# academic-research Published articles for academic-research. This is one page of public article previews, not the complete archive. Follow Next page to continue. Summaries are not the original full articles. ## Announcing Capital One's 2026 UIUC AI Awardees DevFeed: [Announcing Capital One's 2026 UIUC AI Awardees]() Original publisher: [Read original article]() Author: Capital One Tech Published: 2026-07-21T14:45:44Z Content type: release Language: en Sources: [Capital One Tech]() Topics: [Artificial Intelligence](), [ai safety](), [Generative AI](), [Large Language Model](), [Code generation](), [Cybersecurity]() Tags: [2026](), [academic-research](), [agentic-ai](), [agents](), [ai](), [ai-research](), [ai-safety](), [code-generation](), [cybersecurity](), [generative-ai](), [large-language-models-llms](), [research](), [science]() ### AI overview Capital One announces its 2026-2027 research and fellowship awardees from the University of Illinois. The featured projects address LLM reasoning faithfulness, code reasoning, imaginative LLM agents, and agentic AI safety. ### Source excerpt Meet the University of Illinois researchers and fellows advancing Agentic AI through our academic partnership.Announcing the Center for Generative AI Safety, Knowledge Systems, and Cybersecurity (ASKS) 2026-2027 Capital One Research Awardees from the University of Illinois As we look toward the 2026-2027 academic year, we continue to partner with institutions that lead the global conversation on the future of intelligence. We are thrilled to announce this year's cohort of research and fellowship awardees from the University of Illinois, whose pioneering work addresses the most critical frontier in technology today: Agentic AI. From the way machines "think" and "imagine" to the hardware that powers them and the safety protocols that govern them, these five projects represent Capital One's holistic push toward AI that is not only powerful but also faithful, safe and creative. The 2026-2027 research awardees1. Ensuring Intellectual Honesty Advancing LLM Reasoning Faithfulness without Faithfulness Rewards Faculty: Hao Peng Professor Peng is tackling the "hallucination" problem at its core. By developing methods to ensure large language models (LLMs) follow a logical, faithful reasoning path-without relying on traditional, often biased, reward systems-this work ensures that when an AI gives an answer, the "why" behind it is actually true, a critical component for trustworthy financial applications. TrACE-Contrast: Faithful & Consistent Code Reasoning via Trace-Aware Contrastive Learning Faculty: Talia Ringer and Reyhan Jabaarvand Writing code is one thing; understanding how it executes is another. Professor Ringer's project uses contrastive learning to align a model's code generation with its actual execution "trace." This ensures that AI-generated software is verified and logically sound, which is vital for maintaining the integrity of our core technology systems. 2. Bridging the Gap: Agency & Imagination Creative LLM Agents based on Thinking with Imagination Faculty: H ## Making the Invisible, Visible: 6 Months of Diving Deeper into AI DevFeed: [Making the Invisible, Visible: 6 Months of Diving Deeper into AI]() Original publisher: [Read original article]() Author: Anina Botha Published: 2026-05-21T07:03:08Z Content type: opinion Language: en Sources: [UX Magazine]() Topics: [User experience (UX)](), [Artificial Intelligence]() Tags: [academic-research](), [ai](), [chatbots](), [ux]() ### AI overview A UX practitioner reflects on six months of studying AI, human behavior, and academic research to develop principles for product teams. The article focuses on designing better human-technology experiences, including appropriate trust, adoption, chatbots, and prompts. ### Source excerpt What I didn't do I have not vibe-coded, crafted the perfect prompt, created a skill to use, or [insert any trending thing right now]. Not because I'm not interested -- believe me, it's tempting. But my focus has been elsewhere. It simply hasn't aligned with my goals and needs. Not yet. For the last 6 The post Making the Invisible, Visible: 6 Months of Diving Deeper into AI appeared first on UX Magazine. ## Research, Satellite Communications, Software Security, and AI-Powered Attacks DevFeed: [Research, Satellite Communications, Software Security, and AI-Powered Attacks]() Original publisher: [Read original article]() Author: Russ Published: 2026-05-12T12:05:05Z Content type: article Language: en Sources: [rule 11 reader]() Topics: [Artificial Intelligence](), [data](), [idc](), [Software](), [Mobile]() Tags: [academic-research](), [ai](), [ai-adoption](), [attacks](), [communications](), [data](), [idc](), [software](), [worth-reading]() ### AI overview This roundup references academic research, the history of Motorola's Iridium satellite mobile telephony service, progress in software security, and the risk that rapid AI adoption may undermine that progress. It also cites IDC's projection about future data generation and warns enterprises about AI-powered attacks. ### Source excerpt The screenshot feature has cultivated a wide range of impactful academic research across computing and social scientific fields. When Motorola unveiled its Iridium global satellite-based mobile telephony service in the late 1990's everything augured well for a revolution in the satellite communications market, only it didn't happen. While the software industry has made genuine strides over the past few decades to deliver products securely, the furious pace of AI adoption is putting that progress at risk. The analytic company IDC says the U.S. economy will be generating 394 trillion zettabytes of data annually by 2028 (a zettabyte is a trillion gigabytes). Enterprise strategists need to worry about securing their environments against AI-powered attacks. ## Introducing the EF Academic Secretariat 2026 PhD Fellowship DevFeed: [Introducing the EF Academic Secretariat 2026 PhD Fellowship]() Original publisher: [Read original article]() Author: Shyam Sridhar; Theo Beutel Published: 2026-02-05T00:00:00Z Content type: release Language: en Sources: [Ethereum Foundation Blog]() Topics: [Ethereum](), [Artificial Intelligence]() Tags: [2026](), [academic-research](), [announce](), [ecosystem-development](), [ethereum](), [funding](), [research](), [university](), [with]() ### AI overview The Ethereum Foundation's Academic Secretariat announced its inaugural PhD Fellowship Program for Ethereum-related academic research. The program will award 7-8 one-year fellowships, each providing a $24,000 USD stipend. Applications are due by 23:59 AoE on April 1, 2026, and applicants must be enrolled in a PhD program. ### Source excerpt The EF's Academic Secretariat team is proud to announce the launch of the inaugural PhD Fellowship Program, a pioneering initiative aimed at empowering and expanding the frontiers of Ethereum-related academic research, by supporting Ethereum-related academic work led by PhD students.... ## Introducing the 2025 Academic Grants Round DevFeed: [Introducing the 2025 Academic Grants Round]() Original publisher: [Read original article]() Author: Shyam Sridhar Published: 2025-01-21T00:00:00Z Content type: release Language: en Sources: [Ethereum Foundation Blog]() Topics: [Ethereum](), [Algorithms](), [Cryptography](), [Formal verification](), [networking](), [P2P](), [Security]() Tags: [2025](), [academic-research](), [algorithms](), [announce](), [cryptography](), [ethereum](), [formal-verification](), [funding](), [funding-coordination](), [networking](), [p2p](), [pdf](), [security]() ### AI overview The Ethereum Foundation's Ecosystem Funding Initiative has opened its 2025 Academic Grants Round, offering $2 million for open-access academic research related to Ethereum. Proposals are due by March 16, 2025. ### Source excerpt The EF's Ecosystem Funding Initiative team is proud to announce the launch of the 2025 Academic Grants Round, a pioneering initiative aimed at empowering and expanding the frontiers of Ethereum-related academic research. With a dedicated fund of $2 million, we are eager to build upon the success of the previous... ## Results from the Academic Grants Round 2022 DevFeed: [Results from the Academic Grants Round 2022]() Original publisher: [Read original article]() Author: Sara Amaral; Rodrigo Vasquez Published: 2024-12-10T00:00:00Z Content type: article Language: en Sources: [Ethereum Foundation Blog]() Topics: [Ethereum]() Tags: [academic-research](), [ecosystem](), [ethereum](), [funding-coordination](), [research](), [series]() ### AI overview The article reports on the results of a 2022 grants round supporting academic research intended to foster knowledge and further enhance the Ethereum ecosystem. The available excerpt says the response was overwhelming but does not provide the individual results. ### Source excerpt We firmly believe that information is a public good that should be freely shared within the community. In line with this philosophy, in 2022 we initiated a series of grants to support academic research to foster knowledge and further enhance the Ethereum ecosystem. The response we received was overwhelming, and... ## Cryptographic Right Answers: Post Quantum Edition DevFeed: [Cryptographic Right Answers: Post Quantum Edition]() Original publisher: [Read original article]() Published: 2024-07-29T17:25:48Z Content type: article Language: en Sources: [Latacora]() Topics: [Post-quantum cryptography](), [Cryptography](), [recommendations]() Tags: [academic-research](), [cryptography](), [guide](), [post-quantum-cryptography]() ### AI overview This article updates cryptography recommendations for the transition to post-quantum cryptography. It explains that PQC involves more varied tradeoffs than classical cryptography and that some promising systems have failed, making recommendations harder to assess confidently. ### Source excerpt One of our favorite blog posts is our "crypto right answers" post. It's intended to be an easy-to-use guide to help engineers pick the best cryptography choices without needing to go too far down a rabbit hole. With post-quantum cryptography (PQC) recently transitioning from an academic research topic to a more practical cryptography concern we figured it's time for an update of our cryptography recommendations. One thing that makes recommending PQC challenging is that historically, we've been able to provide "better" answers for classical cryptography. Faster and bigger hashes, stronger password KDFs, easier-to-use primitives... These things all have the same fundamental "shape": you can take an existing design and drop in something else to make it better. MD5 and BLAKE3 are not comparable in strength, but you can just use BLAKE3 in place of MD5 and get something that's just far better with minimal API changes. ## Announcing Grants Round for Academic Research DevFeed: [Announcing Grants Round for Academic Research]() Original publisher: [Read original article]() Author: Ethereum Foundation Ecosystem Support Program Published: 2022-03-01T00:00:00Z Content type: release Language: en Sources: [Ethereum Foundation Blog]() Topics: [Ethereum](), [blockchain technology](), [Open Source]() Tags: [academic-research](), [announce](), [blockchain-technology](), [ecosystem-support-program](), [ethereum](), [funding](), [open-source](), [research]() ### AI overview The Ethereum Foundation announces a grants round offering up to $750,000 in total funding for formal research on Ethereum, blockchain technology, and related domains. Applications are due April 22, 2022. ### Source excerpt We are excited to announce a new wave of grants to fund formal research that aims to create more knowledge about Ethereum, blockchain technology, and related domains. We encourage academics, research centers, PhD Students and all those interested in researching Ethereum to submit their project proposals. This grants round has... ## Academic research on browsers, frontend development, and debugging DevFeed: [Academic research on browsers, frontend development, and debugging]() Original publisher: [Read original article]() Author: Paul Irish Published: 2012-09-13T15:45:00Z Content type: article Language: en Sources: [Paul Irish]() Topics: [browsers](), [frontend development](), [debugging](), [Development](), [JavaScript](), [web applications](), [Document Object Model (DOM)](), [Ajax](), [Security](), [Mobile](), [LocalStorage](), [Node.js]() Tags: [academic-research](), [browser](), [browsers](), [debugging](), [debugging-tools](), [development](), [frontend](), [frontend-development](), [javascript](), [mobile](), [node-js](), [performance](), [realtime](), [research](), [security](), [web-applications]() ### AI overview An English developer article curates academic papers, talks, and researchers focused on browsers and frontend development. It covers browser capabilities, DOM events, client-side validation, mobile performance and energy use, web-application race detection, debugging tools, Node.js performance visualization, and browser security research. ### Source excerpt University-level education has never really touched too directly on what we do as frontend developers. I know I was self-taught in the ways of the browser, as were all of my friends. Luckily the sort of webapp work we do these days is quite sophisticated so those CS graduates bring much of the great ideas to the JavaScript community. (Alex Sexton has been a personal inspiration here) Early last year, something clicked in my head when I saw this video: Crossing the Chasm: Pitching Security Research to Mainstream Browser Vendors. You mean.. there are academics... who are doing research on browsers.. in universities? My my! You mean bright minds think about the same things as us and don't publish them on Octopress? ;) Turns out it's quite an active area of research. So, I've put together a list of academic papers, talks, and researchers all centered around frontend development and browsers (Please chime in on the comments if you know of more): Webapps Gibraltar: Exposing Hardware Devices to Web Pages Using AJAX UC San Diego, Microsoft Research, Univ. of Singapore, 2012 Modeling and Reasoning about DOM Events Brown University, 2012 Don't Repeat Yourself: Automatically Synthesizing Client-side Validation Code for Web Applications University of Illinois at Chicago, 2012 Performance Who Killed My Battery: Analyzing Mobile Browser Energy Consumption Stanford, 2012 How far can client-only solutions go for mobile browser speed? ACM Digital Library, 2012 Race Detection for Web Applications Sofia University & ETH Zurich & IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, 2012 Leo Meyerovich - Berkeley Rsearch UC Berkeley, 2009 (Parallel Browser Execution, Security) James Mickens - Microsoft Research Microsoft, 2004- (Performance, localStorage, Mashups, Speculative Execution James Mickens, the Galactic Viceroy of Research Magnificence at Microsoft Research, does awesome work. The above shot is from his MIX11 talk Making Better Web Apps For Today's Browsers. Debugging & Tools Timelapse - Interactiv