BU CS Professor Margrit Betke Uses Machine Learning to Help Predict a Stroke Survivor’s Ability to Regain Language Skills
Despite centuries of study, the human brain remains one of science’s greatest mysteries. Most research focuses on how the brain responds to change, but researchers are beginning to shift from studying the effect of the brain injury to recovery and healing. Neuroscientists and computer scientists at Boston University (BU) teamed up to create a method […]
Now Loading: The Future Home of BU CS
Article and photos by Christian Cole Over 200 feet above campus, a red elevator door clinks open. “Floor 15,” the operator announces. We thank him for the manual ride up the core of what will be the future Center for Computing & Data Sciences. Turning left out of the elevator, an open construction site unfolds. […]
Professor Levin Gives Lecture During STOC 2021
by Lizzy Maimone During the Annual ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing from June 21–25, 2021, BU CS Professor Leonid A. Levin spoke about the topic “How to succeed in tasks like proving Fermat’s Theorem or predicting the Higgs boson.” To learn more about the event, click here. This lecture aims at attracting attention to […]
Student Spotlights: A Social Media Series
By Keziah Zimmerman This year has not been an easy one. Despite the challenges of remote learning, CS students continued to amaze us with their accomplishments. To recognize the strength of those who faced these difficult times head on, our department interviewed students on their studies, hobbies, goals, and dreams. Read below for summarized versions […]
Branching Out: A Social Media Series
By Keziah Zimmerman As the 2020/2021 academic year comes to an end, we wanted to take a moment to recognize the efforts of our staff members. These incredible individuals not only committed themselves to creating a successful learning experience for CS students but did so with ever-present enthusiasm. Below, we have collected biographies from our […]
Parul Sohal (GRS’24) Recieves the IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium Best Student Paper Award
On December 4th, 2020, Parul Sohal (GRS’24) was awarded by the IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium (RTSS) for the best student paper. The work is titled “E-WarP: a System-wide Framework for Memory Bandwidth Profiling and Management” and was co-authored by Rohan Tabish, Ulrich Drepper, and Renato Mancuso. According to their website, the IEEE RTSS is the […]
CS Professors Receive $2 Million DARPA Grant to Battle Automated Misinformation in the News
By Keziah Zimmerman CS Professors Bryan Plummer and Kate Saenko, in collaboration with professionals from UC Berkeley, University of Washington, and UC Davis, have received $2 million in funding from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). The grant is in support of a project that aims to battle automated misinformation in the news. BU […]
Assistant Professor Renato Mancuso Featured in Communications of the ACM
Our own CS assistant professor, Renato Mancuso, was recently featured in an article in the Communications of the ACM covering the work he did for CS 454/654 (Embedded Systems) last spring. The article also discusses professors from other universities, how they have approached online learning, and the way they feel about it. Read more here: […]
Computer Scientists Contribute to COVID-19 Drug Development Via Network Analysis
Professors Mark Crovella (CS, Bioinformatics) and Simon Kasif (BME, CS, Bioinformatics) are working with multiple other CS researchers in the US (including researchers from Virginia Tech, Microsoft Research, and UCLA). Co-developing a machine learning methodology to analyze viral and human protein-protein interaction networks, the researchers have advanced our understanding of the biological processes affected by […]
CS Part-Time Lecturer Named to Boston Business Journal’s 40 under 40
Greg Ryslik, who was a CS part-time lecturer during the Spring 2020 semester, was recently included in Boston Business Journal’s 40 under 40. Ryslik, who received his PhD in Biostatistics from Yale University, is currently working as the Chief Data Officer at Celsius Therapeutics. Ryslik received his BS in math, CS, and finance from Rutgers […]