Professor Emily Whiting awarded new NSF award
On Friday, July 27th, NSF awarded Professor Emily Whiting a new grant. This new NSF grant will support new research on “Computational Joinery,” collaborative with Robotics Professors at Dartmouth College and SUNY at Albany. The project will develop theory, techniques, and mechanical designs needed for robots to rapidly build large, rigid structures from blocks that […]
Congratulations BU CS Class of 2018!
On Friday May 18 the Department of Computer Science welcomed nearly a thousand guests, friends, and family members to our commencement exercises to celebrate our 150+ students graduating with a degree in Computer Science. The ceremony was the largest ever in the Department’s history! The ceremony included an inspiring student address from Kylie Moses (CAS’18): […]
Professor Whiting Awarded Innovation Career Development Professorship
Congratulations to Professor Emily Whiting for being awarded an Innovation Career Development Professorship! This competitive, University-wide award reflects the outstanding and innovative work that Emily is conducting with the Department of Computer Science. See this link for more information from the Office of the Provost on Career Development Professorships. Congrats, Professor Whiting!
Professor Sharon Goldberg Named Rising Star in Networking and Communication by N2Women
Congratulations to Professor Sharon Goldberg for being recognized on this year’s list of Rising Stars in Networking and Communication by N2Women! This award, now in its 10th year, is given by Networking Networking Women (N2Women), an 850 member organization supported by ACM, IEEE, NSF, and industry. N2Women write that “Sharon is a powerhouse in network […]
Tom Cheng and Ying Ye Win Best Student Paper at RTAS/CPS Week 2017
CS PhD students Zhuoqun Tom Cheng and Ying Ye along with their advisor, Professor Rich West, have received the Best Student Paper Award at the Real-Time and Embedded Technology and Application Symposium (RTAS)/Cyber-Physical System Week 2017 for their paper “Building Real-Time Embedded Applications on QduinoMC: A Web-connected 3D Printer Case Study.” Congratulations to Tom, Ying, […]
Professor Leo Reyzin Wins Best Paper Award at Eurocrypt 2017
Leo Reyzin, together with collaborators at IST Austria and UC Santa Barbara, received a Best Paper Award from the Eurocrypt 2017 conference for his work “Scrypt is Maximally Memory-Hard.” (http://eprint.iacr.org/2016/989) The paper solves a problem that has been open since 2009: does there exist a function with maximal memory hardness? A function is memory-hard if […]
CS students and faculty win award at BU Scholar’s Day
We are happy to announce that a team consisting of CS PhD students Sarah Bargal, Shugao Ma, Jianming Zhang, Professor Stan Sclaroff, and Leonid Sigal (Disney Research) has won the Office of Technology Development Award at BU’s scholar’s day! http://www.bu.edu/provost/graduateresearchsymposium2016/ Congratulations Sarah, Shugao, Jianming, Stan, and Leonid!
TCC Test-of-Time Award goes to Silvio Micali and Leonid Reyzin
Professor Silvio Micali (MIT) and Professor Leonid Reyzin (Boston University) were presented with the TCC Test-of-Time Award for their paper on cryptography.
Evimaria Terzi wins NSF Early Career Award
Evimaria Terzi has won an NSF Faculty Early Career Development Award to
support her research and teaching efforts in data mining.
Danna Gurari, Suele Ki Kim, Margrit Betke, and Coauthors Win Best Paper Prize
CS PhD student Danna Gurari, CS MA student Seule Ki Kim, CS Professor Margrit Betke, and their coauthors won a Best Paper Award for their paper “SAGE: An Approach and Implementation Empowering Quick and Reliable Quantitative Analysis of Segmentation Quality” at the IEEE Workshop on the Applications of Computer Vision (WACV).