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Todd Austin receives 2024 IEEE Computer Society B. Ramakrishna Rau Award
The award recognizes his influential contributions to computer microarchitecture and compiler technology.Todd Austin and Valeria Bertacco receive North Campus Deans’ MLK Spirit Award
They were honored with the Community Building & Impact Award for creating the AURA program, a research exchange for undergraduate students at African universities.CSE researchers win Distinguished Paper Award at CCS 2023
CSE authors were recognized for the excellence of their paper on security verification of low-trust computing architectures.Four papers by CSE researchers appearing at CCS 2023
CSE-authored papers at the conference cover cutting-edge topics related to computer security.Congrats to CSE alums who have accepted faculty positions
Congrats to these new faculty!African research exchange program celebrates fifth annual cohort
Twelve undergraduate students from Ethiopia have completed the AURA program, a summer-long research exchange across engineering disciplines at University of Michigan.Five EECS faculty receive Ted Kennedy Family Faculty Team Excellence Award
These faculty each contributed toward a successful center that developed specialized hardware “building blocks” for a range of applications.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.Twelve papers from ADA Research Center featured in TECHCON 2022
The convention recognizes research in microelectronics by figures at over 100 top engineering universities.U-M spin-off Agita Labs releases always encrypted computing product
TrustForge, based on U-M research spearheaded by Austin and Bertacco, provides users with the ability to protect data using a process called sequestered encryptionADA 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.African research engagement program expands, resumes in-person format
Founded in 2019, the African Undergraduate Research Adventure Program is growing to impact the lives of more young engineers.African research engagement program recognizes third annual cohort
Students in AURA are paired with a faculty mentor for an immersive research experience throughout the summer.Three researchers earn MICRO Test of Time for groundbreaking timing speculation work
Todd Austin, David Blaauw, Trevor Mudge, and a group of alumni were recognized by ACM MICRO for their landmark 2003 paper.Experimental Morpheus CPU is ‘mind-bogglingly terrible’ to crack
Cybersecurity researchers have found the Morpheous chip, designed by a U-M team lead by S. Jack Hu Professor of Computer Science and Engineering Todd Austin, to virtually eliminate whole classes of exploits.Researchers Are Trying to Create an Unhackable Computer Processor
This article highlights the secure processor design developed by a U-M research team led by S. Jack Hu Collegiate Professor of Computer Science and Engineering Todd Austin. The processor constantly encrypts parts of the machine’s functions to obscure how it works, thus blocking potential hackers from being able to exploit it.Shape-shifting computer chip thwarts an army of hackers
Research led by S. Jack Hu Collegiate Professor of Computer Science and Engineering Todd Austin have developed Morpheus, a secure new computer processor that recently defeated the attempts of 525 security researchers who tried to hack it.Did UM team build an unhackable computer chip? Nobody has beaten it
The MORPHEUS chip, designed in Prof. Todd Austin’s lab, has survived the tests of hundreds of hackers – it’s still unhackable.U-M Computer Chip MORPHEUS Defeats 500+ Hackers
MORPHEUS, a computer chip developed by Prof. Todd Austin’s lab, has defeated more than 500 hackers invited by the school to find its vulnerabilities.CSE researchers win best paper award at HPCA 2021
DARPA pitted 500+ hackers against this computer chip. The chip won.
Todd Austin earns Test of Time Award for early instruction prefetch breakthrough
Todd Austin Named S. Jack Hu Collegiate Professor of Computer Science and Engineering
Visiting students celebrate experiences, projects
New chip stops hacks before they start
Landmark microprocessor reliability paper recognized for enduring impact
Todd Austin recognized for outstanding achievements
Unhackable computer under development with $3.6M DARPA grant
Todd Austin elected IEEE Fellow for contributions to simulation techniques and resilient system design in computer architecture
Two Michigan papers win top awards at IEEE Security and Privacy Symposium
Relationship with Ethiopia’s Addis Ababa Institute of Technology Grows with Research Exchange Program
Future Scientists Tour CSE
Four CSE Faculty Selected for 2014-15 College of Engineering Awards
New $28M Center will develop computers of 2025
Todd Austin Receives A. Richard Newton GSRC Industrial Impact Award for 2012
Todd Austin and colleague author new edition of book on structured computer organization
Faculty Help Build Program, Relationship With Addis Ababa Institute of Technology in Ethiopia
Jason Clemons Receives NVIDIA Graduate Fellowship
Joe Greathouse Wins Best Student Presentation Award at CGO 2011 Conference
2009 College of Engineering Awards
Austin and Blaauw Receive 2008 Richard Newton GSRC Industrial Impact Award