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Sep 16

Power-full sound waves

ECE’s Gianluca Piazza is developing a piezoelectric system that powers devices with ultrasound

Sep 12

Giving robots a “nose”

A team of MechE researchers are developing soft robots that sense and respond to chemicals.

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Sep 10

How much does air pollution cost the U.S.?

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.

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Sep 10

CyLab’s Corina Pasareanu and colleagues receive $1.2 million grant to develop automated bug-finding techniques

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

Exploring the essence of big data

ECE’s Yuejie Chi has received a 2019 PECASE Award for her research on data science.

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Sep 04

Mill 19 opening signals new era of manufacturing

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.

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Aug 30

Optimizing ride-hailing systems

CEE’s Sean Qian aims to leverage the platform of ride-hailing companies to benefit everyone in the transportation system.

Aug 29

CyLab team uses AI to find and disrupt malware distribution networks

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

3D printing nanoparticle neural probes

MechE’s 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.

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Aug 23

Self-rolling sensors take heart cell readings in 3D

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.

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Aug 23

CyLab researchers create tool to help prevent cyberattacks on vehicles

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

When privacy and the arts collide

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.

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Aug 21

Cagan receives ASME Design Automation Award

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

Finding big savings in driver-assisted safety tech

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.

Aug 19

Apps are rife with privacy compliance issues, and here’s some evidence

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

Why people (don’t) use password managers effectively

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

Are strawberries the key to developing an insulin pill?

ChemE’s Katie Whitehead and her team have now shown that the development of a safe insulin pill is possible.

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Aug 15

Opting out of data use is hard, but it doesn’t have to be

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

CMU crowned hacking champs for fifth time in seven years

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

Brain changes when mastering new skills

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

Detecting good vibrations, with pigs

CEE and ECE researchers use vibrational sensors to detect sick pigs and improve farm efficiency.

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Aug 01

3D printing the human heart

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

Home away from home

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

An elegant solution to the soft sensing challenge

Carmel Majidi’s team has developed a soft magnetic skin with a single sensing element that detects force and contact.

Jul 24

Saving lives with cleaner air

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

Revolutionizing robotics with motors

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.

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Jul 22

$5M Knight Foundation Investment creates center to fight online disinformation

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

Untangling electric car policies

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

NSF awards $1.2M to create a digital assistant to answer people’s privacy questions

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

Breakthrough in optical endoscopy using ultrasound

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.

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Jul 15

Revolutionizing brain aneurysm treatments

Christopher Bettinger leads an interdisciplinary project that could make brain aneurysm treatments more successful and more permanent.

Jul 12

3D printing soft materials with AI

Carnegie Mellon University researchers created a machine learning algorithm that optimizes parameters of soft materials 3D printing.

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Jul 11

Social media bots interfere in Asia-Pacific elections, too

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

Shooting for the stars

MechE 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.

Jul 10

Malicious social media bots tried, but failed, to diminish NATO during its 2018 exercise

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

Could 3D printing lead to distributed manufacturing?

In a recent paper published in Additive Manufacturing, a team of EPP researchers investigated how AM could contribute to distributed manufacturing.

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Jul 08

Ads, cookies, and the European privacy regulation

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

NASA invests in 3D printing for aviation

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

Transforming ideas into reality in Tech Spark

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

How to teach cybersecurity without scaring students away

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

First-ever noninvasive mind-controlled robotic arm

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.

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Jun 18

Securing the energy grid with blockchains

The US Department of Energy has awarded two Carnegie Mellon researchers a $400,000 grant to strengthen grid security using blockchain technology.

Jun 14

CMU among first to pilot brand new supercomputer

In 2020, the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center will celebrate the arrival of the Perlmutter supercomputer—and ChemE’s Zack Ulissi will be one of the first to use it.

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Jun 12

A new route for plant nutrient delivery

CEE researchers have discovered a way to deliver nanoparticles into plant leaves for efficient delivery to the root, paving the way toward sustainable food production.

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Jun 04

Do sensors make infrastructure safer?

When should we apply sensors to monitor the state of our infrastructure in a way that could help predict and prevent failure?

May 30

BUYER UNAWARE: Security and privacy rarely considered before buying IoT devices

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.

May 30

Creating lungs “from scratch”

There are many ways to make a lung. With so many possible approaches, where do you even start? BME Ph.D. student Erica Comber has the answer.

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May 28

Viswanathan receives Navy award for battery research

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

PushID: Pushing the limits of commercial RFIDs

Swarun Kumar’s lab has created PushID, a tracking system that may just be the answer to never losing anything again.

May 20

Wearable system to sense and stimulate the brain

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.

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May 17

Blame the tech, not the users

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

Could U.S. wildfires be contributing to heart disease?

U.S. wildfires pose a serious threat to human health—and not just in the area of the burn.

May 13

A gift to further biomedical research

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

Working with big data just got easier

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

Are coal-fired power plants affecting your drinking water?

A new study from Jeanne VanBriesen takes a national look at whether coal-fired power plants are unintentionally affecting drinking water treatment plants.

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May 06

Improving ridesharing predictions

Sean Qian, Director of the Mobility Data Analytics Center, partnered with Gridwise, a local startup company, to optimize ridesharing platforms.

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May 02

Public dread of nuclear power limits its use

New research suggests fear of the zero-carbon energy source diminishes its potential contribution to decarbonization.

Apr 28

MFI leads digital transformation of manufacturing

On April 29, 2019, the MFI will host the inaugural Manufacturing Futures Forum, entitled “Leading the Digital Transformation.”

Apr 26

Virgil Gligor inducted to the Cybersecurity Hall of Fame

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

Intelligence beyond the edge

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

A new era for the Bosch Chair

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

Protein cuisine

ChemE’s Alan Russell has earned the Pittsburgh Business Times’ 2018 Innovator Award as co-founder of startup BioHybrid Solutions.

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Apr 11

“Seeing” the dual-layered scaffolding of cellular nuclei

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

Achieving provably-secure encryption

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

Early detection of viruses in biopharma

Researchers in the Department of Chemical Engineering are collaborating with Genentech and LumaCyte to develop an advanced biomanufacturing technology for adventitious agent testing.

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Mar 26

Celebrating women in cybersecurity

CMU’s Lorrie Cranor and Dena Haritos Tsamitis will speak at this week’s Women in Cybersecurity Conference in Pittsburgh.

Mar 22

Energy Week 2019: What’s next in energy innovation

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

Johnson wins ARO Young Investigator Award

Aaron Johnson has won the Army Research Office’s Young Investigator Award for his research on designing robots to cross rough terrain.

Mar 18

Linking air pollution to climate change in Chinese policy

The amount of CO2 that China releases annually into the atmosphere has a significant impact on global climate change.

Mar 15

Government experiments mean funding for small companies

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

Changing the tune of magnetic materials

Professor Michael McHenry is part of a team of researchers receiving the Carnegie Science Award for Advanced Manufacturing and Materials.

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Mar 08

Year two of “Rethink the Rink” launched

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.

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Mar 08

Beyond 5G

ECE’s Jeyanandh Paramesh presented a new chip at ISSCC 2019 designed to enable cutting-edge beyond 5G communications.

Mar 04

A path to the future, paved with ceramics

Reeja Jayan investigates how electromagnetic fields speed up ceramic fabrication, finding both challenges and great potential.

Feb 28

3D displays that accommodate the human eye

Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have engineered a new technology to enable natural accommodation cues in 3D displays.

Feb 26

Gift to advance mechanical engineering

An entrepreneurial idea to expand training for 21st-century careers has sparked a $10 million gift to support mechanical engineering at Carnegie Mellon.

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Feb 25

How long until efficient fuel cells? Ask the experts.

In the quest for alternatives to gas-powered vehicles, experts believe one new method shows great promise: Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cells.

Feb 22

Finding keyholes in metals 3D printing

Tony Rollett published in Science a pivotal discovery that could dramatically improve the 3D printing process.

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Feb 20

2019 Dean’s Early Career Fellows

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

Engineering meets history with Daina Ramey Berry

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

Recognizing disease using less data

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

Information bottlenecks between brain areas

ECE/BME’s Byron Yu and ECE postdoc João Semedo found that communication between brain areas occurs through an information bottleneck, which they’ve termed a “communication subspace.”

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Feb 11

Making green cars greener with battery recycling

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.

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Feb 07

Pileggi named ECE department head

Larry Pileggi has been named head of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University effective March 1.

Feb 05

The future—delivered

CEE’s 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

Dahl uses sensors to measure forces within cell monolayers

ChemE’s 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.

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Jan 29

Working in a galaxy far, far away

From Mechanical Engineering to the Millennium Falcon, alumna Sophia Acevedo reflects on her path to Walt Disney Imagineering.

Jan 24

Beyond 5G: The next generation

While the rest of the world is lauding 5G as the next big thing, EPP Head Doug Sicker and his team are already looking beyond it.

Jan 17

Run, robot, run!

Soft robots can mimic a critter’s scurry, thanks to shape memory alloy actuators.

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Jan 14

Lorrie Cranor named director of CyLab

Lorrie Faith Cranor has been named the next director of CyLab, Carnegie Mellon University’s security and privacy institute, effective January 15.

Jan 04

Exploring the science of inspiration

MechE’s Professor Jon Cagan and Kosa Goucher-Lambert helped uncover how outside stimuli inspire innovation in design.

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Jan 02

Using drones in agriculture and irrigation

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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