Graduate Student Fellow Helps Computers Interpret Human Languages
Computers don’t speak the same language as humans, but Afra Feyza Akyürek uses machine learning to help computers process and interpret human languages better. Akyürek, a PhD student in Computer Science at Boston University, aims to improve the dialogue between humans and computers and refine programs like Siri or Alexa. Learn more about Afra Feyza […]
Boston University’s Computer Science Department to participate in Emerging Scholars and CDS program
BU Diversity & Inclusion (BU D&I) has announced the selection of seven BU academic departments to host underrepresented, early-career scholars in the 2022-23 academic year as part of the Emerging Scholars Program. The Faculty of Computing & Data Sciences will partner with faculty from other BU departments to invite emerging scholars to participate in a […]
Assistant Professor Manos Athanassoulis wins CAREER award
Congratulations to Assistant Professor Manos Athanassoulis for winning a National Science Foundation CAREER award for building Robust LSM-based Data Stores. Log-structured merge (LSM) trees are becoming the de facto standard for write-intensive storage layers for both production NoSQL data stores and relational systems. As LSM-based systems are used by various applications and deployed in shared […]
BU Alumna Elected to the National Academy of Engineering
Congratulations to Manuela Veloso (GRS MA’86) on being elected to the National Academy of Engineering! Election to the National Academy of Engineering is among the highest professional distinctions accorded to an engineer. Academy membership honors those who have made outstanding contributions to “engineering research, practice, or education, including, where appropriate, significant contributions to the engineering […]
Congratulations to Assistant Professor Mark Bun for winning a 2022 Sloan Research Fellowship
Mark Bun is among only 20 Fellows selected in Computer Science this year and the only one from Boston University. Read more about the 2022 Sloan Research Fellows here.
Andrea Burns Awarded the 2021 Google Fellowship
By Lizzy Maimone BU CS PhD student Andrea Burns (GRS’23) has been selected to receive a 2021 Google PhD Fellowship in the area of Machine Perception, Speech Technology, and Computer Vision. There were 12 fellowship awardees in this category with Andrea being the sole recipient from Boston University. As a graduate student, she was made […]
Professor Levin Gives Lecture During STOC 2021
by Lizzy Maimone During the Annual ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing from June 21–25, 2021, BU CS Professor Leonid A. Levin spoke about the topic “How to succeed in tasks like proving Fermat’s Theorem or predicting the Higgs boson.” To learn more about the event, click here. This lecture aims at attracting attention to […]
Wenxin Feng Wins ACM ETRA 2021 Best Paper Award
Congratulations to BU CS 2018 PhD Alumnus Wenxin Feng, advised by Professor Margrit Betke, for winning the ACM ETRA 2021 Best Paper Award! Wenxin, now a researcher at Google, worked on a project which was a 2018 collaboration with co awardee Andrew Kurauchi. Andrew Kurauchi was a visiting PhD student in the IVC lab in […]
Student Spotlight: Anna Goncharova
Boston University Computer Science student Anna Goncharova (CAS ‘18) is currently a Software Engineering Intern on the Data Infrastructure Team at HubSpot in Cambridge, MA for the Spring 2017 semester. Anna is taking a leave of absence for one semester to pursue the internship. She says that one of her favorite parts about HubSpot […]
Mark Crovella Wins BU Innovator of the Year Award
The Office of Technology Development honored Boston University Computer Science Professor Mark Crovella with Boston University’s 2014 Innovator of the Year award. The annual award recognizes a BU faculty member whose cutting-edge research and ideas lead to the formation of companies that benefit society at large. “Professor Crovella is an entrepreneurial scientist, whose inventions have […]