From Selfish Driving to Social Optimality
In a recent Nature report, titled “Smart cities drive into the future,” Christos Cassandras was interviewed and shared his proposal for a networked environment in which every vehicle shares data with another vehicle or a coordinator regarding position, velocity, and destination to optimize routing across the entire city.
Large Language Models Advance Healthcare and Public Health
Yannis Paschalidis and his students find new ways to integrate LLMs into healthcare and public health.
Master’s Student Advances Research on Zigbee Network Privacy
System Engineering master’s student Yishun Xiong researches how to improve the detection of communication between connected devices.
Ensuring Efficiency and Safety in the Power Grid with Optimization and Control
Associate Professor Emiliano Dall’Anese pursues research in automatic control, system theory, and optimization to increase the reliability and safety of power systems.
Akua Dickson Researches Safe Autonomy, a Future Where Robots Help, Not Harm
SE PhD candidate Akua Dickson worked with robotics controllers and motion planning and found a love for safe autonomy — robots doing autonomous tasks and helping humans solve problems in a safe way.
SE PhD Students Win TC Outstanding Student Paper Prize
Sabouni and Ahmad collaborated and won the TC Outstanding Student Paper Prize.
SE 2024 Graduation Photos
Congratulations to the Class of 2024
NSF CAREER Award for Sabelhaus
Safer human-robot interactions in the future could make health care “less expensive and a lot more accessible.”
Professor Wenchao Li Earns NSF CAREER Award
Professor Li’s project aims to overcome fundamental challenges in Imitation Learning for AI systems.
Dr. Hua Wang honored as one of the Most Influential Asian American Pacific Islanders
Boston University’s Dr. Hua Wang (ME,SE) has been recognized as one of the Most Influential Asian American Pacific Islanders of 2023, honored by Mayor Michelle Wu. The Divisions would like to congratulate Dr. Wang not only for his excellent work at BU, but also for his philanthropy, social service and social impact in the greater […]