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 […]
Seeing Blind No More: The Future of Safely Navigating Blind Corners
Sheila Seidel develops safer systems with various applications through her work on non-line-of-sight imaging. Imagine you are a soldier walking through a tunnel in enemy territory. You come to an intersection and must choose to continue to the right or left. The wrong choice could be fatal, leading you straight into your enemy’s direct line […]
Goyal Achieves Record-Breaking Distances for Non Line of Sight Imaging, Featured in PNAS
Vivek Goyal, a CISE research affiliate and professor from the College of Engineering (ECE), worked as part of a team led by Professor Feihu Xu of the University of Science and Technology of China to demonstrate non-line-of-sight (NLOS) imaging and real-time tracking of hidden objects over a distance of 1.43 kilometers. Using both software and […]
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). […]
What Makes Someone Narcissistic?
Andrew Cutler Shows How Social Media Use Reveals Human Traits Have you ever wondered what exactly your personality traits are? Are you a narcissist? What can Facebook predict about you? Andrew Cutler, a PhD candidate (ECE) interested in inferring human traits from social media use, is conducting research on all of those topics under advisor, […]
Professor Venkatesh Saligrama Named 2021 IEEE Distinguished Lecturer
Every year, the IEEE Signal Processing Society’s Distinguished Lecturer Program selects five authors and educators to serve as ambassadors for the program; those selected will give international lectures. Electrical and Computer Engineering Professor Venkatesh Saligrama is climbing the ranks of this premier professional organization, and has been selected as a 2021-22 IEEE SPS Distinguished Lecturer. […]
Coskun receives IBM faculty award
CISE faculty affiliate Professor Ayse Coskun (ECE) earned an IBM Faculty Award to advance her research on AI-driven data fusion techniques to inherently increase robustness and security of modern application development and deployment on the cloud, also known as DevSecOps. Associate Professor Even though developers do their best to prevent security and compliance issues, these problems […]