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…
May 29, 2019
A paper co-authored by freshly minted alumnus Tianshi Wang (Ph.D. ’19, winner of the 2019 EECS David Sakrison Memorial Prize for “truly outstanding research”) and Prof. Jaijeet Roychowdhury has won Best Paper Award at the International Conference on Unconventional Computation and Natural Computation (UCNC) 2019. The paper, titled “OIM: Oscillator-based…
May 21, 2019
Salto the robot, first unveiled in 2016 by the Biomimetic Millisystems Lab, is now equipped with a slew of new skills, giving it the ability to bounce in place like a pogo stick and jump through obstacle courses like an agility dog. Salto can even take short jaunts around campus,…