2025 CISE Best Paper Competition
The Center for Information & Systems Engineering established the CISE Best Student Paper Award competition to promote student research and recognize the scientific quality of research being conducted by CISE students. The opportunity is open to all students currently enrolled at Boston University and advised by a CISE faculty affiliate.
Paper submissions will be evaluated through a blind review process conducted by both a student and a faculty review committee. The award winner and finalists will be selected based on the ratings and comments received from paper reviewers. The winner and finalists will be recognized at the 2025 CISE Best Student Paper Awards event on Friday, April 4th from 3pm-4pm at 8 St. Mary’s Street, PHO 210.
Student Reviewers: Efe Sencan, Tom Wu, Zeynep Ece Kizilates, Ahmad Ahmad, Mehdi Kermanshah, Sevval Simsek, Haoxing Tian, David Liu, Erhan Ozcan, Abin Binoy George
1st PLACE AWARD
Constraint-Conditioned Actor-Critic for Offline Safe Reinforcement Learning
Lead author: Zijian Guo, PhD candidate of Systems Engineering
(Advisor: Wenchao Li)
2nd PLACE AWARD
LLMs Cannot Reliably Identify and Reason About Security Vulnerabilities (Yet?): A Comprehensive Evaluation, Framework, and Benchmarks
Lead author: Saad Ullah, PhD candidate of Electrical and Computer Engineering
(Advisor: Gianluca Stringhini)
Register to attend here.
Evaluation Criteria
- Significance and impact of work
- Creativity and innovation
- Completeness and quality of work presented
- Articulacy in writing and presentation
- Relevance to information and systems engineering, broadly defined