My Big Idea: Guided Tours through Virtual and Real Spaces
In our My Big Idea series, we bring you interviews with BU alums and other members of the University community who have launched a business, built a new product, or solved problems big and small. We ask them how they got the idea, what were their biggest stumbling blocks, and what’s next for their big […]
Joshua Rapp wins 2021 IEEE Signal Processing Society Best Ph.D. Dissertation Award
Boston University alumnus Joshua Rapp (Ph.D. ECE ’20) has won the 2021 IEEE Signal Processing Society Best Ph.D. Dissertation Award. Rapp, now a Research Scientist at Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories (MERL), was a student of CISE faculty affiliate Vivek Goyal, Professor and Associate Chair of Doctoral Programs (ECE) at Boston University. “I never imagined getting […]
IRS Stares Technological Advancement Issues in the Face
Almost every American is used to sharing information with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), but people were about to become eerily intimate with the agency after they announced the launch of a new website requirement: live video identity verification. The agency partnered with the third-party company ID.me to prevent scammers from benefiting off of the […]
Roberto Tron Receives the 2021 Early Career Research Excellence Award
Roberto Tron is the recipient of the 2021 Boston University College of Engineering Early Career Research Excellence Award. This annual award celebrates extraordinary success in building high-impact research program early in one’s career. Tron is a CISE Faculty Affiliate and Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering. His research interests combine elements of systems and control theory, […]
Arslan Riaz awarded COMSNETS 2022 Best Research Demo Award
Arslan Riaz, PhD candidate (ECE), won the “Best Research Demo” award at the 14th International Conference on COMmunication Systems & NETworkS (COMSNETS 2022) January 3-8, 2022. Riaz demonstrated the first fully-integrated universal Maximum Likelihood Decoder in 40 nm CMOS using the Guessing Random Additive Noise Decoding (GRAND) algorithm. This novel technology provides a universal system for […]
Three-Fold Funding Towards Smarter, Secure Networks
Professor Alan Liu may be new to the department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, but he has hit the ground running, winning support from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for three related projects aimed at utilizing what he terms “the power of programmability in the network for secure, performant, and reliable systems.” In other words, […]
CISE/SE Alum Inducted Into NC State University Computer Science Hall of Fame
The Induction celebrates Vitolo’s career in academia, energy policy, and public service. CISE Alumnus Tommy Vitolo (PhD SE ’11) has been inducted into the North Carolina State University Hall of Fame for his “career in academia, energy policy, and public service.” Vitolo received degrees in Economics, Computer Science, and Applied Mathematics from NC State from […]
Paschalidis awarded Kilachand Funding for Interdisciplinary Life Science Research
Developing Metamaterials for Low-Cost, Portable MRI Yannis Paschalidis, BU CISE Director and Professor (ECE, SE, BME, CDS), is among a team of researchers who received a new Kilachand fund award after winning a University-wide funding competition judged by an advisory committee. Paschalidis is part of an interdisciplinary team that includes Xin Zhang, BU College of […]
CISE Welcomes Alan Liu
Join us in welcoming Alan (Zaoxing) Liu as our newest CISE faculty affiliate. Liu is an Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and of Computer Science at Boston University. His research has won interdisciplinary recognition, including USENIX FAST Best Paper Award, ACM STOC “Best-of-Theory” plenary talk, and USENIX ATC “Best-of-Rest.” His research interests are in systems and […]
Stealth Driverless Cars without Visible Light?
CISE Faculty Affiliate Professor Vivek Goyal (ECE) recently received a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) subaward for his work in connection with the agency’s Invisible Headlights program. Professor Goyal is working under an award to MIT entitled, Super Headlights: Superconducting Nanowire Detectors for Passive Infrared Sensing. The DARPA Invisible Headlights program has a very […]