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 […]
Taylor Locke, CISE Industry Roundtable 10-28-15
CISE Director, Ioannis Paschalidis, welcomed Taylor Locke, Data Scientist, Analytics Engineer, and Consultant to the 2nd Fall Semester 2015 Industry Roundtable. Locke’s impressive professional experience ranges from being Technical Staff at MIT Lincoln Laboratory in the Informatics and Decision Support Group to Altman Vilandrie & Co. as Data Scientist and Operations Specialist to working independently […]
CISE/SE Students at the World’s Largest Gathering of Women in Technology
by Christina Polyzos Theodora Brisimi (ECE), Elli Ntakou (ME, SE), and Yasaman Khazaeni (ECE, SE) attended the Grace Hopper Celebration for Women in Computing on October 14-16, 2015 in Houston Texas with the support of CISE and the Division of Systems Engineering. Theodora Brisimi (ECE) and Elli Ntakou (ME, SE) presented posters. Brisimi (advisor: Ioannis […]
CISE Industry Roundtable: Sam Howes
This semester’s first CISE Industry Round Table Event was led by Samuel Howes, (ENG ’14) software developer at Mingle Analytics, a healthcare startup. Faculty host, Ayse Coskun, graciously introduced her former student to a group of 10 students who eagerly listened as Sam discussed how his experience at BU prepared him for a professional career […]
Energy Efficiency for Urban Housing Project Receives Renewed Support
The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Longer-Range Future’s project, “Enhancing Energy Efficiency for Urban Housing”, last month received renewed support from Wells Fargo to fund its ongoing research. The project aims to identify the factors that drive energy use and determine effective programs that can achieve greater energy efficiency, while considering residents’ comfort levels and desired energy-use needs. The new funds will allow for […]