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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).

Dr. Liqun Cheng of the Google Infrastructure Team led by Dr. Rama Govindaraju, engaged in a session with CRISP researchers on a broad ranging set of topics related to design and development of hardware and software infrastructures at worldwide scale. He discussed Google's products and engineering challenges, industry and technology trends, some notable successes, and the challenges and opportunities ahead. He ended with their current hiring needs.

The finalists of the CRISP Student Research Competition 2021-22 presented their visions and research ideas to an industry panel of judges on September 1. From this, the winner, the runner up, and the two honorable mentions were decided. Congratulations to Arvind Sundaram (first prize), Jayoung Lee (runner up), and Akash Melachuri and Kananart Kuwaranancharoen (honorable mentions).

Three faculty members from Electrical and Computer Engineering, Aravind Machiry and Vishal Shrivastav, and from Computer Science, Muhammad Shahbaz have joined CRISP as affiliate faculty. They bring expertise in systems security (Machiry) and computer networking (Shahbaz and Shrivastav).

Rama Govindaraju is an Engineering Director at Google where he leads the Systems Infrastructure Performance Engineering team. He gave an overview of the Planet Scale Architecture and Design at Google and surveyed trends in computing that are driving the industry.

CRISP Director Prof. Saurabh Bagchi gave a keynote at the 1st Annual Symposium of the USC (University of Southern California)-Amazon Center on on Secure & Trusted Machine Learning. The symposium was held at USC on April 21, 2022. The symposium was hosted by Salman Avestimehr, Director of the Center, and Prem Natarajan, VP in Amazon's Alexa Unit.

CRISP Affiliate Faculty and previously Associate Director, Prof. Milind Kulkarni, has been recognized with the Charles B. Murphy Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching Award, Purdue’s highest undergraduate teaching honor. As part of his teaching philosophy, he wants his students to train their minds to process issues they will confront many years from now.