.

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

Defibrillator security paper receives Test of Time Award from IEEE Security & Privacy

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

Organizers hoped to equip students with the knowledge and skills they need to successfully apply to a graduate program.

EECS 494’s final group project requires the students to cover all phases of game development.

Jenkins has been appointed as one of seven new members on the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) Council, which is affiliated with the Computing Research Association (CRA). His term begins July 1.

This is the fifth time that Prof. Chen has been named Professor of the Year by EECS students.

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

Guzdial is a leading expert in the field of computing education, and was one of its earliest researchers.

The classes got to learn about cybersecurity, the physics of sound waves, and how to beam music a long distance like a flashlight using ultrasound.

Bertacco is a key leader in efforts to improve the representation of women in computer science and develop more extensive cross-cultural connections within the department.

The initiative has tackled courses that make up the core curriculum for first- and second-year CS and CE majors.

Burdick has done extensive work as an instructor in EECS courses and promoter of diversity in the department.

Chen’s dissertation research was dedicated to developing proactive defense approaches to the new security challenges of a hyper-connected world.

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

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

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

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

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

MORPHEUS can encrypt and reshuffle code thousands of times faster than human and electronic hackers.

Halderman will work to further educate lawmakers, future cybersecurity experts, and the public about how to ensure that election results can relied upon and verified

CS students have partnered with the Ann Arbor Arts Alliance to develop an app for locating and exploring art in Ann Arbor.

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

Sensing technology could keep seniors safe.

The effort seeks to protect the integrity of every vote.

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

Uche Eke is a senior studying computer science. He’s also a student athlete and is one of a small number of black students enrolled in the CS program at Michigan. With Black History Month drawing to a close, we caught Uche between his classes and the gym to learn about his time here.

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

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

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

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

Tech leader Lynn Conway explores why women and underrepresented minorities lose credit for their contributions over time.

Ten years ago, Prof. Westley Weimer set out to shave off time and expenditure sunk into patch fixes.

“Thanks to his tireless support and unparalleled patience, I am now equipped with a fundamental research skill set.”

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

Addisie has been recognized for his work in domain-specific architectures for data-intensive applications.

Congratulations to these recipients of the EECS Outstanding Achievement Award

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

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

Published in 1999, Todd Austin’s paper turned out to be a major contribution to the field, cited over 870 times

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

Mihalcea has dedicated substantial effort to developing programs aimed at introducing women to the world of computing

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

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

Kevin Compton has been committed to service in his work that has enhanced the student experience

Bill Arthur was recognized for demonstrating sustained excellence in instruction and guidance.

Jagadish will help lead MIDAS into its next stage and further expand data science efforts across disciplines.

EECS 494 uses game design to teach its students broader lessons about iteration in software development

Laird has been an energetic contributor to AI and cognitive science for over 30 years

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

In recognition of his outstanding contributions to education, Dr. David Chesney has been named a 2018-2019 Toby Teorey Collegiate Lecturer.