CISE Director Ayse Coskun Receives BU Ignition Award
From research on battery longevity to improvements in disease detection and targeted therapies, the seven recipients of the “BU Ingnition Award” have received the green light to move from the research phase to consumer use. Given by BU Technology Development within the University’s Office of Research, this award provides winners with financial backing, an advisory […]
Ajay Joshi Wins NSF Award to Build Light-Powered Chips for Next-Gen AI
Artificial intelligence is becoming part of everyday life, powering everything from chatbots to image generators. But behind the scenes, running these massive AI models takes an enormous amount of computer power and electricity. Professor Ajay Joshi (ENG, ECE) is tackling this problem by designing a new type of computer chip that uses not only electronics […]
Unraveling the Hidden Biases of Artificial Intelligence
For years, Boston University computer scientist and CISE faculty affiliate Professor Mark Crovella (CDS, CS, ECE, SE) has studied the invisible forces shaping what we see online. The stakes are high: when YouTube’s recommendation system steers users toward more extreme videos, it can fuel polarization and misinformation. Now, with large language models generating instant answers, […]
Lei Tian Named Provost’s Scholar-Teacher of the Year for Innovative Teaching and Research
Boston University engineering professor Lei Tian, a faculty affiliate of the Center for Information and Systems Engineering (CISE), has been named the 2025 Provost’s Scholar-Teacher of the Year. The award, which includes a $5,000 stipend, honors faculty who excel both as researchers and as teachers. Tian, an associate professor of electrical and computer engineering, emphasizes […]
BU PhD candidate Efe Şencan and team win Best Paper Award at PEARC Conference
High-Performance Computing (HPC) systems have become crucial to accelerating scientific discovery and technological innovation. Because of the high demand for these systems, increasing application performance and efficiency on the system can have a significant impact on productivity. Fifth-year PhD candidate Efe Şencan’s paper, “Analyzing GPU Utilization in HPC Workloads: Insights from Large-Scale Systems,” written in […]
Zijian Guo, CISE PhD Candidate, Earns Fellowship, Best Paper Award, for Research in Safer, Smarter AI
As artificial intelligence continues to shape everything from autonomous cars to home robotics, one Boston University PhD candidate is working to ensure that these systems not only function but also work safely. Zijian Guo, a second-year PhD candidate in Systems Engineering advised by Associate Professor Wenchao Li (ECE, SE, CS), was recently named a Hariri […]
Director Ayse Coskun Featured in BU Brink for her Research on Power Grids
CISE Director and Professor Ayse Coskun (ECE, SE) was featured in the BU Brink for her research on the relationship between electric grids and data centers. The article, “Is AI Slowing Climate Progress? It’s Complicated,” highlights the growing energy demand created by data centers, as well as AI’s potential to work with power grid through a […]
CipherSonic Labs: The Startup Rethinking Data Privacy in an AI World
In a time when AI is everywhere, data privacy has gone from a side concern to a top priority. That’s the focus of CipherSonic Labs, a Boston-based startup co-founded by CISE Faculty Affiliate Professor Ajay Joshi (ECE) and BU alum Rashmi Agrawal (PhD ’23, ECE) in January 2024.. As companies across verticals (healthcare, financial services, […]
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 […]