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 […]
Three Members of ENG Faculty Named IEEE Fellows
Professor Xin Zhang (ME, MSE), Professor Calin Belta (ME, SE, ECE) and Professor Stan Sclaroff (CS, ECE), have been named fellows with the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). Zhang was nominated for her “contributions to microelectromechanical systems.” Zhang has applied MEMS techniques to develop metamaterials, arrays of engineered structures that act like artificial […]