Ayse Coskun named interim Associate Dean for Research and Faculty Development
Interim Dean Elise Morgan has appointed Professor Ayse Coskun (ECE, SE) as ENG’s interim associate dean for research and faculty development. In this role, Coskun will support the college’s research enterprise in part by promoting convergent projects and an overall culture of collaboration. She will work to recruit and retain faculty who are committed to working across […]
A “Fuzzy” Method, Clarified: ECE Alum Wins Best Paper Award
For Sadullah Canakci (PhD’22), the future looks fuzzy – and he’s pretty pleased about it! He was the recipient of the Best Paper Award at May’s IEEE International Symposium on Hardware Oriented Security and Trust (HOST) for his work on hardware fuzzing. “Fuzzing” is a testing and verification strategy used for both software and hardware, […]
CISE Affiliates receive 2023 Red Hat Collaboratory Research Incubation Awards
Seven CISE affiliates were awarded 2023 Red Hat Collaboratory Research Incubation Awards. Additionally, CISE Director Ayse Coskun received continued funding for the multi-year project AI for Cloud Ops. The Red Hat Collaboratory, a partnership between Boston University and Red Hat, brings together academic researchers and the open source community to advance systems research at a […]
CISE Announces CGSW 9.0 Best Presenter Awards
At this year’s CGSW event, held on January 27th at Boston University, 18 graduate students presented their original research covering diverse disciplines in engineering, computer science and math/statistics. Students, faculty, alumni, and BU friends attended to support the students, and cast their vote for best presenter under the categories of “language clarity,” “slide clarity,” and […]
Professor Ayse Coskun appointed Director of CISE
Professor Ayse Coskun (ECE) has been named the next Director of the Boston University Center for Information and Systems Engineering (CISE). Coskun will replace Yannis Paschalidis who has become the new Director for the Hariri Institute. “CISE has great strengths in the traditional areas of information & systems engineering, with core strengths in robotics and […]
ENG’s Ioannis Paschalidis New Director of Hariri Institute for Computing and Computational Science & Engineering
The Rafik B. Hariri Institute for Computing and Computational Science & Engineering will have a new director as of July 1. Ioannis Paschalidis, a College of Engineering Distinguished Professor of Engineering and of computing and data sciences, will oversee the institute’s move into a new, eye-arresting building (the largest on the Charles River Campus), the […]
CISE awarded $8.8M to develop the next-generation robotics and autonomous systems workforce
The Boston University Center for Information and Systems Engineering (CISE) received an $8.8 million award to fund a new center called the BU Robotics and Autonomous Systems Teaching and Innovation Center (BU-RASTIC). The award, including $4.4M from the Innovation Institute at the Massachusetts Technology Collaborative (MassTech) and $4.4M matching funds from Boston University, will serve to […]
Announcing the 2022 CISE Best Student Paper Awards
CISE is delighted to announce the winners of the 2022 CISE Best Student Paper Award. This year five papers were chosen as award recipients. The winning papers were selected via a blind review process, and were evaluated based on the significance and impact of the work, creativity and innovation, completeness and quality, articulacy, and relevance to […]
CISE Announces the CGSW 8.0 Best Presenter Awards
Congratulations to Jimmy Queeney, Ph.D. candidate SE (Advisors: Christos Cassandras & Yannis Paschalidis) who received the CGSW 8.0 Best Presenter award for his research presentation on Stable and Efficient Reinforcement Learning with Principled Sample Reuse. CGSW award finalists included Arslan Riaz, Ph.D. candidate ECE (Advisor: Rabia Yazicigil) who received second place for his presentation on […]
Ajay Joshi Among Charles River Faculty Promoted to Full Professor
CISE Faculty Affiliate Ajay Joshi (ECE) was promoted to full professor Joshi specializes in computer architecture and digital VLSI circuit design, with additional focus on silicon photonics, network-on-chip design, machine learning, and hardware. He is regarded among the top authorities in silicon photonic network architecture, and his recent work using AI in microelectronics is garnering significant praise. […]