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Feb 3

Health & Biomedicine

Hijacking red blood cells allows parasite to escape

Researchers discovered that the parasite Babesia microti uses red blood cells to migrate. It may be a way to evade the immune system and find new space to multiply.

Research paper

Jan 29

Artificial Intelligence

Accelerating materials innovation through AI and data science

By leveraging expertise in materials and artificial intelligence from across departments, researchers from Carnegie Mellon are exploring solutions to the challenges facing materials discovery.

A new Drinking Water Utilities Climate Risk Index finds utilities serving 67 million people face high climate risk. Yet 36% of their bonds omit climate change, revealing gaps in preparedness.

Tapping into risk in America’s drinking water

Jan 22

Health & Biomedicine

Tracking fetal health through mother’s abdomen

Researchers propose a method to estimate fetal oxygen through the abdomen. By modeling how light moves through maternal and fetal tissue, it could improve labor monitoring beyond heart rate.

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Jan 19

Advanced Manufacturing

Fuchs joins World Economic Forum meeting in Davos

CMU’s Erica Fuchs returns to the World Economic Forum annual meeting to participate in and moderate sessions alongside global tech, business, and government leaders.

Jan 15

Energy & Environment

What thermostat preferences reveal about U.S. energy usage

A new study published in Nature Energy provides a foundation for understanding how Americans experience temperatures in their home.

Jan 12

Health & Biomedicine

Carnegie Mellon awarded ARPA-H contract to develop 3D bioprinted liver

A CMU-led project team aims to build a 3D bioprinted liver that supports regeneration in acute liver failure patients, with the potential to transform transplant medicine.

Jan 9

Health & Biomedicine

Breakthrough in brain sensing

Carnegie Mellon engineering researchers have designed the first microfabricated stainless steel neural probe that allows for safer, more accurate brain sensing.

Research paper

Researchers develop a camera with spatially selective focusing, allowing the lens to focus on objects at many different distances at once.

The perfect shot

Dec 17

Cyberphysical Systems

Rail renaissance

Carnegie Mellon University researchers are bringing passenger rail back to communities by revitalizing existing rail lines—and in doing so, decreasing costs from billions to millions.

Dec 15

Artificial Intelligence

Training students to bring fundamentals to AI frontiers

Chemical engineering students learn to fuse domain knowledge with machine learning and data science, a combination of skills that puts them at the forefront of changes in industry.

Dec 11

News & Events

Savvides named National Academy of Inventors Fellow

Marios Savvides has been named National Academy of Inventors Fellow, the highest professional distinction accorded solely to academic inventors.

Dec 8

Health & Biomedicine

Unified EEG imaging improves mapping for epilepsy surgery

A machine-learning method analyzes all major epilepsy biomarkers noninvasively, offering a faster, unified way to locate seizure-origin regions.

Mechanical engineering undergraduate finds research opportunities that combine his interest in 3D printing and robotics.

Researching a hot topic

Dec 1

Advanced Manufacturing

Uncovering how cells reshape their surroundings

A new chemoselective method reveals how cells rebuild their surroundings. Developed by researchers at Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Wisconsin–Madison, it enables precise tagging and analysis of newly made extracellular matrix proteins.

Nov 28

Artificial Intelligence

Using LLMs to better identify market gaps for innovation

First-of-its-kind large language model converts consumer wants and needs into succinct product attributes to help designers think more strategically about the next generation of solutions.

Nov 25

News & Events

CMU-Africa partners with NBA Africa to accelerate early-stage startups

The NBA Africa Triple Double Accelerator aims to support the next wave of early-stage African startup businesses transforming the sports and creative sectors. Five finalists will be chosen to join CMU-Africa’s Business Incubation Program.

Nov 21

Artificial Intelligence

Tactile sensors enable robots to carry unsecured loads

A new quadrupedal system with tactile sensing, LocoTouch, enables robot dogs to transport unsecured cylindrical objects on their backs for more than 60 meters while navigating around cones and over obstacles.

Nov 19

Health & Biomedicine

A tiny lens into the vast world of soil microbes

Microorganisms behave differently in the lab, so researchers designed nanocultures to cultivate them in their natural environment. Magnetic shells provide an efficient way to retrieve them.

Nov 14

Health & Biomedicine

Bringing sickle cell disease pain into focus

A new study led by Wood Neuro Group uses advanced brain imaging and a digital visualization tool to illuminate how sickle cell disease pain is processed in the brain.

Nov 12

Advanced Manufacturing

Honey, I shrunk the robot

CMU researchers use novel 3D nanofabrication techniques to miniaturize robots, thereby enabling exceptional speed, precision, and the potential for new applications in manufacturing and medicine.

Nov 10

Artificial Intelligence

Simulator boosts strength, design in spray 3D concrete printing

Carnegie Mellon engineers have developed a simulation tool that predicts how sprayed concrete behaves and solidifies, even around rebar. The breakthrough could transform how buildings are constructed, cutting material waste and enabling stronger, more complex structures for tomorrow’s cities.

Nov 7

Artificial Intelligence

Going for gold in thermal conductivity

Mechanical Engineering Professor Alan McGaughey coordinated the “Phonon Olympics,” bringing together developers and expert users to benchmark three leading open-source thermal conductivity calculation packages.

The Manufacturing Futures Institute and it is partners hosted bi-weekly sessions that gave participants the opportunity to use tools and machinery that sparked their interest in the manufacturing careers.

Stepping on up to manufacturing careers

Oct 31

Artificial Intelligence

AI Coach is changing the way teams perform for better results

Backed by psychology-informed AI, AI Coach is making high-performance teamwork more accessible than ever.

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Oct 29

News & Events

Akinci appointed Dean of College of Engineering

Burcu Akinci has been appointed the next Dean of CMU’s College of Engineering, effective January 1, 2026.

Oct 27

Artificial Intelligence

Hitting the gym: Researchers design controllers for robots made from living muscle

In a lab where biology meets robotics, Carnegie Mellon researchers are tackling a unique challenge: how do you control a robot made of living muscle that grows stronger every time it moves?

Oct 24

Robotics

Sky’s the limit: Taking autonomous flight to new heights

Marcel Bergerman (ECE 1996) and his company Near Earth Autonomy are making un-crewed flight a reality, creating new possibilities in cargo transport and aerial inspection.

Amazon’s AI Ph.D. Fellowship Program aims to help drive the innovations that will underwrite the next step in the evolution of practical AI.

Engineering students among Amazon AI Ph.D. Fellows

Oct 21

Energy & Environment

Controlling the course of contrails

Han Ding is working to make aviation more sustainable through a high-resolution weather model.

Oct 17

News & Events

Using Softbotics to sense the spectrum

Researchers have developed flexible antennas to better utilize radio waves, increasing wireless connectivity and communication.

Oct 14

Artificial Intelligence

From donor to digital: making multi-structure transplants smarter and safer

Jessica Zhang is using AI and digital twins to make limb transplants safer, more accessible, and better matched for the millions of Americans living with limb loss.

Oct 10

Advanced Manufacturing

Skybound construction

Advancements in aerial additive manufacturing from the lab of Amir Barati Farimani could one day enable drones to construct remote infrastructure, maintain cities, and support space exploration.

Oct 8

News & Events

Summer of discovery

Five students who participated in the Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) program enriched their studies by conducting research related to the biomedical applications of their respective engineering fields.

Oct 6

News & Events

Be“spoke”: the CMU alumna who re-engineered the bicycle for women

Georgena Terry (MechE ’80) built the first custom bikes created specifically for women, leading a new industry, influencing an entire sport, and blazing a trail to the U.S. Bicycling Hall of Fame.

Oct 3

News & Events

Afretec Network awards $2.3M in multi-institutional research grants

The multi-institutional grants will build research capacity and accelerate digital growth throughout the African continent.

Oct 2

Energy & Environment

Heat pump technology may narrow the energy equity gap

Researchers from Carnegie Mellon and the University of Maryland found that an emerging technology known as heat pumps leads to reduced disparities in thermal comfort across different income groups.

Oct 1

Health & Biomedicine

Revolutionizing early cancer detection with at-home technology

An award of up to $26.7 million from the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) has been secured by a CMU-led team to offer an at-home solution to detect more than 30 Stage 1 solid tumor cancers from a simple urine sample.

Researchers in the Materials Science and Engineering Department have pioneered the potential to train large language models to understand a novel alloy physics language in a similar manner.

AlloyGPT: Leveraging a language model to aid alloy discovery

Sep 26

Health & Biomedicine

Designer biobots made from human lung cells

Researchers are developing microscale robots with customizable movement, aiming to navigate the body for targeted therapies using advanced tissue engineering.

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Research paper

Sep 22

Artificial Intelligence

The future of drones in construction

New research from the Department of Mechanical Engineering will make it safer for drones to survey construction sites by eliminating the risk of collision.

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Sep 19

Health & Biomedicine

Kainerstorfer gains fresh insight through ELATES program

BME’s Jana Kainerstorfer recently completed the yearlong ELATES leadership program at Drexel University, which trains women faculty and administrators in STEM.

Sep 16

News & Events

New horizons for Real World Engineering

Engineering students took a trip across the Atlantic to learn about engineering in Germany, a country known for its efforts in manufacturing and sustainability.

Researchers explore using NIRS to screen adults with sickle cell disease, revealing insights into oxygenation and aging-related mechanisms.

Better screening tool for sickle cell disease progression

Sep 8

Health & Biomedicine

Electric shocks power-off drug-resistant yeast

Electrochemical therapy makes currently-available drugs more effective against yeast infections that the CDC classifies as an urgent threat.

Sep 8

Energy & Environment

How electric vehicles can power infrastructure change

College of Engineering researchers found that increased electric vehicle adoption can trigger new investment in sustainable energy generation and storage, making vehicle infrastructure greener.

Sep 4

Robotics

Dr. Majidi and the amazing superhuman wearables

Superhuman senses aren’t just for superheroes anymore. Carmel Majidi is introducing flexible wearables, inspired by Softbotics, to augment human senses in both the real and virtual world.

Research paper

Aug 28

Energy & Environment

Finding the best decarbonization pathways for refineries

A decision-making tool from the Center for Advanced Process Decision-making predicts the best strategy for an oil refinery to implement decarbonization technologies.

Aug 27

News & Events

New seminar for first-year students

The College of Engineering Class of 2029 is being invited to enroll in the new First Year Seminar—a semester-long series of weekly sessions designed to help first-year students build community and connect to resources that will help them succeed

Aug 26

Artificial Intelligence

An old-school tool revisited

Before handheld calculators, engineers relied on slide rules. These mechanical analog computers helped get us go to the moon. Our students got hands-on experience using these important tools in the evolution of engineering education.

Aug 22

Advanced Manufacturing

Extending battery life, improving operating safety

New technology from Reeja Jayan in the department of mechanical engineering at Carnegie Mellon University extends battery life cycle by 10x, reduces charging time, and improves operating safety.

Aug 20

Health & Biomedicine

Three-time alum traverses departments to tackle maternal and fetal health

Jingyi Wu came to CMU to study physics, but the supportive community he found inspired him to continue his academic journey at the university for nearly a decade.

Aug 18

Artificial Intelligence

Get to know the robot dog that can clean your house and serve you soda

New machine learning framework bridges the embodiment gap between robots and humans and enables quadrupedal robots to perform versatile movements like pouring soda, organizing shoes, and even cleaning up cat litter.

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Led by globally recognized experts, participants at the first-ever Summer School on Digital Humanism at CMU-Africa teamed up to discuss issues at the intersection of technology and humanity in the African context.

A dialogue on digital humanism in Africa

Aug 13

Health & Biomedicine

Microfluidic platform for monitoring parasite spread by ticks

As cases of babesiosis increase, scientists now have a better way to study how the parasite is transmitted and how it infects red blood cells over time.

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Aug 11

News & Events

CMU hacking team wins ninth DEF CON Capture-the-Flag title

The winningest team in DEF CON’s Capture-the-Flag (CTF) competition history, Carnegie Mellon University’s Plaid Parliament of Pwning (PPP), won its fourth consecutive title, earning its record ninth victory in the past 13 years.

Aug 7

Advanced Manufacturing

“Don’t tell me you’re trying to 3D print my engagement ring”

CMU alum Tanner Aikens put his design skills and creativity to the test when he set out to 3D print jewelry for his girlfriend.

Aug 5

News & Events

Fellowship connects students with Pennsylvania companies

The PITA Fellowship creates opportunities for students to gain hands-on research experience and industry connections with PA-based companies.

A new study at CMU-Africa investigated the continent’s digital privacy laws and discovered a clear regulatory gap when it comes to cookie consent mechanisms.

Clicking away consent

Jul 29

Advanced Manufacturing

AI model accelerates design process

A new machine learning model can save engineers time and computation resources by using AI to quickly and accurately predict simulation results.

Jul 25

Cyberphysical Systems

Jones and Nakahira receive NSF CAREER awards

Trevor Jones and Yorie Nakahira were awarded the NSF’s prestigious Faculty Early Career Development award.

Jul 24

News & Events

When LLMs autonomously attack

Carnegie Mellon researchers show how LLMs can be taught to autonomously plan and execute real-world cyberattacks against enterprise-grade network environments—and why this matters for future defenses.

Research paper

Jul 22

Health & Biomedicine

Undergrad student graduates as COO of medical device startup

Tanvi Mittal (MechE, BME ’25) is the chief operating officer of Pittsburgh-based startup noVRel that is working to enhance neurosurgery with augmented reality.

Jul 16

News & Events

2025 Dean’s Early Career Fellows announced

The College of Engineering congratulates Sang Chalacheva, Vanessa Chen, Amanda Krause, and Ana Ines Torres, who received this year’s Dean’s Early Career Fellowships awards.

Jul 15

Artificial Intelligence

Time to check your blood pressure—no cuff required

Computer vision technology allows for video-based estimation of blood pressure.

Jul 11

Advanced Manufacturing

A second life for air quality monitors

Published in Science Advances, breakthrough polymer coating extends the half-life of an MXene-based air quality sensor by 200% and enables regeneration when performance begins to degrade.

Jul 8

Energy & Environment

Student research forecasts changing rainfall in Rwanda

CMU-Africa student Stephen Augustine is researching rainfall forecasting methodology that addresses food insecurity in Rwanda caused by shifting climates.

Jul 2

News & Events

Reboot the Earth fosters a new intercontinental partnership

CMU’s OSPO and the Upanzi Network spark a new partnership at the United Nation’s Reboot the Earth hackathon.

New research explores the transformative potential of EEG-based BCIs and their application beyond basic communication to intricate motor control.

BCI robotic hand control reaches new finger-level milestone

Jun 27

Health & Biomedicine

Modifying red blood cells for safe and effective drug delivery

A Carnegie Mellon University-led team is receiving $5.4 million from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to develop technologies for transporting drug molecules in red blood cells.

Jun 25

Energy & Environment

Riding out extreme heat

People may be more likely to turn to ride-hailing services like Uber or Lyft for transportation during extremely hot weather, shows research from Carnegie Mellon engineering faculty.

Jun 24

Artificial Intelligence

A roadmap for large language models in chemical research

In a Q&A, Gabe Gomes discusses the potential to combine human creativity with machine capability, transforming chemical research.

Jun 20

Health & Biomedicine

A glowing biosensor for high-throughput drug screening

Researchers develop a bioluminescent sensor to test protein activation, speeding up a lengthy step in drug discovery for neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer’s Disease.

A new method for creating superhydrophobic surfaces offers precise control over the shape and location of the structures, while requiring no post processing.

Printed materials inspired by nature

Jun 13

News & Events

PURRcision: Pulse oximeters for Frankie’s Friends

Engineering students get real experience solving problems for local companies and non-profits in the course Foundation of BME Design.

Jun 10

Advanced Manufacturing

Automated feeders and computer vision to revolutionize fish farming in Africa

CMU-Africa professor Jesse Thornburg is using automatic feeders and computer vision to make fish farming in Rwanda more economical.

Jun 6

News & Events

Vijayakumar Bhagavatula named interim dean of the College of Engineering

Carnegie Mellon University has named Vijayakumar Bhagavatula interim dean of the College of Engineering.

Jun 3

News & Events

Impact CMU features engineering projects with social impact

Impact CMU featured student-led projects with social impact from across the university, including many from the College of Engineering. Projects included AI solutions and volunteering opportunities.

May 29

Energy & Environment

Climate policy can save half of the world’s glaciers

A study published in Science finds that twice as much of the world’s glacier mass could be preserved by meeting the 1.5°C threshold set by the Paris Agreement.

May 28

Health & Biomedicine

Real-time sensors to inform better wound care

Wound assessment can be challenging due to its subjective nature, but a new sensor array quantifies biomarkers and has potential to offer real time measurements that could improve the healing process.

May 28

News & Events

The Afretec Network welcomes ninth university partner

The African Engineering and Technology Network has signed its ninth university partner, Universidade Agostinho Neto. The pan-African network includes technology-focused universities from across the continent.

May 23

News & Events

Neighborly reactions

Undergraduates applied chemical reaction engineering principles to model the water reuse systems at the Center for Sustainable Landscapes at Phipps Conservatory and Botanical Gardens.

May 21

News & Events

Presidential and graduate fellowships announced for 2024-2025

College of Engineering students have been awarded fellowships for the 2024-2025 academic year.

Hamish Gordon and Sneha Prabha Narra were awarded the prestigious Faculty Early Career Development award this year by the NSF.

Gordon and Narra awarded NSF CAREER awards

May 15

Energy & Environment

Environmental engineering junior wins Goldwater scholarship

Jana Reiser, a junior environmental engineering major, is headed for a promising career in interdisciplinary research after winning the prestigious Barry Goldwater scholarship for STEM undergraduates.

May 12

Robotics

The world’s smallest, fastest, power-autonomous biped robot

At less than 1.5 inches tall, the latest bipedal robot from Carnegie Mellon University’s College of Engineering can navigate smaller spaces than any other two-legged robot in the world.

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May 9

News & Events

Greg Rohrer named University Professor

Greg Rohrer was among three Carnegie Mellon University faculty members who have been chosen to receive the title of University Professor in 2025.

May 6

Advanced Manufacturing

How 3D printing can improve African manufacturing

CMU-Africa student Mariam Sulleiman addresses manufacturing challenges in Africa by integrating 3D printing, also known as additive manufacturing, into existing infrastructure.

Joseph DeCarolis, an internationally recognized leader with technical expertise in energy systems, climate change, computing and public policy has been named head of the Department of Engineering and Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University effective November 1, 2025.

DeCarolis named head of Engineering and Public Policy

May 2

Energy & Environment

Forever chemicals, made simple

Civil and environmental engineering researchers provide a roadmap to simplify PFAS destruction in water resources using heterogeneous catalysis, a more sustainable and cost-effective approach.

Apr 29

Advanced Manufacturing

CISR forges on after 40 years

The Center for Iron and Steelmaking Research has made significant contributions to iron and steel production through collaborative efforts between industry partners and CMU faculty and students.

Apr 25

News & Events

Space-tolerant computer chips

Researchers develop microelectronics for space and aerospace applications.

Apr 23

Health & Biomedicine

FRESH bioprinting brings vascularized tissue one step closer

Using their novel FRESH 3D bioprinting technique, which allows for printing of soft living cells and tissues, the Feinberg lab has built a first-of-its-kind tissue model entirely out of collagen.

Apr 18

News & Events

Students find tradition and future in Naval ROTC

Since 1987, CMU has hosted the Steel City Naval ROTC, which turns students into commissioned naval officers and prepares them for the highest responsibilities of command, citizenship, and government.

Apr 15

Advanced Manufacturing

CMU doctoral researchers connect beyond disciplines in 3MT Championship

Three College of Engineering graduate students placed in this year’s Three Minute Thesis competition.

Apr 11

Energy & Environment

Promoting battery electric vehicle safety

The Scott Institute for Energy Innovation and the Safety21 National University Transportation Center have produced a policy brief that offers safety recommendations as more people get behind the wheel of battery electric vehicles.

Apr 9

Robotics

Engineering beneath the surface

Students build an autonomous underwater vehicle that can perform tasks important to the maritime industry, including exploring, detecting, and manipulating objects and deploying projectiles underwater.

Apr 7

Advanced Manufacturing

Pickleball paddles of the future

Materials science and engineering students investigated whether pickleball paddles produced by 3D printing could be as good as, or better, than those produced using existing techniques.

CMU engineers and scientists undertook more than 45 research projects to develop artificial intelligence approaches to enable the use of metal additive manufacturing for the U.S. Army.

Mission accomplished

Apr 2

Energy & Environment

CMU Energy Week tackles AI and energy

Over three days, investors, entrepreneurs, and researchers explored how AI and energy can complement each other.

Mar 31

Health & Biomedicine

Chase elected to AIMBE College of Fellows

The American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) has announced that Steven Chase has been inducted into its College of Fellows.

Mar 28

News & Events

Programmable pixels could advance infrared light applications

Full control over mid-infrared wavelengths enables advancements in applications ranging from chip security to personalized health monitoring.

Mar 26

Energy & Environment

A buzz-worthy engineering design course

Sophomore civil and environmental engineering project course teaches students the engineering design process by working with stakeholders to build habitats that protect local pollinator populations.

Seven College of Engineering alumni are part of this year’s group of Tartans on the Rise.

Engineering on the rise

Mar 20

Health & Biomedicine

Improved muscle mapping could aid neurological treatment

Carnegie Mellon researchers are using high-density surface electromyography (HD-sEMG) with spatial filters and ultrasound to reduce crosstalk and enhance muscle activity localization. This approach aims to achieve precise mapping of muscle activity, particularly in complex structures like the forearm.

Mar 18

News & Events

Dandin receives NSF CAREER Award

Marc Dandin receives prestigious five-year grant given to junior faculty for research and education.

Mar 14

Health & Biomedicine

A new minimally invasive method for deep brain stimulation

Carnegie Mellon University researchers have developed a new method for deep brain stimulation called “DeepFocus” that is minimally invasive and could treat conditions like PTSD and addiction.

Mar 12

Energy & Environment

To ensure energy audits help climate goals, target emissions

Energy audits can be a useful tool for reducing industrial emissions, but new research co-led by Valerie Karplus found that clear climate-specific goals are a vital part of the equation.

Mar 7

Energy & Environment

What do popcorn and sustainable synthesis have in common?

Microwave synthesis produces MXene 25x faster than traditional methods while using 75% less energy, according to new research from the Department of Mechanical Engineering.

Mar 5

Artificial Intelligence

Helping African fintech companies provide secure services

Carnegie Mellon University Africa’s Upanzi Network in collaboration with Approov have created APKIT, an accessible cybersecurity tool for financial technology developers.

Mar 4

Cyberphysical Systems

Autonomy in orbit

CMU team develops frameworks for environmental control and life support systems that can sustain human life in deep space habitats.

Feb 25

News & Events

Fifth year scholar brings sustainable mending to campus

This year, a civil and environmental engineering graduate is one of four Fifth Year Scholars with a mission of bringing sustainable mending to the CMU and Pittsburgh communities.

Feb 25

Advanced Manufacturing

3d printing tomorrow’s ceramics for high-performance systems

New 3D printing technique fabricates highly complex and controllable ceramic nanostructures that could be the key to emerging engineering systems.

Research paper

CMU-Africa, CMU-Pittsburgh, and the non-profit TReND in Africa held a summer school focused on computational neuroscience and machine learning.

Teaching computational neuroscience on the African continent

Feb 18

Health & Biomedicine

Pressure control, the key to liver preservation

Yoed Rabin builds upon his legacy in the field of cryopreservation with a new project aimed at preserving one of the most complex, and in-demand organs.

Feb 14

News & Events

Foosball and Ferraris forever

Students in Tech Start-Up class learn how to develop viable businesses from experienced entrepreneurs.

Feb 11

Artificial Intelligence

Slashing AI data center cooling cost, GPU/CPU power use

Novel thermal interface material cools chips better than existing state-of-the-art solutions.

Feb 7

Energy & Environment

Accelerating green steel

In an annual gathering at CMU, global decarbonization leaders worked toward tackling the challenge of decarbonizing steel production while meeting increasing world-wide demand.

Carnegie Mellon University researchers unveil groundbreaking insights into the mechanisms and limitations of temporal interference stimulation for non-invasive neurostimulation.

Insights on limits of non-invasive deep-brain stimulation

Jan 30

Advanced Manufacturing

Diversifying DNA origami

A new computer aided design tool from the labs of Jon Cagan and Rebecca Taylor enables scientists to rapidly generate and manufacture novel DNA origami structures within designer-defined constraints.

Jan 27

Energy & Environment

Mind the gap: Testing the EV charging network

Researchers develop a metric to measure the gaps in EV charging coverage across the country, revealing the significant work that lies ahead in deploying charging infrastructure.

Jan 24

Health & Biomedicine

Making way for a digital twin of the human placenta

A computational model of the basic functional unit of the placenta enables researchers to simulate placenta blood flow, realistically.

Jan 23

News & Events

Student donates bug bounty to support picoCTF’s cybersecurity education efforts

Seunghyun Lee discovered a series of bugs in Google Chrome’s WebAssembly type system that earned him a bug bounty, which he generously donated to CMU's picoCTF cybersecurity education platform.

Jan 21

Energy & Environment

Dabo receives presidential early career award

Ismaila Dabo has received a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), the highest honor bestowed by the U.S. government on early career scientists and engineers.

Jan 17

Health & Biomedicine

The one-way paths of neural population activity

Center for Neural Basis of Cognition researchers designed a clever BCI experiment to determine whether one-way activity paths, long hypothesized by neural network models, are used in the brain.

Jan 14

Artificial Intelligence

An app to detect birth asphyxia in Africa

Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University are developing an app called HumekaFL to detect birth asphyxia in newborn babies in developing countries.

Jan 10

Advanced Manufacturing

Transformer-based models for identifying alloy properties

Researchers develop AlloyBert, a modeling tool designed to predict the properties of alloys.

Jan 8

Advanced Manufacturing

Manufacturing Futures Institute empowers U.S. industry

The Manufacturing Futures Institute empowers industry with the science and technology needed to accelerate U.S. manufacturing.

Carl Laird has been selected to be the next head of the Department of Chemical Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University’s College of Engineering.

Carl Laird named head of Chemical Engineering

Jan 3

News & Events

Unleashing advancements in animal care

Kara Mathias, who is interested in connecting her research to caring for animals, was awarded the Dr. Mete Akin Endowed Fund for Advancement of Pre-Med Education earlier this year.

Dec 30

Energy & Environment

Rounce receives early-career research fellowship

David Rounce was chosen for a research fellowship to study the effects of climate change and sea-level rise, and to develop coastal adaptation strategies in the Gulf of Mexico.

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Dec 26

News & Events

Ph.D. students run “Cup of Wontons” stall at market

Darren Cheng, Chase McDonald, and Jenny Chang have been running a successful wonton stall at the Squirrel Hill Farmers Market since fall 2023.

Dec 23

News & Events

Enabling developers to write provably correct software

Researchers have made it possible for non-experts to formally prove that their code is correct, reliable, and secure.

The Dowd Engineering Seed Fund for Graduate Student Fellowships funds innovative research proposals.

Taking a chance on ambition

Dec 18

Advanced Manufacturing

A solid step for polymer rings

A new discovery about how ring-shaped polymers behave has the potential to enable new ways for scientists to design more sustainable materials.

Dec 16

Artificial Intelligence

Beyond silicon computer chips

Tathagata Srimani is creating transformative NanoSystems by augmenting silicon with transformative technologies to create faster, more efficient computing systems.

Dec 13

Artificial Intelligence

The trend is your friend … and so is machine learning

Grasping both general market trends and finer details, a new, hybrid machine learning model from researchers in the Department of Mechanical Engineering predicts financial market volatility with increased accuracy.

Dec 10

Energy & Environment

Domestic, circular supply chain for EV batteries

SeaLion Energy, a CMU-led startup, received funding from the U.S. Department of Energy ARPA-E to extend EV battery life and facilitate repair and reuse to reduce waste.

Dec 5

Health & Biomedicine

CMU-developed artificial lung gives lift to DARPA project

Keith Cook joins a multi-institutional, DARPA-funded project to create a novel ECMO and advanced life-support system device capable of rapid deployment to support wounded military personnel.

Dec 4

News & Events

Project ELEVATE charts course for faculty success

The 2024 Project ELEVATE retreat welcomed participants from Carnegie Mellon University, Johns Hopkins University, and New York University to Philadelphia for lectures, work sessions, workshops, and networking.

Dec 2

Artificial Intelligence

Blending the virtual and physical worlds

Civil and environmental engineering faculty have developed a testbed to make AI-enabled digital twins more accessible in the curriculum, but it is also proving valuable in active infrastructure research.

Nov 29

Artificial Intelligence

Multimodal machine learning model increases accuracy

Researchers have developed a novel ML model combining graph neural networks with transformer-based language models to predict adsorption energy of catalyst systems.

Nov 26

News & Events

EPP research will help workers navigate evolving technology

A regional team led by EPP researchers has received ARISE funding to analyze the workforce of North and North-Central Appalachia and develop tools to match workers’ skills with evolving industry needs.

Saaksshi Jilhewar (ChemE ’23) applied her training in chemical engineering and AI to lead her team to victory in a global hackathon for sustainable and affordable energy.

ChemE alumna’s fleet decarbonization solution wins hackathon

Nov 20

Artificial Intelligence

CMU-Africa expands digital public infrastructure initiative

The Upanzi Network will fund research projects in Morocco, Botswana, and South Africa, with plans for additional partnerships.

Nov 18

News & Events

Alumna receives Society of Women Engineers award

Siya Scindia was chosen from among thousands of student members for her outstanding leadership.

Nov 14

Artificial Intelligence

A new set of eyes

Researchers develop the first wearable camera that uses artificial intelligence to help prevent medical administration errors.

Nov 12

Health & Biomedicine

Biological neural circuits critical for neurodegenerative disease therapy and biohybrid robot control

To support the development of new therapies for neurodegenerative disease and advance biohybrid robots, Jessica Zhang and Victoria Webster-Wood will lead a project to develop computational tools to predict neuron growth and transport regulation.

When faculty and students in the College of Engineering create intellectual property, our culture supports their efforts to form startups.

Engineering entrepreneurs find their way

Nov 4

News & Events

Astronaut alumnus runs experiments in zero-gravity scenarios

Kartik Chaudhari credits his degree from the Information Networking Institute for his success in becoming an astronaut in Canada.

Nov 1

Energy & Environment

Robotics for environmental innovation

A team of Carnegie Mellon University researchers is seeking to understand how robotics can help engineers address environmental challenges, such as monitoring affected soils.

Oct 29

Artificial Intelligence

Putting the ghost in the machine

To build AI teammates that better reflect human designers, Chris McComb is emulating cognitive styles in large language models.

Research paper

Oct 25

Energy & Environment

Hubs: A step towards a hydrogen future?

Hydrogen is sometimes considered a secret ingredient in the recipe for a net-zero future. As a team of Carnegie Mellon researchers points out, hydrogen offers many advantages, but it’s not a panacea.

Oct 22

Artificial Intelligence

How CMU Portugal primes startups

CMU Portugal fosters entrepreneurship and the results continue to exceed expectations.

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Ismaila Dabo: Predictive models to identify materials for sustainable energy

Materials Science and Engineering's Ismaila Dabo explains how AI and machine learning can assist research by finding materials that are capable of efficiently storing energy.

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Ece Gunay: Researching Ferroelectric Materials

Materials Science and Engineering Ph.D. candidate Ece Gunay discusses her research on ferroelectric materials.

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Dr. Destenie Nock: How does the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program impact energy use?

Dr. Destenie Nock breaks down new research using smart-meter data to measure how LIHEAP affects household energy use. Using a difference-in-differences approach across 1,351 Mid-Atlantic households, the study finds average impacts that are statistically indistinguishable from zero, though results vary widely, with some evidence of increased use in electrically heated and natural-gas heated homes. Policy recommendations include (1) improve utility and LIHEAP research data sharing to enable mechanism-specific analysis and cross-regional comparison; (2) expand LIHEAP performance measures to include consumption behavior outcomes. Reference: Hunter-Hill, J., Nock, D., & Laasme, H. (2025). Heterogeneous impact of low-income home energy assistance program on energy consumption behavior. iScience, 28(9). https://www.cell.com/iscience/fulltext/S2589-0042(25)01567-6

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Hamish Gordon: Field research takes flight: Measuring and modeling over the Southern Ocean

Chemical Engineering’s Hamish Gordon and Civil and Environmental Engineering students Kate Johnson and Noah Asch discuss their recent field research. They joined the HALO-South campaign to measure atmospheric particles above the Southern Ocean.

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Katherine Flanigan, Mario Bergés: Revitalizing Community Infrastructure for Affordable Rail Mobility

Civil and Environmental Engineering's Katherine Flanigan and Mario Bergés discuss their project: Revitalizing Community Infrastructure for Affordable Rail Mobility.

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