Joshua Rapp wins 2021 IEEE Signal Processing Society Best Ph.D. Dissertation Award
Boston University alumnus Joshua Rapp (Ph.D. ECE ’20) has won the 2021 IEEE Signal Processing Society Best Ph.D. Dissertation Award. Rapp, now a Research Scientist at Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories (MERL), was a student of CISE faculty affiliate Vivek Goyal, Professor and Associate Chair of Doctoral Programs (ECE) at Boston University. “I never imagined getting this award, and I want to credit […]
Arslan Riaz awarded COMSNETS 2022 Best Research Demo Award
Arslan Riaz, PhD candidate (ECE), won the “Best Research Demo” award at the 14th International Conference on COMmunication Systems & NETworkS (COMSNETS 2022) January 3-8, 2022. Riaz demonstrated the first fully-integrated universal Maximum Likelihood Decoder in 40 nm CMOS using the Guessing Random Additive Noise Decoding (GRAND) algorithm. This novel technology provides a universal system for […]
Popović Advisee Brings Home Top Student Paper Award
ECE PhD candidate Hayk Gevorgyan has won a 2021 Emil Wolf Outstanding Student Paper Award from Optica.
Popović Group Making Waves at FiO+LS 2021!
Everywhere you look at the Frontiers in Optics and Laser Science virtual conference, you’ll see BU ECE Professor Miloš Popović and his students!
Balancing electricity demands and costs of high-performance computing
Hariri asked Coskun and Daniel Wilson about HPC and sustainable computing programs.
Spring 2021, ECE grad students’ successes
By Caroline Amato PhD students in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department have had another successful semester despite many obstacles. Here is an update on some of these remarkable achievements. Yujia Xue was awarded the 2021 SPIE Optics and Photonics Education Scholarship. Through this scholarship, he will receive $4,000 with an expectation to use the […]
Congratulations to the CISE Best Student Paper Award Winners
The Center for Information of Systems and Engineering is delighted to announce the winners of the 2021 CISE Best Student Paper Award. The CISE Best Student Paper Award Competition is an annual event established to promote student research and to recognize the scientific quality and scope of research being conducted by CISE students. This year’s event […]
‘Happy and Proud,’ Declares Dissertation Award Recipient
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 […]
Joshua Rapp wins the 2020 IEEE SPS Young Author Best Paper Award
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 […]
Fall 2020 ECE grad students’ successes
PhD students in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department have had a successful year in the wake of many challenges. Here is an update on some of their most notable accomplishments.