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Dec 15. 2015
Nahrstedt named one of N2Women’s 10 women to know in networking/communications
Nahrstedt, who joined the Illinois faculty in 1995, is a leading researcher in multimedia systems.
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Dec 14. 2015
Sha Receives Simon Ramo Medal
IEEE Medals are the highest distinctions that the IEEE presents.
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Nov 20. 2015
ADSC’s cybersecurity research tackles big smart grid problems
Researchers are looking at how an attacker can destabilize grid control systems and demand response systems, and creating new methodology to address those attacks.
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Nov 10. 2015
Bretl projects merge robotics and neuroscience
ITI researcher Tim Bretl investigates two distinct areas of research: robotics and neuroscience, yet merges the two disparate areas in applications that aim to positively impact society.
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Nov 10. 2015
Sanders wins IEEE Innovation in Societal Infrastructure Technical Field Award
ITI researcher William H. Sanders has received the 2016 IEEE Technical Field Award, Innovation in Societal Infrastructure, for his revolutionary work concerning the cybersecurity of the power grid.
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Nov 03. 2015
Illinois start-up develops advanced cybersecurity monitoring tool for industrial networks
On the heels of the success of its first product, NP-View, Illinois start-up Network Perceptions prepares to launch new software tool, NP-Live, in the marketplace.
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Nov 02. 2015
In the News: University receives $28.1 million to research technology combating cyber-attacks
The University was selected to be a part of the Cyber Resilient Energy Delivery Consortium (CREDC) to help in the quest to develop better energy delivery protection systems.
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Oct 28. 2015
Yuting Ng wins Best Paper Award for GPS research at ION GNSS+ 2015
She discusses a new, robust system for synchronizing Phasor Measurement Units, which are used to measure conditions of the power grid and provide assistance with real-time operations and off-line analysis to improve reliability and efficiency.
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Oct 20. 2015
ITI’s Krishna wins Best Paper by a young researcher at CRITIS 2015
The paper evaluates the suitability of the Auto-Regressive Integrated Moving Average (ARIMA) model in forecasting short-term electricity consumption.
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Oct 15. 2015
WCIA 3: $28M program to innovate cyber-security technology
The project is aiming to ramp up cyber-security.
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Oct 12. 2015
Illinois to lead new $28.1M consortium in cyber resilient energy delivery systems
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.
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Sep 14. 2015
Reinhard named to 2016 class of Siebel Scholars
His research focuses on using synchrophasor data to measure the power grid’s operating state in near-real time.
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Sep 10. 2015
Hovakimyan named W. Grafton and Lillian B. Wilkins Professor
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.
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Sep 10. 2015
Watch Out: If you’ve got a smart watch, hackers could get your data
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.
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Sep 08. 2015
ITI researchers win best paper for smart meter security research at QEST 2015
The paper proposes combining two methods in a unique way to help verify intrusion attempts.
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Sep 02. 2015
Sha selected for NASA Advisory Council
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.
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Aug 20. 2015
Air Force gives $2 million to develop secure cloud computing technology
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.
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Aug 13. 2015
Bibbidi Bobbidi Bots: ASPIRE to improve lives of senior citizens
The goal of ASPIRE is to develop co-robots that can assist the elderly with activities of daily living and other chores.
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Aug 05. 2015
ITI researchers lead projects funded by new Siebel Energy Institute
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.
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Aug 04. 2015
Hovakimyan receives Society of Women Engineers 2015 Achievement Award
The award recognizes Hovakimyan’s significant contributions to mathematical control theory and its application in safety-critical systems.
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