Using Optimized A/B Tests to Improve Online Software Services
Have you ever wondered what exactly is happening when a website asks to track your cookies? CISE Faculty Affiliate Jinglong Zhao (Questrom) is working to help web-facing firms such as Google, Amazon, Netflix, and Facebook use cookies to improve their software services. Zhao works at the interface between optimization and econometrics. He designs field experiments […]
New Technology Could Predict When Someone’s Mobility is Declining
CISE Faculty Affiliate Roberto Tron uses Visual-Inertial Filtering for Clinically-Relevant Human Walking Quantification As we age, the likelihood of falling and getting injured increases. But what if we could prevent these accidents from happening? CISE faculty affiliate Roberto Tron is working on preventing injuries by monitoring mobility through cameras, sensors, machine learning, and estimation algorithms […]
AI for Cloud Ops Project Featured in “Red Hat Research Quarterly”
Ayse Coskun (ECE) was featured on the cover of the “Red Hat Research Quarterly” (RHRQ) May 2022 issue. Coskun discusses the need for operations-focused research on real-world systems and how artificial intelligence (AI) can push analytics to the speed of software deployment. Coskun is one of the Principal Investigators on the project “AI for Cloud Ops,” which […]
Mark Crovella: Mapping the Internet in a New Age of Privacy
You can’t see it, but when you enter something in the search bar, there is a whole network of connections that happens. We typically don’t think about the internet having a map, but CISE faculty affiliate Mark Crovella, a founding member and faculty of Computing & Data Sciences, likened his work to figuring out what […]
Maybe It’s Time to Start Saving Urban Forests
When we think of saving forests we think of big expanses of trees in rural areas, but recent studies have shown that maybe we should start thinking about saving the trees in cities. Lucy Hutyra, CISE faculty affiliate and CAS Earth and Environment Professor, studies the effects of urbanization and land-use change on ecosystems, but […]
Wenchao Li: Building Safe and Trustworthy AI Systems
Artificial intelligence (AI) is everywhere, powering applications such as Spotify music suggestions, facial recognition from your smartphone or the ETA of your Uber. Neural networks are also being explored as controllers in a breadth of safety-critical systems, from piloting drones to detecting anomalies in nuclear power plants to maintaining first responder communication systems. At the […]
CISE Faculty Spotlight: Brian Kulis
The powers of machine learning in Amazon Alexa and music generation Every day millions of people look something up online. It’s become a habit, a part of our lives that we take for granted– and we can thank machine learning for that. Machine learning is a type of artificial intelligence that works with computer algorithms. […]
Faculty Spotlight: Alex Olshevsky
Easing the Economic Strain of COVID-19 Lockdowns At the start of the pandemic, CISE Faculty Affiliate Alex Olshevsky (ECE) started developing models to find the best way to lockdown regions to control the spread of the virus. He had previously been working on multi-agent control, which he described as “a collection of robots that want […]
Lucy Hutyra: Analyzing Human Land Use to Fight Climate Change
BU Today featured CISE Affiliate Professor Lucy Hutyra (CAS Earth and Environment) in an article about BU professors fighting climate change through their research. Hutyra, along with the 12 other professors, uses a variety of resources, methods, and focuses to identify how marginalized communities are more at risk to feel the effects of climate change. […]
Rabia Yazicigil Offers Insights on Energy-Constrained Systems
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