Spring 2021 CISE-ENG Seed Awards Winners
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, […]
Meet BU’s Newest NSF CAREER Award Winners
National Science Foundation funding will advance researchers working on cybersecurity, number theory, superconductors, and more
Five ECE Faculty are 2020 Spring Research Incubation Awardees
The Hariri Institute for Computing announced their 2020 Spring Research Incubation Awards to faculty who have the potential to define new areas of research; five ECE faculty members are authors or co-authors of these incubation projects.
Professor Gianluca Stringhini Receives NSF CAREER Award
Professor Gianluca Stringhini (ECE) received a National Science Foundation CAREER Award.
Professor Stringhini Presents Keynote at Computational Methods in Online Misbehavior Workshop
Online hate shared through social media platforms has developed into more of an epidemic than we may realize. Bullying, racist tweets, negative posts, memes and more allow people to easily band together and promote hatred. Like-minded people gather in polarized online communities, identify suitable targets, and proceed to carry out their attacks. In his efforts […]
Protection from Ransomware like WannaCry
By Eugene Kolodenker Eugene Kolodenker (EE BS ’12, CE MS ’17) works in application development with a focus on cyber security systems at MITRE. This article originally appeared on Eugene Kolodenker’s blog, Kolobyte. A system to defeat ransomware was recently developed by myself and three of my cybersecurity research colleagues: Boston University Electrical and Computer Engineering Professor Manuel Egele, […]