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Jul 20. 2015
New features enhance learning experience at 2015 TCIPG Summer School
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.
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Jul 13. 2015
New robotic lawn mowing technology aims to deliver freshly cut yards with little set-up
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.”
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Jun 30. 2015
Illinois leads $6.25M initiative to advance multimodal data analysis
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Jun 30. 2015
$10 million Jump Simulation Center coming to new College of Medicine
Medical and engineering students will be immersed in technology-driven clinical environments at the Jump Simulation Center.
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Jun 09. 2015
Alumnus received Early Career Award from MIT
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.
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Jun 09. 2015
DHS taps Illinois to lead $20 million center in critical infrastructure resiliency
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.
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May 21. 2015
Out of Cold War's end, Hovakimyan has emerged as a leading voice in flight control safety
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.
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Apr 21. 2015
Pilawa wins Air Force Young Investigator Award to build inflight supercomputers
The Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) awarded Pilawa $360,000 over three years as a part of its Young Investigator Program (YIP).
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Apr 08. 2015
Berthier receives award for work on detecting security breaches in utility communications
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.
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Mar 19. 2015
Naveed Receives Google PhD Fellowship in Security
CS graduate student Muhammad Naveed was one of just 15 recipients of a 2015 North American Google PhD Fellowship. Created in 2009, these fellowships recognize outstanding graduate students who are doing exceptional work in a number of computing disciplines. Naveed is a fourth-year PhD student working in the area of security.
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Mar 12. 2015
U. of I., Carle moving forward with the first engineering-based college of medicine
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Partners in a first-of-its-kind medical college on the University of Illinois’s Urbana-Champaign campus are advancing to the next phase of development, having completed a key administrative step today.
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Feb 26. 2015
Bailey wins ACM Best Paper Award for Heartbleed research
"The Matter of Heartbleed," co-written by Associate Professor Michael Bailey, won the best paper award at the ACM's Internet Measurement Conference.
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Feb 19. 2015
Research shows way to secure cyber physical systems via anomaly detection
Recent successful cybersecurity attacks, such as the 2010 Stuxnet attack on uranium centrifuges central to Iran’s nuclear program, have made it impossible to ignore the lack of effective security of cyber physical systems today.
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Feb 16. 2015
Nahrstedt named director of the Coordinated Science Laboratory
Nahrstedt, who is the first computer science faculty member to lead the lab and an ITI researcher, has served as acting director since 2013.
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Feb 16. 2015
Dominguez-Garcia wins a 2014 Campus Distinguished Promotion Award
ITI researcher Alejandro Dominguez-Garcia won a 2014 Campus Distinguished Promotion Award, an honor from Provost Ilesanmi Adesida. The award recognizes recently promoted faculty members who have shown special promise in their fields.
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Feb 05. 2015
Adve Named a Fellow of ACM
ITI Researcher and CS Professor Vikram Adve has been named a 2014 Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). In his citation he was recognized “for developing the LLVM compiler and for contributions to parallel computing and software security.” He is one of 49 ACM members being recognized this year for their contributions to computing.
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Jan 29. 2015
Research looks to verify power networks at the device level
Securing our power grids from malicious attacks is critical to ensuring a safe power grid, and many researchers are working on solving this problem by focusing on the entire system. However, ITI research scientist Katherine Davis is tackling the problem in a new and innovative way in her new $391,014, three-year NSF grant to study verification of cyber-physical critical infrastructures at the device level.
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Dec 23. 2014
ITI in the News: A cutting-edge power grid cyber security testbed at the Information Trust Institute, University of Illinois
The RTDS News featured an article by ITI's Tim Yardley on the RTDS Simulator used for cutting edge smart grid research at the Information Trust Institute.
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Dec 11. 2014
Yoon receives Padovani Scholarship
CS graduate student Man-Ki Yoon received the Roberto Padovani Scholarship from Qualcomm. The Roberto Padovani Scholarship program was created in 2008 to recognize Qualcomm Research interns who demonstrate extraordinary technical talent during their summer internships.
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Dec 10. 2014
Illinois students make strong showing in cyber security competitions
Two teams with CS @ ILLINOIS members received recognition at the 11th annual New York University Polytechnic School of Engineering Cyber Security Awareness Week (CSAW).
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