Student Spotlights: A Social Media Series
By Keziah Zimmerman This year has not been an easy one. Despite the challenges of remote learning, CS students continued to amaze us with their accomplishments. To recognize the strength of those who faced these difficult times head on, our department interviewed students on their studies, hobbies, goals, and dreams. Read below for summarized versions […]
Branching Out: A Social Media Series
By Keziah Zimmerman As the 2020/2021 academic year comes to an end, we wanted to take a moment to recognize the efforts of our staff members. These incredible individuals not only committed themselves to creating a successful learning experience for CS students but did so with ever-present enthusiasm. Below, we have collected biographies from our […]
Parul Sohal (GRS’24) Recieves the IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium Best Student Paper Award
On December 4th, 2020, Parul Sohal (GRS’24) was awarded by the IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium (RTSS) for the best student paper. The work is titled “E-WarP: a System-wide Framework for Memory Bandwidth Profiling and Management” and was co-authored by Rohan Tabish, Ulrich Drepper, and Renato Mancuso. According to their website, the IEEE RTSS is the […]
CS Professors Receive $2 Million DARPA Grant to Battle Automated Misinformation in the News
By Keziah Zimmerman CS Professors Bryan Plummer and Kate Saenko, in collaboration with professionals from UC Berkeley, University of Washington, and UC Davis, have received $2 million in funding from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). The grant is in support of a project that aims to battle automated misinformation in the news. BU […]
Assistant Professor Renato Mancuso Featured in Communications of the ACM
Our own CS assistant professor, Renato Mancuso, was recently featured in an article in the Communications of the ACM covering the work he did for CS 454/654 (Embedded Systems) last spring. The article also discusses professors from other universities, how they have approached online learning, and the way they feel about it. Read more here: […]
Computer Scientists Contribute to COVID-19 Drug Development Via Network Analysis
Professors Mark Crovella (CS, Bioinformatics) and Simon Kasif (BME, CS, Bioinformatics) are working with multiple other CS researchers in the US (including researchers from Virginia Tech, Microsoft Research, and UCLA). Co-developing a machine learning methodology to analyze viral and human protein-protein interaction networks, the researchers have advanced our understanding of the biological processes affected by […]
CS Part-Time Lecturer Named to Boston Business Journal’s 40 under 40
Greg Ryslik, who was a CS part-time lecturer during the Spring 2020 semester, was recently included in Boston Business Journal’s 40 under 40. Ryslik, who received his PhD in Biostatistics from Yale University, is currently working as the Chief Data Officer at Celsius Therapeutics. Ryslik received his BS in math, CS, and finance from Rutgers […]
CS Ambassadors Organize a Splash Event Unlike Any Other
By Keziah Zimmerman This past Saturday, September 12th, CS Ambassadors hosted CS Splash, the annual club fair for computer science-related groups. The event was, for the first time ever, held on Zoom and nearly 80 participants joined the call. “We’ve been working on Splash since February. It’s one of our biggest events,” said Jack Giunta […]
Professor John Byers Joins DARPA’s ISAT Study Group
By Keziah Zimmerman This past summer, CS Professor John Byers was named to the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to work with the Information Science and Technology (ISAT) Study Group. Byers recently attended his first ISAT workshop, which ran from August 17th-20th over Zoom. BU CS caught up with Byers to learn more about […]