Spring 2021 CISE-ENG Seed Award Recipients
Four Spring 2021 Seed Grants were awarded by the Boston University Center for Information & Systems Engineering (CISE) and the College of Engineering’s (ENG) Dean’s Catalyst Award program. This joint seed-funding program is aimed at enabling CISE affiliates and ENG faculty the opportunity to kickstart innovative interdisciplinary research projects, broaden significant research areas, and collect preliminary data […]
ENG Interdisciplinary Team Wins NSF Grant to Create Smart Biosensors
Professors Douglas Densmore (ECE) and Rabia Yazicigil (ECE, CISE faculty affiliate) were awarded a $1.5M grant by the National Science Foundation for project entitled “SemiSynBio-II: Hybrid Bio-Electronic Microfluidic Memory Arrays for Large Scale Testing and Remote Deployment.” Professor Ahmad (Mo) Khalil and Professor Wilson Wong of BME are also Co-PIs on the grant. The award is for a three-year project aiming […]
$3 Million for Transformational Energy Technology
Boston University was awarded $3 million in funding from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) for an academic-industry research collaboration that will be led by Michael Caramanis, BU Professor (ME, SE) and faculty affiliate of the Center for Information & Systems Engineering and of the Institute of Sustainable Energy. The funding will […]
BU-Harvard Team Wins $1.2M NSF Grant to Improve Women’s Reproductive Health using AI and Machine Learning
A multidisciplinary team of researchers from Boston University and Harvard University is working to address women’s reproductive health challenges with the help of a $1.2M, four-year grant funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) through its Smart and Connected Health (SCH) program. The BU-led project will leverage machine learning and artificial intelligence to develop an […]
Abraham Matta Wins NSF Grant for Application Software Project
CISE Faculty Affiliate Abraham Matta, Professor (CS, SE) and a Hariri Research Fellow received a grant from the Division of Computer and Network Systems, National Science Foundation for his proposal titled “CNS Core: Small: Collaborative Research: HEECMA: A Hybrid Elastic Edge-Cloud Application Management Architecture”. This project will examine how application software can be partitioned and deployed over different parts of […]
CISE Faculty Affiliate Lei Tian Wins NSF CAREER Award
CISE Faculty Affiliate Professor Lei Tian (ECE, BME) received a prestigious Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program Award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for his work on Optical Intensity Diffraction Tomography with Multiple Scattering. Professor Tian’s research involves the development of novel optical imaging devices that overcome barriers to studying biological samples and phenomena. This project focuses on […]
CISE Affiliate Professor Manuel Egele Awarded $750,000 Grant from ONR for Malware Research
Malware is a constant threat in the 21st century. The most common way to deal with a malware infection is to clean the malicious software from a computer or to reinstall its operating system in an effort to restore its original functionality. However, sophisticated malware that steals sensitive information can, upon detection, be repurposed to […]
How to Make Self-Driving Vehicles Smarter, Bolder
With $7.5M DOD grant, BU researchers head international team developing bioinspired control systems for self-navigated vehicles Autonomous vehicles that can maneuver themselves around any city are already out on our public roads, says Yannis Paschalidis, but operating off-road remains a challenge. “These vehicles are designed for very structured environments, within roads and lanes,” says Paschalidis, a […]
BU-led Research Team Wins Competitive $7.5 million MURI Grant to Create Neuro-Autonomous Robots
By Maureen Stanton, CISE Dream Team of Engineers, Computer Scientists, and Neuroscientists from BU, MIT, and Australia to develop neuro-inspired capabilities for Land, Sea, and Air-based Autonomous Robots A Boston University-led research team was selected to receive a $7.5 million Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative (MURI) grant from the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD). With this […]
CISE Faculty Affiliate Ishwar Receives $1M NSF Grant
CISE Faculty Affiliate Prakash Ishwar, jointly with an interdisciplinary team of BU researchers, recently won a $1 million grant from the National Science Foundation entitled “Multiplatform, Multilingual, and Multimodal Tools for Analyzing Public Communication in over 100 Languages”. Professor Ishwar, a College of Engineering professor of electrical and computer engineering and systems engineering, will develop analytical […]