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 […]
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 […]