Ioannis Paschalidis Distinguished Professor of Engineering (ECE, BME, SE);
Director, Rafik B. Hariri Institute for Computing and Computational Science and Engineering
Education PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1996Primary Appointment Professor, Electrical and Computer EngineeringAdditional Affiliations Division of Systems Engineering
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Faculty of Computing & Data SciencesClasses Taught EK 381 Probability Theory in Electrical and Computer Engineering
EC 503 Introduction to Learning from Data
EC/SE 524 Optimization Theory and Methods
EC/SE/ME 724 Advanced Optimization Theory and Methods
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Convergent Themes
Ioannis Paschalidis is an active interdisciplinary researcher in the following areas:
Neuroengineering & Neuroscience |͟↗̱|
Energy, Sustainability & Climate |͟↗̱|
Intelligent, Autonomous & Secure Systems |͟↗̱|
Our research transcends disciplines across Boston University and the College of Engineering, drawing upon diverse thinking to solve societal challenges.
Honors and Awards – Distinguished Professor of Engineering, Boston University
– Charles DeLisi Award and Lecturer, College of Engineering, Boston University (2020)
– Best Paper Award, International Medical Informatics Association (2019)
– Best Paper Finalist, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (2016)
– IEEE Fellow (2014)
– Founding Editor-in-Chief, IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems (2013-2019)
– Plenary and semi-plenary speaker at several conferences
– Supervised students who won an IEEE Computer Society Crowdsourcing Prize, an IBM/IEEE Smarter Planet Challenge Award, a WiOpt Conference Best Student Paper Award, and several BU Engineering and Departmental best dissertation awards
– Invited Participant, 12th Annual National Academies Keck Futures Initiative (NAKFI) conference (2014)
– Best performance in modeling selected protein-protein complexes, CAPRI (Critical Assessment of Predicted Interactions), 2009
– Invited Participant, U.S. Frontiers of Engineering Symposium, National Academy of Engineering (2002)
– NSF CAREER Award (2000)
– Second Prize, INFORMS George E. Nicholson paper competition (1997)
Areas of Interest Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
Optimization and Control
Stochastic Systems
Computational Biology and Medicine
Network Systems
Robotics and Autonomy
Publications
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