This initiative includes computational research from quantum scale to commercial manufacturing scale, and permeates all disciplines. The power of high-performance computing combined with the enormous value of available data provides both an opportunity and challenge to produce new and trustworthy insight. Multiple disciplines must come together to assure that both questions and answers are correct.
Computation and Data
Featured Computation and Data Research
IEEE Recognizes Researcher with a 2020 Best Paper Award
Dong "Kevin" Jin and his team were recognized for their work on cybersecurity and cyber resilience of smart grid wide-area monitoring systems.
Prolific Computational Researcher Named Endowed Chair
Distinguished Professor of Computer Science Xian-He Sun, who has taught students and conducted research into parallel and high-end computing, big data processing, and software systems for more than three decades, was named Illinois Tech's Ron Hochsprung Endowed Chair in Computer Science.
The Grainger Foundation Funds Annual Innovation Prize
The charitable arm of W. W. Grainger, Inc. awarded Illinois Tech a $1 million grant to help solve critical societal challenges.
Working to Uncover Fake News
With his computational model dFEND, Kai Shu, Gladwin Development Chair Assistant Professor of Computer Science, is expanding his award-winning research that flags fake news stories populating social media sites.
Applying Machine Learning to Chemistry Is Top Goal for New Chair
David Minh, the new Robert E. Frey Jr. Endowed Chair in Chemistry, is exploring machine-learning approaches to his work on small organic molecules potentially useful in drug applications.
Reshaping Computer Architecture Methods
Three members of the computer science faculty have received a National Science Foundation grant to build architecture that will reduce the energy and time needed to process big data sets.