CISE Welcomes Daniel Sussman
Daniel Sussman recently joined CISE as faculty affiliate, bringing statistical expertise, extensive research experience, and a collaborative mindset to the interdisciplinary community. Sussman is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at Boston University. He started teaching in 2016. His main research efforts have focused on statistical inference for network data. Sussman […]
CISE Welcomes Lei Tian as New Faculty Affiliate
Lei Tian is Assistant Professor of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Boston University. He is named inventor on three U.S. patent applications and has published over 30 peer-reviewed papers. He has been awarded the 2014 Imaging Systems and Applications Best Paper Award and the 2011 Emil Wolf Outstanding Student Paper Award from the Optical […]
CISE Affiliated Faculty, Calin Belta, Heads New Center for Autonomous and Robotics Systems
By Liz Sheeley College Establishes New Center for Autonomous and Robotics Systems: Professor Calin Belta will serve as the inaugural director The College of Engineering has established a new, interdisciplinary Center for Autonomous and Robotics Systems (CARS) that will build upon the expertise and experience of the current faculty and advanced facilities. Professor Calin Belta […]
Ayse Coskun Recognized in Computing Research
Prof. Coskun earns two awards and two major grants in computing research Energy-efficient computing expert Professor Ayse Coskun was most recently recognized with grants from the National Science Foundation (NSF) and Sandia National Laboratories, a best paper award, and an early career award. NSF awarded the interdisciplinary team led by Prof. Coskun $234K (total award $700K, shared between […]
New Study Offers Hope for Urban Commuters
A new paper by faculty and student researchers from BU Center for Information & Systems Engineering could dramatically ease commuter frustration. Frustration. Rage. Anxiety. These are just some of the adjectives people use to describe their emotional state when driving the streets of Boston, the sixth-most-gridlock-plagued urban area in the country, according to a WBUR survey. Boston is not alone in […]
Paschalidis Hosts Symposium on Control and Network Systems
in NEWS by Liz Sheeley The 2nd Symposium on the COntrol of NEtwork Systems (SCONES) will be held on Monday, October 16 and Tuesday, October 17, 2017, at the Boston University Photonics Center. SCONES is being hosted by Professor Ioannis Paschalidis (ECE, BME, SE), the Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems (TCNS), a publication sponsored by the IEEE Control Systems […]
Paschalidis Hosts Symposium on Control and Network Systems
The 2nd Symposium on the COntrol of NEtwork Systems (SCONES) was held on Monday, October 16 and Tuesday, October 17, 2017, at the Boston University Photonics Center. SCONES was hosted by Professor Ioannis Paschalidis (ECE, BME, SE), the Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems (TCNS), a publication sponsored by the IEEE Control Systems Society. […]
Getting Power to the People
Caramanis Awarded Sloan Foundation Grant to Improve Electricity Distribution Networks While the use of clean, renewable energy is rising nationally, its growth is being restrained by an imbalance between the consumption and generation of power. Wind and solar power are clean and cheap, but their availability varies widely depending on location, season and time of […]
First BU Data Science Day draws cross-disciplinary crowd
Azer Bestavros, founding director of the Rafik B. Hariri Institute for Computing and Computational Science & Engineering and CISE faculty affiliate was practically giddy. It was the first BU Data Science (BUDS) Day and the Photonics Center ninth-floor conference room, where the institute was hosting the event, was standing room only. “I thought there might be 80, […]
Kulis Named First Levine Career Development Professor
To Brian Kulis, advances in machine learning and artificial intelligence bring with them the opportunity to mesh theory with real-world applications, like driverless cars and computers that can describe aloud the objects in front of them. “You want computers to be able to recognize what they are seeing in images and video,” says Kulis, a […]