Illinois Innovators

Illinois Innovators

56 episodes

Illinois Innovators spotlights research, technological advances, and entrepreneurial efforts of students, faculty, and alumni of the University of Illinois College of Engineering.

Podcasts

Can we create food from air, water and electricity?

Published: Nov. 1, 2023, 5:40 p.m.
Duration: 24 minutes 39 seconds

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Physics for the masses, one song at a time

Published: Sept. 27, 2022, 6:55 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 12 seconds

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Cancer and Engineering with Rohit Bhargava

Published: Jan. 25, 2022, 5:13 p.m.
Duration: 40 minutes 29 seconds

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Tackling Hypersonics with Marco Panesi

Published: Oct. 13, 2021, 8:22 p.m.
Duration: 16 minutes 25 seconds

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Engineering for Good with Vilas Dhar

Published: Aug. 10, 2021, 8:15 p.m.
Duration: 35 minutes 46 seconds

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AI Agricultural Robotics with Girish Chowdhary & EarthSense

Published: Dec. 9, 2020, 5:48 p.m.
Duration: 38 minutes 38 seconds

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Improving Wind Farm Efficiency with Lucas Buccafusca

Published: Aug. 11, 2020, 2:10 a.m.
Duration: 20 minutes 30 seconds

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Mapping the Nation's Food Supply Chain with Megan Konar

Published: Nov. 20, 2019, 5:43 p.m.
Duration: 29 minutes 38 seconds

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Ann-Perry Witmer on the importance of environmental and cultural factors in humanitarian engineering

Published: Nov. 15, 2019, 10:24 p.m.
Duration: 35 minutes 11 seconds

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Nenad Miljkovic on discovery, which can de-ice surfaces in seconds

Published: Oct. 24, 2019, 3:47 p.m.
Duration: 32 minutes 11 seconds

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Hector Silva discusses relativistic theories of gravity in black holes and neutron stars

Published: Oct. 3, 2019, 8:18 p.m.
Duration: 30 minutes 30 seconds

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How Internet of Battlefield Things will change future of warfare with Tarek Abdelzaher

Published: Sept. 12, 2019, 9:12 p.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 38 seconds

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Spectroscopic imaging, 3D printing and cancer research with Rohit Bhargava

Published: Aug. 23, 2019, 7:41 p.m.
Duration: 32 minutes 52 seconds

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Inventables CEO Zach Kaplan on how his company is using 3D carving to help build small businesses

Published: July 31, 2019, 6:35 p.m.
Duration: 30 minutes 47 seconds

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Power electronics expert Philip Krein talks electric vehicles and solar power

Published: July 29, 2019, 4:25 p.m.
Duration: 38 minutes 31 seconds

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Illinois Computer Science Department Head Nancy Amato

Published: June 25, 2019, 10:59 a.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 26 seconds

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EHT Science Council member Charles Gammie on the first photos of a black hole

Published: May 20, 2019, 11:30 a.m.
Duration: 34 minutes 14 seconds

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Retired Navy ROTC Commander on the historic ties between Illinois Engineering at the U.S. military

Published: May 13, 2019, 7:19 p.m.
Duration: 32 minutes 22 seconds

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Kimani Touissant on advances and the future in nanomanufacturing

Published: April 25, 2019, 9:20 p.m.
Duration: 46 minutes 15 seconds

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Gul Agha shares research on wireless sensors used to monitor bridges and civil infrastructure

Published: March 26, 2019, 5 a.m.
Duration: 31 minutes 51 seconds

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Professor Lav Varshney talks AI, Blockchain, and how it relates to science & urban planning

Published: March 15, 2019, 7:10 p.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 49 seconds

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Quantum Information Science -- the Next "Space Race"

Published: Feb. 8, 2019, 4:02 p.m.
Duration: 32 minutes 56 seconds

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Women and Ideas in Engineering series featuring PhD student Sakshi Srivastava

Published: Jan. 3, 2019, 8:44 p.m.
Duration: 33 minutes 40 seconds

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MakerGirl CEO Stephanie Hein

Published: Dec. 6, 2018, 8:24 p.m.
Duration: 16 minutes 50 seconds

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Interviews from the 5th Health Care Engineering Systems Symposium

Published: Oct. 19, 2018, 7:50 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 9 minutes 46 seconds

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Nadya Mason on first year of NSF-funded Illinois Materials Research Science and Engineering Center

Published: Oct. 4, 2018, 6:17 p.m.
Duration: 29 minutes 7 seconds

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Illinois research professor Deepak Kumar discusses advances in biofuels

Published: Sept. 28, 2018, 8:13 p.m.
Duration: 30 minutes 42 seconds

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Naira Hovakimyan on how drones and ride sharers could team up for package delivery

Published: Sept. 24, 2018, 4:28 p.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 13 seconds

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Alison Dunn discusses designing hydrogels that interact with biological tissues

Published: Sept. 11, 2018, 7:37 p.m.
Duration: 26 minutes 48 seconds

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Cybersecurity: Preventing hackers from achieving their plan with Adam Bates

Published: July 26, 2018, 4:29 p.m.
Duration: 30 minutes

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Chief Technologies CEO Kyle Chandler discusses today's engineering of fire safety equipment

Published: July 16, 2018, 8:24 p.m.
Duration: 50 minutes 3 seconds

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How safe are our bridges and what to do about it with leading civil engineer Neil Hawkins

Published: July 9, 2018, 6:11 p.m.
Duration: 35 minutes 18 seconds

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Optimizing Space Travel in the 21st Century with Koki Ho

Published: June 26, 2018, 7:12 p.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 17 seconds

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Dibbs founder Kathleen Hu on decreasing food waste

Published: June 6, 2018, 8:52 p.m.
Duration: 22 minutes

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Data Analytics and the Future of Healthcare with George Heintz

Published: May 29, 2018, 7:46 p.m.
Duration: 25 minutes 16 seconds

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Health Data Analytics Summit

Published: May 14, 2018, 7:20 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 4 minutes 54 seconds

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CS professor Tarek Adbelzaher on how information spreads through social media

Published: May 7, 2018, 2:52 p.m.
Duration: 36 minutes 1 second

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Cyber infrastructure systems and security with Klara Nahrstedt

Published: March 12, 2018, 7:01 p.m.
Duration: 35 minutes 40 seconds

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Academy for Excellence in Engineering Education Director Laura Hahn

Published: Feb. 27, 2018, 7:22 p.m.
Duration: 24 minutes 51 seconds

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Generating electricity from nuclear waste with Aries Loumis, CEO of Lumos Industries

Published: Feb. 12, 2018, 5:33 p.m.
Duration: 37 minutes 55 seconds

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Why even changes in non-extreme weather can affect an ecosystem with Praveen Kumar

Published: Jan. 29, 2018, 9:09 p.m.
Duration: 29 minutes 48 seconds

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Robotic Surgery and Cancer with Kesh Kesavadas.

Published: Dec. 18, 2017, 5:08 p.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 21 seconds

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The Doctor's Office of the Future with Stephen Boppart

Published: Dec. 11, 2017, 8:44 p.m.
Duration: 22 minutes 12 seconds

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Why Cancer Research Needs Engineering Part I: Rohit Bhargava, Director of Cancer Center of Illinois

Published: Nov. 16, 2017, 5:14 p.m.
Duration: 26 minutes 13 seconds

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Professor Andrew Ferguson: Targeting data-driven computational vaccine and design

Published: Nov. 14, 2017, 9:17 p.m.
Duration: 24 minutes 6 seconds

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Aditi Das: Converting Omega 3 fatty acids to cannabinoids to elicit anti-pain relief

Published: Nov. 9, 2017, 8:27 p.m.
Duration: 20 minutes 37 seconds

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Chao Zhang on how TrioVecEvent and geo-tagged Tweets can be vital in emergency situations

Published: Oct. 27, 2017, 4:19 p.m.
Duration: 32 minutes

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Autonomic Energy Systems co-founder Tony Griffin talks cellphone battery life and preventing fires

Published: Sept. 15, 2017, 5:31 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 25 seconds

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Graphene: What a new manufacturing method could mean for the future of this wonder material

Published: Sept. 15, 2017, 5:12 p.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 58 seconds

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Smart security camera's audio could instantly detect sounds of distress

Published: Sept. 15, 2017, 4:59 p.m.
Duration: 29 minutes

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Stephen Blakely -- The Egyptian Pulley and How the Great Pyramid was Built

Published: Sept. 15, 2017, 4:20 p.m.
Duration: 44 minutes 2 seconds

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Computer Science Professor David Forsyth talks coding for autonomous vehicles

Published: Aug. 18, 2017, 7:25 p.m.
Duration: 26 minutes 53 seconds

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Ashley Moy, CEO, Cast 21

Published: July 24, 2017, 6:35 p.m.
Duration: 16 minutes 46 seconds

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Olgica Milenkovic and her team discuss DNA storage technology

Published: July 17, 2017, 3:29 p.m.
Duration: 40 minutes 7 seconds

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Fullstack Academy co-founders David Yang and Nimit Maru

Published: June 28, 2017, 6:53 p.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 5 seconds

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Terry Howerton, CEO and Founder of TechNexus, talks about the growing Chicago tech community

Published: May 15, 2017, 9:54 p.m.
Duration: 27 minutes 49 seconds

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Sanjay Patel discusses the future of virtual reality and his company Personify

Published: May 15, 2017, 9:42 p.m.
Duration: 26 minutes 58 seconds

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Mani Golparvar Fard, CEO of Reconstruct, is revolutionizing construction monitoring

Published: May 15, 2017, 8:53 p.m.
Duration: 33 minutes 20 seconds

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Mayank Kale, CEO of Invoq Health, discusses data-driven physician systems

Published: May 15, 2017, 8:26 p.m.
Duration: 25 minutes 9 seconds

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Divey Gulati, co-founder of ShipBob, Inc., gives an insight on logistics of his e-commerce startup

Published: May 15, 2017, 8:05 p.m.
Duration: 20 minutes 14 seconds

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Leading Bitcoin expert Andrew Miller talks Cryptocurrency

Published: May 15, 2017, 7:38 p.m.
Duration: 41 minutes 57 seconds

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