Illinois to lead new $28.1M consortium in cyber resilient energy delivery systems
10/12/2015 - 8:59am The Cyber Resilient Energy Delivery Consortium (CREDC), which consists of 11 universities and national laboratories and is funded by the Dept. of Energy, will focus on improving the resilience and security of the cyber networks that serve as the backbone of energy infrastructure.
Reinhard named to 2016 class of Siebel Scholars
09/14/2015 - 10:18am His research focuses on using synchrophasor data to measure the power grid's operating state in near-real time.
Hovakimyan named W. Grafton and Lillian B. Wilkins Professor
09/10/2015 - 2:36pm Hovakimyan's research focuses on robotics, game theory, networks of autonomous systems, and theory of robust adaptive control and estimation, as well as control in the presence of limited information.
Watch Out: If you've got a smart watch, hackers could get your data
09/10/2015 - 2:30pm Using a homegrown app on a Samsung Gear Live smart watch, the researchers were able to guess what a user was typing through data leaks produced by the motion sensors on smart watches.
ITI researchers win best paper for smart meter security research at QEST 2015
09/08/2015 - 3:23am The paper proposes combining two methods in a unique way to help verify intrusion attempts.
Sha selected for NASA Advisory Council
09/02/2015 - 9:59am Sha was selected for this council based largely on the body of work he has accomplished in the area of safety critical real time systems.
Air Force gives $2 million to develop secure cloud computing technology
08/20/2015 - 8:35am The Center, which began in 2011 with $4 million from AFRL and the Air Force Office of Scientific Research, focuses on advancing secure cloud computing science and technologies.
Bibbidi Bobbidi Bots: ASPIRE to improve lives of senior citizens
08/13/2015 - 6:12am The goal of ASPIRE is to develop co-robots that can assist the elderly with activities of daily living and other chores.
ITI researchers lead projects funded by new Siebel Energy Institute
08/05/2015 - 4:09am Alejandro Dominguez-Garcia, Ravi Iyer, Zbigniew Kalbarczyk, Thomas Overbye, Pete Sauer, Bill Sanders and Gabriel Weaver are among the researchers whose projects were selected for funding.
Hovakimyan receives Society of Women Engineers 2015 Achievement Award
08/04/2015 - 11:17am The award recognizes Hovakimyan's significant contributions to mathematical control theory and its application in safety-critical systems.
New features enhance learning experience at 2015 TCIPG Summer School
07/20/2015 - 4:11am The program focused on delivering a firm grounding in fundamentals of power systems, cyber systems, cyber-physical systems, and application of these fundamentals to the modern power grid.
New robotic lawn mowing technology aims to deliver freshly cut yards with little set-up
07/13/2015 - 8:24am Junho Yang, 32, a PhD candidate at UIUC, alongside Professor Soon-Jo Chung, Professor Seth Hutchinson and agriculture implement manufacturer John Deere, is working on an omnidirectional-vision-based system to detect the containment status of a robotic lawn mower.
Illinois leads $6.25M initiative to advance multimodal data analysis
06/30/2015 - 3:13amAn Illinois-led research team has received a $6.25 million Department of Defense Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative (MURI) award to develop a new information theory for data collection, analysis, and decision-making. The research, housed in the interdisciplinary Coordinated Science Lab, aims to speed up and improve our ability to collect and analyze data and subsequently adapt our decisions as new information comes in.
$10 million Jump Simulation Center coming to new College of Medicine
06/30/2015 - 3:11am Medical and engineering students will be immersed in technology-driven clinical environments at the Jump Simulation Center.
Alumnus received Early Career Award from MIT
06/09/2015 - 3:12pm Hamed Okhravi, who received his PhD in electrical and computer engineering from UIUC in 2009, was recognized for his work in making cyberspace secure and trustworthy.
DHS taps Illinois to lead $20 million center in critical infrastructure resiliency
06/09/2015 - 9:58am The Center, supported by a consortium of academic and industry institutions, will focus on developing resilient cyber systems that run critical infrastructures as well as providing a business case for infrastructure investment in resiliency technology.
Out of Cold War's end, Hovakimyan has emerged as a leading voice in flight control safety
05/21/2015 - 7:41am Naira Hovakimyan has a background as a mathematician, which dates back to humble beginnings in Armenia. Over the last 17 years, however, researchers in the United States have tapped Hovakimyan's calculations to help advance work in the stability of flight control systems.
Pilawa wins Air Force Young Investigator Award to build inflight supercomputers
04/21/2015 - 9:08am The Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) awarded Pilawa $360,000 over three years as a part of its Young Investigator Program (YIP).
Berthier receives award for work on detecting security breaches in utility communications
04/08/2015 - 5:26am ITI researcher Robin Berthier recently received a Best Paper Award at the 2014 IEEE International Conference on Smart Grid Communications for his collaborative work on a project that aims to help utilities to monitor encrypted network communications.