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Roya Ensafi, CSE Research Assistant Professor, uses her computing system, Censored Planet. Photo: Joseph Xu

Online censorship detector aims to make the internet a freer place

Censored Planet could provide new insight into the flow of online information | Short Read
Man stepping over puddle in rain

Teaching self-driving cars to predict pedestrian movement

Data gleaned from cameras and sensors increases predictive accuracy. | Medium Read
2015 Downtown Ann Arbor

‘Air traffic control’ for driverless cars could speed up deployment

Human-generated responses could remotely assist autonomous vehicles decision’s during times of uncertainty. | Medium Read
Videos

Smart wearables to improve elderly mobility

Cartilage electrolyte for a safe "structural battery"

Michigan RobotX Team

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Research News
Linxiao Zhu, ME Research Fellow, unveils a device that enables cooling via heat transfer. Photo: Joseph Xu

Running an LED in reverse could cool future computers

Harnessing heat flow at the nanoscale while suppressing thermal radiation from the LED enables a new approach to light-based cooling. | Short Read

Cryptocurrency innovation: U-M to establish FinTech Collaboratory | Medium Read
Smart wearables to improve elderly mobility and infrastructure | Short Read
An upgrade for open-source, 3-D nanoscale imaging software | Short Read
Campus & Community
Gallimore, Glotzer and Sarter were among the 2019 NAE members.
Three professors inducted into NAE

The new inductees join 35 other University of Michigan members. | Medium Read

Global CO2 Initiative announces advisory board | Medium Read
Jagadish appointed director of Michigan Institute for Data Science | Short Read
Michigan RobotX team finds camaraderie in competition | Short Read
Faculty Perspectives
Carol Menassa, CEE Professor, and Baddu Mantha, CEE PhD Student, test an environmental data collection robot their research. Photo: Joseph Xu
Is there a better way to control room temperature?

Researchers are working toward a future where furnaces and air conditioners could respond in real time to occupants' needs. | Medium Read

The web really isn’t worldwide – every country has different access | Medium Read
How recycling more steel and aluminum could slash imports without a trade war | Medium Read
What are these ‘levels’ of autonomous vehicles? | Medium Read
A pixellated man stands in front of a suburban neighborhood
Built By Humans. Ruled By Computers.

The great and terrible consequences of an algorithmic world.

Features
Putting the AI in aviation

Persuading a field to face its future

On-Ramp to a Driverless Future

Transforming an industry is complicated. Here’s how southeast Michigan is leading the way.

Ripple Effect

What’s happening in Detroit, with the help of the Michigan Engineering Zone, may help solve Michigan’s economic manpower problem.

The threat that never sleeps: Can science stop superbugs?

Traditional antibiotics are losing the battle with bacteria and Michigan engineers are stepping into the breach.

In the News
National Public Radio February 7, 2019
Research team investigating Internet censorship with tracking system
EECS-CSE research assistant professor Roya Ensafi explains how Censored Planet monitors censorship online.
Science February 15, 2019
Physicists create a quantum refrigerator that cools with an absence of light
New LED cooling research led by Mechanical Engineering professors Pramod Reddy and Edgar Meyhofer is detailed in Science.
In the News February 14, 2019
Lansing, we have a problem: Whitmer kills $2.5M rocket plan pushed by Snyder
Anthony Waas, the Richard A Auhll Department Chair of Aerospace Engineering, explains why a pivot in Michigan's space race plans might not be a bad thing.
Popular Science February 13, 2019
How self-driving cars can predict the way pedestrians move
NAME associate professor Matthew Johnson-Roberson explains how artificial intelligence can help self-driving cars to make decisions when pedestrians act cluelessly.
history

Five year plan: The North Campus story

Ed Lesher: Aircraft Hall of Famer

LASIK: The Bladeless Scalpel

Q&A with Samuel Ting

Photography
A photograph of a person walking through the snow on North Campus of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, MI
Snow and cold roared through the midwest, causing life and education to be delayed for a couple of days at the University of Michigan. |more »