2025 CISE PhD Student Scholars
In an effort to give back to the CISE community, CISE has established the CISE PhD Student Scholar Award. This student program recognizes the strength of incoming CISE students through a one-time endowment to support research-related expenses. Awardees also act as CISE Seminar student hosts during their first two years, enabling them to network with visiting […]
Transforming Data Centers into Grid-Responsive Powerhouses
As AI continues its explosive growth, so does its energy demand, pushing the U.S. electric grid toward its limits. With the rise of increasingly complex AI models and cloud-based applications, data centers are becoming power-hungry giants. Projected to use up to 9% of U.S. power by 2030, data centers increasingly strain the grid, threatening the […]
Privacy Meets AI: Enabling Data Center Collaboration to Support Grid Stability
On May 19th, 2025, the Boston University Hariri Institute hosted the Focused Research Program (FRP) symposium titled “Data Center and Power Grid Interactions: Challenges and Opportunities,” highlighting the challenges associated with rising data center energy demands. The event brought together experts from engineering, energy systems, data centers, and privacy research to explore how massive AI-driven workloads […]
Smart Sharing: How Jonathan Chamberlain is Protecting Radiometers by Redesigning Spectrum Access
Imagine a major highway that is essential for many people’s commute, but only has one lane. This would pose an access issue, as not everybody who needs to use the highway would be able to efficiently because there’s not enough space. There is currently a resource allocation problem with wireless bands, important communications tools in […]
Green AI Summit: Rethinking AI for a Sustainable Future
A collection of visionaries, scholars, and innovators came together at Harvard University and Boston University on April 25 and 26 for the Green AI Summit, focusing on the evolving relationship between artificial intelligence and environmental responsibility. The summit was organized by the Green AI Institute and Harvard Undergraduate AI and Sustainability Group, with support from […]
The Intersection of Business and Engineering: Jinglong Zhao’s “Product Innovation Pipeline”
Have you ever wondered how your DoorDash order can arrive at your doorstep in a matter of minutes? Jinglong Zhao, Assistant Professor of Operations and Technology Management at the Questrom School of Business and faculty affiliate of the Center for Information & Systems Engineering and Hariri Institute, has the answer. Zhao’s research is at the […]
CISE Student, Akua Kodie Dickson, Featured by BU College of Engineering for Autonomy Research
CISE student Akua Kodie Dickson (SE Ph.D. candidate) is working to advance safety and trust in robotics. During her Ph.D., Dickson began working with robotic controllers and motion planning. This led her to find a passion for safe autonomy — robots doing autonomous tasks and helping humans solve problems in a safe way. “One of […]
BU Experts Develop AI Surveillance System to Enhance Pandemic Preparedness
Five years after COVID-19 shut down the world, Director of the BU Rafik B. Hariri Institute for Computing and Computational Science & Engineering and CISE faculty affiliate and professor Yannis Paschalidis (ECE, SE, BME, CDS) is studying how prepared we are for the next outbreak. Alongside Boston University infectious diseases expert Nahid Bhadelia, the two […]
CISE Faculty Recognized for Groundbreaking AI Research with AIRR Awards
Recognized for their cutting-edge research in artificial intelligence, 11 CISE faculty affiliates have been honored with AI Research Resource (AIRR) awards. This Hariri Institute program supports AI research at Boston University by giving researchers access to the New England Research Cloud (NERC), a regional computing infrastructure that provides cloud-based resources tailored to academic research. A […]
Assistant Professor Tianyu Wang (ECE) works to make AI Data Centers more Energy Efficient
AI is already using an enormous amount of energy, and the problem is about to get much worse. According to Energy Digital, data centers, which are used to host and run large-scale AI optimisations, are estimated to have consumed 1-1.5% of global electricity in 2022, and we are expected to see electricity demands double by […]