Students & Faculty Enjoy GEECS/SPIE Beach Day at the NU Sailing Center on Tuesday, August 9, 2016.    
Kaicheng Zhang's Experimental Analysis Highlighted by The Computation Institute
Kaicheng Zhang



New research led by EECS PhD Student Kaicheng Zhang has been featured in an news article, titled, "A Machine Learning Cooldown for the Data Center" by The Computation Institute (CI). The joint project with Prof. Seda Ogrenci-Memik, Prof. Gokhan Memik, and  Kazutomo Yoshii (Argonne National Labs) tested whether smarter task placement, the assignment of computing jobs to specific servers in a cluster or data center could successfully reduce system temperature and the need for cooling. Using Chameleon as a test environment, the group explored how machine learning can help make decisions about task placement that conserve energy without sacrificing performance.   
       
Trajcevski Awarded NSF Grant from Cyber-Physical Systems
Prof. Goce Trajcevski



Goce Trajcevski (PI, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Northwestern University), in collaboration with Isabel Cruz (lead PI, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC)), Sybil Derrible, Dept. of Civil and Material Engineering (co-PI, UIC), Michael Siciliano (co-PI, Dept. of Public Administration, UIC), and   Roberto Tamassia (PI, Dept. of Computer Science, Brown University), have received an $800K grant from the highly competitive NSF Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) program for the three-year interdisciplinary project   "CPS: Synergy: Collaborative Research: Mapping and Querying Underground Infrastructure Systems." The investigators will develop models and methods to generate, analyze, and share data on underground infrastructure systems, such as water, gas, electricity, and sewer networks. Also, they will leverage partnerships with the cities of Chicago and Evanston, Illinois, to make the approach and findings relevant to their stakeholders. 
       
Kuzmanovic Earns NSF Grant to Counteract Online Trolling
Prof. Aleksandar Kuzmanovic



  Prof. Aleksandar Kuzmanovic (Principal Investigator) has received an NSF grant from  Networking Technology and Systems (NeTS) on working to counteract online trolling. Their project is titled,   "NeTS: Small: Collaborative Research: Leveraging Personalized Internet Services to Combat Online Trolling" and is allotted from 2016 through 2019 in an amount totaling more than $500,000.

This project is about combating online trolling, a problem widely present on the Internet in various contexts. 
       


 
 
Friday August 26
Events [ details] 

Thur Sept 1 @ 10AM in Tech Room L440: Doctoral Final Defense: Maciej Swiech, "Controlling Green Users for a Happier Cloud"

Thur Sept 1 @ 2PM in Tech Room L440: Doctoral Final Defense: Mehjabin Sultana Monjur, "Attribute Invariant Spatial & Spatio-Temporal Correlators"

Tues Sept 6 @ 10AM in Tech Room L324: Doctoral Prospectus: Francois Callewaert, "Objective-first Inverse Design of Nanophotonic Devices"

Tues Sept 6 @ 1PM in Tech Room L324: Doctoral Final Defense: Jiajun Luo, "Characterizing and Modeling Transient Photoresponse in Amorphous In-Ga-Zn-O Thin Films"

Fri Sept 9 @ 2PM in Tech Room L211: New EECS MS Student Orientation

Tues Sept 13 @ 3PM at Hughes Auditorium Robert H Lurie Medical Research Center: Seven Minutes of Science - Chicago

Wed Sept 14 @ 3PM in Tech Room M345: Seven Minutes of Science - Evanston

Mon Sept 19 @ 10AM in TBA: New EECS PhD Student Orientation

Thur Sept 22 @ 6PM at Lakefill Fire Pit: 4th Annual EECS Bonfire Welcome Party

Fri Sept 23 @ 11AM in Tech Room L324: Doctoral Prospectus: Chao Yan, "SCEC: Synergistic Cache Compression & Error Correction for Capacity Sensitive Last Level Caches"

Thur Sept 29 @ 11:45AM in Tech Room L324: EECS Students & Faculty Pizza Welcome Party

Fri Sept 30 @ 10AM in Tech Room L324: Doctoral Final Defense: Vala Fathipour, "A Highly Sensitive Short-Wavelength Infrared Detector with High Internal Gain based on Charge Injection"
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