The Engineering Quad
An activity hub for research in computer architecture, networking,
cyber-physical systems, security, mobile computing, etc.
Suraj wins SIGCOMM SRC
Suraj Jog has won first place at the ACM SIGCOMM Student Research Competition (SRC) for his work on dense spatial reuse in mmWave networks.
Best wishes for the ACM level contest, Suraj!
Srikant recognized with the Kobayashi Award
R. Srikant was awarded the IEEE Koji Kobayashi Computers and Communications Award for outstanding contributions in computation and communications related to congestion control and scheduling in networks.
Mitra wins Dean's Award
Sayan Mitra wins Dean's Award for excellence in research on the topics of modeling and
verification of cyber-physical systems, with an emphasis on self-driving, autonomous cars.
Best paper at ASPLOS 2017
Henry, Weidong, and Rakesh's research on low power (IoT) processors
wins ASPLOS 2017 Best Paper Award.
Kim in MICRO Hall of Fame
Nam Sung Kim, for his work on circuit level timing speculation and dynamic voltage scaling, variants of which have been applied to recent commercial microprocessors, is in MICRO Hall of Fame. He also became an IEEE Fellow recently.
Qiaomin wins CSL Thesis Award
Advised by Prof. Yi Lu, her thesis is on "Resource allocation in datacenter Networks: Novel Algorithms, State Space Collapse and Delay Minimization".
Nirupam joins University of Maryland
Congrats to Nirupam Roy on accepting a faculty position in CS at Univ. of Maryland, College Park! Hope Nirupam designs the Internet of many other Things!
Welcome Kirill
Kirill Levchenko joins UIUC from UC San Diego. His work is on security and e-crimes. Thrilled to have you with us in CompE!
Anupam joins North Carolina State University
Anupam Das joins the CS Department at NC State University. Congratulations, Anupam! We look forward to more amazing research in security.
Kumar gets the Stanley H. Pierce Faculty Award
Rakesh Kumar has been honored with the Stanley H. Pierce Faculty Award from UIUC's College of Engineering for outstanding student-faculty cooperation.
UIUC wins NVIDIA AI City Challenge
The team from the Illinois Image Formation and Processing (IFP) group led by Prof. Thomas Huang placed first by a large margin in the premier IEEE Smart World NVIDIA AI City Challenge. Excellent job, IFP group members!
Henry joins Iowa State
Henry Duwe starts a new adventure at the Software Engineering Department of Iowa State University. Congratulations, Henry! Bring more exciting stuff to the IoT Era!
Hassanieh receives ACM 2016 Doctoral Dissertation Award
Haitham Hassanieh developed highly efficient algorithms for computing the Sparse Fourier Transform, and demonstrated their applicability in many domains including networks, graphics, medical imaging and biochemistry.
Lu wins the 2018 SIGMETRICS Test-Of-Time award
Yi Lu was awarded the 2018 ACM SIGMETRICS Test of Time Award for her work on Counter Braids. 10 years after its initial publication, the impact of the work stands still. Congratulations, Lu!
IEEE Spectrum covers Sheng’s work on Noise Cancellation
The SyNRG group is combining wireless networking with acoustics to design new kinds of noise cancellation headphones. Check out the paper <here>.
Hassanieh receives NSF CAREER
Haitham Hassanieh receives NSF CAREER Award for developing agile and scalable mmWave networks. Congratulations!
Hwu elected Chair
Wen-mei Hwu elected Chair of TcuARCH, the IEEE research community focussed on Computer Architecture.
The ACM Architecture community is chaired by Sarita from the CS department at UIUC.
Jian joins UIUC Faculty
Jian Huang's research is in operating systems, architecture,
distributed systems, security, etc. He comes from Georgia Tech, and is the most recent addition to our CompE faculty.
Xun (Steven) joins Virginia Tech
Xun (Steve) Jian is now an Assistant Professor at Virginia Tech CS. Congratulations, Steve! We are always looking forward to the excellent work on computer architecture from your HEAP Lab!
Andrew's papers have received highest citations ...
for 2 years in a row (2016 and 2017) in the security community.
His research on cryptocurrenies draws from techniques in PL, cryptography, and distributed computing.
Vaidya heads the CS department at Georgetown
Nitin Vaidya has joined Georgetown University as the Head of the Computer Science Department from Fall 2018. We are sad to see you leave, and also very excited about your new venture. Visit us often, Nitin.
Fall 2018 Feedback Friday
Check out past events … stay tuned for more!
Mahanth joining Penn State ...
as an Assistant Professor in the Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering (CSE).
Homa joining U. Virginia ...
as Assistant Professor, and would continue her work on reliability and safety analysis
of large scale software systems.
Chen's startup wins the IEEE/ACM DAC 2017 International Hardware Design Contest
Deming Chen's startup Inspirit IoT recently won first place at the IEEE/ACM Design Automation Conference (DAC) 2017 International Hardware Design Contest for developing an audio-based security system that can alert a central command center when trouble breaks out. Great job, Deming!
BackDoor wins MobiSys'17 Best Paper Award
BackDoor shows high-frequency ultrasonic sounds can be designed to be recordable by unmodified smartphone microphones while remaining inaudible to humans, leading to applications including inaudible acoustic-jammer and in-air acoustic communication for IoT devices.
(Led by Nirupam)
Patel is awarded the IEEE Contribution Medal
Janak Patel wins IEEE Contribution Medal for parallel fault simulations, ATPG sequential circuits, and Illinois scan architecture and several other outstanding contributions to testing.