Lucy Hutyra: Analyzing Human Land Use to Fight Climate Change
BU Today featured CISE Affiliate Professor Lucy Hutyra (CAS Earth and Environment) in an article about BU professors fighting climate change through their research. Hutyra, along with the 12 other professors, uses a variety of resources, methods, and focuses to identify how marginalized communities are more at risk to feel the effects of climate change. […]
CISE Welcomes Alan Liu
Join us in welcoming Alan (Zaoxing) Liu as our newest CISE faculty affiliate. Liu is an Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and of Computer Science at Boston University. His research has won interdisciplinary recognition, including USENIX FAST Best Paper Award, ACM STOC “Best-of-Theory” plenary talk, and USENIX ATC “Best-of-Rest.” His research interests are in systems and […]
Stealth Driverless Cars without Visible Light?
CISE Faculty Affiliate Professor Vivek Goyal (ECE) recently received a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) subaward for his work in connection with the agency’s Invisible Headlights program. Professor Goyal is working under an award to MIT entitled, Super Headlights: Superconducting Nanowire Detectors for Passive Infrared Sensing. The DARPA Invisible Headlights program has a very […]
2021 CISE Best Student Paper Award Winners
CISE is delighted to announce the winners of the Spring 2021 CISE Best Student Paper Award. We received 20 submissions of excellent quality showcasing the strength and diversity of research pursued by CISE students and faculty. We are grateful for the support of the paper review team, which included 16 CISE faculty affiliates from the […]
Seeing Blind No More: The Future of Safely Navigating Blind Corners
Sheila Seidel develops safer systems with various applications through her work on non-line-of-sight imaging. Imagine you are a soldier walking through a tunnel in enemy territory. You come to an intersection and must choose to continue to the right or left. The wrong choice could be fatal, leading you straight into your enemy’s direct line […]
Goyal Achieves Record-Breaking Distances for Non Line of Sight Imaging, Featured in PNAS
Vivek Goyal, a CISE research affiliate and professor from the College of Engineering (ECE), worked as part of a team led by Professor Feihu Xu of the University of Science and Technology of China to demonstrate non-line-of-sight (NLOS) imaging and real-time tracking of hidden objects over a distance of 1.43 kilometers. Using both software and […]
New Frontiers in Self-driving Cars
Lidar, used in most self-driving cars, models the world around them by creating 3D representations of a scene in view. Photo by John D. SL/Shutterstock One of the most promising developments born out of the 2005 DARPA Grand Challenge was the use of lidar technology in self-driving cars, also known as autonomous vehicles (AVs). […]
How to Give an Online Doctoral Dissertation during COVID-19
The COVID-19 epidemic has upended everyone’s lives, with no exceptions for PhD students who are ready to defend their dissertations. Are you in need of some suggestions on how to best present remotely over Zoom? Here’s a guide on how to best communicate your ideas and research without technology getting in the way. Creating a […]
Joshua Rapp wins the 2020 IEEE SPS Young Author Best Paper Award
Boston University alumnus Joshua Rapp (Ph.D. ECE ’20) has won the 2020 IEEE Signal Processing Society Young Author Best Paper Award. This prestigious award will be presented to Dr. Rapp by IEEE Signal Processing Society President Ahmed Tewfik at the ICASSP 2021 in Toronto, Canada, June 6-11, 2021. Rapp was a student of CISE faculty […]
CISE-SE Students at GHC 2020
The Center for Information and Systems Engineering (CISE) and the Division of Systems Engineering (SE) sponsored seven students to represent the College of Engineering at this year’s Grace Hopper Celebration (September 26-October 3). The event aims to nurture the research and career paths of women finding inspiration in its annual commemoration of Grace Murray Hopper (1906 – […]