{"id":68607,"date":"2018-03-26T10:09:22","date_gmt":"2018-03-26T14:09:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/?p=68607"},"modified":"2023-11-28T15:51:10","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T20:51:10","slug":"recognizing-undergraduate-ece-student-for-machine-learning-and-cloud-computing-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/2018\/03\/26\/recognizing-undergraduate-ece-student-for-machine-learning-and-cloud-computing-research\/","title":{"rendered":"Recognizing Undergraduate ECE Student for Machine Learning and Cloud Computing Research"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Anthony Byrne Receives MIT Best Lighting Talk Award<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>By Shereen Abubakr (QST &#8217;18)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>ECE undergraduate Anthony Byrne (ENG \u201919) received the Best Lightning Talk Award at the <a href=\"http:\/\/ieee.scripts.mit.edu\/conference\/\">2017 IEEE MIT Undergraduate Research Technology Conference<\/a>. The aim of the conference is to bring undergraduates from around the world together to advance technology by presenting, discussing, and developing solutions. His talk, \u201cDeltaSherlock: Cloud Integrity Through Machine Learning\u201d, explored the use of machine learning in cloud software discovery and was based on a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/peaclab\/files\/2017\/03\/TurkBigData2016.pdf\">paper<\/a> he co-authored for the 2016 IEEE Big Data Conference. Byrne was selected from a group of 11 presenters to be the sole recipient of the Best Lightning Talk Award.<\/p>\n<p>In 2016, Byrne joined <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ece\/\">BU Electrical and Computer Engineering\u2019s<\/a><span>\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/peaclab\/\">Performance and Energy Aware Computing Lab<\/a> (PEACLab) as an undergraduate researcher under Prof. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/profile\/ayse-coskun\/\">Ayse Coskun<\/a>. He worked alongside other PEACLab researchers on the DeltaSherlock project until 2017, when he began working on PEACLab\u2019s \u201cSilver Bullet\u201d project, which compares the performance of the original DeltaSherlock system to that of other cloud software discovery methods. Byrne, proud of his team\u2019s research efforts, explains, \u201cI think what\u2019s coolest about this research is that it mixes machine learning and cloud computing \u2014 two young and exciting technologies that are quickly becoming critical to the IT infrastructure supporting our governments, businesses, and even smartphones \u2014 in a way that nobody has really explored before\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Byrne attributes the Best Lightning Talk Award to his collaborators at the lab. \u201cNone of this work would be even remotely possible without the guidance of my mentor, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/profile\/ayse-coskun\/\">Prof. Ayse K. Coskun<\/a>.\u201d Byrne also attributes his success to his fellow researchers at PEACLab, including John Knollmeyer (CE \u201917), Dr. Hao Chen, and\u00a0ECE Research Scientist\u00a0Ata Turk. Additionally, he recalls his collaboration with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.research.ibm.com\/labs\/watson\/index.shtml\">IBM T.J. Watson Research Center<\/a>\u00a0as an\u00a0invaluable experience.<\/p>\n<p><span>Byrne&#8217;s\u00a0project\u00a0was funded by IBM TJ Watson Research Center, the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/prospective-undergraduate\/undergraduate-research-opportunities\/fellowships\/\">Lutchen Fellowship<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/urop\/\">BU UROP<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anthony Byrne Receives MIT Best Lighting Talk Award By Shereen Abubakr (QST &#8217;18) ECE undergraduate Anthony Byrne (ENG \u201919) received the Best Lightning Talk Award at the 2017 IEEE MIT Undergraduate Research Technology Conference. The aim of the conference is to bring undergraduates from around the world together to advance technology by presenting, discussing, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14405,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[236,907],"tags":[386,273,258,387,262,264,388,389,390,391,392],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68607"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14405"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68607"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68607\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":146943,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68607\/revisions\/146943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}