Arslan Riaz awarded COMSNETS 2022 Best Research Demo Award
Arslan Riaz, PhD candidate (ECE), won the “Best Research Demo” award at the 14th International Conference on COMmunication Systems & NETworkS (COMSNETS 2022) January 3-8, 2022. Riaz demonstrated the first fully-integrated universal Maximum Likelihood Decoder in 40 nm CMOS using the Guessing Random Additive Noise Decoding (GRAND) algorithm. This novel technology provides a universal system for […]
Salomón Wollenstein-Betech Lunch and Learn Recap
At the Lunch and Learn on October 20th, 5th year Ph.D. student, Salomón Wollenstein-Betech, met with his peers to share his insights from interning at MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab (2019), PROS software company (2020), and Amazon Inc (2021). Wollenstein-Betech’s specific area of study is optimization and control of intelligent transportation systems. At IBM, he worked […]
Balancing electricity demands and costs of high-performance computing
Some computational problems are so complex that they require many times more calculations than a typical laptop can handle. High performance computing (HPC) combines a number of computer servers to carry out these large-scale computations that often operate on massive data sets. But data centers for HPC require immense amounts of power and limiting power […]
Mahroo Bahreinian, PhD Candidate (SE)
“Systems engineering is a field that is constantly on the brink of the unknown,” says Mahroo Bahreinian, a fourth-year PhD candidate (SE) at Boston University. “Researchers work on solving problems that no one else has thought of and their research is always cutting-edge and evolving. It allows me to constantly learn new things and develop […]
Ali Siahkamari Ties for First Place in the 2021 CISE Best Student Paper Award
Ali Siahkamari, Boston University PhD candidate (ECE), tied for first place in the 2021 CISE Best Student Paper Award Competition. His winning paper, entitled “Piecewise Linear Regression via a Difference of Convex Functions,” was published in Proceedings of the 37th International Conference on Machine Learning. This paper was co-authored with his advisor, CISE Faculty Affiliate, Associate Professor Brian […]
2021 CISE Best Student Paper Award Winners
CISE is delighted to announce the winners of the Spring 2021 CISE Best Student Paper Award. We received 20 submissions of excellent quality showcasing the strength and diversity of research pursued by CISE students and faculty. We are grateful for the support of the paper review team, which included 16 CISE faculty affiliates from the […]
Seeing Blind No More: The Future of Safely Navigating Blind Corners
Sheila Seidel develops safer systems with various applications through her work on non-line-of-sight imaging. Imagine you are a soldier walking through a tunnel in enemy territory. You come to an intersection and must choose to continue to the right or left. The wrong choice could be fatal, leading you straight into your enemy’s direct line […]
New Frontiers in Self-driving Cars
Lidar, used in most self-driving cars, models the world around them by creating 3D representations of a scene in view. Photo by John D. SL/Shutterstock One of the most promising developments born out of the 2005 DARPA Grand Challenge was the use of lidar technology in self-driving cars, also known as autonomous vehicles (AVs). […]
Wei Xiao Wins 2020 IEEE CDC Outstanding Student Paper Award
The paper primarily applies to safe robot navigation in environments full of obstacles. Photo courtesy of Jeromey Balderrama. Wei Xiao, Boston University PhD candidate (SE), won a 2020 IEEE Conference on Decisions and Control Outstanding Student Paper Award for his paper entitled “Feasibility-Guided Learning for Constrained Optimal Control Problems”. His paper was published in Proc. of […]
What Makes Someone Narcissistic?
Andrew Cutler Shows How Social Media Use Reveals Human Traits Have you ever wondered what exactly your personality traits are? Are you a narcissist? What can Facebook predict about you? Andrew Cutler, a PhD candidate (ECE) interested in inferring human traits from social media use, is conducting research on all of those topics under advisor, […]