Adve elected to prestigious American Academy of Arts and Sciences
07/02/2020 - 10:49am CSL's Sarita Adve was recently elected as a 2020 member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Illinois professor proposes guide for developing common data science approaches
06/29/2020 - 9:22am ITI researcher Victoria Stodden has proposed a framework for guiding researchers and curriculum development in data science and for aiding policy and funding decisions.
DHS Summer Research Team focuses on IoT vulnerabilities
06/25/2020 - 9:27am Every summer, CIRI welcomes like-minded research teams to campus to collaborate through the DHS Summer Research Team Program. Two researchers from the University of Houston-Downtown will be joining forces with the CIRI team to research network security and reliability.
Abdelzaher’s IoBT paper, outlining future automation of defense with AI, among most downloaded at Army conference
06/19/2020 - 11:21am ITI's Tarek Abdelzaher recently gave a presentation on the latest research coming out of the Internet of Battlefield Things Alliance. The talk became the second most-downloaded from the conference.
Do COVID-19 apps protect your privacy?
06/11/2020 - 1:37pm Many mobile apps that track the spread of COVID-19 ask for personal data but don’t indicate the information will be secure. ITI's Masooda Bashir and her team analyzed 50 apps and their privacy protections.
Illinois named Xilinx Center of Excellence
06/05/2020 - 11:43am The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has been named a Xilinx Center of Excellence for Adaptive Computing. The designation comes with a significant donation and includes a large number of high-end adaptive compute acceleration platforms.
ITI researcher contributes to aircraft control research
05/28/2020 - 1:16pm ITI Researcher Sayan Mitra is working with industrial collaborators to develop an algorithm to test and certify software for certain aircraft control systems.
Dominic Saebeler joins the ITI team as the Senior Associate Director
05/27/2020 - 9:17amITI welcomes Dominic Saebeler as the new Senior Associate Director. Saebeler will be responsible for a wide range of activities, including strategic planning and administrative functions.
CSL's Adve among faculty honored with Campus Awards for Excellence in Instruction
05/26/2020 - 2:50pmFaculty and staff members and graduate teaching assistants at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign this spring were honored for excellence in teaching, mentoring and advising, collectively known as Campus Awards for Excellence in Instruction.
ITI researchers develop masquerading operating system
05/20/2020 - 2:34pm ITI researcher Sibin Mohan and student Hsuan-Chi Kuo have developed a "linux in unikernel's clothing" to bring together the best of both operating systems.
Students of ITI researcher have paper selected for international reproducibility competition
05/18/2020 - 3:40pm Each year, computing teams from around the world gather to try to replicate the results of a carefully selected research paper. This year, the selected paper was written by two students of ITI researcher Wen-mei Hwu.
Illinois Principal Research Scientist examines power grid restoration
05/11/2020 - 12:32pmIn the wake of the COVID-19 emergency, the US has watched as people hoard toilet paper, chicken breasts, and hand sanitizer, but in a different kind of emergency – a critical loss of power grid functionality – what would we do? University of Illinois Principal Research Scientist Tim Yardley researches possible answers to this question on a small island just outside of New York City: Plum Island. There, his team has built a testbed of real, but isolated, power grids to explore the many detection, isolation, and characterization aspects of an attack on United States power.
ITI/CSL/ADSC researchers on team working to bolster critical system defense
05/06/2020 - 3:08pm It is fairly common knowledge that technology people use daily such as cell phones, laptops, and tablets, could be susceptible to a cyberattack. A lesser known threat is that the power grid, water treatment plants, and other daily-use systems, are also susceptible. ITI, CSL, and ADSC are working on a project to bolster the defense of such critical systems.
Abdelzaher repurposing social networking models to predict COVID spread under different social distancing policies
05/04/2020 - 11:21am The COVID-19 epidemic has inspired CSL professor Tarek Abdelzaher to modify information propagation models to make accurate predictions of virus spread.
Remembering Thomas Huang, Maybelle Leland Swanlund Endowed Chair Emeritus in Electrical and Computer Engineering
05/01/2020 - 2:31pm Thomas S Huang, a pioneering researcher and influential teacher died April 25, 2020, at the age of 83. In his long career as a professor of electrical and computer engineering, Huang was ranked among the world’s most influential researchers and mentored more than 100 students.
ITI researcher elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences
04/28/2020 - 1:05pm ITI's Sarita V. Adve is one of two University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign professors to have been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, one of the oldest honor societies in the nation.
CREDC holds successful 2020 Industry Workshop
03/31/2020 - 3:17pm In February, the Cyber Resilient Energy Delivery Consortium (CREDC) hosted its annual Industry Workshop in Houston, Texas.
UI researchers analyze the resiliency of “wireless SDNs” through Boeing collaboration
02/05/2020 - 2:18pmSoftware defined networking (SDN), which centralizes the dynamic control of networks, simplifies the management of everything from large data centers to wireless networks. As such, they are increasingly employed by companies ranging from Amazon to The Boeing Company.
NSA and University of Illinois: Partnering to Secure Networks and Cyber Systems
01/23/2020 - 1:24pm The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (Illinois) is one of the first universities to partner with NSA on researching the science of security and has been working on cybersecurity problems with NSA for more than 19 years.