Author: Janusz Konrad

Goyal Receives IEEE Signal Processing Society Best Paper Award

Our colleague , Prof. Vivek Goyal, won a 2017 IEEE Signal Processing Society Best Paper Award. His article, titled “Message-Passing De-Quantization with Applications to Compressed Sensing,” was published in IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing in December 2012. Learn more about this award here.

Konrad, Ishwar and Little win a $1M ARPA-E grant

Profs. Konrad, Ishwar and Little from ECE and Prof. Gevelber from ME have jointly won a $1M grant from the Advanced Research Projects Agency – Energy (ARPA-E) entitled “Scalable, Dual-Mode Occupancy Sensing for Commercial Venues”. The team will develop an occupancy sensing system to estimate the number of people in commercial spaces and monitor how […]

Symposium on the Control of Network Systems (SCONES) at BU

The 2nd Symposium on the COntrol of NEtwork Systems (SCONES) will be held on Monday, October 16 and Tuesday, October 17, 2017, on the campus of Boston University in Boston,  Massachusetts, USA. Register now. Registration is free but required. SCONES 2017 will feature invited talks from research leaders and a contributed poster session.(Submission deadline: September 20, 2017). […]

Traffic Surveillance Workshop and Challenge at CVPR-2017

Prof. Konrad is one of organizers of the 2017 Traffic Surveillance Workshop and Challenge to be held in conjunction with CVPR 2017 in Honolulu, HI, USA. See the web site for details: http://tcd.miovision.com/challenge/tswc2017

10 IDS students receive PhD degree

On May 19, 2017, a large cohort of students from the ECE Department received their PhD degrees, and among them 10 students from the Information and Data Sciences Group. For  a detailed list please see the Alumni page.

Three new faculty join IDS

Three new faculty join IDS as of Sep. 1, 2016, Wenchao Li, Alex Olshevsky and Lei Tian. To find more about each of them, please see the Faculty page.

7 IDS students receive PhD degree

On May 16, 2015, a large cohort of students from the ECE Department received their PhD degrees, and among them 7 students from the Information and Data Sciences Group. For  a detailed list please see the Alumni page.

Honorable mention to Limor Eger (PhD ’12) at RICC

On October 13, 2011, Northeastern University held the 12th annual Research & Industrial Collaboration Conference (RICC). The conference was led by the ALERT, Gordon-CenSSIS, and PROTECT research centers, and was attended by members of the academic, industrial and government communities. An integral part of the RICC was the student poster presentations. Limor Eger (PhD ’12) […]

20 IDS students receive MS degree

On May 22, 2011 a total of 21 IDS students were awarded their Master of Science diplomas at the 58-th College of Engineering Commencement (an asterisk denotes a degree received from the Systems Division): Azzizi, Elham (advisor: Prof. T.D.C. Little) Brown, Geoffrey (advisor: Prof. J. Konrad) Chau, Jimmy (advisor: Prof. T.D.C. Little) Chen, Ke (advisor: Prof. […]