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KU EECS Alumnus Receives Honors
Luiz DaSilva received his BSEE, MSEE, and Ph.D, from KU in 1986, 1988 and 1998, respectively. DaSilva currently holds chair professorship of Telecommunications at Trinity College Dublin. He has been elected a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) for his “contributions to cognitive networks and resource...
EECS Professor Elected Program Director of SIAM CS&E Activity Group
EECS Professor Suzanne Shontz has been elected Secretary of the SIAM Activity Group on Computational Science and Engineering for January 1, 2017 – December 31, 2018. SIAM is the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics and is a professional society that focuses on research in applied mathematics and computational...
EECS Researchers Receive $2.5 Million To Tackle Test Flight Communication Challenges
LAWRENCE — Imagine this engineering headache: Using a wireless transmitter, you need to send 40 megabytes of data every single second (about the same amount of data as 10 YouTube videos streaming at the same time) over a distance of 100 miles. To complicate matters, one of the transmitters can’t...
KU EECS Students Win Kansas City Federal Reserve’s First Code-A-Thon Competition
Jayhawks were large and in charge at the first ever Code-A-Thon hosted by the Kansas City Federal Reserve. There were 15 students – the most of any of the four area participating universities – representing KU’s technology-focused degrees at the competition. In addition, one of KU’s teams took home first-place...
EECS Professor Selected for Intel® Corporation Hardware Accelerator Research Program (HARP)
Hardware accelerators and coprocessors are attracting a great deal of interest, but the effort required to program heterogeneous systems has limited their impact. Current programming tools for these technologies require a great deal of domain-specific knowledge to reformulate algorithms for FPGA, partition a design between FPGA and CPU, and orchestrate...
Professors Prescott and Minden become Life Members of IEEE
IEEE bestows IEEE Life membership on its members as proof of their strong sustained commitment to the profession. In January 2017, EECS Professors Gary Minden and Glenn Prescott will become Life Members of IEEE. They have each made long term contributions to the profession. ...
EECS Professor Luke Huan will lead the Computational Chemical Biology (CCB) Core for a Newly Funded National Institutes of Health Center of Biomedical Research Excellence (COBRE) focusing on Chemical Biology of Infectious Disease
Professor Luke Huan will lead the Computational Chemical Biology (CCB) Core. The CCB will provide comprehensive computational support, including chemical virtual screening, physical property prediction, target validation, hit identification, lead optimization, pharmacophore identification and pharmacokinetic and dynamic modeling. In addition, the core will provide information management infrastructure supporting the creation...
Paper by EECS Faculty Member Selected as an Editor’s Pick of the Year for IEEE Transactions on Computers
A paper by Assistant Professor Heechul Yun was selected as “Editor’s pick of the year 2016” of IEEE Transactions on Computers. The paper, titled "Memory Bandwidth Management for Efficient Performance Isolation in Multi-Core Platforms," describes MemGuard, an OS-level memory bandwidth management system that is designed to achieve performance isolation among...
News / Department Announcements Jayhackers Take Second at 2016 Central Area Networking and Security Workshop
KU’s Information Security Club, the Jayhackers, participated in the 2016 Central Area Networking and Security Workshop at Fontbonne University in Clayton, Missouri (CANsec). The event brings together researchers and practitioners in network and security-related fields in the central U.S. This year’s CANsec workshop featured a full day of research related...
Meet the Inaugural Class of Students in the Jayhawk SFS Program
The first three students were chosen to participate in Jayhawk Scholarship for Service CyberCorp program for its inaugural class of 2016-2017. Jayhawk SFS was created with a grant from the National Science Foundation and trains students who choose the professional specialty of cyber security, and prepares them to succeed in...
EECS interdisciplinary computing student Emily Smith was selected to receive the 2016 Astronaut Scholarship from the Astronaut Scholarship Foundation
Candidates for the Astronaut Scholarship, which provides up to $10,000 for a student’s junior or senior year, must be nominated by their university professors and must exhibit leadership, imagination and exceptional performance in their field of study. Only universities selected by ASF may nominate students for consideration. The accomplishments of...
Recent EECS Ph.D. graduate Dr. David Harvie and Professor Dr. Arvin Agah won third place in the Best Paper competition at the 2016 American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Midwest Section
Recent EECS Ph.D. graduate Dr. David Harvie won third place in the Best Paper competition with a paper co-authored with his dissertation advisor Dr. Arvin Agah at the 2016 American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Midwest Section Conference in Manhattan, Kansas. Dr. Harvie, is a lieutenant colonel in the...
EECS CS Ph.D. student David Menager has been selected as a 2016-2020 Madison & Lila Self Graduate Fellow
As an KU EECS senior David received the GEM Fellowship, which is awarded to select highly qualified underrepresented engineering and computer science graduate students who are strongly goal-oriented and bring business skills and vision needed to guide technology-based corporations of tomorrow, thus giving David the opportunity to intern at Adobe...
Recent EECS Ph.D. Graduate Receives Prestigious National Research Council Associateship.
Recent EECS Ph.D. graduate Dr. Cenk Sahin has received a prestigious National Research Council (NRC) Associateship. This fellowship award will support his work at the Sensors Directorate of the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) located on Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio. The NRC comprises the National Academies of Science,...
EECS Hosts First GenCyber Camp for High School Teachers
More than a dozen high school educators from across Kansas and as far away as Virginia took part in the inaugural cyber security camp Aug. 9-10 as part of a $4.7 million, five-year National Science Foundation CyberCorps Scholarship for Service Program grant awarded in January to EECS. ...
EECS Ph.D. Student Earns 3rd place in IEEE Radar Conference Paper Contest.
The 2016 IEEE Radar Conference, held in May in Philadelphia, is the premier conference devoted to advancing radar technology. There were 139 student papers following the standard paper review process. Ten were selected as finalists to present their work to a panel of judges. McCormick’s paper was titled “A Gradient...
Olathe Northwest High School Cyber Patriots Visit EECS
18 students from Olathe Northwest High School Cyber Patriot club visited EECS and the information security club (ISC) in April 2016. The cyber patriots met with KU’s cyber security club, the JayHackers. Team captain Chris Seasholtz and freshman Tyler Michels, both EECS students, talked about collegiate cyber defense competitions, club...
EECS Students and Faculty Receive Best Paper Award at Major IEEE Symposium
After being included on the shortlist of outstanding papers considered for the Best Paper Award, the paper by EECS graduate students Prathap Kumar Valsan and Farzad Farshchi, along with Professor Heechul Yun, was designated as the Best Paper at IEEE’s 2016 International Conference on Real-Time and Embedded Technology and Applications...
EECS Pioneers Innovations in the Teaching of High-Performance Reconfigurable Computing
The shift to cloud computing has greatly increased the importance of performance. However, advancements in performance have slowed while demand for datacenter capacity is growing exponentially. High-Performance Reconfigurable Computing (HPRC) is a promising emerging technology to address these new challenges. An HPRC system is a computer system that combines microprocessors...
EECS capstone design students form mobile app start-up company
Mobile Apps are the new frontier for software engineers. Demand for customized and business-model specific mobile applications is growing, but finding the right software engineer to work on an app can be challenging. A Lawrence based startup, Caliber Contracting, aims to address this need. Two EECS seniors, Grant Isom and...
EECS Launches Two New Engineering Certificates at KU’s Edwards Campus
The KU Edwards Campus will launch two new certificate programs in the Fall 2016 through KU’s Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS). The certificates will address job market and industry demands. ...
EECS Hosts Cyberdefense Competition with soldiers from Fort Riley First Infantry Division
A cybersecurity competition was hosted this April 30-May by KU EECS. The event included Jayhawk engineering students and soldiers from the First Infantry Division at Fort Riley against a group of professional hackers. The students and soldiers used EECS laboratory facilities in Eaton Hall. ...
EECS Professor Jerzy Grzymala-Busse named one of the inaugural Fellows of the International Rough Set Society (IRSS)
In 2015 Professor Jerzy Grzymala-Busse named one of seventeen inaugural Fellows of the IRSS. The International Rough Set Society (IRSS) is a non-profit organization dedicated to scholarship in rough sets introduced during the early 1980s by Zdzislaw Pawlak. Principal purpose of IRSS is to promote the study and exchange of...
EECS Assistant Professor Yang Yi Receives Support from the Air Force Research Lab to Develop New Neuromorphic Computing Capabilities
Dr. Yang Yi, Assistant Professor in EECS, receives support from the Air Force Research Lab (AFRL) to develop new neuromorphic computing capabilities. This three-year, $600,000 project is to develop novel and fundamental methodologies for data representation using hardware-based spike timing dependent encoding for neuromorphic processors, and build a...
EECS to Help KU Train Next Generation of Cybersecurity Experts Using NSF Grant
A new $4.7 million, five-year grant from the National Science Foundation will enable the University of Kansas School of Engineering to educate cyberdefense experts dedicated to public service, making America stronger in an era of rising cyberattacks. ...
EECS assistant professor Alessandro Salandrino Receives 2016 Air Force Office of Scientific Research Young Investigator (YIP) Program Award
Dr. Alessandro Salandrino, assistant professor in EECS, was among 56 scientists selected in the US who receive the 2016 AFOSR Young Investigator Program Award. This program is deisgned foster creative basic research in science and engineering, enhance early career development of outstanding young investigators, and increase opportunities...
EECS Student, Professor Paper Receive Best Paper Award
A paper by Patrick G. Clark and Professor Jerzy W. Grzymala-Busse was one of five papers selected as "Best Papers" at the International Conference on Advances in Databases, Knowledge, and Data Applications, DBKDA 2015. The paper titled “On the Number of Rules and Conditions in Mining Incomplete Data with Lost...
EECS Research Selected as IEEE Outstanding Paper
A paper submitted to the 2016 IEEE International Conference on Real-Time and Embedded Technology and Applications Symposium (RTAS) by EECS graduate students Prathap Kumar Valsan and Farzad Farshchi along with Professor Heechul Yun was designated as an Outstanding Paper. Outstanding Papers will be identified as such in the conference proceedings...
Blunt, Branicky Named IEEE Fellows
EECS Professor Shannon Blunt and School of Engineering Dean Michael Branicky were recently named Fellows by the prestigious professional association the Institute of Electrical Electronics and Engineers (IEEE). Less than 0.1 percent of voting members are selected each year for Fellow status. IEEE Fellow is the highest grade of...