CISE Hosts 11th Annual Graduate Student Workshop (CGSW 11.0)
Over 100 student and faculty attendees gathered on January 24th, 2025, for the 11th Annual Graduate Student Workshop hosted by the Center of Information and Systems Engineering (CISE). The day-long symposium featured doctoral students from different disciplines across Boston University’s College of Engineering presenting their original research. “CGSW aims to bring together CISE students, faculty, […]
BU Ph.D. candidate Fatih Acun on his innovative data center research
As artificial intelligence and supercomputing workloads continue to grow, data centers are consuming more power, putting a significant strain on the power grid. This surge in demand has created a pressing need for innovative solutions to integrate large-scale data centers with power grids. Third-year Ph.D. student Fatih Acun is exploring ways to optimize data center […]
CISE Students Win CSS TC 2024 Outstanding Student Paper Prize
The committee for the Outstanding Student Paper Prize 2024 announced this year’s prestigious award recipients. Among six national nominations, one paper written by two CISE students stood out for its innovative contributions to the field of smart cities. Ehsan Sabouni and H.M. Sabbir Ahmad and their collaborators are exemplars of academic excellence and collaborative spirit. […]
Reinforcement Learning: A More Efficient Way for Robots to Learn
Robot nurses — myth or reality? Although this may sound far-fetched, there are already hospitals in which robots assist nurses by bringing them tools, allowing the nurses to focus on providing care to their patients more efficiently. Vittorio Giammarino, a fifth-year PhD candidate (SE) at Boston University, hopes that his work can be useful for […]
Shifting the Purpose of Robots From Serving Humans to Collaboration
In dire situations like fires, time is of the essence. Firefighters need to work quickly to extinguish the fire and rescue any people. However, with emerging technologies like robots, putting out fires might become easier. Mela Coffey 3rd year ME PhD Candidate (Advisor: Alyssa Pierson) is interested in contributing to collaborative human-robot systems and human-robot […]
Estimating the Improbable with PhD Student Zack Bezemek
Could oil price volatility cause a stock market plunge? What’s the risk factor of a new drug causing a seizure? How likely is it that a driverless car could crash into a bus? What’s common among these seemingly disparate topics is that they are “rare events” – low-probability incidents that, if they occur, often have […]
Student Spotlight: Anthony Byrne is advancing the security, energy efficiency, and cost transparency of cloud computing
The cloud computing industry has faced several significant data breaches, impacting millions of people. Furthermore, the industry currently consumes between 1% and 2% of the world’s energy supply, and consumption increases yearly. Anthony Byrne, working with collaborators, is developing an innovative new cloud computing architecture, MicroFaaS, to improve security, energy efficiency, and cost transparency. Byrne […]
Rui Liu Wins CISE 2022 Best Student Paper Award
Rui Liu, 5th year Ph.D. Candidate in Systems Engineering, won the 2022 CISE Best Paper Award for her paper titled Temporal Difference Learning as Gradient Splitting. Liu’s interests consist of reinforcement learning, multi-agent systems, and optimization. Her paper gives a fuller explanation for why a common class of algorithms in reinforcement learning work as well […]
Announcing the 2022 CISE Best Student Paper Awards
CISE is delighted to announce the winners of the 2022 CISE Best Student Paper Award. This year five papers were chosen as award recipients. The winning papers were selected via a blind review process, and were evaluated based on the significance and impact of the work, creativity and innovation, completeness and quality, articulacy, and relevance to […]
CISE Announces the CGSW 8.0 Best Presenter Awards
Congratulations to Jimmy Queeney, Ph.D. candidate SE (Advisors: Christos Cassandras & Yannis Paschalidis) who received the CGSW 8.0 Best Presenter award for his research presentation on Stable and Efficient Reinforcement Learning with Principled Sample Reuse. CGSW award finalists included Arslan Riaz, Ph.D. candidate ECE (Advisor: Rabia Yazicigil) who received second place for his presentation on […]