Ioannis Paschalidis, PhD Distinguished Professor of Engineering (ECE, BME, SE);
Director, Rafik B. Hariri Institute for Computing and Computational Science and Engineering
Education PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1996Primary Appointment Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
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April 29, 2025
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Areas of Interest Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
Optimization and Control
Stochastic Systems
Computational Biology and Medicine
Network Systems
Robotics and Autonomy
Publications
Honors and Awards – Distinguished Professor of Engineering, Boston University
– Charles DeLisi Award and Lecturer, College of Engineering, Boston University (2020)
– Best Paper Award, International Medical Informatics Association (2019)
– Best Paper Finalist, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (2016)
– IEEE Fellow (2014)
– Founding Editor-in-Chief, IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems (2013-2019)
– Plenary and semi-plenary speaker at several conferences
– Supervised students who won an IEEE Computer Society Crowdsourcing Prize, an IBM/IEEE Smarter Planet Challenge Award, a WiOpt Conference Best Student Paper Award, and several BU Engineering and Departmental best dissertation awards
– Invited Participant, 12th Annual National Academies Keck Futures Initiative (NAKFI) conference (2014)
– Best performance in modeling selected protein-protein complexes, CAPRI (Critical Assessment of Predicted Interactions), 2009
– Invited Participant, U.S. Frontiers of Engineering Symposium, National Academy of Engineering (2002)
– NSF CAREER Award (2000)
– Second Prize, INFORMS George E. Nicholson paper competition (1997)
Classes Taught EK 381 Probability Theory in Electrical and Computer Engineering
EC 503 Introduction to Learning from Data
EC/SE 524 Optimization Theory and Methods
EC/SE/ME 724 Advanced Optimization Theory and Methods
Additional Affiliations Division of Systems Engineering
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Faculty of Computing & Data Sciences
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