Together with his students and collaborators, Prof. Pasqualetti has received the 2020 Roberto Tempo Best CDC Paper Award for the paper " A Framework to Control Functional Connectivity in the Human Brain", awarded by the IEEE Control Systems Society, and the 2020 IEEE Control Systems Letters Outstanding Paper Award for the paper " Data-Driven Minimum-Energy...
To determine water needs accurately, growers hand-pluck individual leaves from plants, put them in pressure chambers, and apply air pressure to see when water begins to leak from the leaf stems. That kind of testing is time consuming and means growers can only reach so many areas of a field each day and cannot test...
Professor Wei Ren received a National Science Foundation (NSF) grant on distributed multi-robot joint localization and tracking. In applications such as disaster response, a network of mobile autonomous robots collectively tracks a subject over a wide area in an intermittently GPS-denied environment. As the subject and the robots move in and out of observation and...
ECE Professor Amit Roy-Chowdhury is leading a team of ECE and CSE faculty that has received a grant totaling almost $1 million from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA, to understand the vulnerability of computer vision systems to adversarial attacks. The project is part of the Machine Vision Disruption program, which is part...
Erfan Nozari received his B.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering-Control in 2013 from Isfahan University of Technology, Iran, received his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering and Cognitive Science in 2019 from University of California San Diego, and was a postdoctoral researcher in the University of Pennsylvania Department of Electrical and Systems Engineering. He is currently an assistant...
Professor Hyoseung Kim received the National Science Foundation (NSF) Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) award for his work on "Real-Time Scheduling of Intelligent Applications". The CAREER is NSF's most prestigious award in support of early-career faculty who have the potential to serve as academic role models in research and education and to lead advances...
ECE professors, Amit Roy-Chowdhury and Ertem Tuncel, have received a new $500K grant from NSF’s Communications and Information Foundations program on information theoretic analysis of machine learning algorithms in computer vision. The recent successes in image and video analysis have been largely in the domain of supervised learning. Supervised learning methods assume the availability of...
Professor Amit Roy-Chowdhury has been selected as a recipient of the 2020 ECE Distinguished Alumni Award from the University of Maryland (UMD). This prestigious award is presented annually to alumni that have provided leadership and meritorious contributions in the broad field of engineering.
Professor Chen received the NSF CAREER award for her work on " Networked Multi-User Augmented Reality for Mobile Devices". In multi-user augmented reality (AR), multiple users are able to view and interact with a common set of virtual objects. However, users can experience poor performance (such as high latency or inconsistent views of the virtual...
Professor Hamed Mohsenian-Rad is named as Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). The honor is conferred by the IEEE Board of Directors upon a person with an extraordinary record of accomplishments in any of the IEEE fields of interest. Each year, following a rigorous evaluation procedure, less than 0.1% of IEEE...
Prof. Samet Oymak and his collaborators Necmiye Ozay, Dimitra Panagou (University of Michigan) and Sze Zheng Yong (Arizona State University) are awarded $1.2M NSF grant to improve Cyber-Physical System safety. These systems are networks of interacting elements such as constellation of satellites and fleet of self-driving cars. This project will develop supervisors that leverage preview...
Brain stimulation, where targeted electrical impulses are directly applied to a patient's brain, is already an effective therapy for depression, epilepsy, Parkinson's and other neurological disorders, but many more applications are on the horizon. Clinicians and researchers believe the technique could be used to restore or improve memory and motor function after an injury, for...
CRIS Professors receive $1.2M NSF grant. The goal of this project is to create the knowledge to facilitate effective and efficient collaborative perception on top of a set of independent and multi-modal data generating agents. The project will study how to jointly model social and sensor data and use this modeling to efficiently support spatio-temporal...
CRIS student Tommaso Menara was awarded the Best Student Paper Award at the 2019 American Control Conference, which took place in Philadelphia in July. Tommaso is a student in Prof. Pasqualetti's lab and his research lies at the intersection between control theory and network neuroscience. Motivated by experimental recordings of synchronization phenomena in the human...
CRIS Professor receives a $1.5M grant from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research ( AFOSR) to characterize vulnerabilities of dynamic networks to attackers with different capabilities, knowledge, and objectives, and to design rigorous methods to protect dynamic networks and ensure resiliency to attacks. Dynamic networks are critical in multiple operating theaters of interest to...
CRIS Professors have been awarded with two equipment grants from ARO and ONR to acquire new robots and necessary computing units for learning-based robot navigation. See here
Profs. Bryan Wong and Juchen Guo receive DOE NETL grant for "Probing Particle Impingement in Boilers and Steam Turbines Using High-Performance Computing with Parallel Central Processing Units (CPUs) and Graphics Processing Units (GPUs)". Read more here and here
CRIS Professors receive $1.2M Navy grant to make artificial intelligent systems smarter. AI systems have largely focused on analyzing data that has already been collected. That may be changing soon thanks to a $1.2M grant from the Office of Naval Research’s Science of Artificial Intelligence Program awarded to four UCR engineering professors. Building upon existing...