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Romit Roy Choudhury, a professor of electrical and computer engineering, will receive the Association for Computing Machinery’s 2015 SIGMOBILE RockStar Award in recognition of “significant contributions, early in his career, to mobile sensing and wireless networking, with an emphasis on location and cross-layer protocols.” Choudhury’s main areas of work are in wireless networking and mobile computing, and in recent years, he has focused on doing what he calls a “top-down research.” The award will be presented in September at the 2015 ACM Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (MobiCom) in Paris.

Bruce Hajeka professor of electrical and computer engineering, won an achievement award from the American Society of Civil Engineers’ research group on performance evaluation, or SIGMETRICS. Hajek researches ways that networks can react and stay reliable in the face of random outage-causing events. He also works on applying game theory to networking and studying peer-to-peer networks like BitTorrent.

Taylor Hughesa professor of physics, has been selected for the 2015 Young Investigator Program of the Office of Naval Research, one of the oldest and most selective scientific research advancement programs in the country. Hughes will use the award, which extends his previous ONR-funded research, to explore new classes of electronic materials, including crystalline topological insulators (CTIs) and topological semi-metals (TSMs), with interactions. 

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L. Brian Stauffer, News Bureau photographer, was honored by the University Photographers’ Association of America in its May monthly competition. His image, “Petri Dish,” placed first in the science and research category and shows the detail of fungus culture in a petri dish at the veterinary college’s diagnostic laboratory. The association is an international organization of college and university photographers concerned with the application and practice of photography as it relates to the higher education setting.

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Engineering Civil and Environmental Engineering Professor Nishant Garg, center, is joined by fellow researchers, from left: Yujia Min, Hossein Kabir, Nishant Garg, center, Chirayu Kothari and M. Farjad Iqbal, front right. In front are examples of clay samples dissolved at different concentrations in a NaOH solution. The team invented a new test that can predict the performance of cementitious materials in mere 5 minutes. This is in contrast to the standard ASTM tests, which take up to 28 days. This new advance enables real-time quality control at production plants of emerging, sustainable materials. Photo taken at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign on Monday, Feb. 3, 2025. (Photo by Fred Zwicky / University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)

Researchers develop a five-minute quality test for sustainable cement industry materials

A new test developed at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign can predict the performance of a new type of cementitious construction material in five minutes — a significant improvement over the current industry standard method, which takes seven or more days to complete. This development is poised to advance the use of next-generation resources called supplementary cementitious materials — or SCMs — by speeding up the quality-check process before leaving the production floor.

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