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,…
May 15, 2019
Recent graduate Chelsea Finn (Ph.D. ’18, advisors: Pieter Abbeel and Sergey Levine), has won the prestigious ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award. This award is presented annually to “the author(s) of the best doctoral dissertation(s) in computer science and engineering.” In her dissertation, “Learning to Learn with Gradients,” Finn introduced algorithms for meta-learning…
May 2, 2019
Graduate student Soham Phade and his advisor, Venkat Anantharam, have won the Best Paper Award at the 9th EAI International Conference on Game Theory for Networks (GameNets 2019). Their paper, titled “Optimal Resource Allocation over Networks via Lottery-Based Mechanisms,” was in the Games for Economy and Resource Allocation category. Phade’s…
April 15, 2019
Two papers by EECS faculty have been named 2018 IEEE Micro Top Picks by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Special Interest Group on Computer Architecture (SIGARCH). The papers were “A Hardware Accelerator for Tracing Garbage Collection,” co-authored by Profs. Krste Asanović and John Kubiatowicz (along with Martin Maas), and…
March 8, 2019
A research paper by EECS Prof. Sayeef Salahuddin’s group that shows direct measurement of Negative Capacitance was highlighted in an article in Nature Electronics titled “Negative capacitance found.” Negative Capacitance is a new state of ferroelectric material that was discovered by Salahuddin in 2008 and promises to significantly improve energy efficiency…