Highlights from our lab

  1. Prof. Coskun spoke at a panel on energy-efficient and grid-aware data centers at the 2025 Harvard Climate Symposium
  2. Professors Ayse Coskun and Gianluca Stringhini have received a Google Academic Research Award.

  3. Prof. Coskun publishes article on AI and data center energy use in the Conversation

Date Title of News Event
July 2025 Efe Sencan and team win Best Paper Award at PEARC Conference.
Sept 2024 Prof. Coskun, Mert Toslali, BU Alum, and Syed Mohammad Qasim, BU PhD Candidate win Best Paper Award at IC2E conference.
June 2024 PeacLab’s PACT wins TCAD best paper award
July 2023 Prof. Coskun named interim Associate Dean for Research and Faculty Development.
July 2023 You can now tag @peaclab on YouTube!
July 2023 $1.1 Million Awarded to Joint Study on Impacts of Data Centers in Norway’s Clean Energy Transition
Nov 2022 Coskun and Wilson talk about data centers and their impact on climate change
Sept 2022 Anthony Byrne talks about efficiency and security opportunities enabled by MicroFaaS
Aug 2022 CoMTE is nominated as an R&D 100 Finalist for 2022. Additional information on LinkedIn.
June 2022 Professor Ayse Coskun appointed Director of CISE
Apr 2022 Mert Toslali receives third place for the CGSW 8.0 Best Presenter Award
Apr 2022 Anthony Byrne receives second place for the 2022 CISE Best Student Paper Award
Feb 2022 Coskun and team talk about the new AI for Cloud Ops project as part of the Red Hat Collaboratory
Aug 2021 Coskun and Wilson Interviewed on Sustainable Computing
Aug 2021 Professor Coskun and Team Will Collaborate with Sandia Labs on Applying AI to HPC
Jan 2021 Coskun was interviewed as part of the UCSD MICS Alumna Spotlight
Dec 2020 Coskun receives IBM faculty award
Oct 2020 Prachi Shukla and Samantha Puterman are sponsored to represent the College of Engineering at the 2020 Grace Hopper Celebration
July 2020 PeacLab Alumna Fulya Kaplan Interviewed by BBC Turkish (video in Turkish)
Sept 2019 Coskun Selected to Attend the National Academy of Engineering’s 2019 Symposium
Nov 2018 Zhang Brings Industry Experience, Guidance to CISE Graduate Students
Aug 2018 Our EuroPar’18 paper wins Best Artifact Award
Fall 2018 CISE Faculty Spotlight: Ayse Coskun
Mar 2018 PeacLab’s Anthony Byrne Receives MIT Best Lighting Talk Award
Oct 2017 Prof. Coskun wins the CEDA Ernest S. Kuh Early Career Award
June 2017 PeacLab team wins Gauss Award at the ISC-HPC Conference
May 2017 PeacLab’s Dr. Hao Chen wins the Outstanding Thesis Award in CE
Feb 2017 CISE Industry Roundtable: John-Nicholas Furst
Jan 2017 Coskun interviews with Circuit Cellar about her background and research on 3D-stacked architectures and green computing
June 2016 Coskun Speaks at the IEEE PES Women in Power Event
Dec 2015 PeacLab PhD Student Onur Sahin Wins ACM Research Competition in Design Automation
Oct 2015 Coskun, Egele Partner with Sandia Labs for HPC Systems Research
Oct 2015 CISE Industry Roundtable: Sam Howes
July 2014 PeacLab Undergraduate Researchers Annie and Dean Win Awards
Jul 2014 Dr. Jie Meng Wins 2014 Best ECE Ph.D. Dissertation Award
Oct 2013 Coskun Named Circuit Cellar’s First Female Columnist
Mar 2013 CC Interviews Coskun for Their 25th Anniversary Issue
Feb 2013 VMware Continues Funding Coskun’s Efficient Consolidation Research
Feb 2013 Coskun and Trachtenberg Design an App-Design Project for the Intro to SW Engineering Course
June 2012 Coskun’s Lab and Sandia National Labs Team Up on Computing Research
June 2012 Coskun Featured in Circuit Cellar
Mar 2012 Coskun, Herbordt Awarded MGHPCC Grants
Mar 2012 Coskun Wins NSF CAREER Award
Feb 2012 Hariri Institute Names First Junior Faculty Fellows
Feb 2012 Coskun Named Hariri Institute Junior Faculty Fellow
Jan 2012 MGHPCC Awards Seed Grants to Institute Members
Oct 2011 Coskun, Meng, and Rossell Win Best Paper Award at the HPEC Workshop
June 2011 Oracle Funds Coskun for Her Project on Improving Server Efficiency
May 2011 Design Automation Conference Recognizes Coskun, Meng
May 2011 VMware Funds Coskun’s Server Consolidation Research
Jan 2010 Coskun Receives $45k in Funding from Sun
Oct 2009 Coskun Wins Best Paper Award at IFIP/IEEE VLSI Conference

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