Yannis Paschalidis Named the 2020 Charles DeLisi Distinguished Lecturer
Professor Yannis Paschalidis is the 2020 recipient of the Charles DeLisi Award and Distinguished Lecture. This award celebrates high-impact research in engineering. This showcasing event allows all members of the Boston University community to meet a distinguished scholar selected from the College of Engineering faculty discussing a topic of recognized excellence. Professor Paschalidis will present on […]
Azer Bestavros, Bonnie Costello Latest Warren Distinguished Professors
BU’s highest faculty honor goes to computer networking expert, poetry scholar Azer Bestavros and Bonnie Costello are the newest William Fairfield Warren Distinguished Professors. Both College of Arts & Sciences professors, Bestavros, in computer science, and Costello, in English, are recipients of the highest honor bestowed by the University on senior faculty members actively involved […]
Prakash Ishwar Promoted to Full Professor
Prakash Ishwar, College of Engineering professor of electrical and computer engineeering and professor of systems engineering has been promoted to Full Professor. Professor Ishwar’s expertise is in network information theory, information-theoretic security, machine learning, and visual information processing. A past NSF CAREER Award recipient and winner of ENG’s Dean’s Catalyst Award, he has received numerous […]
An Internet of Cars
By Sara Cody Drivers who commute in and out of Boston — deemed as one of the worst U.S. cities for traffic — has experienced the misery of rush hour. Now, Professor Christos Cassandras (SE, ECE) is part of a research group aiming to ease commuting, and the resulting air pollution, by developing efficient, smart […]
Drone Home: New Robotics Lab Gives Researchers and Their ‘Bots Room to Roam
By Sara Elizabeth Cody As an animation technique, motion capture, has been prominently featured in a number of blockbuster films for more than a decade, bringing fictional characters, like Gollum from Lord of the Rings, to life. This same technology is allowing BU researchers study robotics and the relationship between man and machine in the […]
Popular Science Recognizes ENG Professor for CleanTech Innovation
Power Grid Optimization Software Lowers Costs, Boosts Renewables By Mark Dwortzan In its June issue, Popular Science recognized Research Associate Professor Pablo Ruiz (ME) as one of 12 trailblazing energy technology innovators. Ruiz leads a team of researchers that has designed software that locates electric power grid congestion and reroutes power to less active transmission […]
Dean’s Catalyst Awards Fund Promising, Early-Stage Projects – Congratulations to J. Konrad
By Mark Dwortzan The College of Engineering has funded four new projects through the Dean’s Catalyst Award (DCA) grant program, each focused on technologies that promise to make a significant impact on society. ENG and collaborating faculty will receive $40,000 per project to develop novel techniques to advance these technologies. Early result of automatic detection […]
A Robotic Approach to Engineering Living Cells
$4.5M NSF CPS Frontier Award to Fund BU-Led Project By Mark Dwortzan Researchers have long sought to enable collections of living cells to perform desired tasks that range from decontaminating waterways to growing tissue in the lab, but their efforts have largely relied on trial and error. Now a team of scientists and engineers led […]
Christos Cassandras Quoted in U.S. News and World Report
U.S. News and World Report published an article presentingChristos Cassandras (SE, ECE) as a leader in academia, who is at the forefront of a trend in graduate programs to bring student innovations to the marketplace.
CISE Faculty on Provost’s Faculty Hiring Initiative in Data Science
From Dr. Jean Morrison, University Provost and Chief Academic Officer. Data Science, the methodical study of the generalizable and scalable extraction of knowledge from data, has emerged as a key enabler of transformative disciplinary and interdisciplinary research. Data Science incorporates varying elements and builds on techniques and theories from many basic engineering and science fields […]