CISE PhD Student Scholar Award
In an effort to give back to the CISE community, we have established the annual CISE PhD Student Scholar Award. Each CISE-affiliated faculty will have the opportunity to nominate one PhD applicant for this award and a committee will evaluate all nominees based on the student’s merit/strength, potential to conduct cross-disciplinary research, and likeliness to continue PhD work with a CISE-affiliated prospective faculty advisor.
This student scholar award will bestow 3-4 matriculating and/or 1st year PhD students with a one-time endowment of $2,000/each, on top of their fellowship and stipends from their College/Department/Division, to be used towards research-related expenses (e.g., travel to a conference, computer purchases, etc.). Awardees will also act as student hosts for CISE seminars during their first two years, providing them the chance to network with visiting professors and industry professionals.
2025 – 2026 Awardees
Ilker Isik, CV
Advisor: Wenchao Li
İlker Işık is an incoming PhD student at BU ECE. He is an MSc graduate in computer engineering from METU (Middle East Technical University). At Boston University, he will continue doing cutting-edge research on machine learning and formal methods.
Lizzy (Qian) Yue, CV
Advisor: Ayse Coskun
Lizzy (Qian) Yue earned a BS in Mathematics and an MS in Artificial Intelligence from top universities in China, achieving excellent academic results. She was awarded the highly selective National Scholarship (top 0.2% nationwide) twice, both at the undergraduate and graduate levels. Her work on AI for medical imaging has been published at MICCAI, the premier conference in this field. Her current research focuses on energy-efficient and sustainable computing systems and Green AI. At Boston University, she is honored to work with Prof. Ayse Coskun in the PEAC Lab.
Jiatong Guo, CV
Advisor: Eshed Ohn-Bar