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Center for Advancing Safety of Machine Intelligence Honored with 2024 Chicago Innovation Award
Northwestern's Center for Advancing Safety of Machine Intelligence was named one of 22 top innovators in the Chicago region this year at the Chicago Innovation Awards ceremony, held November 14 at the UIC Forum.Nov 15, 2024|from Northwestern Engineering News
Showcase Features Undergraduate Student Summer Research Projects
Five students in Northwestern CS presented their summer research projects during the Undergraduate Research Showcase event on October 17.Nov 15, 2024
Northwestern Security and AI Lab Releases New Terrorism Early Warning System Forecasts
NSAIL director V.S. Subrahmanian unveiled new reports generated by the Northwestern Terror Early Warning System, a machine-learning platform that models terrorist behavior to forecast future attacks.Nov 12, 2024|from Northwestern Engineering News
PhD Student Payal Mohapatra Selected for EECS Rising Stars Workshop
Payal Mohapatra, a PhD candidate in computer engineering, was one of 70 invited participants in the intensive workshop designed for graduate students and postdocs of historically marginalized or underrepresented genders.Nov 11, 2024
Edith Elkind and Dmitrii Pasechnik Join Northwestern Computer Science
Elkind joined Northwestern Engineering on November 1 as Ginni Rometty Professor of Computer Science and Pasechnik begins a three-year appointment as a research professor.Nov 11, 2024
Improving the Occupational Health of Manufacturing Workers
Led by Professors Ping Guo and Qi Zhu, an interdisciplinary engineering team developed a wearable multimodal sensor system that leverages machine-learning to enable near-real-time fatigue prediction on the factory floor.Oct 30, 2024|from Northwestern Engineering News
New App Performs Motion Capture Using Just Your Smartphone — No Suits, Specialized Cameras or Equipment Needed
Live Science profiled a new system developed by Professor Karan Ahuja that leverages sensors already embedded within consumer mobile devices, including smartphones, smart watches, and wireless earbuds.Oct 29, 2024|from Live Science
Raising Cybersecurity Awareness and Accessibility
The Safe Security student group aims to help people stay safe online and educate the community about common and emerging cybersecurity threats.Oct 28, 2024
Don’t Be Duped: Here’s How to Spot Deepfakes
AI and security expert V.S. Subrahmanian shares five tips to help avoid getting tricked by modified digital artifacts.Oct 25, 2024|from Northwestern Engineering News
John A. “Mac” McQuown, Northwestern Alumni Medalist and Benefactor, Dies at 90
An entrepreneur, financial innovator, and philanthropist, McQuown made an impact on sustainability, environmentalism and engineering research.Oct 25, 2024|from Northwestern Engineering News
PhD Student Spotlight: Mara Ulloa
After graduation, Ulloa plans to pursue post-doctoral positions that allow her to continue conducting interdisciplinary research in human-computer interaction and user-centered technologies.Oct 21, 2024
How AI Deepfakes Test Voter Confidence and Election Integrity
The Christian Science Monitor spoke with Professor V.S. Subrahmanian about how artificial intelligence threatens to undermine democratic elections with audio and images that may look realistic, but are fake.Oct 16, 2024|from Christian Science Monitor
New App Performs Real-Time, Full-Body Motion Capture with a Mobile Device
MobilePoser makes motion capture more accessible by using sensors your devices already have.Oct 15, 2024|from Northwestern Engineering News
PhD Student Spotlight: Melissa Chen
Through her interdisciplinary work with the Delta Lab, human-computer interaction, and learning sciences communities at Northwestern, Chen is building the skill set she needs to be a thoughtful and effective researcher.Oct 14, 2024
Fall Tech Career Fair Welcomes More than 40 Companies
More than one thousand undergraduate and graduate students in computer science, electrical engineering, computer engineering, data science, machine learning, and related disciplines met with recruiters from more than 40 companies at the 2024 Fall Tech Career Fair.Oct 11, 2024|from Northwestern Engineering News