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 […]
Professor Coskun and Team Will Collaborate with Sandia Labs on Applying AI to HPC
Professors Ayse Coskun, Manuel Egele, and Brian Kulis in ECE have received a $500K grant from Sandia National Labs for their project “Al-based Scalable Analytics for Improving Performance, Resilience, and Security of HPC Systems”. HPC refers to High Performance Computing. This is the practice of collecting computing power so that a large system delivers high […]
How Computational Imaging is Helping to Advance In-Vivo Studies of Brain Function
New BU-developed wearable device integrates miniature optics and computational algorithms to enable cortex-wide, cellular resolution imaging of the brain in freely moving animals The ability to study and learn about the brain hinges on what technology is available. Current wearable brain imaging technologies are limited by a small field of view. An interdisciplinary team at […]
CISE Faculty Affiliates Recognized by Boston University as Outstanding Researchers
CISE faculty affiliates Assistant Professor Lei Tian and Assistant Professor Eshed Ohn-Bar were recognized by Boston University as a recipient of the 2021 Early Career Excellence in Research Award from the College of Engineering and the Junior Faculty Fellow of the Hariri Institute for Computing for 2021, respectively. The Early Career Excellence in Research Award […]