CSL Professor Elyse Rosenbaum was appointed as a CAS Associate and CSL Assistant Professor Lav Varshney was named as a CAS Fellow. Read more.

CSL Professor Farzad Kamalabadi will lead one of nine university teams collaborating with NASA engineers and scientists on the development of new technologies for small spacecraft. Read more.

Noyan Cem Sevüktekin, a PhD student in electrical and computer engineering, has been awarded best student paper at the 2017 Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems and Computers. Read more.

ECE and CSL Professors Nam Sung Kim and Wen-Mei W Hwu, plus Computer Science Professor Sarita V Adve, will be developing algorithm-driven architectures as part of their research for the Applications Driving Architectures (ADA) center, one of six JUMP research centers. Read more.

CSL Professor Jonathan J Makela has been named as the next Associate Dean for Undergraduate Programs for the College of Engineering at Illinois. Read more.

ECE PhD candidate Xu Chen, along with his co-advisors, CSL Professor Jose E Schutt-Aine and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs and Provost Andreas C Cangellaris, received the Best Symposium Paper award at the 2017 IEEE Electrical Design of Advanced Packaging and Systems Symposium. Read more.

Congratulations to MechSE and ABE graduate student Josh Whitman, January Video of the Month winner! His video features a machine learning model of fluid flowing past a cylinder.

We are accepting nominations for our 2018 CSL PhD Thesis Award. Nominations by a CSL faculty member are due by Thursday, February 15. Submit here.

The 13th CSL Student Conference is Feb. 21-23! Register now for the conference and job fair. Highlights include:

• The plenary talk from Eric Horvitz, director of Microsoft Research Labs.
• Four keynote talks by Allen Tannenbaum (SUNY Stony Brook), Vivienne Sze (MIT), Avrim Blum (TTIC), and Esteban Real (Google Brain).
• The job fair with reps from top companies.
• Free registration and meals included. 

Naehyuck Chang, "Design Automation of Cyberphysical Systems: System-Level Approaches for Energy-Aware Electric Vehicle Design and Management"
Mon, Feb 12, 2:00 pm
Location: 301 CSL

Pramod Viswanath, Input Output HK limited, $175,000.