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Ph.D. Student Receives Self Graduate Fellowship
Ph.D. Student Dalton Hahn is a recipient of the prestigious Madison and Lila Self Graduate Fellowship, which will provide him with four years of support to pursue his research interests in cybersecurity and privacy. ...
EECS Professor Elected Vice Chair of SIAM CS&E Activity Group
EECS Professor Suzanne Shontz has been elected Vice Chair of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) Activity Group on Computational Science and Engineering. Her term run from January 1, 2019 to December 31, 2020. SIAM is a professional society which focuses on research in applied mathematics and computational...
EECS Student Chapter of ACM Hosts Hackathon
The 2019 HackKU event, hosted by the KU chapter of the Association for Computing Machinery, was the most successful in the event's history and was the largest student hackathon in Kansas this year. More than 230 students came from all over North America to build interesting "Social Good"-themed projects, develop...
EECS Professor Receives NSF Funding to Improve Cybersecurity through Morphing IT Systems - Moving Target Defense
The NSF is supporting Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Assistant Professor Alexandru Bardas to develop a novel approach for protecting computer systems and networks. Current information technology (IT) systems used by regular users and companies are relatively static configurations; giving adversaries an advantage of time. A promising new approach, called...
Ripple Supports Blockchain Research at KU with $2M gift
The Information & Telecommunication Technology Center (ITTC) will receive a $2 million gift from Silicon Valley financial technology company Ripple to research technologies related to blockchain, cryptocurrency and digital payments. ...
Professor James Stiles Receives the Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching Professorship in EECS
Dr James Stiles, a longtime associate professor of electrical engineering & computer science at the University of Kansas, has been named the recipient of the 2018 Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching Professorship. The honor, which is available to faculty in the electrical engineering & computer science department, comes with a three-year...
EECS Faculty Co-edit First Comprehensive Coverage of Radar & Communication Spectrum Sharing
The recent book Radar & Communication Spectrum Sharing, co-edited by KU EECS Professors Shannon Blunt and Erik Perrins is the first comprehensive coverage of this rapidly growing problem space, the book is published by the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) in London. The radio frequency (RF) spectrum has arguably...
EECS Professor Joe Evans Elected to IEEE Fellow
Joe Evans, Deane E. Ackers Distinguished Professor of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science at the University of Kansas, has been named a Fellow in the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). Evans is recognized for contributions to cognitive networks and deployment of defense networks. ...
EECS PhD Graduate Wins the IEEE Aerospace & Electronic Systems Society 2018 Robert T Hill Best Dissertation Award
A recent University of Kansas graduate has won international recognition for his dissertation proposing innovative advances to radar technology.Patrick McCormick, an Olathe native who graduated in May 2018 with a doctorate in electrical engineering, won the Robert T. Hill Best Dissertation Award from the Aerospace & Electronic Systems Society, which...
EECS Doctoral Student Awarded Chancellor's Doctoral Fellowship
EECS doctoral student Kailani Jones was awarded the KU Chancellor's Doctoral Fellowship in fall 2018. This fellowship was created by Chancellor Bernadette Gray-Little in 2013. The fellowship is designed to "assist KU in obtaining its mission as a flagship university that provides advanced education to students in a range of...
EECS Students Host Cyberdefense Competition for High School Students
The EECS Jayhackers hosted a cyberdefense competition for two weeks in fall 2018 that included high school teams as well as EECS students. In the past, Jayhacker competitions have consisted of an eight hour setup and attack phase all on one day. This year, the group decided to change the...
Jayhackers Win First and Third Place at Cyberdefense Competition
EECS student teams, known as the Jayhackers, placed 1st and 3rd in a cyberdefense competition at Kansas State University in late October. A team of six students from KU’s computer science and computer engineering programs and eight students from the BSIT program traveled to Kansas State University in Manhattan,...
Professor Shontz Receives NSF Support to Develop a Novel Computational Framework for Cardiac Biomechanics
The National Science Foundation is supporting Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Professor Suzanne Shontz and her colleagues at Rochester Institute of Technology to develop a novel computational framework for cardiac biomechanics. A normal heart functions by contracting and pushing blood from the left ventricle into the rest of the body. ...
KU EECS Students and Faculty Attend Largest Conference for Women Technologists
Eight EECS students attended the 2018 Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing; the largest gathering of women technologists in the world. The students were accompanied by Professor Annette Tetmeyer, the advisor for the new organization KU Women in Computing, or KUWIC. Each student, ranging from sophomore to senior,...
KU Hosts Conference on Cybersecurity for the ‘Internet of Things’
KU hosted over 100 cybersecurity experts from across the Midwest at the KU Edwards Campus on Oct. 2 for a day-long conference on “Securing the Internet of Things.” The conference keynote speakers were Brigadier General Jennifer Buckner, U.S. Army Director of Cyber, Electronic Warfare, Information Operations and Aaron Weissenfluh, the...
Prof. Shannon Blunt Elected Chair of Radar Systems Panel of the Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers
EECS Undergraduates Recognized for Research
Rebekah Manweiler and Erick Oduniyi won 3rd place in the undergraduate poster competition at the 2018 ACM Richard Tapia Celebration of Diversity in Computing Conference in Orlando, Florida. Manweiler is a senior in computer science. Oduniyi a senior in computer engineering. Their poster, “Evaluation of Child-directed Speech Using Automatic Speech...
EECS Students Engineer the 2018 Hackathon- Hack-KU
The EECS ACM student branch coordinated the 2018 Hack-KU hackathon in April 2018. Computer Science students Mason Wilde and Taylor Walenczyk led the event. About 60 participants came from KU, K-State and Johnson County Community College. They developed code related to environmental issues over a 24-hour period in Engineering Complex. ...
KU Students and Faculty Participate in Major IEEE Communications Conference in Kansas City
KU students and faculty contributed to the IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC) in Kansas City, Mo., in May 2018. ICC is one of two IEEE Communications Society’s flagship conferences. More than 2,000 engineers attended the conference, coming from around the globe. KU EECS was well represented at ICC in...
Educators Learn about Best Practices for Teaching Cybersecurity Content
With a goal of improving teaching methods for K-12 educators to deliver cybersecurity content, K – 12 educators from Kansas and around the country gathered at Eaton Hall in July for the 3rd annual GenCyber summer camp. ...
EECS Selected for NSA “Lablet” to Improve Security for Internet of Things with ‘Big-Thinking’ Research
EECS is leading a multidisciplinary effort at KU that will tackle the fundamental science underpinning the security of the Internet of Things (IoT), through a prestigious designation from the National Security Agency. ...
EECS Students Use Analog Discovery 2 to Explore Circuit Concepts
In fall 2017, the EECS department purchased 40 Digilent Analog Discovery 2 units. EECS students have used these devices to explore circuit concepts. These units interface to a computer via USB and operate at 100 MSPS, providing a two-channel USB digital oscilloscope; two-channel arbitrary function generator; 16-channel digital logic analyzer;...
Professor Shannon Blunt appointed to IEEE Aerospace and Electronics Society Board of Governors
Professor Shannon Blunt was recently appointed to the Broad of Governors of the IEEE Aerospace and Electronics Society (AESS). AESS is a professional society dealing with total integrated electronic systems and the enabling technologies that contributes to large-scale system design, including radar systems. Professor Blunt has made major contributions to...
University Daily Kansan Highlights EECS Alum, Google Software Engineer Evan Nichols
Evan Nichols graduated with a computer science degree in 2017. While at KU, he was an undergraduate Self Fellow and participated in the KU Energy Club. He is now a software engineer for Google in New York City. Evan’s experience in EECS and his work at Google were recently highlighted...
Jayhackers Compete in Argonne National Labs Cyber Defense Competition
The EECS Information Security Club cyber defense team competed in the Argonne National Labs Cyber Defense Competition in April 2018. The team was comprised of three club members in computer science from the Lawrence campus and three members from information technology from the Edwards campus. The team had six weeks...
EECS Student Wins Best Teamwork at Princeton Hackathon
EECS senior Shaina Krumme and her team of Tina Haibodi (Queen’s University), Chris Maltais (Queen’s University), and Sai S (University of Waterloo), successfully participated in Princeton University’s biannual hackathon, HackPrinceton, in spring 2018. ...
EECS Senior Helps Lead Conference to Encourage Girls to Pursue STEM Careers
Computer Science senior Ashley Hutton helped organize a one-day conference designed to encourage middle school girls to attend college eager to major in science, technology, engineering and math. More than 70 mother-daughter duos attended the ‘Make it Happen’ conference in February 2018. The conference was the brainchild of Hutton and...
KU EECS Student Participates in NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Pathways Program
EECS student Luke Dercher worked last year on embedded development for scientific satellite missions in the Pathways program at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. Dercher is a computer science major and a non-traditional student. He is 31 years old and a five-year veteran of the US Navy. Getting to work...
JayHackers Place 3rd in Regional Cyber Defense Competition
KU’s Information Security Club, the JayHackers, participated virtually in the At-Large Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition (ALCCDC). Two KU EECS teams, one from the Lawrence (CS) Campus and one Edwards (BSIT) Campus, spent a weekend in late March protecting a virtual environment from professional hackers, known as the red team. During...
Underclassman Achievement Awards Presented by the KU Gamma Iota Chapter of Eta Kappa Nu
For the sixth year, Eta Kappa Nu presented the Underclassman Achievement Awards as a way of honoring the achievements of the department’s most promising sophomore level students. In EECS, the 200 level courses are considered ‘make or break courses.’ They are arguably the hardest undergraduate courses EECS offers, and understanding...