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The C3SR faculty, Prof. Bo Li, has been named to MIT Technology Review’s list of 35 Innovators Under 35. for her pioneering research in adversarial attacks to detect flaws in AI systems and make them more robust.

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The C3SR faculty members, Professors Deming Chen and Wen-mei Hwu havee recently been awarded by Xilinx to build a Xilinx Center of Excellence for Adaptive Computing (XACC), which is part of a university research program recently announced by Xilinx. This award comes with a significant donation from Xilinx with a large number of high-end adaptive compute acceleration platforms to build a heterogenous computing cluster and gift grants to support several multi-year research projects in the center.

The pandemic of Covid-19 has disrupted almost everything, including students’ summer internship. Please take a look at this CSL news article on how C3SR is coming up with creative ways to help those students whose internships have been affected by this pandemic.

A research work from the C3SR team titled “XSP: Across-Stack Profiling and Analysis of Machine Learning Models on GPU won the Best Paper Award at the 34th IEEE International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS).

The winning team members were Cheng Li, Abdul Dakkak, Jinjun Xiong, Wei Wei, Lingjie Xu, and Wen-mei Hwu.

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The C3SR faculty members, Professors Deming Chen, Wen-mei Hwu and Jinjun Xiong, has recently been awarded by the Google TensorFlow team for a competitive Google Faculty Awards to Support Machine Learning Courses, Diversity, and Inclusion. This faculty award recognizes the team for their creation of the ECE498-ICC course, titled “Internet-of-Things and Cognitive Computing,” which were offerred in the Spring semesters of 2019 and 2020, respectively. Since its inception in 2019, the course has attracted not only computer engineering students, but also students from electrical engineering, computer science, agricultural & biological engineering, civil engineering, and biology.

Our beloved C3SR faculty, Professor Thomas Shi-Tao Huang, passed away peacefully at his daughter’s home in Indiana, during the evening of April 25, 2020. Three months ago, Tom’s wife, Margaret, left the world in peace in the company of her family; Tom was extremely sad. Two months later, Tom moved from UIUC, where he had been teaching and living for forty years, to his daughter’s home in Indiana. In the last few weeks, Tom enjoyed the company and care of his family, and he also cared about the development of his students in the distance.

Prof. Andrew Miller from C3SR won the recent NSF CAREER award for his work, titled “Composable Programming Abstractions for Secure Distributed Computing and Blockchain Applications.”

Congratulations, Andrew!

Our C3SR faculty, Prof. Lav Varshney, is in a documentary series narrated and produced by Robert Downey Jr, called “Age of AI”. In one of the episodes, Lav mentioned some of his C3SR work on using AI as part of optimizing the food supply chain. In some other episodes, Lav also talked about his other related work, such as trustworthy AI. Now all our C3SR members can say that we know a media celebrity!

A research work from the C3SR team titled “Leveraging Dynamic Partial Reconfiguration with Scalable ILP Based Task Scheduling,” won the A. K. Chowdhury Best Paper Award at the 33rd International Conference on VLSI Design (VLSID).

The winning team members were Ashutosh Dhar, Mang Yu, Wei Zuo, Xiaohao Wang, Nam Sung Kim and Deming Chen.

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Prof. Andrew Miller from C3SR was part of the team led by IBM to win the recent $14.7M grant for their project, titled PASCAL, funded by the Homomorphic Encryption Computing Techniques with Overhead Reduction (HECTOR) program of the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA).

As part of this effort, Andrew will lead the design of tools that enable reasoning about the security of the Blaze system.

Congratulations, Andrew!