News
May 2024 | Jonathan Chamberlain, Prof. Starobinski, and Prof. Joel Johnson (Ohio State) win Policy Track Best Paper Runner-Up at IEEE DySpan 2024 for research on spectrum sharing between active commercial users and passive Earth Exploration Satellite Service radiometers
January 2024 | Prof Starobinski renews his reward from the Red Hat Collabatory at the BU Hariri Institute of Computing to pursue research on Improving Cybersecurity Operations Using Knowledge Graphs. Read more here
January 2024 | Congratulations to Zhenpeng Shi for successfully defending his thesis.
September 2023 | Congratulations to Stefan Gvozdenovic for successfully defending his thesis.
September 2023 | Prof. Starobinski receives $375K NSF SWIFT grant titled “Facilitating Novel Modalities for Spectrum Sharing between Earth-Observing Microwave Radiometers and Commercial Users.”
May 2023 | Congratulations to Novak Boškov for successfully defending his thesis.
May 2023 | Novak Boškov, Sevval Simsek, Prof. Trachtenberg, and Prof. Starobinski win Best Paper award at IEEE ICBC 2023 for research on blockchain synchronization.
January 2023 | Prof. Starobinski receives funding from the Red Hat Collabatory at the BU Hariri Institute of Computing to pursue research on Improving Cybersecurity Operations Using Knowledge Graphs. Read more here
November 2022 | Johannes Becker and Prof. Starobinski win 3rd place Best Paper award at the IEEE WFIoT 2022 for research on optimizing freshness in IoT scans.
October 2022 | Prof. Starobinski & Prof. Trachtenberg receive a $300K NSF grant titled “Building Resilience into Blockchains”.
May 2022 | Congratulations to Johannes Becker for successfully defending his thesis.
January 2022 | Congratulations to Anas Imtiaz for successfully defending his thesis.
June 2020 | Prof. Starobinski receives funding from BU Hariri Institute of Computing & Honda Research Institute Europe to pursue research on security for connected vehicles. Read more here and here.
June 2020 | Prof. Starobinski receives the 2020 Spring Research Incubation Awards from BU Hariri Institute for Computing. Read more here.
June 2020 | Johannes Becker, Novak Boškov, Prof. Starobinski, and Prof. Trachtenberg are among those BU ECE members that are helping fight the coronavirus with computing. Read more here [1, 2, 3].
May 2020 | Anas Imtiaz, Prof. Starobinski, and Prof. Trachtenberg win Best Paper award at IEEE ICBC 2020 for research on Bitcoin. Read more here.
July 2019 | Johannes Becker and Prof. Starobinski find that a third-party algorithm can track the location of some Bluetooth devices. Read more here.
January 2019 | Trishita Tiwari and Prof. Trachtenberg discover a new vulnerability (page cache hacking) in Windows and Linux operating systems in their recent research paper. Read more here.
November 2017 | Prof. Trachtenberg serves as the TPC co-Chair of the SSS 2017 Conference (Computer Security and Information Privacy Track).
September 2017 | Prof. Starobinski receives funding from OnBoard Security to pursue research on Automotive Security. Read more here.
September 2017 | Prof. Starobinski receives a $500K NSF grant titled “Strategic Management of Advance Reservations in Cloud and Network Services”.
April 2017 | Prof. Starobinski joins the editorial board of the IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security (T-IFS).
October 2016 | Liangxiao Xin, Prof. Starobinski and Prof. Guevara Noubir (Northeastern) are awarded “Best Paper” for their paper “Cascading DoS Attacks on Wi-Fi Networks,” at IEEE CNS 2016.
September 2016 | Prof. Trachtenberg is promoted to ECE Associate Chair for Master’s Studies.
February 2016 | Prof. Trachtenberg & Prof. Starobinski receive a $800K NSF grant titled “Unifying Data Synchronization”
October 2015 | Congratulations to Emir Kavurmacioglu and Wei Si for successfully defending their theses.
September 2015 | Congratulations to Morteza Hashemi for successfully defending his thesis.
August 2014 | Prof. Starobinski receives a $450K NSF grant titled “Strengthening Wi-Fi Network Wide”.
April 2014 | Eran Simhon’s poster, titled “Advance Reservation Games”, wins the Hariri Award for Innovative Computing Models, Algorithms, and Systems at BU scholars day.
April 2014 | Morteza Hashemi poster “Delete-and-Conquer: Novel Digital Fountain Codes for Intra-car Wireless Networking” is one of the honorable mentions posters by CISE at BU scholar day.
May 2013 | Morteza Hashemi and Wei Si both win the Center for Reliable Information Systems and Cybersecurity Award as well as the Provost’s Award in Scholars Day, the annual Boston University graduate student research symposium. Read more here.
May 2013 | Prof. Trachtenberg receives the ECE Award for Excellence in Teaching. Read more here.
April 2013 | Emir Kavurmacioglu wins the CISE First Prize at the BU Scholar day. Read more here.