BU Experts Develop AI Surveillance System to Enhance Pandemic Preparedness
Five years after COVID-19 shut down the world, Director of the BU Rafik B. Hariri Institute for Computing and Computational Science & Engineering and CISE faculty affiliate and professor Yannis Paschalidis (ECE, SE, BME, CDS) is studying how prepared we are for the next outbreak. Alongside Boston University infectious diseases expert Nahid Bhadelia, the two […]
CISE Faculty Recognized for Groundbreaking AI Research with AIRR Awards
Recognized for their cutting-edge research in artificial intelligence, 11 CISE faculty affiliates have been honored with AI Research Resource (AIRR) awards. This Hariri Institute program supports AI research at Boston University by giving researchers access to the New England Research Cloud (NERC), a regional computing infrastructure that provides cloud-based resources tailored to academic research. A […]
Assistant Professor Tianyu Wang (ECE) works to make AI Data Centers more Energy Efficient
AI is already using an enormous amount of energy, and the problem is about to get much worse. According to Energy Digital, data centers, which are used to host and run large-scale AI optimisations, are estimated to have consumed 1-1.5% of global electricity in 2022, and we are expected to see electricity demands double by […]
Secretary of State John Kerry Visits CISE Director Ayse Coskun
On Thursday, February 6th, 2025, former Secretary of State John Kerry visited the Boston University Center for Information & Systems Engineering to meet with CISE Director and Professor Ayşe K. Coşkun (ECE, SE). Secretary Kerry was joined by Ambassador David H. Thorne, former Senior Advisor to the Secretary of State, and Varun Sivaram, Council on […]
Ayşe Coşkun Gives Sustainable Computing Seminar at Sabanci University Istanbul International Center for Energy and Climate
The advancement of artificial intelligence (AI) has led to novel innovations across industries, from healthcare to transportation to education and more. However, as AI advances it also demands more energy, increasing the strain on the electrical grid. Compared to a typical Google search, each ChatGPT search consumes approximately ten times more energy. CISE Director Ayşe […]
Innovative Energy Efficiency: Fisheye Cameras in Smart Spaces
Imagine a bustling corporate office building where energy consumption needs to be balanced with maintaining a comfortable environment for employees. In such settings, traditional methods of regulating air handling systems can lead to inefficiencies and waste energy in unoccupied areas. This is where the research of Boston University Professors and CISE affiliates Thomas Little, Janusz […]
Coskun Lab Collaborates with Brown University Researchers on Breakthrough in Chip Thermal Simulation
Ayşe Coşkun and co-authors win prestigious TCAD Best Paper Award for research advancements in fast chip thermal simulation Boston, MA, June 27, 2024 – BU Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) Professor and Center for Information and Systems Engineering (CISE) Director, Ayşe Coşkun, Professor Sherief Reda of Brown University, three BU alumni Zihao Yuan (CE PhD’22), […]
Lei Tian Article to be Published in “Optica”
Lei Tian (ECE, BME) will soon have an article, “Wide-Field, High-Resolution Reconstruction in Computational Multi-Aperture Miniscope Using a Fourier Neural Network,” published in Optica. The article introduces SV-FourierNet, a new simple and low-cost computational multi-aperture miniature microscope. It represents a major advancement in computational microscopy that may find broad applications in biomedical research and other fields requiring compact microscopy solutions. Optica publishes high-quality, peer-reviewed […]
Vivek Goyal, CISE Affiliate Faculty, Receives Prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship
Vivek Goyal, Professor (ECE), Associate Chair of Doctoral Programs for the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, and Faculty Affiliate for the Center for Information and Systems Engineering (CISE) and the Hariri Institute for Computing, has published more than 200 papers, co-authored a textbook, has more than 20 issued patents, and has taught at Boston University […]
Cyber-Secure Bio-Electronic Capsules: Transforming Healthcare and Environmental Monitoring
Pioneering an unprecedented method for tracking gastrointestinal (GI) health and environmental conditions, Rabia Yazicigil, a CISE Faculty Affiliate and Assistant Professor at Boston University (ECE, BME), has been awarded the prestigious 2024 National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER award. Yazicigil’s research on cyber-secure biological systems (CSBS), particularly the miniaturized ingestible bio-electronic capsule, is the first of […]