Dec 13
CMU and Air Force Research Laboratory establish 5-year, $7.5M Center of Excellence in data-driven materials research.
Dec 11
Brandon Lucia has developed new hardware and software that enables reliable sensing and processing onboard nanosatellites smaller than the size of a playing card.
Dec 03
A team of CyLab researchers helped put on an opera called Looking at You, which ran in New York City in September and explored issues of digital privacy in today’s screen-filled world.
Nov 22
In a new study, CyLab researchers found that people in the workplace are sharing accounts like Facebook, Google, and company email accounts for a variety of reasons. The way they share these accounts could lead to mishaps.
Nov 21
John Kitchin has developed a comprehensive scientific reporting software, known as SCIMAX, which aims to make studies more reliable and more replicable.
Nov 15
CMU engineers are applying computer vision and machine learning to improve the study of inclusions, microscopic particle within steel that can have a big impact on metal properties.
Just weeks after a team of Carnegie Mellon researchers showed that Google’s new congestion control algorithm (CCA) was giving an unfair advantage to its own traffic over services using legacy algorithms, the same team has proposed new guidelines on how future algorithms should be developed.
Nov 13
AI agents imitate engineers to construct effective new designs using visual cues like humans do.
Nov 11
The Parallel Data Lab has received a supercomputer from Los Alamos National Lab that will be reconstructed into a computing cluster for education and research.
Women from Carnegie Mellon University outnumbered those from every other institution at Rising Stars 2019, an annual workshop for early-career women in computer science and electrical and computer engineering. Two women from CyLab also won two of the four prizes in the workshop’s Research Pitch Competition.
Nov 06
Caroline Gorham and David Laughlin have published a paper about a new framework to understand crystallization, the process that transforms a liquid or gas to a solid.
Nov 04
A capstone project by a group of biomedical engineering undergraduates has won awards for its innovative design to help tracheostomy patients receive better care.
Oct 31
With the opening of ANSYS Hall, Carnegie Mellon and ANSYS celebrate a partnership and a promise for the next generation of engineers.
Oct 28
ANSYS and Carnegie Mellon University announce the opening of ANSYS Hall, a world-class maker facility where students and collaborators innovate with cutting-edge simulation and fabrication tools.
Oct 23
Bob Iannucci has worked with the USGS building a low-power, wide-area wireless network (LP-WAN) platform that can be used to sense a host of environmental factors.
Oct 21
New research out of Carnegie Mellon shows that a new congestion control algorithm called BBR, developed by Google, can be unfair competing with other services in overloaded networks. Those findings are being presented this week at the Internet Measurement Conference in Amsterdam.
Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University’s College of Engineering share what they have learned about artificial intelligence while working in the field.
Oct 18
In a study presented at the Knowledge Discovery and Data (KDD) Mining Conference, Xiao Hui Tai teamed up with two other researchers to develop an algorithm that will help law enforcement agencies crack down on illicit products being sold on online anonymous marketplaces.
Oct 07
A team led by Tony Rollett has received a $2.4 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency – Energy (ARPA-E), supporting high temperature materials and heat exchanger projects.
Oct 04
A team of CyLab researchers created a tool that nudges developers to think a bit harder about user privacy when coding data requests.
Sep 30
William H. Sanders of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has been appointed as the next dean of the College of Engineering, effective January 1, 2020.
Sep 26
CyLab’s researchers have developed a tool to identify security risks of networked 3D printers.
Tomorrow marks the sixth launch of picoCTF, a free, online cybersecurity competition aimed at middle and high school students created by security experts in Carnegie Mellon University’s CyLab.
Sep 23
Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have made an important discovery that may revolutionize the treatment of drug-resistant epilepsy.
Sep 19
The 2nd annual Carnegie Mellon Forum on Biomedical Engineering will be held at Carnegie Mellon University on September 19 – 20, 2019.
Sep 16
Gianluca Piazza is developing a piezoelectric system that powers devices with ultrasound.
Sep 12
A team of CMU researchers are developing soft robots that sense and respond to chemicals.
Sep 10
Damages from air pollution have fallen dramatically in the U.S. in recent years, shows new research. But how different sectors of the economy have contributed to that decline is highly uneven.
The National Science Foundation has awarded a $1.2 million grant to researchers at Carnegie Mellon University, UC-Berkeley, and UC-Santa Barbara to develop automated bug-detection and repair techniques that work at large scales.
Sep 06
Yuejie Chi has received a 2019 PECASE Award for her research on data science.
Sep 04
Carnegie Mellon University researchers and robots will soon occupy a state-of-the-art facility at the newly constructed Mill 19 building on the 178-acre site known as Hazelwood Green.
Aug 30
Sean Qian aims to leverage the platform of ride-hailing companies to benefit everyone in the transportation system.
Aug 29
According to a new study authored by researchers in CyLab, network analysts have a new ally in detecting malware distribution networks: artificial intelligence.
Aug 27
Rahul Panat has received a R01 grant from the NIH to use a low-cost, rapid additive manufacturing method to create a new class of high-density neural probes to record neurological data.
Aug 23
A new organ-on-an-electronic-chip platform, published in Science Advances, uses self-rolling biosensor arrays to coil up and measure the electrophysiology of heart cells in 3D.
CyLab's Sekar Kulandaivel and colleagues have developed a network-mapping tool to help keep vehicles protected from cyberattacks. The tool meticulously maps a car's network in under 30 minutes on less than $50 worth of hardware.
Aug 22
Sophie Calle is a French artist who often blurs the lines between life and her art. What if Calle knew how to code, and take advantage of our personal data to create an even more personalized, privacy-intrusive form of art? That’s something CyLab’s Maggie Oates has been exploring.
Aug 21
Jon Cagan, interim dean of Carnegie Mellon’s College of Engineering and professor of mechanical engineering, has been awarded the Design Automation Award from the the American Society for Mechanical Engineers (ASME).
Aug 19
Driver-assisted safety systems reduce the likelihood of crashes. How much would society benefit if they were installed on all cars? More than $20 billion, according to research from CMU.
A team of researchers from Carnegie Mellon University and Fordham University recently created the Mobile App Privacy System (MAPS), a tool that uses natural language processing, machine learning, and code analysis to identify potential privacy compliance issues by inspecting apps’ privacy policies and code.
Aug 16
A recent study by a team of CyLab researchers, including Pearman, provides some insight into how ineffectively people may be using password managers, potentially nullifying the benefits the managers are meant to provide.
Aug 15
Katie Whitehead and her team have now shown that the development of a safe insulin pill is possible.
A recent study by researchers from Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Michigan found that while many websites share users' browsing data with advertisers, it is difficult for users to figure out how to prevent this practice.
Aug 12
Carnegie Mellon University’s competitive hacking team, the Plaid Parliament of Pwning (PPP), just won its fifth hacking world championship in seven years at this year’s DefCon security conference.
Aug 07
Mastering a new skill—whether a sport, an instrument, or a craft—takes time and training. While it is understood that a healthy brain is capable of learning these new skills, how the brain changes in order to develop new behaviors is a relative mystery.
Aug 05
CMU researchers use vibrational sensors to detect sick pigs and improve farm efficiency.
Aug 01
CMU researchers have published in Science a new 3D bioprinting method that brings the field of tissue engineering one step closer to being able to 3D print a full-sized, adult human heart.
Jul 29
To explore the Moon or Mars, astronauts need smart habitats that will remain operational when they are vacant. However, space is harsh, so we need autonomous systems that will not fail. Carnegie Mellon researchers are engineering a smarter habitat for deep space exploration
Jul 26
Carmel Majidi’s team has developed a soft magnetic skin with a single sensing element that detects force and contact.
Jul 24
More than 30,000 U.S. lives could be saved by reducing air pollution levels below the current air quality standard, two studies from the Center for Air Quality, Climate, and Energy Solutions find.
Jul 22
Mike McHenry is applying soft magnetic materials to motors, making them smaller, lighter, and more efficient. These small motors stand to have a have big impact on robotics.
Carnegie Mellon University today announced the creation of a new research center dedicated to the study of online disinformation and its effects on democracy, funded by a $5 million investment from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. The new center will bring together researchers from within the institution and across the country.
Jul 19
A recent study analyzing federal and state policies on electric cars reveals the peculiar relationship between the policies that leads to counterintuitive effects.
Jul 18
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded a $1.2 million grant to a team of researchers from Carnegie Mellon University, Fordham University, and Penn State University to develop a tool—a “privacy assistant”—that will allow users to simply ask questions about the privacy issues that matter to them.
Jul 17
One day, scopes may no longer need to be inserted into the body, such as down the throat or under the skin, to reach the stomach, brain, or any other organs for examination.
Jul 15
Christopher Bettinger leads an interdisciplinary project that could make brain aneurysm treatments more successful and more permanent.
Jul 12
Carnegie Mellon University researchers created a machine learning algorithm that optimizes parameters of soft materials 3D printing.
Jul 11
Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University wondered: are bots also influencing elections in the Asia-Pacific? Of course they are, says a new study being presented this week at the 2019 SBP-BRiMS conference in Washington, D.C.
Jul 10
Mechanical Engineering alumnus Maynard Holliday has worked to fulfill his childhood engineering dreams and to promote diversity throughout a career that has bridged policy, research, and private industry.
A new study by Carnegie Mellon University researchers illustrates how fake news was spread on Twitter by bots during NATO’s 2018 Trident Juncture Exercise. The study is being presented this week at the 2019 SBP-BRiMS conference in Washington, D.C.
Jul 08
In a recent paper published in Additive Manufacturing, a team of CMU researchers investigated how AM could contribute to distributed manufacturing.
A team of researchers from Carnegie Mellon, the University of Minnesota, and the University of Paris-Sud have been pondering how the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation affected the use of cookies, as well as its impact on websites that rely on cookies for revenue-generating ads.
Jun 28
CMU has been selected by NASA to lead a research team dedicated to examining new ways to build and power aircraft of the future, through NASA’s University Leadership Initiative.
Jun 24
In the College of Engineering’s Tech Spark, Robert Smith, senior windows systems engineer, has developed a system that allows students, faculty, and staff to access machines and tools they have been trained on, and directs them to training courses they may need to use the systems in the future.
Jun 21
Last week, the masterminds behind picoCTF shared some lessons learned in a paper at the Colloquium for Information System Security Education conference in Las Vegas.
Jun 20
CMU BME has made a breakthrough in the field of robotic device control. Using a noninvasive brain-computer interface, they have developed the first-ever successful mind-controlled robotic arm.
Jun 18
The US Department of Energy has awarded two Carnegie Mellon researchers a $400,000 grant to strengthen grid security using blockchain technology.
Jun 14
In 2020, the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center will celebrate the arrival of the Perlmutter supercomputer—and Zack Ulissi will be one of the first to use it.
Jun 12
CMU researchers have discovered a way to deliver nanoparticles into plant leaves for efficient delivery to the root, paving the way toward sustainable food production.
Jun 04
When should we apply sensors to monitor the state of our infrastructure in a way that could help predict and prevent failure?
May 30
In a study presented at the ACM CHI conference in Glasgow earlier this month, researchers from Carnegie Mellon University’s CyLab found that security and privacy risks may not be on the list of considerations when consumers purchase new IoT devices.
There are many ways to make a lung. With so many possible approaches, where do you even start? CMU Ph.D. student Erica Comber has the answer.
May 28
Venkat Viswanathan received a 2019 Young Investigator Award from the Office of Naval Research to research how to improve battery safety in low temperatures.
May 23
Swarun Kumar’s lab has created PushID, a tracking system that may just be the answer to never losing anything again.
May 20
A team of researchers from Carnegie Mellon is starting a project to design and implement a high-resolution, noninvasive neural interface that can be used as a wearable device.
May 17
A recent study led by researchers in Carnegie Mellon University’s CyLab found that when a personal device has fallen victim to some sort of cyberattack, users often misdiagnose what exactly is going on–but they’re not the ones to blame.
May 15
U.S. wildfires pose a serious threat to human health—and not just in the area of the burn.
May 13
A generous gift by Mark and Roseanne Wholey will propel Carnegie Mellon University forward in fundamental discoveries and technological solutions that will have a great impact on society.
May 10
Daehyeok Kim developed FreeFlow, an open-sourced software-based solution that unites two techniques that minimize disruption of cloud servers' central processing units (CPUs).
May 09
A new study from Jeanne VanBriesen takes a national look at whether coal-fired power plants are unintentionally affecting drinking water treatment plants.
May 06
Sean Qian, Director of the Mobility Data Analytics Center, partnered with Gridwise, a local startup company, to optimize ridesharing platforms.
May 02
New research suggests fear of the zero-carbon energy source diminishes its potential contribution to decarbonization.
Apr 28
On April 29, 2019, the MFI will host the inaugural Manufacturing Futures Forum, entitled “Leading the Digital Transformation.”
Apr 26
CyLab’s Virgil Gligor was formally inducted into the Cybersecurity Hall of Fame this week at the Arundel Preserve Hotel in Hanover, Maryland.
Apr 25
Brandon Lucia, Nathan Beckmann, and their student present first-ever demonstration of machine learning inference using deep neural networks on a batteryless, intermittent computing device at ASPLOS 2019.
Apr 18
Lorrie Cranor has received the Bosch Distinguished Professorship in Security and Privacy Technologies, enabling her to lead a new era of security and privacy research at the university.
Apr 15
Alan Russell has earned the Pittsburgh Business Times’ 2018 Innovator Award as co-founder of startup BioHybrid Solutions.
Apr 11
Using super-sensitive microscopic imaging, Kris Dahl partnered with Pitt/UPMC to make a fundamental biological discovery that could be key to untangling the mechanisms underlying several genetic diseases.
Apr 04
Earlier this week, a team consisting of researchers from CyLab released the world’s first verifiably secure industrial-strength cryptographic library—a set of code that can be used to protect data and is guaranteed to protect against the most popular classes of cyberattacks.
Mar 27
Researchers in the Department of Chemical Engineering are collaborating with Genentech and LumaCyte to develop an advanced biomanufacturing technology for adventitious agent testing.
Mar 26
CMU’s Lorrie Cranor and Dena Haritos Tsamitis will speak at this week’s Women in Cybersecurity Conference in Pittsburgh.
Mar 22
From March 25 – 28, 2019, the Wilton E. Scott Institute for Energy Innovation at Carnegie Mellon University will hold CMU Energy Week 2019.
Mar 20
Aaron Johnson has won the Army Research Office’s Young Investigator Award for his research on designing robots to cross rough terrain.
Mar 18
The amount of CO2 that China releases annually into the atmosphere has a significant impact on global climate change.
Mar 15
Government funding has now become a viable option for young companies, even if the technologies they’re developing aren’t a sure thing.
Mar 13
Professor Michael McHenry is part of a team of researchers receiving the Carnegie Science Award for Advanced Manufacturing and Materials.
Mar 08
The Pittsburgh Penguins, Covestro, and Carnegie Mellon University’s College of Engineering will host their second annual Make-a-thon, kicking off year two of the “Rethink the Rink” initiative.
Jeyanandh Paramesh presented a new chip at ISSCC 2019 designed to enable cutting-edge beyond 5G communications.
Mar 04
Reeja Jayan investigates how electromagnetic fields speed up ceramic fabrication, finding both challenges and great potential.
Feb 28
Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have engineered a new technology to enable natural accommodation cues in 3D displays.
Feb 26
An entrepreneurial idea to expand training for 21st-century careers has sparked a $10 million gift to support mechanical engineering at Carnegie Mellon.
Feb 25
In the quest for alternatives to gas-powered vehicles, experts believe one new method shows great promise: Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cells.
Feb 22
Tony Rollett published in Science a pivotal discovery that could dramatically improve the 3D printing process.
Feb 20
Three young faculty members have been granted the 2019 Dean’s Early Career Fellowship to enable their continued contributions to their respective fields.
Feb 18
In honor of Black History Month, the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering recently co-hosted the visit of distinguished historian and acclaimed author Professor Daina Ramey Berry to Carnegie Mellon University.
Feb 15
Artificially intelligent medical imaging technology is a promising tool to help doctors diagnose disease. CMU researchers have found a way to use less data to train these tools.
Feb 13
Byron Yu and João Semedo found that communication between brain areas occurs through an information bottleneck, which they’ve termed a “communication subspace.”
Feb 11
Widespread use of electric vehicles will go a long way toward eliminating the greenhouse gas emissions of the transportation sector—but these emissions don’t just come from the tailpipe.
Feb 07
Larry Pileggi has been named head of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University effective March 1.
Feb 05
Costa Samaras and Sean Qian will head a DOE-funded analysis of next-generation delivery networks composed of aerial drones, robots, AVs, EVs, and “intelligent delivery zones.”
Feb 01
Kris Dahl is using a new technique called SINK (sensors from intranuclear kinetics) to observe the properties of an entire monolayer of cells and determine how broadly cells communicate.
Jan 29
From Mechanical Engineering to the Millennium Falcon, alumna Sophia Acevedo reflects on her path to Walt Disney Imagineering.
Jan 24
While the rest of the world is lauding 5G as the next big thing, Doug Sicker and his team are already looking beyond it.
Jan 17
Soft robots can mimic a critter’s scurry, thanks to shape memory alloy actuators.
Jan 14
Lorrie Faith Cranor has been named the next director of CyLab, Carnegie Mellon University’s security and privacy institute, effective January 15.
Jan 04
Jon Cagan and Kosa Goucher-Lambert helped uncover how outside stimuli inspire innovation in design.
Jan 02
Professor of Mechanical Engineering Kenji Shimada and his team of researchers are using drone technology to help detect and restore damaged water canals in Japan that are critical for the agricultural economy.
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