2022
Nine PSD members named Highly Cited Researchers
November 15, 2022
The Highly Cited Researchers™ list from Clarivate™ identifies scientists and social scientists who have demonstrated significant influence through publication of multiple highly cited papers during the last decade. Ten PSD members made the 2022 list.
$9.2M grant to UChicago computer scientists will improve graph analytics
November 10, 2022
UChicago computer scientists will lead a $9.2M grant from ARPA for the UpDown System, to speed up graph analytics. The effort will reinvent computer architecture, dramatically increasing efficiency and scalability for graph computing. Prof. Andrew Chien wil head a team including Henry Hoffmann, Yanjing Li, and Michael Maire.
Pranav Gokhale, PhD’20, among Crain’s Chicago Business 40 Under 40 for 2022
November 7, 2022
Pranav Gokhale, PhD‘20 Computer Science, was among Crain’s Chicago Business 40 Under 40 for 2022. Prof. Fred Chong comments on his success in co-leading their quantum startup, Super.tech.
Prof. Giulia Galli receives ISSNAF 2022 Lifetime Achievement Award
November 1, 2022
Liew Family Professor Giulia Galli recieved the ISSNAF Lifetime Achievement Award which acknowledges outstanding individuals of Italian origin who, thanks to their pioneering spirit and lifetime commitment, have honored their country of origin and given a significant contribution to research, leadership, and mentorship in any field.
Discovering the highest energy particles from the top of the Greenland Ice Sheet
October 27, 2022
Prof. Abigail Vieregg, Depts. of Physics and Astronomy and Astrophysics, has been awarded $1.25M from the Moore Foundation for instrumentation development to advance the detection of the highest energy neutrinos in ice sheets and build a more complete picture of the dynamic high-energy universe.
Marcela Carena named DOE Office of Science Distinguished Scientist Fellow
October 26, 2022
Prof. Marcela Carena, Dept. of Physics, and of Fermi National Laboratory has been selected by The Department of Energy as one of two national laboratory scientists to be named DOE Office of Science Distinguished Scientist Fellows.
PSD in the news - October 2022
October 26, 2022
This month PSD researchers were featured for their efforts to test an unhackable internet, develop metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) to transform cancer treatments, and design and build the next generation telescope called CMB-S4.
New UpDown Project uses “intelligent data movement” to accelerate graph analytics
October 25, 2022
With a $9.2 million grant from IARPA, Andrew A. Chien will lead a team of UChicago CS researchers building the UpDown System, a new approach that could speed up graph analytics a hundredfold.
Asst. Prof. Leslie Rogers on award-winning team for Scialog: Signatures of Life in the Universe
October 20, 2022
Assistant Professor Leslie Rogers, Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics and the College, is part of an interdisciplinary team that has been awarded a Scialog: Signatures of Life in the Universe Award to pursue innovative research on how volatile reservoirs within planets inform life outside the Solar System.
Three UChicago scientists named 2022 fellows of American Physical Society Scholars
October 19, 2022
Profs. David Mazziotti, Jiwoong Park, and David Schuster have been named 2022 fellows of the American Physical Society Scholars and recognized for contributions to atomically-thin materials, electron structure methods, and quantum networks.
Asst. Prof. Weixin Tang, Dept. of Chemistry, named a 2022 Packard Fellow
October 18, 2022
Neubauer Family Assistant Professor Weixin Tang, Dept. of Chemistry, was named a 2022 Packard Fellow. The award will support her research to develop a mammalian biology-compatible, adaptation-ready directed evolution strategy to isolate biomolecules for therapeutic discovery.
Common deidentification methods don’t fully protect data privacy, study finds
October 13, 2022
In an award-winning paper, Asst. Prof. Aloni Cohen, Dept. of Computer Science and Data Science, described a new kind of attack called “downcoding” and warns that the most popular data transformations intended to anonymize should not be considered sufficient to protect individuals’ privacy.
Latinxs and Hispanics in the Mathematical Sciences honors David Uminsky
October 13, 2022
For Hispanic Hertiage Month, the group Latinxs and Hispanics in the Mathematical Sciences (Lathisms) spotlighted David Uminsky, the director of the Data Science Institute.
Astronomy and astrophysics grad student recognized with Out to Innovate Award for LGBTQ+ activism
October 11, 2022
Samantha Usman, a graduate student in the Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, has been announced as a winner of the 2022 Out to Innovate Scholarships, in recognition of her LGBTQ+ activism and research contributions to LIGO.
David Awschalom awarded $1 million for development of South Korea-U.S. quantum center
October 5, 2022
The National Research Foundation of South Korea (NRF) has awarded Prof. David Awschalom on the Dept. of Physics $1 million to co-lead the creation of a South Korea-U.S. joint research center dedicated to quantum error correction.