UChicago News (Sept. 30) -- A student team from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is one of three finalists in the “CIE + Cisco EIR Innovation Challenge.” The Challenge was created this year by the Chicago Innovation Exchange and Cisco Entrepreneurs in Residence to support early-stage startups building game-changing products in the Internet of Everything, Big Data, cloud computing and other transformational areas. CS postdoc Kirill Mechitov leads the Embedor team from Illinois, which is looking to reduce catastrophic bridge failures by improving the way structural and civil engineers assess and analyze the health of bridges.
Kirill Mechitov, a postdoc in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, leads the team, which is looking to reduce catastrophic bridge failures by improving the way structural and civil engineers assess and analyze the health of bridges. - See more at: http://news.uchicago.edu/article/2014/09/30/chicago-innovation-exchange-cisco-narrow-field-three-teams-innovation-challenge#sthash.27PSzQMM.dpuf
The Challenge was created this year by the Chicago Innovation Exchange and Cisco Entrepreneurs in Residence to support early-stage startups building game-changing products in the Internet of Everything, Big Data, cloud computing and other transformational areas. - See more at: http://news.uchicago.edu/article/2014/09/30/chicago-innovation-exchange-cisco-narrow-field-three-teams-innovation-challenge#sthash.27PSzQMM.dpuf
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have been named finalists in the “CIE + Cisco EIR Innovation Challenge.” - See more at: http://news.uchicago.edu/article/2014/09/30/chicago-innovation-exchange-cisco-narrow-field-three-teams-innovation-challenge#sthash.27PSzQMM.dpuf