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The two organizations will connect their membership and partner networks to work on advancing security for life-saving devices.

“The technology can give users the confidence they deserve when reusing respirators or other PPE.”

EECS 373 course instructors quickly pulled together an alternative final project that had students building robots at home.

The symposium highlighted new developments in computer architecture, and included a session on how the center’s research can contribute to limiting the impact of pandemics.

The projects impact voting systems, physical sensors, integrated circuit fabrication, and multiple microarchitectural side-channel vulnerabilities.

The nine students represent a broad range of research areas in the department.

Collaborative website launched while U-M researchers continue advanced testing.

Subarno Banerjee uses program analysis to improve software systems’ safety and security.

Goel designs algorithms that can automatically demonstrate the correctness of hardware systems.

This award is presented to an outstanding graduate student in each degree program.

Prof. Austin is a creative, outside-the-box thinker who has produced a body of work that has had extraordinary impact in the area of computer architecture.

Computational caches are an emerging technology based on the use of a processors cache space to perform computations.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Sensing technology could keep seniors safe.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

From quantum physics to computer systems: a profile of Pinaki Mazumder, professor of electrical engineering and computer science.

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

Genome sequencing could be as affordable as a routine medical test with highly efficient computing.

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.

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

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 system is currently being used by IEEE and ACM, and helps them enforce their new 30%-policy.

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.

The researchers say they’re making an unsolvable puzzle: ‘It’s like if you’re solving a Rubik’s Cube and every time you blink, I rearrange it.’

Prof. Fu was named an IEEE Fellow, Class of 2018, “for contributions to embedded and medical device security.”

Jason Mars, CEO of Ann Arbor startup Clinc, was named #2 in Bank Innovations’s “10 Most innovative CEOs in Banking 2017” list. Clinc is leading the pack for development of intelligent banking assistant software.

This honor recognizes outstanding researchers with eight or more papers at the International Symposium on Microarchitecture.

Prof. John Hayes and CSE graduate student Paishun Ting received the award for their paper entitled “Eliminating a Hidden Error Source in Stochastic Circuits.”

Kevin Fu has been recognized for informing policy makers and Congress about issues in computer security.

Bugs that are not caught before a product is released can cost companies billions of dollars.

She will serve as the primary liaison between the Rackham School and academic units in the physical sciences and engineering.

A team of NAME and EECS faculty have been awarded with a Second Place Excellence in Promoting Women in Undergraduate Computing Award.

This award recognizes the paper published 15 years ago (2002) that has had the biggest impact on the field

Her research focuses on computer architecture as it applies to high performance computing, supercomputers, memory, and interconnects.

Trippel’s research interests lie in embedded systems and IoT security and privacy for the purpose of building safe and reliable autonomous systems.

Michigan Engineering researchers discuss and demonstrate the sound-based attacks they leveled at the accelerometers found in everyday electronics.

Clinc has built Finie, the world’s most advanced voice-controlled A.I. platform for banking.

Prof. Bertacco is enthusiastic and passionate about teaching and has made it her mission to improve the undergraduate educational experience of all of her students.

Das’ research seeks to design specialized data-centric computing systems that dramatically reduce time and energy required to move data from storage to computing units.

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

His inventive approaches have led to new technologies that reduce the energy consumption of microprocessors while maintaining acceptable performance.

Prof. Bertacco is a highly noted researcher in the area of computer architecture and is Director of the department’s Computer Engineering (CE) Lab.

Michigan Engineering professor Kevin Fu spoke in front of congress on Nov. 16, 2016.

She recently helped develop a modular load tester platform for data centers, which is designed to help measure and mitigate tail latency.

Finie, which can be referred to as the “Siri” of personal banking, is an artificial intelligence platform for banks that helps customers talk to their bank accounts in a natural and conversational way.

Clinc has built Lucida, its state-of- the-art, open-source intelligent assistant and machine learning platform that allows developers and the open-source community to easily create and deploy personalized voice and vision-based intelligent assistants.

One of the paper describes and demonstrates a malicious hardware backdoor. The other demonstrated security failings in a commercial smart home platform.

High tail latency has been identified as one of the key challenges facing modern data center design.

The two papers from Michigan introduced the Sirius personal digital assistant and the MBus bus for modular microcomputing systems.

Healthcare security company Virta Laboratories, Inc. has received a $750,000 grant from the National Science Foundation Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program.

His research addresses the problem of diminishing reliability in future computer systems.

The M3 is a fully autonomous computing system that acts as a smart sensing system.

Prof. Valeria Bertacco, Technical Program Chair for the 2017 conference, chose Michigan as the meeting location.

The award recognizes unwavering commitment to the betterment of women, and clear record of success and significant achievement in research and scholarship, distinguished leadership, and mentoring women.

The award will enable Prof. Mars to understand how future cloud and mobile systems should be designed to support increasing demand from users of intelligent assistants.

He is recognized for raising awareness regarding medical device cybersecurity issues by speaking out about critical concerns.

The researchers are finding a solution to implement state-of-the-art vision systems in wearable devices where there is little heat dissipation

The symposium focused on Cybersecurity and Privacy, Engineering the Search for Earth-like Exoplanets, Optical and Mechanical Metamaterials, and Forecasting Natural Disasters.

Their Powerblade project is the smallest, lowest cost, and lowest power AC plug-load meter that measures real, reactive and apparent power, and reports this data over Bluetooth.

Prof. Igor Markov considers his Knuth checks and important honor.

Dr. Dreslinski conducts research in the area of energy efficient processor architectures

His three-year term will begin July 1.

The CE Lab is the successor to the Department’s Advanced Computer Architecture Lab (ACAL).

Sirius as an important platform for research into the development of next-generation warehouse computing. It gives researchers a testbed for studying how the data centers that process voice-enabled queries should evolve.

His 1992 paper describes problems associated with utilizing conventional compiler support for predicated execution, a technique for dealing with conditional branches in application programs, on superscaler processors. It introduces the hyperblock, a structure to overcome those shortcomings.

Dutta’s research has pioneered practical, low-power platforms and wireless protocols for pervasive sensing, computing, and communications.

HiJack is a hardware/software platform that utilizes the headset jack on a smartphone as a universal power/data interface.

Congratulations to the following CSE Faculty recipients of 2014-15 College of Engineering Awards.

So went the vote held in the debating chamber of the University of Cambridge Union.

Protean Code is an enabling technology for dynamically recompiling native applications and rebalancing the use of Warehouse Scale Computers resources as demands dictate.

Mahlke’s research has been focused on the design of customized multicore processors, accelerators, and systems consisting of both that are higher performance, lower power, and more reliable.

Bertacco’s research is focused on creating novel solutions to enable the sustainable development of silicon systems, by making them more powerful, more reliable and significantly cheaper to design and manufacture.

The paper focuses on computational methods to analyze single cell data in order to obtain a better understanding of how cells process signals.

Plaza’s paper provides key insights into neuronal computations.

Hayes was recognized “for his pioneering contributions to logic design, fault tolerant computing, and testing.”

The book introduces and evaluates algorithms used during physical design to produce a geometric chip layout from an abstract circuit design, and presents the essential and fundamental algorithms used within each physical design stage.

He was recognized as an “outstanding educator and researcher whose work has advanced the field of low-power computer architecture and its interaction with technology.”

His research focus is on addressing concurrency issues in mobile and cloud systems, which increasingly rely upon event-driven programming and customized processor accelerators.

Bertacco’s research is in the area of computer design, with emphasis on reliability, design correctness, and hardware-security assurance.

Mars’ current research interests include cross-layer systems in software and hardware, datacenter and warehouse-scale computer architecture, and hardware/software co-design.

Dutta designs hardware and software for smart dust and larger sensors that don’t need batteries because they can harvest energy from the world around them.

Congratulations to Profs Bertacco, Flinn, Narayanasamy, Olson, Rais-Zadeh, and Zhong.

The paper addresses how to manage multiple sources so that the user can maximize the information gained from each acoustic source.

All of the research being presented focuses on getting the absolute best performance from the tiniest circuits, sensors, and electronic devices.

Conway will be named a fellow at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California.

The project proposes to produce a parallel heterogeneous 3D near-threshold computing system with unprecedented energy efficiency.

The research addressed voltage scaling of processors at the point where, at very low voltages, voltage leakage begins to dominate the computational power consumption.

This research is expected to have a fundamental and long term impact on a diverse set of applications ranging from energy conservation to health care.

Their paper introduces new techniques that improve speed, solution quality, simplicity, and integration with other optimizations for global placement technology.

The research funded by Google involves redesigning servers and data centers to improve their energy efficiency.

The award recognized research that is “at least five years old and has had significant industrial impact.”