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Professor Zhang’s Paper on Adversarial Examples Accepted at ACM Conference

By kimrichOctober 15th, 2019in NewsBytes

Dr. Shengzhi Zhang, whose expertise is in cybersecurity, was coauthor of a paper entitled “Seeing isn’t Believing: Towards More Robust Adversarial Attack Against Real World Object Detectors.” The paper, focusing on security concerns around object detectors (used in autonomous driving, face detection, and object tracking, for instance) and their vulnerability to... More

Ed Matthews

Cybersecurity Expert Edward Matthews Brings Real-World Challenges into the Classroom Edward Matthews Sr. Security Engineer, Partners Healthcare Lecturer, Computer Science MS, New York University; BS, Syracuse University What is your area of expertise? I have over 25 years of experience designing and supporting security tools and applications. I enjoy building applications and writing scripts that bridge the... More

Ian Hill

By kimrichOctober 15th, 2019in Alumni Spotlights, Spotlights

Securing Success: Ian Hill (MET’19) Applies BU MET Lessons in Information Security on the Job Ian Hill Information Security & Privacy Cloud Analyst, Partners HealthCare MS in Computer Information Systems, Concentration in Information Security (MET’19); Graduate Certificate in Information Security; BA, Stonehill College What compelled you to return to school and pursue a graduate education? What... More

Assistant/Associate Professor of Computer Science

By kimrichOctober 10th, 2019in TECH Jobs

Lake Superior State University seeks candidates for a tenure-track position in Computer Science or Computer Networking. Applicants must have expertise in the following: databases (SQL required), computer networking, and system administration/system management. In addition, an ability to teach broadly across the curriculum in our B.S. Computer Networking or our B.S. Computer... More

Salesforce Consultant

By kimrichSeptember 18th, 2019in TECH Jobs

New England International Donors (NEID) is a nonprofit looking for an energetic, inquisitive, and creative systems thinker to join our team. This Consultant will adapt the NonProfit Success Pack to meet the specific needs of NEID data management, reporting, and workflow functions. The Consultant will need to customize Salesforce without... More

BU MET Team Wins Grand Challenge at ACM International Conference on Distributed and Event-Based Systems

By kimrichSeptember 11th, 2019in NewsBytes

Professor Kia Teymourian, along with a team including Sambasiva Rao Gangineni (MET’19), Harshad Reddy Nalla (MET’19), and Saeed Fathollahzadeh, participated in the 13th ACM International Conference on Distributed and Event-Based Systems (DEBS) held in Darmstadt, Germany, June 24–28, where they won both the Grand Challenge and Audience Voting Awards for... More

Yiting Zhang

By kimrichSeptember 11th, 2019in Spotlights, Student Spotlights

For Aspiring Data Scientist Yiting Zhang, Research Opportunities and Diverse Courses Distinguish BUMET Yiting Zhang Research Assistant, Health Informatics Research Lab (HILab) MS in Computer Science, Concentration in Data Analytics BS, Penn State University What compelled you to return to school and pursue a graduate education? What is your long-term objective? I completed my bachelor’s degree... More

Actuarial and Analytic Summer Internship

By kimrichSeptember 10th, 2019in TECH Jobs

Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts | Approximate dates: June 1, 2020 – August 21, 2020 To realize a different future for healthcare, we need a different kind of workforce. One that unites diverse backgrounds, cultures and perspectives to help us disrupt, innovate and break through. So, don’t hold back. Bring... More

Priti Agrawal

By kimrichJuly 30th, 2019in Alumni Spotlights, Spotlights

How Dedication, Support, and Data Courses Helped Graduate Priti Agrawal Land Her Dream Job Priti Agrawal Data Engineer, BOSE Corporation 2019 Excellence in Graduate Studies Award Winner for Computer Science MS in Computer Science, concentration in Data Analytics (MET’19); BTech in Computer Science, Uttar Pradesh Technical University (India) What interests you most about computer science?... More