Jonas Hall: Implementing an Optimization Solver Anyone Can Use

By Chloe Cramutola He started as a mathematician, but his engineering interests took him beyond basic numbers. “For the longest time, I was [mostly] interested in pure mathematics,” said Jonas Hall, a third year PhD student in Systems Engineering at Boston University. “I didn’t really [appreciate] applied mathematics, but I couldn’t find a field where […]

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Photos from the Saint Gobain 2023 Lecture

On Dec. 1 at 4 p.m., Professor Robert J. Cava spoke to MSE students in his lecture, “Working at the Boundary Where Solid State Chemistry, Materials Physics, Mineralogy and Materials Science Meet.” Cava is a Russell Wellman Moore Professor of Chemistry as well as Associated Faculty Member of the Materials Institute at Princeton University. ABSTRACT: […]

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Anubhav Wadehra: Using Molten Salts to Develop a More Sustainable World

For 20 years, the small city of Chandigarh, India, charged his curiosity for science.

Anubhav Wadehra graduated from Punjab Engineering College in 2017 with his bachelor’s in materials and metallurgical engineering. During a six-month internship in 2016 at Boston University, he decided to take his curiosity even further. 

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Neila Gross: Investigating Antibiotic Resistance

In August 2022, Neila Gross summited Mount Kilimanjaro. It was a grueling journey that took her five and a half days to make her way up the highest peak on the African continent and one and a half days to make her way down. On the first day, as she looked across the desolate plane where the mountain stood, uncertainty set in when she realized how far she had to go. And when she looked up and noticed that the mountain’s summit was obscured by the clouds because of its height, one thought took over: “You can’t do this.” But she set aside her self-doubts and, many pitstops and thousands of feet later, she made it to the top.

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MSE Students & Alumnus Awarded for Research & Academic Accomplishments

Three current and former MSE PhD students have recently been recognized internally and externally for their notable academic and research achievements. With the support of their professors, they have made valuable contributions to both the Division of MSE and the College of Engineering, and the Division is proud to celebrate their awards.   Chloe Kekedjian […]

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How to Create Safe, Energy-Efficient Buildings in a Post-Covid World

BU Innovators Address New Requirements of Commercial Real Estate by Maya Bhat & Maureen Stanton, CISE Staff Smart building technology has been a growing trend in the commercial real estate sector to help building owners and other stakeholders automate processes, reduce costs, boost energy efficiency, and improve the comfort of tenants.  In a post-covid world, […]

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BU ECE Students receive Best Paper Award at the ASIA Conference on Computer and Communication Security 2018

Realizing that the correlation between malware and HPC traces does not establish causation, Boston University graduate students Boyou Zhou, Rasoul Jahanshahi and Anmol Gupta, under the supervision of Professors Manuel Egele and Ajay Joshi, evaluated works that propose this HPC-based methodology for malware detection.

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Innovation in Ideation

Natural disasters have plagued civilization since the beginning, and although our understanding of them has improved over the centuries, too many people still suffer at the hands of environmental unrest. Togo (a country in western Africa), for example, faces annual difficulties with flooding during the monsoon season. Unfortunately, humanitarian aid functions on a linear schedule, […]

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