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 […]
CISE Welcomes New Faculty Affiliates
Ashok Cutkosky is an Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Boston University. Previously, Cutkosky was a research scientist at Google. He earned a PhD in computer science at Stanford University in 2018, and is also a graduate of the Masters in Medicine program. His current research interests include learning algorithms that don’t require manual hyperparameter […]
Alex Matlock Wins Emil Wolf Outstanding Student Paper Prize
Matlock’s paper, “Physics-Embedded Deep Learning for Intensity Diffraction Tomography,” is recognized for innovation, research, and presentation excellence At this year’s OSA Frontiers in Optics (FiO) Annual Meeting, CISE student affiliate and PhD candidate (ECE) Alex Matlock (ECE) won the prestigious Emil Wolf Outstanding Student Paper Prize for his work on “Physics-Embedded Deep Learning for Intensity Diffraction Tomography,” published […]
Yazicigil speaks on the IEEE World Forum on IoT Panel
Professor Rabia Yazicigil spoke on the Women in Engineering Panel at the IEEE Virtual World Forum on Internet of Things (WF-IoT) on Sept. 23. \ The two-hour long webinar explored IoT devices on a broader scale by discussing the opportunities and challenges in the field. Some of these questions include: where is the IoT as a field […]
Manuel Egele Receives The 2020 Early Career Research Award
Dr. Manuel Egele, Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Co-director of the Boston University Secure Systems Lab, is the recipient of the 2020 Early Career Research Excellence Award. This award celebrates the significant, recent, high-impact research achievements of exemplary tenure-track faculty who are within 10 years of receiving their Ph.D. Dr. Egele’s research spans all areas of […]
ENG Interdisciplinary Team Wins NSF Grant to Create Smart Biosensors
Professors Douglas Densmore (ECE) and Rabia Yazicigil (ECE, CISE faculty affiliate) were awarded a $1.5M grant by the National Science Foundation for project entitled “SemiSynBio-II: Hybrid Bio-Electronic Microfluidic Memory Arrays for Large Scale Testing and Remote Deployment.” Professor Ahmad (Mo) Khalil and Professor Wilson Wong of BME are also Co-PIs on the grant. The award is for a three-year project aiming […]
CISE Faculty Affiliates Win Hariri Institute Research Awards
Profs. Starobinski, Egele, and Kulis are Spring 2020 Research Incubation Awardees The Hariri Institute for Computing announced their 2020 Spring Research Incubation Awards to faculty who have the potential to define new areas of research; three CISE faculty affiliates are authors or co-authors of these incubation projects. CISE faculty affiliate Prof. David Starobinski is the PI of […]
A Bug’s-Eye View
Researchers develop a new camera inspired by insects’ compound eyes Even though we’ve developed the ability to shrink down cameras to fit on a phone, the underlying principle of the camera itself hasn’t really progressed. As a camera gets smaller, there’s a trade-off between field-of-view and image quality; the larger the field-of-view, the more distorted […]