The term "fake news" is taking a much more literal turn as new technology is making it easier to manipulate the faces and audio in videos. The videos, called deepfakes, can then be posted to any social media site with no indication they are not the real thing.


Edward Delp, director of the Video and Imaging Processing Laboratory at Purdue University, says deepfakes are a growing danger with the next presidential election fast approaching.

A team of Purdue Electrical and Computer Engineering graduate students and faculty has advanced in DARPA's Spectrum Collaboration Challenge (SC2), to the final phase of a three-year competition focused on finding novel ways for making the most efficient use of the limited amount of available radio spectrum and enabling autonomous collaboration between heterogeneous radio networks.

What if the brain could detect its own disease? Researchers, including Kaushik Roy, the Edward G. Tiedemann Jr. Distinguished Professor of ECE, have been trying to create a material that "thinks" like the brain does, which would be more sensitive to early signs of neurological diseases such as Parkinson's.


Thinking is a long way off, but Purdue University and Argonne National Laboratory researchers have engineered a new material that can at least "listen."

ECE graduate student Younghoon Kim has won a Best Paper Award at the 2019 Design, Automation and Test in Europe (DATE) Conference. Kim is a PhD student working with Prof. Anand Raghunathan.


Kim was first author on the paper entitled "Data Subsetting: A Data-Centric Approach to Approximate Computing," which was chosen as best paper in the Embedded Systems track.

Prof. Aly El Gamal will be sharing his expertise in information theory with attendees of the 2019 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT). The annual conference brings together an international community of researchers and practitioners in the field of information theory to present and discuss new research results and perspectives on future developments in the field of study.

The annual Purdue College of Engineering Faculty Excellence Awards honor faculty who have been selected by their peers as the most outstanding in fields such as research, engagement, mentoring, and teaching.

Four ECE professors received awards at the 2019 ceremony.

Purdue's College of Engineering has announced a new leader for the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE).

A soybean-based drinking straw earned top honors at this year's Student Soybean Product Innovation Competition funded by the Indiana Soybean Checkoff. The contest encourages Purdue University students to develop novel applications for soybeans that meet a market need. The 2018-19 competition winner, Team Stroy, took home the award for replacing a common restaurant item with a biodegradable, environmentally friendly straw.

Many internal components used in today's computers reach temperatures that are hot enough to cook a Thanksgiving meal. The heat produced by the computations can easily burn human skin and tissue - and much of the heat is simply wasted energy, a byproduct of the computer's internal functions.

Now, Purdue University researchers are working on more energy-efficient technology to better mimic functions of the human brain and produce only a fraction of the heat.

Prof. Fengqing Maggie Zhu is among the recipients of the 2018 Google Faculty Research Awards. These annual awards are structured as unrestricted gifts to recognize and support the research of world-class faculty members at top universities around the world.