CISE Welcomes New Faculty Affiliates
Rabia Tugce Yazicigil is an Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at Boston University and a Visiting Scholar at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She also leads the Wireless Integrated Systems and Extreme Circuits (WISE-Circuits) Laboratory at BU. She received a B.S. degree in Electronics Engineering from Sabanci University, Istanbul, and a M.S. degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL). She received a PhD degree in Electrical Engineering from Columbia University. She was a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the EECS Department of MIT working with Prof. Anantha P. Chandrakasan from 2016 to 2018. Her research interests lie at the interface of integrated circuits, signal processing, security, bio-sensing, and wireless communications to innovate system-level solutions for future energy-constrained applications. Her work on cryptographic “tag of everything” was featured in MIT News in February 2020; her postdoctoral research work on ultra-fast bit-level frequency hopping for physical-layer security was featured in MIT News in 2018 as well as other media. She is the recipient of a number of awards, including the “Electrical Engineering Collaborative Research Award” for her PhD research on Compressive Sampling Applications in Rapid RF Spectrum Sensing (2016).
Francesco Orabona is an Assistant Professor in the department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and affiliated with the Computer Science Department at Boston University. He is also Director of the BU Optimization and Machine Learning (OPTIMAL) Lab, which focuses on the design and analysis of machine learning and optimization algorithms and in particular, online learning, learning with kernels, and stochastic algorithms for convex and non-convex domains. Dr. Orabona’s background covers both theoretical and practical aspects of machine learning and optimization. His current research interest is parameter-free machine learning, for which he received a Google Research Award in 2017. Prior to joining Boston University, Dr. Orabona was an Assistant Professor at Stony Brook University. Earlier in his career, he held research positions with Yahoo Research, NY, the Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago, the University of Milan, and the IDIAP Research Institute. He received his BS and MS in Electrical Engineering from University of Naples Federico II, and his PhD in Electrical Engineering from the University of Genoa (2007). Dr. Orabona has published more than 70 papers in scientific journals and conferences. His works are equally distributed between practical and theoretical works.