From Selfish Driving to Social Optimality

in *NEWS, *Research, Christos Cassandras, ECE - Data Science and Intelligent Systems, ECE Research, Electrical and Computer Engineering, SE Research, Systems Engineering

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.

Tagged:

Envisioning an Imperfect World

in *NEWS, *Research, Artificial Intelligence, ECE - Data Science and Intelligent Systems, ECE - Imaging and Optical Science, ECE Faculty, ECE Research, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Harry Chao

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 […]

Tagged: , , , ,

Seven ENG Faculty Honored for Real-World Impact Research

in *NEWS, *Research, Ayse Coskun, Biomedical Engineering, ECE - Bio-ECE and Digital Health, ECE - Data Science and Intelligent Systems, ECE - Imaging and Optical Science, ECE Faculty, ECE Research, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Ji-Xin Cheng, Joerg Werner, John Ngo, Michael Albro, Selim Unlu

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 […]

Tagged: , ,

Illuminating Energy-Efficient AI

in *NEWS, *Research, Ajay Joshi, Artificial Intelligence, ECE - Data Science and Intelligent Systems, ECE - Photonics, Electronics, and Nanotechnology, ECE Faculty, ECE Research, Electrical and Computer Engineering

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.

Tagged: , , , , ,