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.  […]

Faculty Spotlight: Ayse K. Coskun (ECE, PEAC Lab)

In mid 2000s, uneasiness about the impact of “the many core era” spread among academia and industry. “Temperature-induced challenges were already a major concern for current multiprocessor systems-on-chips, and in many-core systems, resolving these challenges at design time would not be possible due to high cost and design complexity”, said Ayse Coskun, professor of Electrical […]

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Coskun Selected to Attend the National Academy of Engineering’s 2019 Symposium

CISE Faculty Affiliate, Prof. Ayse Coskun (ECE) was selected as one of 87 innovative early-career engineers to participate in the National Academy of Engineering’s (NAE) Frontiers of Engineering (FOE) symposium on September 25-27 in North Charleston, South Carolina. Chosen from a highly competitive pool of applicants who are performing exceptional engineering research and technical work […]