CSL Current News

CSL Professor and College of Engineering Dean Ilesanmi Adesida has been named vice chancellor for academic affairs and provost of the Urbana campus, pending approval of the Board of Trustees at its May 31 meeting in Chicago. He will assume his new role on August 16.

Negar Kiyavash, a CSL assistant professor and the recipient of AFOSR’s Young Investigator Research award in 2010, has received a $20,328 DURIP grant from AFOSR to help develop a novel integrated cloud security system to enhance the future Department of Defense cloud. Kiyavash is a member of Illinois' industrial and enterprise systems engineering faculty.

CSL Professor Rakesh Kumar recently received a 3-year, $75,000 per year grant from Oracle Labs to collaborate with the company to research energy efficiency in multi-threaded processors.

As the performance of a multi-threaded processor is increased, the amount of power that the processor uses also increases, however these processors now consume so much power that it is difficult to increase the performance by much. That is why CSL researchers are working on ways to reduce power.

CSL graduate student Qiaomin Xie and Assistant Professor Yi Lu recently won the Best Paper Award at the PERFORMANCE 2011 Conference for their paper, titled, “A Novel Load Balancing Algorithm for Dynamically Scalable Web Services.”

Researchers in CSL's Advanced Digital Sciences Center specializing in computer vision technologies are developing an intuitive, reliable and fast solution for identifying and retrieving relevant information about pill medications. Applications for the pill identification technology include use in hospital and nursing home pill packing machines, as well as a mobile device for patients, specifically the elderly, to ensure the right pills are being taken each day.

CSL Adjunct Professor Yi Ma and his graduate students recently received an $8,000 gift from Adobe Systems Incorporated to pursue a joint-research project on reconstructing 3D models of objects – primarily urban structures - from 2D images. Ma is an adjunct associate professor of electrical and computer engineering.

CSL Professor Sayan Mitra has just won a prestigious Young Investigator award from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR). Mitra's winning proposal was entitled "Verification Engines for Hybrid Networks."

His planned research aims to ensure the trustworthiness of complex distributed control systems, such as the onboard software that coordinates flight trajectories of groups of aircraft or unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in order to guarantee that they remain a safe distance apart from each other.

CSL Professor Cedric Langbort’s research efforts can be compared to a very high-tech game of hide and seek.
 

Editor’s note: Solar flares, which erupt from the surface of the sun, occur periodically and can, at times, disrupt electronics on and above Earth. In the past few days, solar activity has spiked. Jonathan Makela, a professor of electrical and computer engineering at Illinois, studies such phenomena, known as space weather. He develops instruments that monitor disturbances in Earth’s upper atmosphere and ionosphere – the ionized portion of the atmosphere that represents the boundary with space.

ECE Professor Michael C. Loui has been named the new editor of the Journal of Engineering Education (JEE), the journal for the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE). He will take over the editorial duties of the journal this summer.

Nuvixa, founded by CSL Professor Sanjay Patel, received the New Venture Award at the Innovation Celebration on Thursday, February 23. The company designs novel video conferencing solutions.

Children in Champaign County will have the opportunity to electrify learning with new math and science resources powered by the University of Illinois’ Trustworthy Cyber Infrastructure for the Power Grid (TCIPG).