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The two faculty awards for CRISP affiliate faculty were announced today. The two categories are "Outstanding Star" for senior Associate and Full Professors, and "Rising Star" for Assistant and junior Associate Professors. Winner in "Outstanding Star" category is Tiark Rompf, Kevin C. and Susanne L. Kahn New Frontiers Associate Professor of Computer Science: "Generative programming for cyber resilience". Winner in "Rising Star" category is David Inouye: "Improving resilience of AI systems via explanation".

CRISP has a program for recognizing outstanding technical contributions by faculty at two levels of seniority. The first award called "Outstanding Star" is for senior Associate and Full Professors and the second called "Rising Star" is for Assistant and junior Associate Professors. This Wed, April 7, we will recognize the winners of this year's annual competition. The panel members from Adobe Research, Army Research Lab, and Purdue will be present to share what they found striking in the vision statements of the CRISP faculty.

We are announcing a recognition awards program for CRISP affiliate faculty. There are two categories of awards: Outstanding Rising Faculty and Distinguished Senior Faculty. One or two faculty will be awarded in each category. For the competition, submit a 2 page vision statement and 2 page bio. Judging will be done by our industrial affiliates, College of Engineering Associate Dean for Research, and some other intellectual leaders at Purdue. There is a token monetary amount associated with the awards.

Prof. Jing Gao, of the ECE department, with expertise in resilience of cyber systems has joined CRISP as affiliate faculty. Dr. Gao's research is in the general area of data and information analysis with a focus on data mining and machine learning.

Adobe Research has invested in research by CRISP faculty through two unrestricted research awards, to Profs. Jing Gao and Saurabh Bagchi. This followed two Adobe Research-CRISP events held in November, organized by CRISP and Dr. Tom Jacobs, head of Adobe Research Systems Technology Labs. Further discussions are continuing with other faculty whose projects have been identified as being of interest.

A team of five from Purdue and Princeton have been awarded a five-year grant from the Army Research Lab (ARL) to become an academic partner for the Army Artificial Intelligence Innovation Institute (A2I2). The team is led by CRISP Director, Saurabh Bagchi (PI), includes CRISP faculty David Inouye and Somali Chaterji, and also the Purdue Dean of Engineering Mung Chiang and Princeton faculty Prateek Mittal.

CRISP Director Saurabh Bagchi led a team of researchers from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, University of Southern California, and University of Massachusetts at Amherst to create a vision document for reliability, security, networking, and systems challenges for IoT. This came out of the NSF Computer Systems Research and Networking PI meeting in 2019 where the four faculty led the breakout on IoT. This document has been invited for publication at the IEEE IoT Journal.

PhD student Theodora Konstantinou in Civil Engineering, working with CRISP Thrust Lead Nadia Gkritza, has received the Charley V. Wootan Memorial Award from the Council of University Transportation Centers (CUTC). The award is given annually for the best Doctoral dissertation and Master's thesis in the field of policy and planning in transportation studies. This national student award recognizes her outstanding Master's thesis, "Market Adoption and Impact of Electric Roadways on Criteria Pollutants and Greenhouse Gas Emissions." The award will be presented at the 2020 CUTC Awards Banquet on Saturday January 11, 2020 in Washington, D.C.