Mona Jalal featured in latest edition of Computer Vision News.
Mona Jalal is a first-year Computer Science PhD Fellow in Computer Vision at Boston University and an incoming research intern at NVidia. Her main interests are language and vision, semantic segmentation, gesture recognition and facial analysis for affective computing. Read the article here.
Wenxin Feng (GRS ’19) helps develop wearable technology to help people with ALS
Wenxin Feng (GRS ’19) is currently working with Pison Technologies, a Cambridge based start-up, to develop wearable technology to help people diagnosed with ALS control laptops, phones and electronic wheelchairs more effectively and affordably. Feng originally became interested in developing ALS technology after working with Professor Margrit Betke on her Camera Mouse research, and has been […]
Appointment of Dr. Adam Smith as Professor of Computer Science through the Boston University Data Science Initiative
Congratulations to Professor Adam Smith for receiving the first professorship through the Data Science Initiative! Read more about his appointment and the Data Science Initiative here.
Professor Saenko and Research Team Win Most Innovative Solution at CVPR Conference
Professor Kate Saenko and her students Huijuan Xu and Abir Das won the prize for the Most Innovative Solution on the IEEE Large Scale Activity Recognition Challenge, which was held as part of the IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR). The Large Scale Activity Recognition Challenge, as described here, “focuses on recognizing high-level […]
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 […]
Mark Crovella and BU CS alumnus Anukool Lakhina highlighted in Science Coalition report
Guavus, Inc., founded by BU CS alumnus Anukool Lakhina (CAS’01, GRS’01,’07) and Professor Mark Crovella, is featured in a report on the benefits of federally funded research that was released yesterday by the nonprofit, nonpartisan Science Coalition. The report, American-Made Innovation Sparking Economic Growth, documents the ways that this company and others are bringing to […]
Title: Lecturer Office: Introduction to Computing, Software Engineering Email: perryd@bu.edu Phone: 617-407-2307 Education: MS, Boston U Homepage Bio Perry Donham has taught at BU for 17 years, starting as an adjunct the Metropolitan College, and recently joined the faculty of CAS/CS as a Lecturer. During that time his coursework has included a variety of graduate […]
BU CS students work to “create something awesome” at Boston Hacks
From The Daily Free Press: Boston University hosted 500 students from across the United States and Canada on Saturday and Sunday for the 24-hour tech-invention competition BostonHacks, where students from 25 different universities and colleges competed in teams of two to four to create “something awesome.” Using state-of-the art technology, participants gathered at Metcalf Hall in […]
BU CS Undergrads Excel at AngelHack Boston
Students walk away with over $3,000 worth of prizes at AngelHack Boston
Professor Levin elected to AAAS
Leonid has been elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. This special recognition is reserved for only a handful of the nation’s top Computer Scientists.