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.
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 […]
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).
Gonca Gursun, et al. win a 2013 IRTF/IETF Applied Networking Research Prize
Gonca Gürsun, Natali Ruchansky, Evimaria Terzi and Mark Crovella have won an IRTF/IETF Applied Networking Research Prize, for their paper “Routing State Distance: A Path-based Metric for Network Analysis.” This work was presented at the 2012 Internet Measurement Conference, and will be a featured presentation at an upcoming IETF meeting.
Margrit Betke elected to Senior Member of IEEE
This recognition is bestowed upon members with significant research performance in terms of technical contribution and professional leadership. The IEEE reserves Senior Member status for only 8 percent of its approximately 400,000 members.
Margrit Betke elected to Senior Member of ACM
Margrit Betke has been elected to Senior Member of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) for 2013. As part of its recognition of excellence, the ACM honors those whose contributions to the computing field have helped make the world better in countless ways.
Evimaria Terzi receives NSF grant for data-mining research
The $500K grant will support research on “Entity Selection and Ranking for Data Mining Applications.” Read more.
Ran Canetti wins NSF grant for research on cryptographic algorithms and protocols
The $480K NSF grant will support research on “New Directions in Cryptography: Non-Black-Box Techniques against Non-Black-Box Attacks.” Read more.