From Selfish Driving to Social Optimality
In a recent Nature report, titled “Smart cities drive into the future,” Christos Cassandras was interviewed and shared his proposal for a networked environment in which every vehicle shares data with another vehicle or a coordinator regarding position, velocity, and destination to optimize routing across the entire city.
Envisioning an Imperfect World
New ECE Professor Harry Chao’s Approach to Machine Learning Meets Reality Where It Is by A.J. Kleber Outside the tidy binaries of digital computation, the world is a messy place. Few things in life are clearly observable and predictable, whether you’re looking at individual human behavior, traffic, organisms, or the weather. This is a truth […]
Seven ENG Faculty Honored for Real-World Impact Research
The annual Ignition Awards honor innovative BU projects that are ready to make the move toward commercialization, from the research phase to consumer use. Given by BU Technology Development within the University’s Office of Research, the awards come with financial backing, as well as a dedicated advisory committee to provide expertise, mentoring, and oversight to […]
Illuminating Energy-Efficient AI
Supported by a $1.5M NSF grant, Professor Ajay Joshi is exploring the development of novel electro-photonic computing architectures that could perform as well or better than conventional electronic GPUs.
Controlling for Uncertainty
With the support of a $380K grant from the NSF, Professor Emiliano Dall’Anese is working to design the novel optimization methods required for complex energy infrastructures under increasingly volatile user behavior.
Smart Management for AI Power Consumption
A pair of BU ECE faculty researchers are teaming up to work on a solution that will be environmentally sustainable … and help to sustain AI’s continued growth.
Finding Coherence
Professor Venkataraman has been awarded $3.2M to parse and predict post-stroke aphasia recovery.
Laying A Course for Crash Prevention
New Professor Yigong Hu Aims to Solve System Performance Woes
CAREER Award for AI Intermediary
Professor Kayhan Batmanghelich has received a CAREER Award to create an AI system to translate between medical AI systems and clinicians.
CAREER Award Supports Accessible AI for All
Professor Eshed Ohn-Bar’s CAREER Award-winning new project to build AI personalized to individual access needs.