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C3SR students, Mr. Mert Hidayetoglu, receives the P. D. Coleman Outstanding Research Award.

Congratulations, Mert!

C3SR students, Mr. Carl Pearson, receives the E. A. Reid Fellowship for the school year of 2018 - 2019.

Congratulations, Carl!

C3SR students, Mr. Vikram Sharma,
receives the Joan and Lalit Bahl Fellowship for the school year of 2018 - 2019.

Congratulations, Vikram!

C3SR students, Mr. Sitao Huang, receives the Sundaram Seshu International Student Fellowship for the school year of 2018 - 2019.

Congratulations, Sitao!

On Jan 29th, 2019, C3SR members held one of UIUC Engineering Research Fair booths in the university union for the undergraduate students. This event included poster sessions where we presented our works such as DNNBuilder and Dr. Babel fish.

You can find more details of the C3SR undergraduate research opportunities via
the ISUR C3SR-URAI program.

The C3SR Center is partnering with Illinois Scholars Undergraduate Research (ISUR) Program to launch a new innovative program, titled Undergraduate Research in Artificial Intelligence (URAI). The new initiative, ISUR C3SR-URAI, will provide two-semester research experiences to domestic and international students. C3SR-URAI scholars will be assigned to research projects focusing on fundamental cognitive computing and AI science, applied AI engineering and technologies, and practical AI solutions and systems. They will receive the same benefits as any ISUR scholar, such as $1000 research scholarship for the academic year ($500/semester), participation in research seminar series luncheons, and presentation of research projects in the year-end ISUR Poster Expo.

On Nov 16, 2018, IBM VP, Ms. Radha Ratnaparkhi, and Director, Dr. Lisa Amini, as representatives of the IBM AIHN program came to the C3SR center and conducted the year-end C3SR Executive Review.

You can find more details about the IBM AI Horizons Network here.

One of the joint research work between the C3SR team and the IBM China Research Lab, titled “DNNBuilder: an Automated Tool for Building High-Performance DNN Hardware Accelerators for FPGAs,” won IEEE/ACM William J. McCalla Best Paper Award at the 2018 International Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD).

The winning team members were Xiaofan Zhang, Junsong Wang, Chao Zhu, Yonghua Lin, Jinjun Xiong, Wen-mei Hwu and Deming Chen.

Congratulations!

On Nov 1, 2018, two of IBM’s Fellows, Dr. Steve Fields and Dr. Hillery Hunter visited C3SR and reviewed the Center’s AI Systems work, in particular, the Erudite system where we make storage-class memory via FLASH possible and Acceleration of AI Workloads via FPGA in the Cloud and at the Edges.

On Dec 31, 2018, one of IBM’s Executive Sponsors for C3SR,
Dr. Hillery Hunter, IBM Fellow, VP and CTO of Cloud Infrastructure, IBM Hybrid Cloud, gave an invited presentation at the ECE ILLINOIS Explorations.

Her talk was titled “Making AI Work for Real,” in which she also mentioned how the C3SR center’s AI research work can make a difference and encouraged interested students to apply C3SR’s AI research.