Gang Tan, associate professor of computer science and engineering at Penn State, and colleagues have been awarded two research grants to help them design a software tool chain that will allow programmers to take advantage of modern memory features, including encrypted memory, transactional memory and scratchpad memory.
A group of students in the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science won second place for the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Computer Science (IEEE CS) Global Student Challenge for High-Impact Technology Solutions. They were awarded this honor for their work on the National Science Foundation Expeditions-in-Computing Project “Visual Cortex on Silicon.”
Computer science is a fundamental gateway to influence our software-driven society, yet according to the National Center for Education Statistics, only 18 percent of undergraduate computer science degrees in the U.S. are awarded to women. The Penn State Department of Computer Science and Engineering, in the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, wants to see this percentage increase, and is offering “Girls Solving Societal Problems Through Computer Science,” for students entering seventh to 10th grades this fall.
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) has named Mahmut Kandemir, professor of computer science and engineering at Penn State, a fellow. IEEE Fellow is the highest grade of membership and is recognized by the technical community as a prestigious honor and an important career achievement. Of the 400,000 members in 160 countries, IEEE elevates less than 1 percent of its voting membership to fellow status.
An international Significant Papers Committee (SPC) chose a paper co-authored by three professors in the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science along with their graduate students as one of the most significant for influencing theory and practice in the area of Field-Programmable Logic and Applications (FPL) over the last 25 years.
Adam Smith, associate professor of computer science and engineering, has received a grant from Google to investigate privacy issues in a state-of-the-art training technique called deep learning.
An interdisciplinary team lead by Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, professor of computer science and engineering, is developing computerized vision systems that can match -- and even surpass -- the capabilities of human vision.
Two engineering faculty members have each been named a fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.
A team of Penn State and Carnegie Mellon University researchers has received a $4 million Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency grant to develop a program to expose backdoors and hidden malicious functionality on information technology devices.
The College of Engineering's alumni magazine, Engineering Penn State, is now available as a free iPad app through Apple's iTunes store.
Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, professor of computer science and engineering and electrical engineering, has been named editor-in-chief of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers' Transactions on Computer Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems.
A team of Penn State engineers has received a $1 million grant from the National Science Foundation to research reducing power consumption at data centers.
Two Penn State engineering faculty members were recently named fellows of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME). The faculty members are Mike Erdman, the Walter L. Robb Director of Engineering Leadership Development, and Soundar Kumara, the Allen E. Pearce/Allen M. Pearce Professor of Industrial Engineering.
An international research team including Penn State computer engineers has received a $50,000 Google Faculty Research Award focusing on smartphone application security.
Penn State and Stanford University will collaborate on a three-year, $800,000 National Science Foundation (NSF) grant that seeks to bridge the gap between how humans and computers see. Yanxi Liu, associate professor of computer science and engineering and electrical engineering, and Rick Gilmore, associate professor of psychology, serve as Penn State's co-principal investigators on the effort. The Penn State-Stanford project looks to understand how the human brain perceives and processes patterns and how that natural ability could be duplicated in computers.The work could pave the way for detection of medical or security anomalies, robotics, and generic pattern indexing and retrieval.
