Complex systems are ubiquitous in today’s technological world — whether they be supply chain networks, protein interactions, climate change, or a whole host of other examples — and a better understanding of them can lead to deeper scientific insights and more effective engineered systems. Supply chains are a good example…

Hard tech — technology that touches the hard stuff — is gaining ground as technological advances are rewriting the economic equations, Mung Chiang, Purdue executive vice president for strategic initiatives and the John A. Edwardson Dean of the College of Engineering, writes in a recent Forbes article. Chiang states that…

Trackers are fabled for their ability to detect faint traces of the object of their search to stay on the trail. Now engineering and medicine have paired up to track early biomarkers of cardiomyopathy (CM) in patients with Duchenne muscular dystrophy, to better define its onset and rate of progression…

College commencement season offers a new opportunity to ask, “How can we keep innovating to be better?” In a recent Forbes article, Mung Chiang, Purdue executive vice president for strategic initiatives and the John A. …

Hospitals were stressed even before the COVID-19 pandemic. One reason is that people with multiple chronic conditions struggle to manage their health; navigating various providers and systems poses additional challenges. The upshot is that some of them delay care until they are so sick that they require hospitalization, or they…

As computers become more and more pervasive, it’s readily apparent how much software ecosystems affect our lives. Throughout the last decades, we have seen our connected lives evolve from the snail’s pace of dial-up modems to high-speed, always-on-and-listening devices connected to the cloud. Yet nothing seems to come without a…

Fifty years ago, clinical pharmacologist Harry Shirkey noted that children are often “therapeutic orphans” in biomedical research — a trend that continues, with pediatric biomedical advances lagging behind those for adults, and rare pediatric-only conditions, or “orphan diseases,” lacking a market sufficient to drive intervention. …

Sometimes you can’t get somewhere, but you still have to see inside. That’s as true for the hidden chambers of the Egyptian pyramids as it is for the handling and non-proliferation of nuclear fuel. A little bit of artificial intelligence (AI) can come in handy. Our research focuses on developing…

A fog is blanketing computing. Yet it’s not obscuring things; instead, it’s revealing them more clearly. This is fog computing, a decentralized paradigm in which data is processed throughout networks, not only in servers but also at individual devices — the “edges” of the network — and at all nodes…