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A team comprising multiple CRISP faculty won an NSF Center from the Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) Program. The Center is called Chorus, and is funded for 5 years, 2024-29 (www.choruscomputes.xyz). Chorus is directed by CRISP Director, Prof. Saurabh Bagchi and has as thrust leads, CRISP faculty, Profs. Somali Chaterji and Shreyas Sundaram. Prof. Aravind Machiry is also a Co-PI on the Center.

CRISP Faculty Jing GAO’s work on fairness in multi-class classification won a Distinguished Paper award at the AAAI 2023 conference. Out of 8,777 submissions, AAAI’23 accepted 1,721 papers, and among them only 12 were selected as Distinguished Paper (less than 1% of the accepted papers).

CRISP faculty Aravind Machiry released an important static vulnerability checking tool at the USENIX Security conference. ARGUS is a groundbreaking static taint analysis system specifically designed to identify code injection vulnerabilities in GitHub Actions. It is the first of its kind, offering a unique approach to securing Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) pipelines.

CRISP faculty discussed their research with Jeff Dean, Senior VP and Chief Scientist at Google. Jeff was visiting us as part of the Purdue Engineering Distinguished Lecture Series (PEDSLS). CRISP Director Bagchi hosted Jeff.

CRISP faculty Bagchi, Chaterji, Qiu, and Xue discussed physical AI's opportunities and challenges with external experts from Amazon Science, Caterpillar, Argonne National Lab, and Southwest Airlines.

Two faculty members from Electrical and Computer Engineering, Santiago Torres Arias and Zahra Ghodsi have joined CRISP as affiliate faculty. They bring expertise in systems security (Arias) and machine learning/cryptography (Ghodsi).

CRISP faculty Vishal Shrivastav of the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering has been awarded the prestigious NSF CAREER Award. This is for his proposal titled "Designing Next-Generation Programmable Switches for Stateful In-Network Computing". The funding comes from the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Directorate.

CRISP Director Prof. Saurabh Bagchi gave the keynote at the IEEE Communication Society webinar series of the Special Interest Group on "NFV and SDN Technologies". The webinar was on February 27, 2023 and also featured Prof. Minlan Yu (Harvard) and Prof. Martin Reisslein (Arizona State).