Seven CISE Faculty Affiliates Receive 2021 Red Hat Research Incubation Awards
Seven CISE faculty affiliates are among the recipients of the 2021 Red Hat Collaboratory Research Incubation Awards. Projects funded through the Red Hat Collaboratory Research Incubation Award are open source and focus on problems of distributed, operating, security, or network systems whose solutions show promise for advancing their fields and impacting the tech industry. “The diverse collection of proposals we received promised to carve out a wide impact in the many research and societal efforts that rely upon systems research,” said Ari Trachtenberg, a Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering at BU who was instrumental in developing the funding program.
CISE affiliate funded projects include:
- Creating a global open research platform to better understand social sustainability using data from a real-life smart village by Christos Cassandras, Head of the Division of Systems Engineering and Professor (ECE) with BU collaborators Vasiliki Kalavri, John Liagouris, Mayank Varia; Red Hat researchers Alexandra Machado, Jim Craig, and Christopher Tate,; and researchers of SmartaByar, an organization specializing in Smart Villages.
- AI for Cloud Ops by Professors Ayse Coskun (ECE) and Alan Liu (ECE, CS) along with BU Prof. Gianluca Stringhini, and Red Hat researchers Steven Huels, Marcel Hild, and Daniel Riek; and IBM researcher Fabio Oliviera.
- Privacy-Preserving Cloud Computing using Homomorphic Encryption by Ajay Joshi, Professor (ECE).
- Enabling Intelligent In-Network Computing for Cloud Systems by Alan Liu, Professor (ECE, CS).
- OSMOSIS: Open-Source Multi-Organizational Collaborative Training for Societal-Scale AI Systems by Eshed Ohn-Bar, Professor (ECE).
- Intelligent Data Synchronization for Hybrid Clouds by David Starobinski, Professor (ECE, SE).
More information on each project can be found at the official award announcement page.