Illinois Innovators
Illinois Innovators spotlights research, technological advances, and entrepreneurial efforts of students, faculty, and alumni of the University of Illinois College of Engineering.
- Update frequency
- every 18 days
- Average duration
- 32 minutes
- Episodes
- 61
- Years Active
- 2017 - 2025
Professor Lav Varshney talks AI, Blockchain, and how it relates to science & urban planning
Lav Varshney, who leads the Information and Intelligence Group at the University of Illinois, talks about a number of topics related to artificial intelligence. Earlier this year, Professor Varshney …
00:28:49 |
Fri 15 Mar 2019
Quantum Information Science -- the Next "Space Race"
Quantum information science has been called the next technological “space race.” And the University of Illinois is positioning itself to be at the forefront of that race. In November, the U of I pled…
00:32:56 |
Fri 08 Feb 2019
Women and Ideas in Engineering series featuring PhD student Sakshi Srivastava
A native of India, Sakshi Srivastava came to Illinois to study engineering, earning a bachelor of science degree in 2015 and a master of science in 2017. She has served as a research assistant under …
00:33:40 |
Thu 03 Jan 2019
MakerGirl CEO Stephanie Hein
MakerGirl, a non-profit founded at the University of Illinois in 2014, has a mission to inspire the next generations through educational STEM sessions led by college mentors and instructors. In less …
00:16:50 |
Thu 06 Dec 2018
Interviews from the 5th Health Care Engineering Systems Symposium
The University of Illinois hosted the 5th Health Care Engineering Systems Symposium, which brought experts to discuss simulation/virtual reality/augmented reality in health care and education, wearab…
01:09:46 |
Fri 19 Oct 2018
Nadya Mason on first year of NSF-funded Illinois Materials Research Science and Engineering Center
Almost a year ago to the day of this recording, the University of Illinois announced the opening of the $15.6 million NSF-funded Illinois Materials Research Science and Engineering Center and Profess…
00:29:07 |
Thu 04 Oct 2018
Illinois research professor Deepak Kumar discusses advances in biofuels
In this episode, we talk alternative fuels with our guest Deepak Kumar, a research assistant professor in the department of agricultural and biological engineering with a focus on sustainable product…
00:30:42 |
Fri 28 Sep 2018
Naira Hovakimyan on how drones and ride sharers could team up for package delivery
If you live in a metropolitan area, then you are no doubt familiar with gridlock on the highways and roadways. An even greater percentage of those vehicles creating that gridlock are making deliverie…
00:28:13 |
Mon 24 Sep 2018
Alison Dunn discusses designing hydrogels that interact with biological tissues
Alison Dunn discusses her NSF Faculty Early Career award to study how hydrogels interact with biological tissues. Her work also has the potential to further develop general rules for designing hydrog…
00:26:48 |
Tue 11 Sep 2018
Cybersecurity: Preventing hackers from achieving their plan with Adam Bates
When you think cybersecurity, you’re probably thinking about measures to keep hackers out of your network. Adam Bates, is focused on next steps after an attack begins. The assistant professor of comp…
00:30:00 |
Thu 26 Jul 2018
Chief Technologies CEO Kyle Chandler discusses today's engineering of fire safety equipment
Kyle Chandler, the founder and CEO of Chief Technologies, a Pennsylvania based manufacturer and engineering firm of specialized hazard control systems, discusses engineering behind modern fire equip…
00:50:03 |
Mon 16 Jul 2018
How safe are our bridges and what to do about it with leading civil engineer Neil Hawkins
One of today’s major concerns is the deterioration of bridges. Most recently a pedestrian bridge under construction on the campus of Florida International University collapsed killing six people. Nei…
00:35:18 |
Mon 09 Jul 2018
Optimizing Space Travel in the 21st Century with Koki Ho
The United States has set an ambitious goal of sending a manned mission to Mars during the first half of this century. This will likely mean several more trips to the moon, something we haven’t done …
00:28:17 |
Tue 26 Jun 2018
Dibbs founder Kathleen Hu on decreasing food waste
It is estimated that about 30 percent of consumable food products are wasted, but that number is much higher in the United States. Conversely about 13 percent of Americans are food insecure.
Kathlee…
00:22:00 |
Wed 06 Jun 2018
Data Analytics and the Future of Healthcare with George Heintz
The show tackles the topic of how data analytics has an ever-growing presence in the future of healthcare. The guest is George Heintz, the senior program manager for the University of Illinois at Urb…
00:25:16 |
Tue 29 May 2018
Health Data Analytics Summit
Revolutions in big data analysis are shaping healthcare delivery worldwide—technologies that can analyze, classify, and manage patient data and outcomes. To foster collaboration and to shape the futu…
01:04:54 |
Mon 14 May 2018
CS professor Tarek Adbelzaher on how information spreads through social media
Tarek Abdelzaher, a professor of computer science with an emphasis on cyberphysical systems at the University of Illinois, leads a group of researchers studying how information spreads through social…
00:36:01 |
Mon 07 May 2018
Cyber infrastructure systems and security with Klara Nahrstedt
Klara Nahrstedt, a professor of computer science and director of the Coordinated Science Laboratory at the University of Illinois, discusses her involvement in several National Science Foundation and…
00:35:40 |
Mon 12 Mar 2018
Academy for Excellence in Engineering Education Director Laura Hahn
Laura Hahn, the Director of the Academy for Excellence in Engineering Education (or AE3), joins Illinois Innovators to talk about AE3 initiatives like the Strategic Instructional Innovations Program …
00:24:51 |
Tue 27 Feb 2018
Generating electricity from nuclear waste with Aries Loumis, CEO of Lumos Industries
The startup Lumos has developed a safe renewable system, which not only stores and cools nuclear waste, but uses it for electricity. Its CEO, Aries Loumis, a graduate of Illinois' Nuclear, Plasma, an…
00:37:55 |
Mon 12 Feb 2018
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