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The Center is led by CISE Director Ay\u015fe K. Co\u015fkun<\/span><\/a>\u00a0and a Management Committee of nine senior faculty (including the CISE Director). The CISE management committee provides direction and oversight to the center.<\/span><\/p>\n

JOHN BAILLIEUL<\/strong><\/span>
\nJohn Baillieul<\/a> is a Distinguished Professor of Engineering and co-founder of the Center for Information & Systems Engineering (CISE) at Boston University. He is also Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Professor of Systems Engineering at Boston University. His research deals with robotics, the control of mechanical systems, and mathematical system theory. Over the past decade, he has focused on information-based control and neuro-inspired perception-based control. He is a Fellow of the IEEE, of the International Federation of Automatic Control and of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics.<\/span><\/p>\n

MICHAEL C. CARAMANIS<\/strong><\/span>
\nMichael C. Caramanis<\/a> is Professor of Mechanical and Systems Engineering at Boston University and co-founder of Boston University\u2019s Center for Information and Systems Engineering (CISE). He teaches in the areas of Stochastic Control, Supply\u00a0Chains and\u00a0Electric\u00a0Power Markets, and\u00a0the application domains of his\u00a0research include\u00a0active electricity\u00a0grid enabled demand response\u00a0and\u00a0distributed renewable and other resource integration. Professor Caramanis is widely published in the areas of supply chain control and in Power system capacity expansion, markets,\u00a0demand response\u00a0and operational planning,\u00a0including co-authorship of Spot Pricing of Electricity Kluwer, 1988.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

CHRISTOS G. CASSANDRAS<\/strong><\/span>
\nChristos G. Cassandras<\/a> is Distinguished Professor of Engineering at Boston University. He is Head of the Division of Systems Engineering<\/a>, and Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and co-founder of Boston University\u2019s Center for Information & Systems Engineering (CISE). He specializes in the areas of discrete event and hybrid systems, cooperative control, stochastic optimization, distributed optimization in network systems, and computer simulation, with applications to computer and sensor networks, manufacturing systems, and transportation systems. Dr. Cassandras was the previously Editor-in-Chief of the\u00a0IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control<\/a><\/em>\u00a0(1998 – 2009) and 2012 President of the\u00a0IEEE Control Systems Society<\/a>\u00a0(CSS).\u00a0He is the recipient of several awards and\u00a0a Fellow of the IEEE and a Fellow of the IFAC.<\/span><\/p>\n

DAVID CASTA\u00d1\u00d3N<\/strong><\/span>
\nDavid Casta\u00f1\u00f3n<\/a> is a Professor and\u00a0former Chair of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department (ECE), and co-founder of the Center for Information & Systems Engineering (CISE) at Boston University. He is deputy director of the National Science Foundation Engineering Research Center, the Bernard M. Gordon Center for Subsurface Sensing and Imaging Systems (CenSSIS), and Associate Director of the\u00a0Department of Homeland Security ALERT Center of Excellence<\/a>. Dr. Casta\u00f1\u00f3n’s current research interests include: stochastic control, estimation and detection, combinatorial optimization and scheduling, inverse problems, and subsurface imaging.<\/span><\/p>\n

AY\u015eE KIVILCIM CO\u015eKUN<\/span><\/strong>
\nAy\u015fe K. Co\u015fkun<\/a> is the Director of CISE, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Head of the Performance and Energy Aware Computing lab (Peac Lab)<\/a>. Her research focuses on designing computer systems that reduce energy consumption and thermal problems at chip-level and at system\/datacenter level, while maintaining resilience, security, and high performance at the same time. Current research directions include (1) design o<\/span>f future energy-efficient computer systems using new integration technologies (e.g., 3D-stacking, silicon photonic networks-on-chip, emerging on-chip cooling), (2) applied machine learning for improving cloud and HPC performance, and (3) sustainability in data centers via integration into smart grid programs. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

BENJAMIN LUBIN<\/strong><\/span>
\nBenjamin Lubin<\/a> is Clinical Associate Professor in Information Systems, and Faculty Director of the MS in Digital Technology (MSDT) Program at Questrom School of Business, Boston University. <\/u><\/u>His research is in three primary areas: (1) mechanism design, especially of combinatorial auctions and exchanges, mechanisms that support efficient reallocation of goods when participants have complex preferences regarding bundles of items, (2) exploring ways to integrate machine learning techniques into mechanism design (3) application of mechanism design to areas such as computational resource allocation, spectrum allocation, and fintech.<\/span><\/p>\n

YANNIS PASCHALIDIS<\/strong><\/span>
\nIoannis (Yannis) Paschalidis<\/a> is the Director of the Rafik B. Hariri Institute for Computing and Computational Science & Engineering (as of July 1, 2022) at Boston University. He is a Professor, Data Science Faculty Fellow, and Charles DeLisi award recipient at the College of Engineering with joint appointments in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, the Division of Systems Engineering, and the Department of Biomedical Engineering. He is also a Founding Professor of Computing &\u00a0 Data Sciences<\/a> and former Director of CISE. His current research interests lie in the fields of systems and control, optimization, machine learning, networks, computational biology, and computational medicine.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

VENKATESH SALIGRAMA<\/strong><\/span>
\nVenkatesh Saligrama<\/a> is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Data Science Faculty Fellow and founding member of the Faculty of Computing and Data Science (CDS). He is also Affiliated Professor of Computer Science and Systems Engineering at Boston University. Professor Saligrama\u2019s research interests are in machine learning and its applications, including resource efficient machine learning (budgeted ML), learning with limited supervision, AI and society, and learning and estimation on graphs\/networks.<\/span><\/p>\n

ROBERTO TRON\u00a0<\/strong><\/span>
\nRoberto Tron<\/a> is an Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Affiliate Professor of Systems Engineering at Boston University. <\/span><\/span>Before joining BU, he was a Post-doctoral Researcher in the\u00a0<\/span>GRASP Laboratory<\/a>\u00a0at University of Pennsylvania under the supervision of Professor Kostas Daniilidis and Prof. Vijay Kumar. <\/span>He received his PhD. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Johns Hopkins University in 2012, and was a Postdoctoral Researcher with the GRASP Lab at the University of Pennsylvania until 2015. \u00a0He received his M.Sc. (2007) and B.Sc. (2004) degrees (highest honors) from the Politecnico di Torino, Italy. He received a Diplome d\u2019Engenieur from the Eurecom Institute in 2006.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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