COVID-19 Risk Assessment to Address Inequity
This article was written by Eliza Shaw (CISE), videos produced by SE. Informing Policy, Resource Allocation and Workplace Adjustment Policies Video Part 1: Researching the risk of COVID-19 relates to the patients’ preexisting health conditions and socioeconomics factors. COVID-19 has taken the world by storm, placing significant pressures on healthcare systems. Particularly in countries with limited […]
Meet the Newest MSE Career Award Winners
Wanzheng Hu Photo courtesy of Hu In September 2017, physicist Wanzheng Hu moved from Germany to the United States to begin teaching at BU, despite having never stepped foot in the US before. She has since established the Hu lab, which focuses on the interaction between light and quantum materials. With her NSF CAREER award […]
$3 Million for Transformational Energy Technology
“NewRAMP will develop innovative approaches that quantify the risk of individual Electric-Power-Grid-interconnected assets based on their performance and ability to deliver market cleared capacity and energy,” explains Prof. Caramanis. “By synthesizing ideas and theories from finance and insurance, operations research, power system engineering and electricity market design, NewRAMP will offer ground-breaking methodologies constituting a risk-driven paradigm to achieve higher adoption of stochastic resources and a more efficient and reliable system operation. As such, it will contribute to reducing imported energy, reducing energy-related emissions, and improving energy efficiency.”
Advancing Smart Cities with the Internet of Cars
Inadequate systems to manage the traffic at road intersections are at the root of most car accidents and traffic jams. Autonomous vehicles are being developed to address these traffic management issues. Cassandras’ team is revamping their proposed solution by extending earlier research on optimally controlling autonomous cars crossing an urban intersection.
AI-driven robots are making new materials, improving solar cells and other technologies
Professor Keith Brown was featured in an article published by Science on 12/11/19. The following was sourced from Science and written by Robert F. Service. In July 2018, Curtis Berlinguette, a materials scientist at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada, realized he was wasting his graduate student’s time and talent. He had asked her to refine […]
NEXTCAR Self-driving Car in Action Advances the Future Internet of Cars
By Maureen Stanton and Eliza Shaw for CISE First On-Road Demonstration of BU-developed Algorithms Traffic congestion around the world is worsening, according to transport data firm INRIX. In the U.S. alone, Americans wasted an average of 97 hours in traffic in 2018 – that’s two precious weekends worth of time. Captivity in traffic also costs […]
BU-Harvard Team Wins $1.2M NSF Grant to Improve Women’s Reproductive Health using AI and Machine Learning
Researchers to advance distributed analytics to enhance fertility in families
Know what’s good for your health? Artificial intelligence
A generation ago, the internet changed everything. Today, data science is proving just as revolutionary. Fueled by the abundance of personal information on the internet—yours, ours, everyone’s—data science is making business smarter, healthcare more efficient, technology easier, and sports more fun to watch (and play).
Christopher Chen Receives University’s Highest Faculty Honor
This year’s other awardees are Anne McKee, a School of Medicine professor of neurology and pathology, Michael Hasselmo, a College of Arts & Sciences professor of psychological and brain sciences, and Ha Jin (GRS’94), a CAS professor of creative writing.
How to Make Self-Driving Vehicles Smarter, Bolder
Autonomous vehicles that can maneuver themselves around any city are already out on our public roads, says Yannis Paschalidis, but operating off-road remains a challenge. Paschalidis is testing a new self-driving vehicle with the goal of correcting that problem. These vehicles can operate on and off-road. “We are interested in developing fundamental principles that can be applied to autonomous vehicles capable of navigating themselves on the ground, underwater, and in the air,” he says.