Assistant Professor Sahar Sharifzadeh awarded $720K to advance field of supramolecular materials

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By Alex LaSalvia  Assistant Professor Sahar Sharifzadeh (ECE, MSE) was awarded funding from the National Science Foundation to develop computational models of bio-inspired materials. The award of $720K comes through the Center for Complex and Active Materials at the University of California, Irvine, an NSF Materials Research Science and Engineering Center, where Sharifzadeh is a […]

‘Happy and Proud,’ Declares Dissertation Award Recipient

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Alumnus Update: 2020 SE Dissertation Award Winner Ruidi Chen  By Emily Sorkin As an applied scientist at Microsoft, alumnus Ruidi Chen (SE PhD ’19) has already established herself as a pioneer in a new area of research called Distributionally Robust Optimization (DRO). Her resume boasts 12 co-authored papers and her monograph on Distributionally Robust Learning was recently […]

Why the Bernie Sanders Memes Became So Popular: Backed by Research

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BU’s Gianluca Stringhini explains why this meme became so popular through his research. By Caroline Amato At the inauguration of President Joe Biden on January 20th, Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders was seen in a winter coat and knit mittens looking not so happy. He was sitting with both his arms and legs crossed in a […]

Spring 2021 CISE-ENG Seed Awards Winners

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By Margo Stanton Four Spring 2021 Seed Grants were awarded by the Boston University Center for Information & Systems Engineering (CISE) and the College of Engineering’s (ENG) Dean’s Catalyst Award program.  This joint seed-funding program is aimed at enabling CISE affiliates and ENG faculty the opportunity to kickstart innovative interdisciplinary research projects, broaden significant research areas, […]

Joshua Rapp wins the 2020 IEEE SPS Young Author Best Paper Award

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By Maureen Stanton Boston University alumnus Joshua Rapp (Ph.D. ECE ’20) has won the 2020 IEEE Signal Processing Society Young Author Best Paper Award. This prestigious award will be presented to Dr. Rapp by IEEE Signal Processing Society President Ahmed Tewfik at the ICASSP 2021 in Toronto, Canada, June 6-11, 2021. Rapp was a student […]

COVID-19 Risk Assessment to Address Inequity

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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 […]

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