Boston University Students Win Two NeurIPS 2022 Competitions
As part of the Artificial Intelligence and Deep Learning courses taught by associate professor Iddo Drori, Boston University students participated in NeurIPS 2022 competitions in the Fall of 2022 under professor Drori’s mentorship. The goals of the competitions are learning from human feedback in Minecraft and learning to specialize in massively multiagent open worlds. The […]
Students Join Boston University at Tapia Celebration of Diversity in Computing Conference
The Annual Tapia Celebration of Diversity in Computing Conference brings together students and professionals from all backgrounds in computer science to promote and celebrate diversity in computing. For the first time, Boston University had the opportunity to sponsor six students to attend the annual event in Washington, DC. From September 7th to September 10th, the […]
Students Sponsored by Boston University Explore Career Prospects and Connect with Women in Computing at the Annual Grace Hopper Celebration
From September 20th to September 23rd, 2022, fourteen students were sponsored by Boston University to attend the world’s largest conference for women in computing, the annual Grace Hopper Celebration, in Orlando, FL. As an initiative of The Department of Computer Science to integrate Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion career development opportunities, the conference welcomed all gender […]
Red Hat hosts 32 BU interns at the cutting edge
From BU Today – As a computer science major, Chloe Kaubisch was already looking for a tech internship last November when an opportunity surfaced at the Boston office of Red Hat. She knew the fast-growing company was the leading provider of open-source enterprise software, but what sealed it for her was the chance to work on ChRIS Research […]
Introducing High School Women to the World of Artificial Intelligence
From BU Today – On a recent afternoon, 25 young high school women gathered in a BU computer science (CS) classroom to learn about artificial intelligence (AI). Half of them were learning the basics of Computer Vision for American Sign Language alphabet recognition. They watched as a photograph of a house transformed on-screen into a […]
Harsh Patel (CAS’19) and Teammates win Health Track at HackRice
Congratulations to Harsh Patel (CAS ’19) and his team for winning the Health Track at HackRice, a hackathon held at Rice University in Houston, Texas from September 22 – 24th. Harsh and his teammates built a medical device for individuals with dementia and alzheimer’s, using just a Raspberry Pi Kit and less than $50 of materials, and […]
Tom Cheng and Ying Ye Win Best Student Paper at RTAS/CPS Week 2017
CS PhD students Zhuoqun Tom Cheng and Ying Ye along with their advisor, Professor Rich West, have received the Best Student Paper Award at the Real-Time and Embedded Technology and Application Symposium (RTAS)/Cyber-Physical System Week 2017 for their paper “Building Real-Time Embedded Applications on QduinoMC: A Web-connected 3D Printer Case Study.” Congratulations to Tom, Ying, […]
CS students and faculty win award at BU Scholar’s Day
We are happy to announce that a team consisting of CS PhD students Sarah Bargal, Shugao Ma, Jianming Zhang, Professor Stan Sclaroff, and Leonid Sigal (Disney Research) has won the Office of Technology Development Award at BU’s scholar’s day! http://www.bu.edu/provost/graduateresearchsymposium2016/ Congratulations Sarah, Shugao, Jianming, Stan, and Leonid!
Danna Gurari, Suele Ki Kim, Margrit Betke, and Coauthors Win Best Paper Prize
CS PhD student Danna Gurari, CS MA student Seule Ki Kim, CS Professor Margrit Betke, and their coauthors won a Best Paper Award for their paper “SAGE: An Approach and Implementation Empowering Quick and Reliable Quantitative Analysis of Segmentation Quality” at the IEEE Workshop on the Applications of Computer Vision (WACV).
Gonca Gursun, et al. win a 2013 IRTF/IETF Applied Networking Research Prize
Gonca Gürsun, Natali Ruchansky, Evimaria Terzi and Mark Crovella have won an IRTF/IETF Applied Networking Research Prize, for their paper “Routing State Distance: A Path-based Metric for Network Analysis.” This work was presented at the 2012 Internet Measurement Conference, and will be a featured presentation at an upcoming IETF meeting.