News in Brief
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 this number changes over time. The sensor combines the data from panoramic cameras and low-resolution thermal door sensors using innovative fusion algorithms to accurately count humans in rooms of different shapes and sizes. The data fusion system will take advantage of off-the shelf sensors to reduce cost, while the system’s scalable design will support venues of various sizes. Read more on ECE News page.
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.
SCONES 2017 will feature invited talks from research leaders and a contributed poster session. (Submission deadline: September 20, 2017). Themes of emphasis this year include: game theory, optimization, power networks, multi-agent and robotic networks, social networks, transportation networks, and biological networks.
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.
8 IDS students receive PhD degree at the 2016 BU-ENG commencement
A large cohort of ECE students received their PhD degrees at the 2016 College of Engineering commencement on May 14, 2016, and among them 8 students from the Information and Data Sciences Group. For a detailed list please see the Alumni 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.
Limor Eger receives 2012 BU Women’s Guild award
IDS PhD student Limor Eger was selected by the Boston University Women's Guild from well over 100 applicants for their annual Guild awards. The award recognizes and supports "remarkable women embarking on or extending a wide range of careers in scholarship, teaching, and repairing world problems". In her PhD work, Limor is exploring the role of multi-energy measurements in X-ray tomography for baggage screening in airports. Limor's doctoral advisors are Profs. Clem Karl and Prakash Ishwar.
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) presented a poster and received an Honorable Mention in the Best Poster competition in the Homeland Security, Defense and Secure Civil Infrastructure track. Eger’s poster, “Classification-Aware Methods for Explosives Detection Using Multi-Energy X-ray Computed Tomography”, showed some recent results obtained as part of her PhD project, which focuses on principled application of machine learning and optimization methods to the problem of detecting explosives in luggage using multi-energy CT scanners. Eger has been working on this project with her advisor, IdS Professor W. Clem Karl, and with IDS Professor Prakash Ishwar and MGH Professor Homer Pien.
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. D. Castañón)
- Cole, Bryan Thomas (advisor: Prof. H. Nawab)
- Estanjini, Reza Moazzez* (advisor: Prof. Y. Paschalidis)
- Feng, Yao (advisor: Prof. T.D.C. Little)
- Fu, Jiaxu (advisors: Prof. J. Konrad and Prof. M. Betke (CS))
- Ganesan, Santosh (advisor: Prof. H. Nawab
- Liu, Yang (advisor: Prof. T.D.C. Little)
- Liu, Yichuan (advisor: Prof. Ch. Cassandras)
- Shah, Rashmi (advisor: Prof. T.D.C. Little)
- Shao, Yuecheng (advisor: Prof. J. Konrad)
- Trapeznikov, Kirill Advisors: Prof. D. Castañón, and Prof. V. Saligrama)
- Warke, Abhijit (advisor: Prof. D. Castañón)
- Wu, Haotian (advisor: Prof. V. Saligrama)
- Wu, Hongchang
- Xia, Wenya (advisor: Prof. T.D.C. Little)
- Xiong, Ruosen* (advisor: Prof. Ch. Cassandras)
- Yan, Kai (advisor: Prof. T.D.C. Little)
Congratulations to all our graduates!