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Fellow, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Flagship Pioneering 2022
Flagship Pioneering conceives, resources, and builds life-changing companies (including the now familiar drug and vaccine innovator, Moderna Therapeutics). Flagship has created over 100 scientific ventures resulting in >$200 billion in aggregate value, 500+ issued patents, and >50 clinical trials for novel therapeutic agents. We harness science and entrepreneurialism to envision... More
MET Computer Science Student Wins Top Prize at BU Innovation Awards
An app that simplifies the circuit design process made a winner of one MET student at this year’s BU Spark! Fall 2021 Demo Day, held in December. Harunobu Ishii (MET’22), who is pursuing his Master of Science in Computer Science (MSCS) with a concentration in Data Analytics, was part of the... More
Ryder Cobean
MSADA Alum Finds New Direction, Purpose and Job as Consultant thanks to BU MET Ryder Cobean Consultant, Analytics and Cognitive, Deloitte Consulting LLP MS in Applied Data Analytics (MET’21) Why did you choose BU MET for your graduate studies? Back in 2017, I was looking for a program to change things up in my... More
Quality Assurance Engineer
Do you enjoy solving complex problems and troubleshooting products? Are you passionate about developing software development test strategies, finding, and tracking bugs to resolution, and innovating on behalf of customers? Do you want to be a part of a fast-paced, ambiguous environment and contribute to one of the most visited... More
Ultra-low-power Acoustic Perception in IoT
Guest Speaker: Dr. Nirupam Roy, Assistant Professor in Computer Science, University of Maryland, College Park Moderated by Dr. Reza Rawassizadeh, Associate Professor of Computer Science Abstract: Agile and miniature robots are emerging with new capabilities and sensing skills. Insect-sized robots are becoming new first responders to search for survivors in disaster debris. More
Dense and Cyclic Gray Codes
Guest Speaker: Dr. Thomas H. Cormen, Emeritus Professor, Dartmouth College Moderated by Dr. Reza Rawassizadeh, Associate Professor of Computer Science Abstract: The binary reflected Gray code, patented by Frank Gray in 1953, is a permutation of the sequence ⟨0, 1, …, n-1⟩, where n is a power of 2, with the property... More
Integrating Interactive Devices with the User’s Body
Guest Speaker: Pedro Lopes, Assistant Professor in Computer Science, University of Chicago Moderated by Dr. Reza Rawassizadeh, Associate Professor of Computer Science Abstract: The main question that drives my research is: what is the next interface paradigm that supersedes wearable devices? I argue that the new paradigm is one in which... More
Developing a Framework for Natural Language Processing of Clinical Documents
Guest Speaker: Dr. Frank Meng, Assistant Professor of Medicine in General Internal Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine Moderated by Dr. Guanglan Zhang, Associate Professor of Computer Science Abstract: The capturing of increasingly more and more patient data by healthcare systems has enabled much innovative advancements in medical science and patient care... More
Flagship Pioneering Artificial Intelligence (AI) Fellowship
Flagship Pioneering conceives, resources, and builds life-changing companies (including the now familiar drug and vaccine innovator, Moderna Therapeutics). Flagship has created over 100 scientific ventures resulting in >$200 billion in aggregate value, 500+ issued patents, and >50 clinical trials for novel therapeutic agents. We are very excited to launch our... More
How to Make Your Own StatQuest!!!
How to Make Your Own StatQuest!!! December 6, 2021 Guest Speaker: Dr. Josh Starmer, StatQuest Moderated by Dr. Reza Rawassizadeh, Assistant Professor of Computer Science Abstract: Hi! I'm Josh Starmer and I make YouTube videos that clearly explain Data Science, Statistics and Machine Learning Topics. In this talk I'll describe the methods I use... More