NSF, CISE Look to the Future of Smart Healthcare at Campus Workshop
By Sara Cody As the National Science Foundation looks to the future of science in smart and connected health, the agency partnered with the Center for Information and Systems Engineering to convene a gathering of principal investigators and other research leaders on the BU campus this month. The interdisciplinary researchers discussed their progress and identified […]
Prakash Ishwar Promoted to Full Professor
Prakash Ishwar, College of Engineering professor of electrical and computer engineering and professor of systems engineering has been promoted to Full Professor. Professor Ishwar’s expertise is in network information theory, information-theoretic security, machine learning, and visual information processing. A past NSF CAREER Award recipient and winner of ENG’s Dean’s Catalyst Award, he has received numerous […]
CISE Hosts Robotics & AI Research Event
The Center for Information and Systems Engineering (CISE) partnered with Greg Woolf, CEO of Coalesce.Info and moderator of The Cognitive Computing Group of Boston, to host a community evening focused on Robotics & AI research at Boston University, on February 28, 2017. The event began with a demonstration of a student-built robot by the Boston […]
Finding Lung Cancer in the Nose: MED researchers’ genetic test may open door to easy diagnosis
By Barbara Moran share it! + BU TODAY Lung cancer is the deadliest form of cancer in the United States—and in the world. According to the National Cancer Institute, it accounts for more than a quarter of cancer deaths in this country, killing about 158,000 people in 2016. Because lung cancer is so lethal, many […]
New Sensors for Smart Lighting
Responsive sensors aim to improve human health and lighting efficiency Thomas Little, professor of electrical and computer engineering and associate director of the Center for Lighting Enabled Systems & Applications (LESA), in his laboratory at the BU Photonics Center. By Caitlin Bird. Photos by Jackie Ricciardi. Imagine sitting in a secluded corner of a college […]
ENG to Develop Smart Car Technology With New $3.36 Million Grant
Read the full story by Breanne Kovatch in The Daily Free Press – The Independent Student Newspaper at Boston University. Boston University’s College of Engineering announced Tuesday it received a $3.36 million grant to develop new smart car technology, according to a press release from the university. The Oak Ridge National Laboratory of the U.S. […]
BU College of Engineering Receives NEXTCAR Grant to Develop Smart Car Technology
BU Professor Christos Cassandras (ECE, SE) leads BU initiative with researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, the University of Michigan, and Bosch Corporation. The Boston University College of Engineering announced it is a co-investigator for a $3.36 million grant received by Oak Ridge National Laboratory from the US Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy […]
Tackling the Wage Gap with Code – Hariri software team aids Boston Women’s Workforce Council
By Joel Brown. This story originally appeared in BU Today. Payroll data for 112,600 area employees reveals that women working in greater Boston make just 77 cents for every dollar a man earns, according to a new report from the Boston Women’s Workforce Council. That calculation was made possible by researchers at BU’s Rafik B. Hariri […]
BU and Red Hat Forge $5 Million Partnership
Five-Year Research Arrangement Promises Mutual Benefits By Art Jahnke. This story originally appeared in BU Today. Red Hat, the world’s leading provider of open source enterprise software, is joining in a five-year-long partnership with Boston University, an arrangement aimed at advancing research into emerging and translational technologies, such as cloud computing and big data platforms. The collaboration, celebrated […]
Congratulations to the winners of this year’s CISE Graduate Student Workshop (CGSW) 4.0!
Best Presenter: Rebecca Swaszek: “Bike Sharing System Inventory Management: Receding Horizon Control Routing and Incentives” (Advisor: Professor Christos Cassandras) Presentation Honorable Mentions: Bee Vang: “Geometric Control of Quadrotors and Contraction Analysis” (Advisor: Roberto Tron) Nan Zhou: ”Optimal Event-Driven Multi-Agent Persistent Monitoring of a Finite Set of Targets“ (Advisor: Professor Christos Cassandras) MACS (Most Attentive CISE […]