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Boston University CS Professor wins 2021 ACM Paris Kanellakis Theory and Practice Award

Congratulations to BU CS Professor Adam Smith on receiving a 2021 ACM Paris Kanellakis Theory and Practice Award! The Paris Kanellakis Theory and Practice Award honors specific theoretical accomplishments that have had a significant and demonstrable effect on the practice of computing. This award is accompanied by a prize of $10,000 and is endowed by […]

Boston University CS Student wins 3rd place in the New Venture Competition

Congratulations to CompSciLib, an all-in-one ed-tech web app that revolutionizes computer science learning and comprehension, led by N.J Umoh (CAS’23) won 3rd place in the New Venture Competition held by Innovate@BU/BUild Lab! The New Venture Competition is BU’s largest pitch competition awarding students prizes between $6,000 and $18,000 to fund their venture projects. Learn more […]

Boston University CS PhD Student Wins RTAS 2022 Award

BU CS PhD student, Anam Farrukh, has just won the Best Student Paper Award and Outstanding Paper Award at RTAS 2022 with a paper titled “FlyOS: Integrated Modular Avionics for Autonomous Multicopters.” RTAS is a top-tier conference with a focus on systems research related to embedded systems and time-sensitive systems. The broad scope of RTAS […]

Graduate Student Fellow Helps Computers Interpret Human Languages

Computers don’t speak the same language as humans, but Afra Feyza Akyürek uses machine learning to help computers process and interpret human languages better.  Akyürek, a PhD student in Computer Science at Boston University, aims to improve the dialogue between humans and computers and refine programs like Siri or Alexa. Learn more about Afra Feyza […]

Assistant Professor Manos Athanassoulis wins CAREER award

Congratulations to Assistant Professor Manos Athanassoulis for winning a National Science Foundation CAREER award for building Robust LSM-based Data Stores. Log-structured merge (LSM) trees are becoming the de facto standard for write-intensive storage layers for both production NoSQL data stores and relational systems. As LSM-based systems are used by various applications and deployed in shared […]

BU Alumna Elected to the National Academy of Engineering

Congratulations to Manuela Veloso (GRS MA’86) on being elected to the National Academy of Engineering! Election to the National Academy of Engineering is among the highest professional distinctions accorded to an engineer. Academy membership honors those who have made outstanding contributions to “engineering research, practice, or education, including, where appropriate, significant contributions to the engineering […]