‘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.
COVID-19 Risk Assessment to Address Inequity
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 […]
Snapshot: ECE PhD Student Accomplishments, Spring/Summer 2020
2020 has been a year of unusual challenges, both for our community and the world at large, but that isn’t stopping our hardworking ECE PhD students!
ECE Lab Group Receives Best Paper Award for Work on Bitcoin Performance
The Laboratory of Networking and Information Systems (NISLAB) has recently been honored for their ongoing research into the performance of the Bitcoin network.