Boston University Students Win Two NeurIPS 2022 Competitions
As part of the Artificial Intelligence and Deep Learning courses taught by associate professor Iddo Drori, Boston University students participated in NeurIPS 2022 competitions in the Fall of 2022 under professor Drori’s mentorship. The goals of the competitions are learning from human feedback in Minecraft and learning to specialize in massively multiagent open worlds. The […]
Students Join Boston University at Tapia Celebration of Diversity in Computing Conference
The Annual Tapia Celebration of Diversity in Computing Conference brings together students and professionals from all backgrounds in computer science to promote and celebrate diversity in computing. For the first time, Boston University had the opportunity to sponsor six students to attend the annual event in Washington, DC. From September 7th to September 10th, the […]
Statement of Solidarity with our Iranian Community
October 14, 2022 Statement of Solidarity with our Iranian Community The Department of Computer Science at Boston University stands in solidarity with our Iranian community and those impacted by the violent crackdowns on peaceful protests at Iranian universities. Universities must be places for free speech, respect, and human dignity. We remain committed to supporting all […]
Boston University Computer Science Faculty Win 6 New National Science Foundation (NSF) Awards!
Congratulations to BU faculty Adam Smith, Manos Athanassoulis, Richard West, Ran Canetti, Abraham Matta, John Liagouris, Vasiliki Kalavri, and John Byers who have each won an NSF award! Travel: Student Travel Grant for 2022 Boston Differential Privacy Summer School Award Number: 2227905; Principal Investigator: Adam Smith; NSF Organization: CNS Start Date: 06/01/2022; CAREER: Robust LSM-Based […]
CS PhD Students Win Best Research Track Paper at 9th IEEE International Conference
CS PhD students, Ali Raza and Zongshun Zhang, have won the Best Research Track Paper Award at the 9th IEEE International Conference on Cloud Engineering (IC2E) 2021 for their work: LIBRA: An Economical Hybrid Approach for Cloud Applications with Strict SLAs. Ali Raza, Zongshun Zhang, Nabeel Akhtar, Vatche Isahagian, and Ibrahim Matta. Best Research Track […]
Andrea Burns Awarded the 2021 Google Fellowship
By Lizzy Maimone BU CS PhD student Andrea Burns (GRS’23) has been selected to receive a 2021 Google PhD Fellowship in the area of Machine Perception, Speech Technology, and Computer Vision. There were 12 fellowship awardees in this category with Andrea being the sole recipient from Boston University. As a graduate student, she was made […]
BU CS invites applications for new faculty members
To apply: Lecturer position (review to begin 5/1/22 and continue on a rolling basis): https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/21670 Assistant Professor position (review to begin on 12/1/21 and continue on a rolling basis): https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/19503 Associate Professor of the Practice position (review to begin on 11/1/21 and continue on a rolling basis): https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/19506 Boston University Computer Science has the following […]
Wenxin Feng Wins ACM ETRA 2021 Best Paper Award
Congratulations to BU CS 2018 PhD Alumnus Wenxin Feng, advised by Professor Margrit Betke, for winning the ACM ETRA 2021 Best Paper Award! Wenxin, now a researcher at Google, worked on a project which was a 2018 collaboration with co awardee Andrew Kurauchi. Andrew Kurauchi was a visiting PhD student in the IVC lab in […]
BU CS in the Time of COVID-19
by Kayla Chapman Since Tuesday, March 17th, life has been very different for the BU CS community. On that day, Boston University President Robert Brown announced that, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Boston University would cease in-person instruction and the remainder of the spring semester would be taught entirely online. This change, while necessary for […]
Spotlight – Sumara Ali
by Kayla Chapman Sumara Ali (CAS ‘20) stumbled upon computer science her sophomore year of high school. She enrolled in AP Computer Science after discovering that it was the only class she and her friends could take together. What Sumara assumed would be a fun course to take with her friends quickly became a […]