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Thursday, December 10, 2020

Kumar discusses the future of 5G

Swarun Kumar was featured in a TechRepublic article about the future of 5G and his experience with remote teaching.
Tuesday, December 08, 2020

Home Automation Rules

According to home automation company IFTTT around 11 million people use over 1 billion home automation rules, commonly referred to as “applets,” each month in their homes. But a 2017 study found that nearly half of the IFTTT applets may pose a security or privacy threat to users.
Thursday, December 03, 2020

Chi Named 2021 Goldsmith Lecturer

As the recipient, Chi will deliver the Goldsmith Lecture at one of the ITSoc’s Schools of Information Theory.
Monday, November 23, 2020

Student Turns Old Polaroid Into New Digital Camera

Like any aspiring do-it-yourselfer, Sam Zeloof knew the idea in his head might not exactly match the finished product. But Zeloof is an aspiring engineer who's not afraid to try something new, and a quarantine is a fine time to try new things.
Tuesday, November 10, 2020

Big Security for Little Devices

Vanessa Chen and Jimmy Zhu were awarded an NSF grant to use machine learning to provide security to IoT devices.
Wednesday, October 28, 2020

New Tool Simplifies Data Sharing, Preserves Privacy

According to a new study authored by researchers in Carnegie Mellon University’s CyLab and IBM, a new tool can help circumvent privacy issues in data sharing. The study is being presented at the 2020 ACM Internet Measurement Conference, where it has been named a finalist in the conference’s Best Paper Award.
Wednesday, October 21, 2020

Intelligent, Automatic Contact Tracing

ECE alumni Patrick Lazik and his team at Yodel Labs have developed a system that creates contact networks to contain COVID-19.
Monday, October 12, 2020

Academic Services Center Delivers Lab Kits

More than 500 electrical and computer engineering students studying remotely this fall have all the materials and tools they need for their core lab courses, thanks to a team effort that delivered on time to 12 countries on five continents.
Monday, October 05, 2020

Kumar 5G Commentary Featured in TechTarget

Swarun Kumar was quoted in TechTarget on the benefits of deploying 5G on manufacturing floors.
Monday, October 05, 2020

Parylene Photonics Enable Future Optical Biointerfaces

Maysam Chamanzar’s team has developed a new class of materials for optical biointerfaces.
Thursday, September 24, 2020

Bannis Receives ACM SIGBED Frank Anger Memorial Award

This prestigious award was given in recognition of her research contributions and leadership in the areas of software engineering and embedded systems.
Friday, September 18, 2020

Jin Receives 2020 UbiComp Outstanding Student Award

Haojian Jin, a fifth-year Ph.D. student, received the Gaetano Borriello Outstanding Student Award on Thursday, September 17, 2020, during the virtual UbiComp 2020 awards ceremony.
Squeezing More Out of Wireless
Thursday, September 17, 2020

Squeezing More Out of Wireless

Researchers have demonstrated an alternate way to fulfill the traffic demands by squeezing out more from existing frequency bands using a technique called full duplex.
Detecting Wireless Interference
Monday, September 14, 2020

Detecting Wireless Interference

Swarun Kumar, Anthony Rowe, and Robert Iannucci from Carnegie Mellon University’s Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering have been awarded a $1M National Science Foundation (NSF) grant to investigate a system that allows teams of geo-distributed low-power devices to quickly and efficiently scan wide bandwidths to avert interference.
Talking Tattoos
Tuesday, September 08, 2020

Talking Tattoos

Carnegie Mellon University researchers develop RFID Tattoos for persons with voice disabilities.
This Will Get Your Attention
Tuesday, September 08, 2020

This Will Get Your Attention

Matt Smith and Byron Yu will simultaneously record multiple regions of the brain as subjects go through the process of preparing, establishing, and maintaining attention. This project is funded by the NIH.
Yagan Mentioned on Coronavirus Model
Thursday, August 20, 2020

Yagan Mentioned on Coronavirus Model

Osman Yagan was mentioned in IEEE Spectrum on his coronavirus model.
Assessing COVID-19 Countermeasures
Tuesday, August 18, 2020

Assessing COVID-19 Countermeasures

In a project funded by the Army Research Office, Osman Yağan aims to augment the existing models of epidemic spread by leveraging the mathematical theory developed in his recent work.
Datta Featured on AI
Friday, August 14, 2020

Datta Featured on AI

Anapam Datta was featured in VentureBeat on his AI company, Truera.
Bugless Code
Tuesday, August 11, 2020

Bugless Code

Parno and a team of researchers recently published a new coding language and tool for high-performance concurrent programs that ensures that programs are provably-correct – that is, that the code is mathematically proven to compute correctly.
Narasimhan Featured in Pittsburgh Business Times
Tuesday, August 11, 2020

Narasimhan Featured in Pittsburgh Business Times

Priya Narasimhan was featured in the Pittsburgh Business Times on her company, YinzCam.
Ilic Recognized for Outstanding Engineering Career
Thursday, July 30, 2020

Ilic Recognized for Outstanding Engineering Career

Marija Ilic has been invited to join the prestigious Academy of Europe for her outstanding contributions in control and design of large-scale systems, and has received the IEEE PES Outstanding Power Engineering Educator Award.
Gobieski Receives Apple AI/ML Fellowship
Wednesday, July 22, 2020

Gobieski Receives Apple AI/ML Fellowship

Apple Scholars is a program created to recognize the contributions of emerging leaders in computer science and engineering at the graduate and postgraduate levels. As part of Apple Scholars, Apple is proud to announce the recipients of Ph.D. fellowships in artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML).
Neural Recording
Monday, July 20, 2020

Neural Recording

A team led by Maysam Chamanzar is developing a novel neural interface made from stainless steel for much safer, high-density neural recording.
Sensing Tire Wear
Tuesday, July 14, 2020

Sensing Tire Wear

Today, every car has tire pressure sensors. But what if they also had tire wear sensors? This would increase safety on the road, save drivers money, and ultimately, save lives.
Chamanzar Featured in Wevolver
Tuesday, July 07, 2020

Chamanzar Featured in Wevolver

Work by Maysam Chamanzar and his team on developing a novel neural interface made from stainless steel for much safer, high-density neural recording was featured in Wevolver.
Kumar Quoted on Wireless Headphones
Monday, July 06, 2020

Kumar Quoted on Wireless Headphones

Swarun Kumar was quoted in Consumer Reports on how true wireless headphones work.
Smile, You’re on Camaroptera
Monday, June 29, 2020

Smile, You’re on Camaroptera

Brandon Lucia created a battery-less remote image sensor—and taught it time management.
Managing Necessary Bias in AI
Thursday, June 25, 2020

Managing Necessary Bias in AI

Some biases in AI might be necessary to satisfy critical business requirements, but how do we know if an AI recommendation is biased strictly for business necessities and not other reasons?
Building Smart Cities With Taxis
Tuesday, June 16, 2020

Building Smart Cities With Taxis

Pei Zhang has turned a fleet of taxis into a mobile sensing platform to collect data required to develop applications for a smart city.
A Science Experiment for Dinner
Friday, June 12, 2020

A Science Experiment for Dinner

Kumar and students developed a low-cost closed-loop microwave system that is programmed to heat food uniformly. The team’s paper was accepted at the MobiCom 2019 conference. Their work was also featured in the ACM GetMobile magazine this year, one of a select group of mobile systems papers. The research was supported by a grant from the National Science Foundation.
Joshi Receives Best Paper Award at ACM SIGMETRICS 2020
Friday, June 12, 2020

Joshi Receives Best Paper Award at ACM SIGMETRICS 2020

Their paper, “Rateless Codes for Near-Perfect Load Balancing in Distributed Matrix-Vector Multiplication,” proposes a rateless fountain coding strategy that its latency is asymptotically equal to ideal load balancing, and it performs asymptotically zero redundant computation.
ECE's Commitment to Anti-Racism
Wednesday, June 03, 2020

ECE's Commitment to Anti-Racism

The ECE department, all of its faculty and staff, and in particular the Diversity, Inclusion, and Outreach Committee welcomes feedback, advice, and any other resources that can help us provide better support and allyship to people of color. We are also here for anyone who is struggling personally and needs someone to talk to. We will listen and learn.
Five CMU Security and Privacy Papers Receive IEEE’s Test of Time Award
Tuesday, May 26, 2020

Five CMU Security and Privacy Papers Receive IEEE’s Test of Time Award

Having a paper accepted to a high-caliber conference is a great accomplishment. Having one of those papers withstand the test of time is even better.
Success On and Off the Court
Monday, May 18, 2020

Success On and Off the Court

Since coming to CMU, Beaudoin has succeeded on and off the court. Beaudoin earned the top grade in Structure and Design of Digital Systems, a course required of all ECE majors. In the same semester, she was an honorable mention regional All-American and received 2nd team All-UAA honors for her prowess on the court.
Scott Institute Seed Grant Funding Advances Energy Projects
Thursday, May 07, 2020

Scott Institute Seed Grant Funding Advances Energy Projects

Carnegie Mellon University research projects exploring perspectives on energy policy, batteries and storage and smart grid solutions are among the projects being amplified by the Scott Institute for Energy Innovation’s 2020 Seed Grants for Energy Research.
Zhang Featured in Scientific American
Wednesday, May 06, 2020

Zhang Featured in Scientific American

Pei Zheng was featured in Scientific American for developing sensors that analyze footsteps by measuring floor vibrations.
A Big Comeback for a Little Switch
Monday, May 04, 2020

A Big Comeback for a Little Switch

Gianluca Piazza and Maarten De Boer are developing reliable, mechanical switches the size of a DNA molecule, thanks to a $2M LEAP-HI grant from the National Science Foundation.
Tracking Wildfires
Thursday, April 30, 2020

Tracking Wildfires

A research team has received the Best Paper Award at the 19th ACM/IEEE Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN) in recognition of their work "Quick (and Dirty) Aggregate Queries on LP-WANs" (QuAiL).
Fighting COVID-19
Monday, April 27, 2020

Fighting COVID-19

Osman Yağan and Princeton’s Vincent Poor were awarded an NSF RAPID grant for applying their work on modeling disease spread to COVID-19. In a recently published paper, the pair modeled how mutations play into the spread of a virus. Now, they are looking to model how public health measures, such as social distancing and travel bans, will affect the spread of COVID-19.
Gadre Earns IPSN Ph.D. Forum Best Presentation Award
Thursday, April 23, 2020

Gadre Earns IPSN Ph.D. Forum Best Presentation Award

Akshay Gadre, an electrical and computer engineering Ph.D. student, has received the Best Presentation Award at the 19th ACM/IEEE Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN) in recognition of his work on Low-Power Wide-Area Networking.
Stabilizing Brain-Computer Interfaces
Thursday, April 23, 2020

Stabilizing Brain-Computer Interfaces

Researchers from CMU and Pitt have published research in Nature Biomedical Engineering that will drastically improve brain-computer interfaces and their ability to remain stabilized during use, greatly reducing or potentially eliminating the need to recalibrate these devices during or between experiments.
CMU-Africa Mobilizes
Monday, April 20, 2020

CMU-Africa Mobilizes

When the Government of Rwanda implemented a nationwide lockdown because of coronavirus, CMU-Africa transitioned to remote learning in less than a week.
Yagan Quoted on Coronavirus Models
Thursday, April 16, 2020

Yagan Quoted on Coronavirus Models

The problem with Coronavirus models is how we talk about them.
Kar, Pileggi Named Energy Fellows
Wednesday, April 15, 2020

Kar, Pileggi Named Energy Fellows

The highly competitive Energy Fellows Program is designed to incentivize, promote and reward CMU’s most dedicated tenure track faculty.
Orbital Edge Computing
Monday, April 13, 2020

Orbital Edge Computing

As humanity moves into outer space, scientists and engineers must come up with innovative technology to get them there. In a recently published paper, Brandon Lucia, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering, and Bradley Denby, a Ph.D. student, explore one such innovative idea: orbital edge computing with nanosatellite constellations.
The COVID-19 Pandemic's Impact on Cybersecurity
Thursday, April 09, 2020

The COVID-19 Pandemic's Impact on Cybersecurity

Vyas Sekar, a professor in Carnegie Mellon’s Electrical and Computer Engineering Department whose work focuses on network security, thinks that enterprises need to be thinking very critically about the security of their networks—maybe more now than ever.
Improving Data Performance
Monday, April 06, 2020

Improving Data Performance

Chi recently took home the 2019 IEEE SPS Pierre-Simon Laplace Early Career Technical Achievement Award for her contributions to high-dimensional structured signal processing.
Vernon Earns ZiF Centre Fellowship
Wednesday, April 01, 2020

Vernon Earns ZiF Centre Fellowship

Vernon will work with the project “Enabling Cognitive Behavior of Humans, Animals, and Machines: Situation model perspectives” convening in June-July 2020.
Recognizing Speech Recognition
Tuesday, March 31, 2020

Recognizing Speech Recognition

Stern attempts to use knowledge of human auditory processing to guide his algorithm design, so PNCC is specifically structured to mimic some of our brain’s methods of interpreting words from soundwaves.
Safety Helmet for Firefighters
Monday, March 23, 2020

Safety Helmet for Firefighters

Communication technologies built into a firefighter’s helmet can send directional information in realtime to firefighters working in dangerous environments.
Lucia Receives VMWare Early Career Grant
Wednesday, March 18, 2020

Lucia Receives VMWare Early Career Grant

Brandon Lucia, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering, has received the VMWare Early Career Grant in support of building efficient intermittent edge computer systems.
Feet Beyond Fiction
Tuesday, March 10, 2020

Feet Beyond Fiction

Carnegie Mellon’s Pei Zhang is part of a team blurring the line between science and magic with a footstep-sensing invention inspired by Harry Potter’s Marauder’s Map.
CMU Team Ranks Top 10 in the ARPA-E Grid Optimization Competition
Thursday, March 05, 2020

CMU Team Ranks Top 10 in the ARPA-E Grid Optimization Competition

A team comprised of researchers from Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Colorado Boulder has placed in the top 10 in all divisions of the ARPA-E Grid Optimization (GO) Competition.
To Predict an Epidemic, Evolution Can’t Be Ignored
Monday, March 02, 2020

To Predict an Epidemic, Evolution Can’t Be Ignored

In a new study appearing in this week’s issue of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a team of Carnegie Mellon University researchers show for the first time how important evolutionary adaptations are in predicting epidemics.
Rowe Receives Siewiorek Professorship
Tuesday, February 25, 2020

Rowe Receives Siewiorek Professorship

Anthony Rowe, named the inaugural recipient of the professorship, has been inspired by Siewiorek’s dedication to electrical and computer engineering and computer science.
Gadre to Present at NSDI 2020
Wednesday, February 19, 2020

Gadre to Present at NSDI 2020

Third-year ECE Ph.D. candidate Akshay Gadre will present a new project on Frequency Configuration for Low-Power IoT Devices at USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI).
Using AI to Recycle Bottles
Wednesday, February 12, 2020

Using AI to Recycle Bottles

A collaborative project in partnership with CMKL University aims to develop an artificial intelligence (AI) system to accurately screen bottles for reuse and recycling.
Air Force Partnership to Fuse AI and Materials Research
Monday, February 03, 2020

Air Force Partnership to Fuse AI and Materials Research

CMU and Air Force Research Laboratory establish 5-year, $7.5M Center of Excellence in data-driven materials research.
Providing Wireless Connectivity at Lower Data Rates
Monday, January 27, 2020

Providing Wireless Connectivity at Lower Data Rates

Swarun Kumar, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering, has been awarded a National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award supporting his research on low-power wide-area networks.
Wang Receives 2020 Microsoft Research Ph.D. Fellowship
Friday, January 24, 2020

Wang Receives 2020 Microsoft Research Ph.D. Fellowship

Microsoft Research awards this two-year fellowship to Ph.D. students at North American universities pursuing research aligned to the research areas carried out by Microsoft.
Kumar comments on the next leap in wireless charging
Thursday, January 23, 2020

Kumar comments on the next leap in wireless charging

Swarun Kumar was quoted in Consumer Reports on wireless charging and what hurdles must be overcome before making this technology a reality.
DeltaFS Recognized as Exceptional New Product by R&D World Magazine
Tuesday, January 21, 2020

DeltaFS Recognized as Exceptional New Product by R&D World Magazine

The Parallel Data Lab’s DeltaFS project recently received the prestigious R&D 100 Award from R&D World magazine, a leading resource for research scientists, engineers, and technical staff members at laboratories around the world.
Secure and Energy-Efficient Communication
Tuesday, January 21, 2020

Secure and Energy-Efficient Communication

Vanessa Chen, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering, has been awarded a National Science Foundation (NSF) grant as part of the SpecEES program to develop trusted wireless transceivers for secure and energy-efficient communication.
New faculty members join the ECE community
Thursday, January 16, 2020

New faculty members join the ECE community

The Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering ushers in the spring semester with three new faculty members, strengthening the innovative research fields of circuit design, neuroscience, and software architecture.
Build18 2020
Monday, January 13, 2020

Build18 2020

Build18’s mission is to provide students with a risk-free environment to pursue personal engineering challenges, where the only limiting factor to creation is their own ingenuity.
Reshaping the future of consumer electronics
Monday, January 06, 2020

Reshaping the future of consumer electronics

When it came time for Jiaqi Zou, a senior studying electrical and computer engineering at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), to start his summer internship at Hewlett Packard (HP), he felt prepared due to the education he received during his undergraduate career.
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