Internet of Things
SWIFT: Facilitating Spectrum Access by Noise Guessing
Wireless technologies play an essential role in enabling growth and prosperity in societies by supporting business, government, science and education, defense, and health sectors. The boom of connected Internet of Things (IoT) nodes and 5G wireless communications will lead to a many-fold increase in wireless data traffic. This data storm and connectivity-in-everything model will result […]
AF: Small: Collaborative Research: New Representations for Learning Algorithms and Secure Computation
Recent success of machine learning is due in part to the availability of large datasets for training and testing purposes. However, the training process is computationally intensive and collected datasets are often privacy sensitive. This has led to providing Machine Learning as a Service (MLaaS), where data providers store their data in the cloud and […]
Using Optimized A/B Tests to Improve Online Software Services
Have you ever wondered what exactly is happening when a website asks to track your cookies? CISE Faculty Affiliate Jinglong Zhao (Questrom) is working to help web-facing firms such as Google, Amazon, Netflix, and Facebook use cookies to improve their software services. Zhao works at the interface between optimization and econometrics. He designs field experiments […]
Unified Vision-Based Motion Estimation and Control for Multiple and Complex Robots
The project enables teams of robots to collaborate on physical tasks, such as assembling a building from prefabricated components under the direction of a human worker. In such settings, each robot might be equipped with cameras to orient itself and have some limitations on how it can move. To achieve the robotic team’s goals, each […]
FRR: Towards Robust and Perceptual Inclusive Mobile Robots
As prototypical intelligent mobile systems, from autonomous vehicles to delivery robots, move from their controlled development labs into the real-world, their impact on individuals with disabilities becomes discernible. An intelligent system that fails to account for diverse reactions and mobility characteristics among individuals can have dire consequences. For example, a delivery robot may inadvertently cause […]
My Big Idea: Guided Tours through Virtual and Real Spaces
In our My Big Idea series, we bring you interviews with BU alums and other members of the University community who have launched a business, built a new product, or solved problems big and small. We ask them how they got the idea, what were their biggest stumbling blocks, and what’s next for their big […]
Rabia Yazicigil Offers Insights on Energy-Constrained Systems
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Gut Health Project Nets Professor Yazicigil Multi-Disciplinary Grant
CISE faculty affiliate Rabia Yazicigil (ECE) is leveraging her skill with hardware design and IoT security in a new direction, for the benefit of human health. Working in collaboration with Professor Tim Lu, of MIT’s EECS & Biological Engineering departments, Professor Yazicigil is developing a new miniaturized bio-electronic device which would make it possible to […]
SII Planning: Escaping Gravity: The End of Gs
This award is a planning grant for the Spectrum Innovation Initiative: National Center for Wireless Spectrum Research (SII-Center). The focus of a spectrum research SII-Center goes beyond 5G, IoT, and other existing or forthcoming systems and technologies to chart out a trajectory to ensure United States leadership in future wireless technologies, systems, and applications in […]
BU Researchers Propose Method for Controlling COVID-19 through Cellphones
CISE faculty affiliate Ari Trachtenberg along with fellow Boston University Computer Science professors Mayank Varia, and Ran Canetti recently published a paper that proposes a method for using cellphones to track COVID-19, while protecting user privacy. The researchers write: “Successful containment of the Coronavirus pandemic rests on the ability to quickly and reliably identify those […]