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ADSC research to enhance cybersecurity in energy systems
05/11/2016 - 05:17 Through two new projects funded by the Energy Market Authority of Singapore, researchers at the Advanced Digital Sciences Center are tackling real-world issues to improve the cyber security and resiliency of power plants and the smart grid.
Researchers work to make real-time analytics scalable and affordable
04/21/2016 - 07:09 A team at ADSC has built a platform that provides an easy solution for analyzing text, video, audio and other types of data.
ADSC researchers save phone battery life through Bluetooth communities
03/29/2016 - 10:44 The team developed middleware to automatically enable the use of Bluetooth radio for sharing cellular bandwidth.
Augmented Reality App Enables Intelligent Shopping Experience
02/01/2016 - 10:25 Using a smart phone’s context sensors, ADSC and A*STAR researchers have developed an app that allows users to automatically detect and search reviews for nearby businesses.
Researchers Develop Powerful Fashion-Optimized Image Search Tool
01/06/2016 - 05:33 ADSC researchers have commercialized FashionMatch, a technology that allows users to instantly search for visually similar apparel items from a large database of images.
Chen and collaborators receive Best Paper Award at ICCAD
01/05/2016 - 04:45 The research provides a model for designing more energy efficient Systems-on-Chips.
Researchers place in video analytics competition
12/17/2015 - 11:06 The team createed a novel human detection system that has high accuracy and high reliability.
ADSC’s cybersecurity research tackles big smart grid problems
11/19/2015 - 05:32 Researchers are looking at how an attacker can destabilize grid control systems and demand response systems, and creating new methodology to address those attacks.
Sanders wins IEEE Innovation in Societal Infrastructure Technical Field Award
11/10/2015 - 06:24 ADSC Professor William Sanders has received the 2016 IEEE Technical Field Award, Innovation in Societal Infrastructure, for his revolutionary work concerning the cybersecurity of the power grid.
ADSC researchers lead new $28.1M consortium in cyber resilient energy delivery systems
10/12/2015 - 03:54 The Cyber Resilient Energy Delivery Consortium (CREDC), which consists of 11 universities and national laboratories and is funded by the Dept. of Energy, will focus on improving the resilience and security of the cyber networks that serve as the backbone of energy infrastructure.
ADSC researchers win best paper for smart meter security research at QEST 2015
10/02/2015 - 05:18 ITI researchers ADSC affiliates Varun Badrinath Krishna and Bill Sanders have received the best paper award for their work on smart meter security at the 12th International Conference on Quantitative Evaluation of Systems.Illinois ranks #4 in the world in engineering, computer science
08/27/2015 - 09:40 The study was published by Shanghai-based Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU).
Robo-whiskers developed at Illinois, ADSC could aid laparoscopic surgery
08/11/2015 - 05:30 The artificial whiskers could give surgeons a "sixth sense," offering tacticle feedback during procedures.ADSC to research mass transportation system networks, urban noise
06/24/2015 - 08:50 The projects are all collaborations with fellow Singapore research institutes, universities and companies.
Illinois to lead $20 million center in critical infrastructure resiliency
06/10/2015 - 09:08 ADSC researcher David M. Nicol, an expert in resilient and secure systems, will lead the center's research efforts.
Illinois Ethics Center presents first NTU leadership course for educators
06/01/2015 - 05:21 About 35 people attended the first course, which focused on ethical leadership development.
U. of I., Carle moving forward with the first engineering-based college of medicine
03/12/2015 - 10:47 CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Partners in a first-of-its-kind medical college on the University of Illinois’s Urbana-Champaign campus are advancing to the next phase of development, having completed a key administrative step today.
Researchers develop intelligent eyewear for the blind
03/06/2015 - 12:24 ADSC researchers are in the process of developing an intelligent eyewear, InSIGHT, which is designed to help the blind or visually impaired detect obstacles above waist level and identify people in their vicinity, where a walking cane cannot help.
Ten faculty chosen as Willett Scholars
03/05/2015 - 08:52 The College of Engineering has announced that ten faculty members have been named Donald Biggar Willett Scholars for 2015, including ADSC's Deming Chen.