Researchers Win $900k NSF Grant to Predict Heart Disease, Diabetes Using Machine Learning
Researchers from the Boston University College of Engineering and Boston Medical Center (BMC) will use a three-year, $900,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to develop and pilot a health informatics system to predict patients at risk of heart disease or diabetes, and enable early intervention and personalized treatment. “Our research vision is to deliver personalized healthcare, […]
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 […]
BU College of Engineering receives NEXTCAR grant to develop smart car technology
BU Professor Christos Cassandras leads BU initiative with researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, the University of Michigan, and Bosch Corporation. Read the full article through eurekalert.org.
Coskun, Egele Partner with Sandia Labs for HPC Systems Research
By Bhumika Salwan (Questrom ’16) CE Associate Professor Ayse Coskun and Assistant Professor Manuel Egele were awarded $189,000 for their research in data analytics with Sandia National Laboratories for improving energy efficiency and security of high performance computing (HPC) systems. Sandia Labs is one of the nation’s premier science and engineering laboratories for national security, with […]
ENG Partners in NSF Challenge to Create Next Generation Wireless Network
The National Science Foundation has chosen the College of Engineering to partner in a major initiative to develop the next generation of wireless communications technology based on visible light instead of radio waves. Researchers expect to piggyback data communications capabilities on low-power light emitting diodes, or LEDs, to create “Smart Lighting” that would be faster […]
Research Focuses on Getting Wireless Networks to Fix Themselves
The National Science Foundation has awarded Boston University Professor Christos Cassandras (MFG), Associate Professor Ioannis Paschalidis (MFG) and CAS Computer Science Professor Azer Bestavros a four-year, $2 million Emerging Frontiers in Research and Innovation (EFRI) grant to advance the reconfiguration of autonomous networks in the wake of an unexpected problem or system error. The grant, […]
NSF Grant to Fund "Sleepy" Video Network Research
The National Science Foundation has awarded Professor Thomas Little, Associate Professor Janusz Konrad and Assistant Professor Prakash Ishwar, all of the ECE Department, a three-year grant to develop a low-power autonomous video sensor network that records a coastal ecosystem and wirelessly transmits significant information back to a base station for review. The three-year, $450,000 project […]