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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.

A Purdue ECE and CS team comprising faculty members Saurabh Bagchi and He Wang, working with AT&T Labs Research has won the best paper award at the recently concluded 17th ACM International Conference on Embedded Wireless Systems and Networks (EWSN) at Lyon, France. The paper shows how to perform efficient mobile crowdsensing using smartphones and reports on a study done on Purdue campus with 50 Purdue students collaboratively creating a barometric pressure map of the campus.

Civil Engineering graduate student Hemant Gehlot, working with CRISP Associate Director Shreyas Sundaram, received the Best Student Paper finalist award at the 8th IFAC Workshop on Distributed Estimation and Control in Networked Systems (NECSYS), Chicago, IL, for his paper: H. Gehlot, S. Sundaram, and S. Ukkusuri, "Approximation algorithms for the recovery of infrastructure after disasters under precedence constraints".

CRISP Thrust Lead, Nadia Gkritza, Professor of Civil Engineering and Agricultural and Biological Engineering, has won a research award for a new project titled "Economic Resilience and Recovery in the US Great Lakes Region". The project is supported by the Economic Development Administration (EDA).

David Warsinger, Assistant Professor in Mechanical Engineering and the Birck Nanotechnology Center, has joined CRISP as an Affiliate Faculty member. David’s research focuses on the water-energy nexus, with approaches from thermofluids and nanoengineering. He is especially interested in energy efficient and robust systems that can safeguard human health, including disinfection and agricultural water. David completed his PhD in Mechanical Engineering at MIT, and his B.S. and M.Eng at Cornell. After his PhD, David did Postdoctoral research at MIT and Yale with Meny Elimelech and Jaehong Kim.

A team of four ECE faculty members won a research award from the National Science Foundation to broaden the applicability of accelerators, like GPUs, including its reliable use under varying workload conditions. The team includes CRISP faculty members, Saurabh Bagchi, Milind Kulkarni, and Felix Lin.

Purdue ECE faculty member, Shreyas Sundaram, has joined the Center for Resilient Infrastructures, Systems, and Processes (CRISP) as Associate Director, effective August 15, 2019.