Category: EECS: Electrical and Computer Engineering
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Machine learning begins to understand the human gut
The new computer model accurately predicts the behavior of millions of microbial communities from hundreds of experiments, an advance toward precision medicine.
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Solar-powered chemistry uses carbon dioxide and water to make feedstock for fuels, chemicals
Producing synthesis gas, a precursor of a variety of fuels and chemicals, no longer requires natural gas, coal or biomass.
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‘Fake’ data helps robots learn the ropes faster
A way to expand training data sets for manipulation tasks improves the performance of robots by 40% or more
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In the news: Michigan Engineering experts June 13-17
Highlights include Fortune.
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Emulating impossible “unipolar” laser pulses paves the way for processing quantum information
Quantum materials emit light as though it were only a positive pulse, rather than a positive-negative oscillation.
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Research brief: Red nanowire LEDs now efficient enough to enable hyper-resolution VR
Research led by Zetian Mi is on its way toward device efficiencies that exceed that of today’s phone pixels.
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Graphene-hBN breakthrough to spur new LEDs, quantum computing
Study uncovers first method for producing high-quality, wafer-scale hexagonal boron nitride.
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Immune to hacks: Inoculating deep neural networks to thwart attacks
The adaptive immune system serves as a template for defending neural nets from confusion-sowing attacks.
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In the news: Michigan Engineering experts March 7-11
Highlights include Slate and Physics World
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‘Exciton surfing’ could enable next-gen energy, computing and communications tech
A charge-neutral information carrier could cut energy waste from computing, now that it can potentially be transported within chips.
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Optimizing the interactions between critical infrastructure systems for better flexibility, sustainability, and resiliency
PhD student Anna Stuhlmacher researches how the water distribution network can better provide services to the power network, which can allow for greater integration of renewable energy sources into the grid, reduce costs, and improve system resiliency.
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In the news: Michigan Engineering experts December 6-10
Highlights include NPR, Bloomberg, and Scientific American.