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. […]
Paschalidis Named Distinguished Professor of Engineering
CISE Director Yannis Paschalidis (ECE, SE, BME, CDS) was one of four Boston University College of Engineering faculty awarded the honor of Distinguished Professor of Engineering. Paschalidis’ research interests are in systems and control, networking, data science, machine learning and AI, optimization, applied probability, operations research, computational biology, medical informatics, and bioinformatics. His recent work has […]
Summer 2022 Fellowships on Energy Research
Announcement of Summer 2022 College of Engineering Fellowship Competition Two Summer Fellowships will be inaugurated during the summer of 2022 following an endowment by Dr. Haidong Pan (SE PhD, 2004). These fellowships will be awarded to competitively selected upper class undergraduate or first year graduate students who are on track to receive their Baccalaureate or Master’s […]
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 […]