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Yiyu Shi

Yiyu Shi to receive 2021 IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design Best Paper Award

Yiyu Shi, professor of computer science and engineering, has been named the recipient of the 2021 IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design Donald O. Pederson Best Paper Award for the work titled “Hardware/Software Co-Exploration of Neural Architectures.” The winning paper, which was …

Notre Dame student team wins NASA research award for drone scoop and grab technology

A team of Notre Dame undergraduate students has been selected to participate in the 2021 NASA University Student Research Challenge. Their project, Dronehook, is a fixed-wing package retrieval system that can pick up items from remote locations in a simple and energy-efficient fashion. The …

Notre Dame to join Indiana coalition to develop quantum technologies

The University of Notre Dame is joining efforts to establish a National Science Foundation-backed quantum research center that will bring dozens of scientists from four Indiana universities and industry together to tackle applied research in the field. The new Center for Quantum Technologies …

Statue of Our Lady of the University in the main circle. Photo by Matt Cashore/University of Notre Dame.

Summer computer science program at Notre Dame leads to statewide recognition for Penn-Harris-Madison teacher

For the past four summers, Amanda Fox, a teacher with Penn-Harris-Madison (PHM) School Corp., has worked closely with Michael Niemier, professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Notre Dame, to devise ways to incorporate computer science concepts into the …

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Computer science and engineering researchers design more secure mobile contact tracing

For public health officials, contact tracing remains critical to managing the spread of the coronavirus — particularly as it appears that variants of the virus could be more transmissible. The need for widespread contact tracing at the start of the pandemic led tech giants Apple and Google to …

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AI could improve accuracy, efficiency of CT screening for COVID-19 diagnosis

Led by Yiyu Shi, associate professor of Computer Science and Engineering, researchers are developing a technique using artificial intelligence (AI) that would improve CT screening to more quickly identify patients with the coronavirus. The new technique will reduce the burden on the radiologists …

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Nitesh Chawla appointed founding director of Lucy Family Institute for Data & Society

Nitesh V. Chawla, the Frank M. Freimann Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, has been appointed the founding director of the University’s Lucy Family Institute for Data & Society. Launched in December of 2019 with a $25 million gift from alumnus Robert Lumpkins and his wife, …

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Yiyu Shi receives On-Device AI award from Facebook

Yiyu Shi, associate professor of computer science and engineering, has received one of the eight Towards On-Device AI Research awards presented to university faculty. Facebook received more than 160 proposals from 111 universities on a wide range of topics related to efficient on-device AI …

Inconsistent bedtime may increase risk to heart health

Despite increasing awareness of how critical sleep is to our health, getting a good night’s rest remains increasingly difficult in a world that’s always “on” — responding to emails at all hours, news cycles that change with every tweet and staring endlessly into the blue light of cell …

Early warning system being built to fight disinformation online

Researchers at the University of Notre Dame are using artificial intelligence to develop an early warning system that will identify manipulated images, deepfake videos and disinformation online. The project is an effort to combat the rise of coordinated social media campaigns to incite violence, …