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 […]

Ali Siahkamari Ties for First Place in the 2021 CISE Best Student Paper Award

Ali Siahkamari, Boston University PhD candidate (ECE), tied for first place in the 2021 CISE Best Student Paper Award Competition. His winning paper, entitled “Piecewise Linear Regression via a Difference of Convex Functions,” was published in Proceedings of the 37th International Conference on Machine Learning. This paper was co-authored with his advisor, CISE Faculty Affiliate, Associate Professor Brian […]

2021 CISE Best Student Paper Award Winners

CISE is delighted to announce the winners of the Spring 2021 CISE Best Student Paper Award. We received 20 submissions of excellent quality showcasing the strength and diversity of research pursued by CISE students and faculty. We are grateful for the support of the paper review team, which included 16 CISE faculty affiliates from the […]

Francesco Orabona Wins NSF CAREER Award

CISE Faculty Affiliate, Assistant Professor Francesco Orabona (ECE, SE, CS) recently received a prestigious Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for his work on new, more automated, machine learning algorithms. Machine learning has begun to take over our digital lives. It can be found in automatic text suggestions […]

CISE Welcomes Ayay Joshi

Ajay Joshi has joined CISE as faculty affiliate. His research interests include: Computer Architecture, Security, Machine Learning, Silicon-Photonic Systems. Ajay Joshi is an Associate Professor in the ECE department at Boston University, where he leads the Integrated Circuits and Systems Group (www.bu.edu/icsg). Prior to joining Boston University, he received his Ph.D. degree from the ECE […]

New Frontiers in Self-driving Cars

 Lidar, used in most self-driving cars, models the world around them by creating 3D representations of a scene in view. Photo by John D. SL/Shutterstock One of the most promising developments born out of the 2005 DARPA Grand Challenge was the use of lidar technology in self-driving cars, also known as autonomous vehicles (AVs).  […]