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Fending Off Adversarial Attacks: Dr. Shengzhi Zhang Speaks at CyberC 2019
Cybersecurity expert Shengzhi Zhang, an associate professor of computer science at BU MET, attended CyberC 2019: The 8th International Workshop on Cybersecurity and Privacy, in Guilin, China, October 17–19. Dr. Zhang, whose research currently focuses on security challenges facing deep neural networks in machine learning, presented a talk entitled “Adversarial Attacks against Speech... More
Dr. Eugene Pinsky
Dr. Eugene Pinsky Sees Positive Growth in World of Data Science Eugene Pinsky Associate Professor of the Practice, Computer Science; Coordinator, Software Development PhD, Columbia University; BA, Harvard University What is your area of expertise? My research area is in performance analysis, data science, and machine learning. I completed my PhD in computer science at... More
Etienne Meunier
From Dataset to Algorithm, Etienne Meunier (MET’19) Teaches Machines to “Recognize” Sharks Etienne Meunier Freelance IT Consultant MS in Computer Science, Concentration in Data Analytics (MET’19); MEng, ECE Graduate School of Engineering (Paris) What compelled you to return to school and pursue a graduate education? What is your long-term objective? I entered this program at... More
Happy Birthday! MET’s Computer Science Department Celebrates 40 Years
One computer lab, one full-time faculty member, and one degree program—when MET’s Department of Computer Science was founded on September 1, 1979, there was no other computer science department at Boston University, and it would be two years before IBM introduced the personal computer. Forty years and countless tech innovations... More
Professor Zhang’s Paper on Adversarial Examples Accepted at ACM Conference
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
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
BU MET Team Wins Grand Challenge at ACM International Conference on Distributed and Event-Based Systems
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
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
Frontiers of Project Management Put into Focus at 2019 PMiP Conference
Held June 13 and 14 here at BU, this year’s Project Management in Practice Conference (PMiP) saw participants both brush up on their agile skills and develop a deeper understanding of how PM practices can be applied to life sciences. With a gamut of programming—including panels on leadership techniques, conflict... More