Congratulations to Calin Belta, Inaugural Holder of the Tegan Family Distinguished Faculty Fellowship
”The Tegan Family Distinguished Faculty Fellow honors a mid-career (Associate to early Full Professor) faculty for extraordinary performance and impact in research, teaching and service to the College and profession. The Distinguished Faculty Fellow is an honor awarded to tenured faculty who are on a clear trajectory to extraordinary leadership careers in all dimensions of […]
CISE Roundtable: Justin Foster
Justin M. Foster, senior energy trader and principle at Appian Way Energy Partners, was the CISE roundtable guest on Wednesday, March 23, 2016. Foster discussed his career in the energy trading industry since completing his PhD at Boston University and said that he “uses all the knowledge he learned from BU and applies it” in […]
ENG Makes Highest-Ever Grade in US News Rankings
Questrom, SED, LAW also do well by Rich Barlow The College of Engineering has earned its highest-ever ranking from US News & World Report, placing 35th among its peer American schools in the magazine’s latest rankings. It’s a two-slot advance from last year and a long jump from a decade ago, when the school placed […]
Post-Doctoral Associate Positions, Division of Systems Engineering
The Division of Systems Engineering at Boston University invites applications for two Post-Doctoral Associates (equivalently, post-doctoral fellows) for one or two years to contribute to ongoing research projects in one or more of the following or related areas: Multi-agent systems, Cyber-Physical systems with applications of particular interest in sensor networks, robotics, energy, and Smart Cities […]
CISE Graduate Student Workshop 3.0
The Center for Information and Systems Engineering (CISE) hosted its 3rd Annual CISE Graduate Student Workshop (CGSW 3.0), on January, 14, 2016 and was organized by CISE students, Sepideh Pourazarm, Xi Yu and Feng Nan. This event, featured talks from 16 CISE graduate students and three newly affiliated CISE faculty bringing together CISE students and […]
National Science Foundation Sponsors Workshop on Smart Cities in Arlington, VA
Led and coordinated by Boston University’s Center for Information and Systems Engineering (CISE) Boston University Professor and Head of the Division of Systems Engineering Christos Cassandras was invited by the National Science Foundation to organize and chair a Workshop on Smart Cities, a subject of great national interest and focal point of many recent federal […]
Conference Invitation: Transportation Nudges: Experiments in Improving Urban Mobility
Monday December 7th, 2015 Boston University Photonics Center,9th Floor 8 St Mary’s Street Boston, MA 02215 On behalf of the Boston University Initiative on Cities, you are cordially invited to attend Transportation Nudges: Experiments in Improving Urban Mobility, a one-day City Leadership Summit examining the interventions cities are employing to change transportation behavior. Cities worldwide are experimenting with new […]
ECE PhD Student Wins ACM Research Competition in Design Automation
ECE PhD student Onur Sahin won first prize this November at the Association for Computing Machinery’s (ACM) Special Interest Group on Design Automation (SIGDA) Student Research Competition. Sahin, who is advised by ECE Professor Ayse Coskun, won for his project on providing sustainable performance to mobile device users, titled “Pushing QoS-Awareness into Thermal Management for […]
Ali Kebarighotbi, CISE Industry Roundtable 11-4-15
Ali Kebarighotbi, Director of Statistical Learning Systems at Nielsen, spoke to CISE graduate students at the 2nd Fall Semester Industry Roundtable. Ali described the data related products that Nielsen uses to collect consumer survey data and inform companies about product innovation, price point and product lines. His focus at Nielsen is primarily on the development […]
Assistant Professor Positions-Systems Engineering/Mechanical Engineering
The Department of Mechanical Engineering (ME) and the Division of Systems Engineering (SE) are collaborating to fill two tenure track positions, both at the Assistant Professor level, beginning Fall 2016. The positions are tentatively called “Mechatronics” and “Cyber-physical Systems,” although the distinction is not sharp, and candidates applying to either one will automatically be considered […]