August 22, 2019
CS Profs. and alumni David Wagner (Ph.D. ’00) and Eric Brewer (B.S. ’89), and alumni Ian Goldberg (Ph.D. ’00) and Randi Thomas (M.S.) have won the 2019 USENIX Test of Time Award for their 1996 paper titled “A Secure Environment for Untrusted Helper Applications.” The paper, which introduced a fundamental…
August 5, 2019
A viral real-time AI art application, co-created by three current and former graduate students of CS Prof. Alexei Efros, has won two coveted awards–Best in Show and Audience Choice–at the SIGGRAPH 2019 Real-Time Live Competition. The interactive application, called GauGAN, was co-created by Ph.D. candidate Taesung Park during a summer…
August 3, 2019
Research co-authored by grad student Justin Yim and EE Profs. Ron Fearing and Robert Full, among others, has resulted in the creation of a small cockroach-inspired robot so hardy that it can survive being crushed underfoot. The robot, which is about the size of a large postage stamp, is made…
August 1, 2019
Prof. Eli Yablonovitch is the co-author of a paper published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) that describes a groundbreaking discovery which has allowed researchers to raise the efficiency of thermophotovoltaics from 23% (where it has stayed for 15 years) to an unprecedented 29%. This ultralight alternative…
July 5, 2019
CS Prof. Michael Jordan has written a commentary in the Harvard Data Science Review (HDSR) titled “Dr. AI or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Economics” (a play on the title of the film Dr. Strangelove). In it, he argues that instead of trying to put “‘thought’ into…
July 5, 2019
An untethered bee robot co-created by EE alumnus Robert J. Wood (PhD ’04, advisor: Ron Fearing) graces the cover the of the June 2019 issue of Nature magazine and is the subject of a Wired article titled “What Could Possibly Be Cooler Than RoboBee? RoboBee X-Wing.” Wood, now a professor…
July 1, 2019
CS graduate student Shruti Agarwal and her thesis advisor Prof. Hany Farid have created a new weapon in the war against “deepfakes,” the hyper-realistic AI-generated videos of people appearing to say and do things they never actually said or did. The new forensic technique, which uses the subtle characteristics of…
June 17, 2019
A paper written by recent graduate Elizaveta Tremsina (B.S. ’19 CS/Physics/Applied Math) has taken third place in the undergraduate category of the 2019 ACM Student Research Competition (SRC) Grand Finals. The paper, titled “Your Story Recorded in a Magnet: Micromagnetic Simulations of Spin-Orbit Torque in Multi-layer Structures,” was a continuation…
June 7, 2019
“Improved Subthreshold Swing and Short Channel Effect in FDSOI n-Channel Negative Capacitance Field Effect Transistors,” has won the 2018 IEEE Electron Devices Society (EDS) George E. Smith Award. The paper was co-authored by current postdoc Korok Chatterjee, graduate student Ava J. Tan, former postdocs Daewoong Kwon, Angada B. Sachid, Ajay…
May 30, 2019
EECS PhD student Justin Yim (with advisor EECS Prof. Ron Fearing and ME undergraduate co-author Eric Wang) has won the best student paper award at the 2019 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) (May 20-24, Montreal) for his paper “Drift-free Roll and Pitch Estimation for High-acceleration Hopping.” The…