2024
August 2024 – Cansu successfully defended her PhD dissertation. Congrats Cansu!
June 2024 – Guowei will be interning at Microsoft in Summer 2024.
May 2024 – Cansu was selected as one of the 2024 ML and Systems Rising Stars. Congrats Cansu!
April 2024 – Farbin received the Graduate Student Summer Fellowship from the Institute for Global Sustainability at Boston University.
2023
December 2023 – Red Hat Collaboratory funded our project on CoFHE: Compiler for Fully Homomorphic Encryption.
September 2023 – ICSG alum Rashmi Agrawal invited to attend EECS Rising Stars 2023. Congrats Rashmi!
July 2023 – NSF funded our project on architecting GPUs for practical homomorphic encryption-based computing. This project is in collaboration with Prof. Kaeli at Northeastern University.
June 2023 – Suhani Mitra was named Clare Boothe Luce Scholar for Summer 2023.
May 2023 - Rashmi Agrawal received the Boston University College of Engineering 2023 PhD Entrepreneurial Award.
May 2023 – Our work on ProcessorFuzz received the Best Paper Award at HOST 2023.
March 2023 – Zahra successfully defended her PhD Dissertation. Congrats Zahra!
2022
October 2022 – Rashmi successfully defended her PhD Dissertation. Congrats Rashmi!
October 2022 – Rashmi received the Best Presentation Award (Second Place) at the 5th Workshop for Women in Hardware and System Security.
September 2022 – Cansu Demirkiran successfully defended her PhD Dissertation Prospectus.
August 2022 – Our IARPA project on electro-photonic accelerators for autonomous vehicles got selected for Phase B funding.
June 2022 – Marcia Sahaya Louis successfully defended her PhD Dissertation. She will be joining Intel. Congrats Marcia!
June 2022 – Zahra Azad will be interning with Samsung in Summer 2022.
May 2022 – Aditya Narayan (co-advised by Prof. Ayse Coskun) received the BU CE Outstanding PhD Dissertation Award. Congrats Aditya!
March 2022 – Zahra successfully defended her PhD Dissertation. Congrats Zahra!
March 2022 – Sadullah Canakci successfully defended his PhD Dissertation. He will be joining AMD. Congrats Sadullah!
March 2022 – Furkan Eris successfully defended his PhD Dissertation. He will be joining AMD. Congrats Furkan!
February 2022 – Prof. Joshi was promoted to Full Professor.
2021
December 2021 – Red Hat Collaboratory funded our project on Privacy-Preserving Cloud Computing using Homomorphic Encryption.
November 2021 – IARPA funded our project on electro-photonic accelerators for autonomous vehicles. This project is in collaboration with Dr. Darius Bunandar at Lightmatter and Prof. Vijay Janapa Reddi at Harvard University.
October 2021 – Laith Shamieh won the 2021 ECE Shark Tank Trophy at BU Senior Design Shark Tank event for his Senior Thesis project presentation on “Embedding Nanoantennas in IC Chips using Machine Learning”
September 2021 – Marcia Sahaya Louis will be interning at BrainSpec, Furkan Eris will be interning at AMD, Cansu Demirkiran will be interning at Lightmatter, and Rashmi Agrawal will be interning at Analog Devices in Fall 2021.
August 2021 – Lawrence Feng and Steffen Brown interned with ICSG as part of the BU RISE program.
July 2021 – NSF funded our project on optically-controlled phase change memory. This project is in collaboration with Prof. Coskun.
June 2021 – Cansu Demirkiran will be interning with Lightmatter in Summer 2021.
June 2021 – Zahra Azad successfully defended her PhD Dissertation Prospectus.
May 2021 – Rashmi Agrawal successfully defended her PhD Dissertation Prospectus.
April 2021 – Aditya Narayan (co-advised by Prof. Ayse Coskun) successfully defended his PhD Dissertation. He will be joining AMD. Congrats Aditya!
March 2021 – Leila Delshadtehrani (co-advised by Prof. Manuel Egele) successfully defended her PhD Dissertation. She will be joining Facebook. Congrats Leila!
February 2021 – Saiful Mojumder successfully defended his PhD Dissertation. He will be joining AMD. Congrats Saiful!
January 2021 – Rashmi Agrawal will be interning with Xilinx Research and Cansu Demirkiran will be interning with Lightmatter in Spring 2021.
2020
September 2020 – Leila Delshadtehrani was invited to present her work on programmable hardware monitors at the FOCA workshop organized by IBM Research.
September 2020 – Honeywell provided a new round of funding for our project on optical nanoantennas for security.
September 2020 – Saiful Mojumder will be interning with AMD and Cansu Demirkiran will be interning with Lightmatter in Fall 2020 semester.
June 2020 – Leila Delshadtehrani was awarded the GHC Student Scholarship to attend the 2020 Virtual Grace Hopper Celebration.
June 2020 – Our BlackParrot project was selected for Phase 2 of the DARPA POSH program.
June 2020 – Zahra Azad will be interning with Microsoft Research and Cansu Demirkiran will be interning with Lightmatter in Summer 2020 semester.
May 2020 – Yenai Ma successfully defended her PhD Dissertation. She will be joining Google. Congrats Yenai!
March 2020 – Sadullah Canakci successfully defended his PhD Dissertation Prospectus.
February 2020 – Prof. Joshi received the Google Faculty Research Award.
January 2020 – Leila Delshadtehrani received the Best Paper Award (3rd place) at the CISE Graduate Student Workshop (CGSW) 2020. Congrats Leila!
January 2020 – Furkan Eris will be interning with AMD and Marcia Sahaya Louis will be interning with ARM in Spring 2020 semester.
2019
December 2019 – Marcia Sahaya Louis successfully defended her PhD Dissertation Prospectus.
September 2019 – Furkan Eris successfully defended his PhD Dissertation Prospectus.
September 2019 – Furkan Eris will be interning with AMD in Fall 2019 semester.
August 2019 – Raj Palleti interned with ICSG as part of the BU RISE program.
July 2019 – NSF funded our project on programmable hardware monitor. This project is in collaboration with Prof. Egele, and Prof. Robertson at Northeastern University.
July 2019 – Honeywell/DOE funded our project on optical nanoantennas for security. This project is in collaboration with Prof. Unlu.
June 2019 – Leila Delshadtehrani will be interning with Google in Summer 2019 semester.
March 2019 – Boyou Zhou successfully defended his PhD Dissertation. He will be joining Analog Garage. Congrats Boyou!
February 2019 – Prof. Joshi received the Google Faculty Research Award.
January 2019 – Prof. Joshi will be serving as the Associate Editor for IEEE TVLSI starting January 2019.
January 2019 – Prof. Joshi will be serving as the TPC Chair for NOCS 2019.
January 2019 – Saiful Mojumder will be interning with AMD in Spring 2019 semester.
2018
December 2018 – Saiful Mojumder successfully defended his PhD Dissertation Prospectus.
August 2018 – Marcia Sahaya Louis will be interning with Google, and Furkan Eris, Saiful Mojumder and Sadullah Canakci will be interning with AMD in Fall 2018 semester.
June 2018 – DARPA funded our project on designing 64-bit multicore RISC-V processor. This project is in collaboration with Prof. Taylor and Prof. Oskin at University of Washington.
June 2018 – Marcia Sahaya Louis received the ISMRM 2018 Summa Cum Laude Merit Award. Congrats Marcia!
June 2018 – Marcia Sahaya Louis and Furkan Eris will be interning with Google and AMD, respectively, in Summer 2018 semester.
June 2018 – Our paper received the Best Paper Award at ASIACCS 2018.(pdf)
June 2018 – Leila Delshadtehrani successfully defended her PhD Dissertation Prospectus.
May 2018 – Furkan Eris received the GTA of the Year Award. Congrats Furkan!
January 2018 – Yenai Ma successfully defended her PhD Dissertation Prospectus.
2017
November 2017 – Marcia Sahaya Louis received the Research Excellence Award at Discover Brigham 2017. Congrats Marcia!
September 2017 – NSF funded our project on dark silicon. This project is in collaboration with Prof. Coskun and Prof. Popovic.
September 2017 – Leila Delshadtehrani will be interning with Google in Fall 2017 semester.
September 2017 – Anmol Gupta (co-advised with Manuel Egele) defended his MS Thesis. He is joining Analog Devices Inc. Congrats Anmol!
July 2017 – Prof. Joshi will be spending his sabbatical year (2017-18) at Google.
May 2017 – Leila Delshadtehrani received the GTA of the Year Award. Congrats Leila!
May 2017 – Anmol Gupta will be interning with Analog Devices Inc. in Summer 2017 semester.
April 2017 – Zafar Takhirov successfully defended his PhD Dissertation. He will be joining Didi Research. Congrats Zafar!
March 2017 – Boyou Zhou successfully defended his PhD Dissertation Prospectus.
2016
September 2016 – Boyou Zhou will be interning with Qualcomm in Fall 2016 semester.
August 2016 – NSF funded our project on optical nano antennas. This project is in collaboration with Prof. Unlu.
July 2016 – Schuyler Eldridge successfully defended his PhD Dissertation. He will be joining IBM Research. Congrats Schuyler!
May 2016 – Prof. Joshi was promoted to Associate Professor with tenure.
April 2016 – Timothy Chong successfully defended his BS Thesis. He will be going to Stanford University for PhD. Congrats Timothy!
March 2016 – Zafar Takhirov successfully defended his PhD Dissertation Prospectus.
February 2016 – Work related to X-FILES/DANA, neural network accelerator infrastructure for RISC-V microprocessors presented at PACT ’15, was open sourced on GitHub.
2015
August 2015 – NSF funded our project on leveraging photonic networks for designing next-generation accelerator architectures. This project is in collaboration with Prof. Kaeli from Northeastern University.
July 2015 – NSF funded our project on Automatically Scalable Computation. This project is in collaboration with Prof. Homer and Prof. Appavoo from BU, and Prof. Seltzer, Prof. Brooks and Prof. Adams from Harvard University.
July 2015 – Katie Bacher and Gary Li interned with ICSG as part of the BU RISE program.
June 2015 – Boyou Zhou will be interning with Analog Devices Inc. in Summer 2015 semester.
May 2015 – Mahmoud received the BU ECE Outstanding PhD Dissertation Award. Congrats Mahmoud!
March 2015 – Mahmoud Zangeneh successfully defended his PhD Dissertation. He will be joining UCSB as a postdoc. Congrats Mahmoud!
March 2015 – Timothy Chong received the prestigious Lutchen Fellowship for undergraduate research.
January 2015 – BU successfully hosted BARC 2015.
2014
December 2014 – Jeffrey Little successfully defended his MS Thesis
July 2014 – Adit Deshpande and Tanmay Ghai interned with ICSG as part of the BU RISE program.
July 2014 – Jose L. Abellan got a faculty position at Catholic University of Murcia (Spain). Congrats Jose!
June 2014 – Boyou Zhou will be interning with Analog Devices Inc. in Summer 2014 semester.
May 2014 – Prof. Joshi received the Boston University ECE Department’s 2013/14 Award for Excellence in Teaching.
May 2014 – Florian Raudies successfully defended hi MS Thesis.
May 2014 – Schuyler Eldridge successfully defended his PhD Dissertation Prospectus.
April 2014 – Chao Chen successfully defended his PhD Dissertation. He will be joining Freescale Semiconductor. Congrats Chao!
2013
November 2013 – Mahmoud Zangeneh successfully defended his PhD Dissertation Prospectus.
July 2013 – Aamir Rasheed interned with ICSG as part of the BU RISE Program.
June 2013 – Zafar Takhirov will be interning with Analog Devices Inc. in Summer and Fall 2013 semesters.
April 2013 – David Zou received the prestigious Lutchen Fellowship for undergraduate research.
2012
July 2012 – Kevin Chen and Eleanor Pence interned with ICSG as part of the BU RISE Program.
June 2012 – DARPA funded our project on architectures for 1000+ core systems.
April 2012 – Schuyler Eldridge awarded the NASA Space Technology Research Fellowship for his project on biologically-inspired hardware for land/aerial robots.
March 2012 – Chao Chen successfully defended his PhD Dissertation Prospectus.
March 2012 – Schuyler Eldridge won the CELEST / CompNet Prize in Computational Neuroscience at BU Science and Engineering Day for his poster “Biologically inspired hardware for autonomous robots“.
March 2012 – Prof. Joshi received the NSF CAREER Award for our project on run-time management of power in silicon-photonic manycore systems.
2011
July 2011 – Vincent Chen and Samuel Kim interned with ICSG as part of the BU RISE Program.
June 2011 – Schuyler Eldridge will be interning with Intel Corp. in Summer 2011 semester.
May 2011 – Prof. Joshi and Prof. Nazer won the BU CoE Dean’s Catalyst Award for their project on designing reliable computation circuits using unreliable devices.
April 2011 – NSF CELEST funded our project on autonomous navigation in mobile robots.
2009
September 2009 – Prof. Joshi started as an Assistant Professor in the ECE department at BU.