Dr. Ashwin Thangali Wins an Award at Scholars Day
In addition to Ashwin’s successful Ph.D. Thesis Defense yesterday, his poster at Scholars Day was also prize-worthy: he won the “Hariri Award for Innovative Computing Models, Algorithms, and Systems Research”.
Omer Paneth wins Simons Award
The Simons Foundation has awarded CS PhD student, Omer Paneth a Simons Award for Graduate
Students in Theoretical Computer Science.
BU Today: Medicine in the Cloud
“With a grant from the new Massachusetts Green High Performance Computing Center, which was cofounded by BU, Jonathan Appavoo and Ellen Grant have devised algorithms similar in computational complexity to those used in fetal scanning and fed them to a supercomputer at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory.”
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.
BFOC ’13 (Boston Freedom in Online Communications Day)
The main purpose of BFOC is to encourage collaboration between local researchers and practitioners in technology, law, and policy that are working in this area.
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.
New MS with Specialization in Cyber Security
The Department is pleased to announce the launch of a new CS Masters degree program with specialization in cyber security. Read more. Apply here.
Vatche Ishakian, et al., win Best Paper Award at USENIX Intl. Conf. on Middleware
Vatche Ishakian, Ray Sweha, Azer Bestavros and Jonathan Appavoo win Best Paper Award for their paper, “CloudPack: Exploiting Workload Flexibility Through Rational Pricing,” to be presented at the ACM/IFIP/USENIX 13th International Conference on Middleware.
BU BUILDS team places 3rd in CSAW Capture-the-Flag competition
BUILDS took third place in the finals for NYU-Poly’s CSAW (Cyber-Security Awareness Week) Capture-the-Flag competition this past weekend. Four members of BUILDS traveled to the finals at NYU-Poly in Brooklyn: Allan Wirth (2015) – Computer Science Danny Cooper (2013) – Computer Science Jeff Crowell (2013) – Computer Engineering George Silvis, III (2014) – Math/Ancient Greek […]