Mahroo Bahreinian, PhD Candidate (SE)
“Systems engineering is a field that is constantly on the brink of the unknown,” says Mahroo Bahreinian, a fourth-year PhD candidate (SE) at Boston University. “Researchers work on solving problems that no one else has thought of and their research is always cutting-edge and evolving. It allows me to constantly learn new things and develop […]
Ali Siahkamari Ties for First Place in the 2021 CISE Best Student Paper Award
Ali Siahkamari, Boston University PhD candidate (ECE), tied for first place in the 2021 CISE Best Student Paper Award Competition. His winning paper, entitled “Piecewise Linear Regression via a Difference of Convex Functions,” was published in Proceedings of the 37th International Conference on Machine Learning. This paper was co-authored with his advisor, CISE Faculty Affiliate, Associate Professor Brian […]
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 […]
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). […]
Wei Xiao Wins 2020 IEEE CDC Outstanding Student Paper Award
The paper primarily applies to safe robot navigation in environments full of obstacles. Photo courtesy of Jeromey Balderrama. Wei Xiao, Boston University PhD candidate (SE), won a 2020 IEEE Conference on Decisions and Control Outstanding Student Paper Award for his paper entitled “Feasibility-Guided Learning for Constrained Optimal Control Problems”. His paper was published in Proc. of […]
What Makes Someone Narcissistic?
Andrew Cutler Shows How Social Media Use Reveals Human Traits Have you ever wondered what exactly your personality traits are? Are you a narcissist? What can Facebook predict about you? Andrew Cutler, a PhD candidate (ECE) interested in inferring human traits from social media use, is conducting research on all of those topics under advisor, […]
Alex Matlock Wins Emil Wolf Outstanding Student Paper Prize
Matlock’s paper, “Physics-Embedded Deep Learning for Intensity Diffraction Tomography,” is recognized for innovation, research, and presentation excellence At this year’s OSA Frontiers in Optics (FiO) Annual Meeting, CISE student affiliate and PhD candidate (ECE) Alex Matlock (ECE) won the prestigious Emil Wolf Outstanding Student Paper Prize for his work on “Physics-Embedded Deep Learning for Intensity Diffraction Tomography,” published […]
Changing the Ways of Selfish Driving
Salomón Wollenstein-Betech (PhD candidate, SE) develops dynamic, data-driven tools to estimate and optimize congested roadways Boston has the worst traffic in the nation, according to a new study released this week. As city traffic thickens, the quintessential need for a resolution to this problem arises. Boston University PhD candidate (Systems Engineering) Salomón Wollenstein-Betech has created a […]
Tailor-made Robots for Situational Success
Robots are solving some of the world’s most pressing challenges. Systems engineers are at the core of these solutions, skillfully suiting robots and computers to fulfill situational needs. As one of the top seven robotics programs recognized by Analytics Insight, SE graduate students are “pushing the boundaries of robotic systems to the next level.” Systems Engineering PhD […]