WiFi to LiFi
Lightning-Fast Indoor Data By Professor Janusz Konrad When you use your smartphone or tablet for a Skype call or to search the internet at home or at a coffee shop, you usually rely on WiFi. When too many people want to watch their favorite shows at the same time, none of them, can get a […]
Yanfeng Geng, CISE Industry Roundtable
Yanfeng Geng, Quantitative Analyst/Developer at Geode Capital Management, spoke to CISE graduate students at the 1st Fall Semester 2016 Industry Roundtable. Prior to joining Geode, Geng was a software development engineer in Audible, an Amazon subsidiary. After two and half years at Audible, Geng decided to move from the tech industry to the financial industry, […]
Pardee Center Hosts BU Conference on Sustainability Research
By Cheryl Stewart The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future co-sponsored the BU Conference on Sustainability Research on Monday, May 9. Approximately 100 people attended the one-day conference that featured presentations by Boston University faculty with a diverse range of expertise on their research related to sustainability issues (a full list of […]
A Chinese Partnership for ENG
by Joel Brown Tsinghua University engineers will earn master’s degrees at BU Beginning in fall 2017, some of China’s best and brightest engineers will come to BU to complete their education. Under a new dual degree program, graduates from Beijing’s Tsinghua University, one of China’s top universities, will be able to get a master’s degree […]
Tsinghua University and the BU Division of Systems Engineering Agreement
In the current spirit of promoting scientific and educational collaborations across departments, campuses, and universities, Boston University has reached out transnationally by signing a significant agreement on Friday, May 6, 2016 with Tsinghua University, Beijing, China for the establishment of a dual degree program. The agreement was signed by Boston University President, Dr. Robert A. […]
Congratulations to Bowen Zhang, SE Outstanding PhD Dissertation Award
Bowen Zhang won the 2016 SE Outstanding PhD Dissertation Award for his dissertation: Role of Control, Communication, and Markets in Smart Building Operation Advisor: John Ballieul His research recognized that fundamentally new power distribution concepts will be necessary to meet the emerging challenges of intermittent renewable energy resources (wind turbines and solar) combined with rapidly increasing intermittent […]
Congratulations Theodora Brisimi, 3rd place IEEE Computer Society 70th Anniversary Student Challenge
Theodora Brisimi was awarded 3rd prize and the Crowd Sourcing Prize, by the IEEE Computer Society 70th Anniversary Student Challenge, for her project “Healthcare Analytics: Predicting Hospitalizations Based on Electronic Health Records,” which was based on joint work with Prof. Yannis Paschalidis.
Faculty Profile-Roberto Tron
By Rachel Riley Mechanical Engineering Professor Roberto Tron received a 300-pound, $30,000 delivery last week: Baxter, a 3-foot tall humanoid robot with two arms and an animated face. Baxter is a practical addition at small and large companies across the U.S., where it can easily be programmed to perform repetitive tasks and assist in manufacturing. […]
Drone Home: New Robotics Lab Gives Researchers and Their ‘Bots Room to Roam
By Sara Elizabeth Cody As an animation technique, motion capture, has been prominently featured in a number of blockbuster films for more than a decade, bringing fictional characters, like Gollum from Lord of the Rings, to life. This same technology is allowing BU researchers study robotics and the relationship between man and machine in the […]
Workshop: Control and Observability of Network Dynamics, April 11-15, 2016
John Ballieul was an organizer for the Control and Observability of Network Dynamics workshop at the Mathematical Biosciences Institute at The Ohio State University, Ohio, which brought together many well known people in the control field. Yannis Paschalidis (CISE director) presented a paper at this workshop.