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
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 […]
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 […]
SE Professor & Alumni Earn Awards & Appointments
The Division of Systems Engineering (SE) is proud to announce that three SE affiliates, current and former, have recently received notable awards and appointments. Their accomplishments are wide-ranging, and the Division congratulates them on their well-merited recognition. Yannis Paschalidis, Distinguished Professor of Engineering (ECE, BME, SE) and Director of the Rafik B. Hariri Institute […]
Pictures of SE Graduates from the Spring 2023 Graduate Engineering Convocation
Take a look at some of our graduates from Systems Engineering for the 2023 Spring Graduate Convocation. We are so proud of all of you!
COVID-19 Risk Assessment to Address Inequity
This article was written by Eliza Shaw (CISE), videos produced by SE. Informing Policy, Resource Allocation and Workplace Adjustment Policies Video Part 1: Researching the risk of COVID-19 relates to the patients’ preexisting health conditions and socioeconomics factors. COVID-19 has taken the world by storm, placing significant pressures on healthcare systems. Particularly in countries with limited […]
Hua Wang Supporting the COVID-19 Frontline in Wuhan and Massachusetts
One Professor’s Extraordinary Extracurriculars Professor Hua Wang was interviewed by Ross Cristantiello for Lexington Wicked Local. Professor Hua Wang has been organizing local residents to combat COVID-19 since Wuhan, China emerged as the virus epicenter. As president and spokesperson of the Chinese American Association of Lexington (CAAL), Wang oversaw CAAL in donating thousands of dollars and […]
Game Changer: Azer Bestavros’ Journey from Egypt to Cambridge to BU’s Computing Mastermind
“Technology is not creative; people are creative,” says the new associate provost for computing and data sciences. By Art Jahnke, originally featured on The Brink. In December 1977, when Azer Bestavros was a 16-year-old junior in a Lasallian French school in Alexandria, Egypt, he asked for career advice from a much-admired uncle who was living […]