Air Force award supports research into resilient spacecraft coordination

Gregory Falco, assistant professor, has received a Young Investigator Program award from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research to investigate autonomous spacecraft that can maintain coordination while an adversary is trying to disrupt them.

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Grant aims to improve AI models of human choices in complex systems

A National Science Foundation grant will support Cornell research aimed at developing AI models that can better represent human decision-making in cyber-physical systems while remaining interpretable and explicit about uncertainty.

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T. Michael Duncan leaves a legacy in the classroom

For 36 years at Cornell, Professor T. Michael Duncan approached teaching with the same rigor he brought to research. Now his school wants to honor his legacy with a new fellowship.

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Researchers outline priorities for robust U.S. climate assessments

Five Cornellians join 175 global experts to outline research priorities that can inform future national and regional climate assessments in a new special collection of the American Geophysical Union and the American Meteorological Society. 

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Cornell Tech professor’s startup receives $1.75 million to improve AI efficiency

Makora, a startup founded by assistant professor Mohamed Abdelfattah, has received a $1.75 million award from the National Science Foundation-supported STRIDE Ventures AI Efficiency Challenge.

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Students create first in-depth map of ‘forever chemicals’ in the Finger Lakes

Undergraduates tested more than 300 bodies of water for 24 common per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in Finger Lakes region.

Trading power reductions could reduce data center strain on energy grid

Researchers proposed a novel way to manage the increased demand for electricity by data centers: a credit market that would allow centers that are facing required cutbacks to pay flexible energy users to take on their obligations when the grid is strained. 

$7.5M grant to establish foundations for visual computing with light

The work is paving the way for hybrid optical-electronic systems that could reduce the energy and computational resources required for AI-driven image analysis and other visual inference tasks.

Applied physicist wins Packard Fellowship to advance slidetronics

Kenji Yasuda, assistant professor in the School of Applied and Engineering Physics, was honored for his work with stacks of atomically thin materials that host emergent quantum phenomena.