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 […]
ENG Selects Inaugural Term Distinguished Professors of Engineering
Five College of Engineering professors, including CISE Faculty Affiliates John Baillieul (ME, SE) and Christos Cassandras (ECE, SE), have been selected as the inaugural set of Term Distinguished Professors of Engineering. Each will carry the title of “Distinguished Professor of Engineering” and receive a stipend of discretionary funds throughout their term. Thereafter, the title will […]
Two CISE Affilated Faculty Named Distinguished Professors of Engineering
Professor Christos G. Cassandras and Professor John Baillieul have been selected as Distinguished Professors of Engineering, a title to be held throughout their careers at Boston University. These prominent faculty were selected based on their outstanding service to the College, teaching aptitude, as well as making a demonstrable difference in academia with their research, which […]
Pioneering a Cloud Computing "Mall"
Massachusetts awards $3 million to BU-led project With the governor of Massachusetts pledging $3 million in state support, BU leaders Friday announced plans for development of a pathbreaking computing cloud that could spur economic growth and technology innovation. Azer Bestavros (CS, SE), director of BU’s Rafik B. Hariri Institute for Computing and Computational Science & Engineering, […]
Complexity Made Simple . . . at a Small Price
Cassandras Delivers Distinguished Scholar Lecture For 30 years, Professor Christos Cassandras (ECE, SE) has solved countless complex problems by translating them into simpler terms and then applying optimization, computer simulation and other tools of the systems engineering trade. A pioneer in the field of discrete event dynamic systems analysis, used extensively in the development and operation of […]
Sharing Innovative Research, Succinctly
Boston University students have big ideas – whether they’re aiming to prevent cyber attacks or using GPS data to improve cattle herding. As good as their work is though, they don’t always know the best way to present their research. Enter the Center for Information & Systems Engineering (CISE) Graduate Student Workshop (CGSW), designed to give Ph.D. […]
CISE Faculty Affiliates Named IEEE Fellows
CISE Faculty Affiliates Professors W. Clem Karl (ECE, BME, SE), Yannis Paschalidis (ECE, SE), and Vivek Goyal (ECE) have been named as 2014 IEEE Fellows, the highest grade of membership in the world’s leading professional association for advancing technology for the benefit of society. Professor Theodore Moustakas (ECE, MSE) was also named a 2014 IEEE […]
Sensor Research Wins $1M NSF Award
Enhancing the functionality of cyber-physical systems—those that integrate physical processes with networked computing—could significantly improve our quality of life, from reducing car collisions to upgrading robotic surgeries to mounting more effective search and rescue missions. Recognizing Boston University as a key contributor to this effort, the National Science Foundation has awarded Professors Venkatesh Saligrama (ECE, SE) […]