Hariri Highlights: ECE Professor To Lead Computing Institute, and More

With such clear interests and goals in common, it’s no wonder that there is a strong relationship between BU’s Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the Rafik B. Hariri Institute for Computing and Computational Science & Engineering.

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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 […]

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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 […]

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Greater Than the Sum

Students hone skills and hold their own in an international competition of computing By Patrick L. Kennedy Ben Li (’22) says he had “no clue” what high-performance computing (HPC) was when he was a freshman. But, as a senior this past fall, Li served as president of the Boston University High Performance Computing club, led […]

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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 […]