Data Centers
BU Experts Develop AI Surveillance System to Enhance Pandemic Preparedness
Five years after COVID-19 shut down the world, Director of the BU Rafik B. Hariri Institute for Computing and Computational Science & Engineering and CISE faculty affiliate and professor Yannis Paschalidis (ECE, SE, BME, CDS) is studying how prepared we are for the next outbreak. Alongside Boston University infectious diseases expert Nahid Bhadelia, the two […]
CISE Faculty Recognized for Groundbreaking AI Research with AIRR Awards
Recognized for their cutting-edge research in artificial intelligence, 11 CISE faculty affiliates have been honored with AI Research Resource (AIRR) awards. This Hariri Institute program supports AI research at Boston University by giving researchers access to the New England Research Cloud (NERC), a regional computing infrastructure that provides cloud-based resources tailored to academic research. A […]
Assistant Professor Tianyu Wang (ECE) works to make AI Data Centers more Energy Efficient
AI is already using an enormous amount of energy, and the problem is about to get much worse. According to Energy Digital, data centers, which are used to host and run large-scale AI optimisations, are estimated to have consumed 1-1.5% of global electricity in 2022, and we are expected to see electricity demands double by […]
Secretary of State John Kerry Visits CISE Director Ayse Coskun
On Thursday, February 6th, 2025, former Secretary of State John Kerry visited the Boston University Center for Information & Systems Engineering to meet with CISE Director and Professor Ayşe K. Coşkun (ECE, SE). Secretary Kerry was joined by Ambassador David H. Thorne, former Senior Advisor to the Secretary of State, and Varun Sivaram, Council on […]
CISE Hosts 11th Annual Graduate Student Workshop (CGSW 11.0)
Over 100 student and faculty attendees gathered on January 24th, 2025, for the 11th Annual Graduate Student Workshop hosted by the Center of Information and Systems Engineering (CISE). The day-long symposium featured doctoral students from different disciplines across Boston University’s College of Engineering presenting their original research. “CGSW aims to bring together CISE students, faculty, […]
Ayşe Coşkun publishes AI supercharges data center energy use – straining the grid and slowing sustainability efforts in The Conversation
CISE Director and Professor Ayşe Coşkun (ECE, SE) published an article in The Conversation highlighting the energy strain that artificial intelligence has placed on the power grid. The article emphasizes magnitude of data center growth that has occurred in the advent of this era of large language models. In the United States, 15 states contain […]
The Future of Driving: Control Barrier Functions and the Internet of Vehicles
The National Highway Traffic and Safety Association reports that 94% of serious car crashes are due to human error. Christos Cassandras, Boston University Distinguished Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Head of the Division of Systems Engineering, and a co-founder of the Center for Information & Systems Engineering (CISE), has made monumental contributions to the […]
Collaborative Research: CNS Core: Small: A New Architecture for Petabyte-scale File Transfer Evaluated in FABRIC
File transfer is a fundamental operation of the Internet. Important scientific instruments, such as the James Webb Space Telescope and the Large Hadron Collider, generate massive files daily. As files increase in size, it is more likely errors are introduced during their transfer, such as the ones not caught by the checksum process. Reliability is […]
CNS Core: Small: Building Resilience into Blockchains
Blockchains and cryptocurrencies have emerged as disruptive technologies with profound financial and societal impact. This state of affairs makes it imperative to gain better understanding of the dynamics and resilience of the underlying peer-to-peer networks on which blockchains operate. To this end, this project researches novel measurement methodologies, statistical modeling, and design approaches for distributed […]
Collaborative Research: CNS: Medium: Scalable Learning from Distributed Data for Wireless Network Management
The transition to 5G is expected to witness not only an emergence of new applications such as mobile augmented and virtual reality, but also opens up the attack surface to both known, and previously unknown threats. Thus, wireless networks of the future will need better control and management at different temporal and traffic aggregation granularities […]