U-M researcher shapes field of medical device security
Kevin Fu, professor of electrical engineering and computer science, was awarded the inaugural IEEE Security and Privacy Test of Time Award.
Category Archives: Campus News
Amanda Sedlik joins HITS as senior director for Clinical & Operational Applications
Amanda Sedlik, MSHI, BSN, RN became the new senior director for Clinical & Operational Applications in May. The previous interim senior director, Carleen Penoza, was recently named Michigan Medicine’s Chief Informatics Nursing Officer. Amanda is a registered nurse with vast experience in electronic medical record (EMR) go-lives, readiness, and optimization at hospitals and health systems across the country. She most… Read More »
UMSI researcher: Alexa’s deletion feature a good first step for better privacy
Florian Schaub, School of Information, says the larger issue of data collection still needs to be addressed.
U-M student success tool receives gold medal in global competition
My Learning Analytics helps students glean insights on their academic performance and make self-driven behavior changes.
U-M provides tech expertise on digital mental health tools for students
Sage provides tailored resources to students who completed the national Healthy Minds survey.
New report highlights ITS’s achievement in DEI
A new ITS webpage outlines progress to make its workplace more diverse, inclusive, and equitable: Over 450 DEI course completions by 276 staff, a new set of Guiding Principles for Accessibility, and more.
Is ‘digital addiction’ a real threat to kids?
There’s a great deal of talk these days about “digital addiction.” But several experts from U-M say we should teach kids to think of screens as something to handle in moderation rather than something without any healthy place in our lives. Ellen Selkie, an assistant professor of adolescent medicine, who does research on adolescents’ use of social media,… Read More »
HITS simulated phishing campaign continues through June
Michigan Medicine employees can expect to receive simulated phishing emails from the Information Assurance department throughout the months of May and June.
Dearborn’s Medjahed awarded Distinguished Professor of the Year
Computer science professor Brahim Medjahed is the first from UM-Dearborn to receive the Michigan Association of State Universities’ Distinguished Professor of the Year award.
U-M to address equity and inclusion in STEM
U-M will lead a group of nine other universities in SEISMIC, a multiyear effort to address equity and inclusion in introductory level STEM courses.
ITS’s Jim Zajkowski awarded President’s Staff Award of Distinction
U-M President Mark Schlissel presented ITS’s Jim Zajkowski with the Individual Staff Impact Award and recognized him with the President’s Staff Award of Distinction.
Blue unicorns: The U-M alums who founded Duo Security
Co-founded by U-M alums Dug Song and Jon Oberheide, Ann Arbor-based Duo Security sold late last year for $2.35 billion. As one of fewer than 150 privately held companies in the U.S. worth more than $1 billion (known as “unicorns”), Duo became incredibly successful in part by adhering to values besides the bottom line, such as inclusion and community. … Read More »
UMSI researcher to study Facebook’s impact on democracy
Ceren Budak, a UMSI assistant professor, is joining researchers from Ohio State, Cornell, and Stony Brook to study anonymous Facebook data. The team will focus on social media’s impact on U.S. democracy.
Classroom tech supports students with special needs
Gabriela Marcu, a U-M assistant professor of information, electrical engineering, and computer science, is studying the ways in which educational technology might better support students with special needs.
U-M researchers explore digital media use among kids, parents
A group of researchers at the University of Michigan are studying the relationship between digital media use and childhood growth and development.
CSE professor J. Alex Halderman selected as Andrew Carnegie Fellow
Professor J. Alex Halderman, U-M’s computer science and engineering department, has been selected as a 2019 Andrew Carnegie Fellow. His fellowship will allow him to continue his work in “strengthening election cybersecurity with evidence-based elections.”
Unhackable: New chip stops attacks before they start
A new computer processor architecture developed at U-M could usher in a future where computers proactively defend against threats, rendering the current electronic security model of bugs and patches obsolete. Called MORPHEUS, the chip blocks potential attacks by encrypting and randomly reshuffling key bits of its own code and data 20 times per second—infinitely faster than a human… Read More »
Dearborn’s Hafiz Malik develops tools to detect fake media
Hafiz Malik, an associate professor of electrical and computer engineering at UM-Dearborn is developing tools to detect and fight against fake multimedia. He has already created a method that can detect computer-generated audio at near 100% accuracy and is now turning to fake multimedia detection in real time.
Researcher helps websites better direct their internet traffic
A paper co-authored by Harsha Madhyastha, professor of computer science, has been awarded an Applied Networking Research Prize by the Internet Engineering Task Force. Madhyastha and researchers from Facebook and three other participating universities presented a system called Edge Fabric that large content providers can use to smartly direct traffic over the internet. Facebook uses this system to… Read More »
U-M to offer new precision health graduate certificate program
The University of Michigan Medical School’s Department of Learning Health Sciences is now accepting applications to the precision health graduate certificate program for the fall 2019 semester. The certification is available to PhD, MS, MA, M Engineering, and master’s- or doctoral-level health professional students.