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): […]
New Paper on Cryptocurrency and Security from Prof. Goldberg
A new paper from Associate Professor Sharon Goldberg, PhD student Ethan Heilman, and University of Pittsburgh researcher Yuval Marcus discusses eclipse attacks on blockchains, how these attacks are carried out on the Ethereum network, and what steps should be taken to guard against such attacks. The paper, entitled “Low-Resource Eclipse Attacks on Ethereum’s Peer-to-Peer Network,” has received […]
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 […]
BU CS Reflects on the Grace Hopper Celebration
In early October, over 18,000 people descended on Orlando, Florida for the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing (GHC), the world’s largest gathering of women technologists. For the second year in a row, Boston University (BU) was a high-level academic sponsor of the conference – the result of a collaboration between the Department of […]
CS Day 2017 Puts a Spin on Career Fairs
On Wednesday, September 27th, over 400 Boston University students and 20 companies convened in the Metcalf Ballroom for CS Day, an event aimed at showcasing the growth and research in the Department of Computer Science while also giving current CS students the opportunity to further their careers. Companies in attendance included many well-known organizations such […]
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, […]