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 […]
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 […]