University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Champaign, IL·Public·Medical school
41 labs on PI Pages. It spends $907M a year on research and awards 870 research doctorates a year.
- Students
- 62,797: 37,468 undergraduates, 25,329 graduate
- Postdocs
- 531
- Faculty
- 2,498 full-time
- Campus
- Primarily residential
Labs here
Lingming Zhang
Computer Science
Train LLMs jointly to generate synthetic software issues and to resolve them, using a self-play loop in which the model learns to create the issues that most improve its own bug-fixing ability.
Luyi Xing
Computer Science·Early-career
Analyze attacks on AI agent messaging under the NLIP open standard, including authorization weaknesses, session hijacking, cost-amplification abuse, memory poisoning, prompt injection and semantic manipulation of message content.
Brian T. Cunningham
Biomedical Engineering
Fabricate assemblies of metal nanoparticles and nanodiamonds, diamond particles with light-emitting atomic defects, and couple them to photonic crystals that amplify both excitation and emission for single-molecule counting.
Angela Kou
Physics·Early-career
Locate the origin of local, unpredictable defects in superconducting transmon qubits using a scanning microwave resonator probe that measures time-resolved qubit behavior.
Sayan Mitra
Computer Science
Develop refinement algorithms that synthesize perception contracts, machine-checkable bounds on how wrong an AI perception module can be, together with the operating design domains in which they hold, for pipelines that fuse camera and inertial sensor data.
Where its research money goes
A year of research spending, from the NSF survey every research university fills in.