Professor Ran Canetti wins RSA Award for Excellence in the Field of Mathematics
We are pleased to announce that Ran Canetti has received the RSA Conference Award! This award, which was also given this year to Rafail Ostrovsky, is in recognition of lifetime achievement in the field of computer security. The category for which Ran was honored isExcellence in the Field of Mathematics. This award reflects the amazing impact that Ran […]
BU Giving Day Results!
On April 11, 2018, Boston University had its annual Giving Day and raised over $3,000,000! The Department of Computer Science raised $2,157 to improve student programming and our Course Assistance program. The CS Department ranked ninth in both the College of Arts and Sciences Departmental Challenge and the CAS Departmental Most Improved Challenge. There was a […]
Professor Margit Betke to speak at Facial Recognition Technology conference
Professor Margrit Betke to speak at international conference regarding the potential effects of facial recognition technology on both individuals and societies. Register below to listen to Professor Betke discuss her research about current facial recognition systems. Face-Off: Facial Recognition Technologies and Humanity in an Era of Big Data
BUCS Student Awarded Honorable Mention for Goldwater Scholarship
Hadyn Kennedy (CAS ’19) was recently awarded Honorable Mention for the Barry Goldwater Scholarship. Kennedy is currently working with Professor Sharon Goldberg as an undergraduate researcher and engineer at Commonwealth Crypto. Congratulations Hadyn!
Professor Peter Chin attending Naval Academies’ Naval Studies Board Workshop
BU Department of Computer Science Professor, Peter Chin, has been asked to participate in an upcoming Naval Studies Board (NSB) of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine Workshop on April 10-11. The workshop will explore the challenge of accelerating delivery of innovative and emerging technologies to U.S. Naval Forces. Congratulations Professor Chin!
2018 ASAR Competition Award Update
Dr. Randa Elanwar, a researcher who recently spent a few months in the Image and Video Computing research group at CS@BU, Prof. Margrit Betke, and their collaborators won the “Layout Analysis of Arabic Historical Manuscripts — Segmentation Challenge” at The 2nd IEEE International Workshop on Arabic and derived Script Analysis & Recognition (ASAR), held at […]
Mona Jalal featured in latest edition of Computer Vision News.
Mona Jalal is a first-year Computer Science PhD Fellow in Computer Vision at Boston University and an incoming research intern at NVidia. Her main interests are language and vision, semantic segmentation, gesture recognition and facial analysis for affective computing. Read the article here.
Wenxin Feng (GRS ’19) helps develop wearable technology to help people with ALS
Wenxin Feng (GRS ’19) is currently working with Pison Technologies, a Cambridge based start-up, to develop wearable technology to help people diagnosed with ALS control laptops, phones and electronic wheelchairs more effectively and affordably. Feng originally became interested in developing ALS technology after working with Professor Margrit Betke on her Camera Mouse research, and has been […]
Professor Chin awarded NIH Grant
Professor Chin (LISP Group) was awarded a 2-year grant from NIH (National Institute of Health) under the BRAIN initiative to create a head mountable miniature microscope (“miniscope”) that enables high speed (>1000 frames per second; FPS) voltage imaging of neural populations in brains using the theory of compressive sensing. Congratulations Professor Chin!
Professor Chin awarded NSF Grant
Professor Chin (LISP Group) was awarded a 3-year grant from NSF (National Science Foundation) DMS (Division of Mathematical Sciences) to build a framework using advanced tools from random graph theory and spectral graph theory to carry out the quantitative analysis of the structure and dynamics of large graphs (or networks) – with the focus of finding […]