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May 2025<\/strong> | Dr. Jonathan Chamberlain receives Doctoral Achievement Award<\/a> from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Boston University.<\/span><\/p>\n

April 2025<\/strong> | Congratulations to Jonathan Chamberlain for successfully defending his thesis.<\/p>\n

May 2024<\/strong> | Jonathan Chamberlain, Prof. Starobinski, and Prof. Joel Johnson (Ohio State) win Policy Track Best Paper Runner-Up at IEEE DySpan 2024<\/a> for research on spectrum sharing between active commercial users and passive Earth Exploration Satellite Service radiometers<\/p>\n

January 2024<\/strong> | Prof Starobinski renews his reward from the Red Hat Collabatory<\/a> at the BU Hariri Institute of Computing<\/a> to pursue research on Improving Cybersecurity Operations Using Knowledge Graphs. Read more here<\/a><\/p>\n

January 2024<\/strong> | Congratulations to Zhenpeng Shi for successfully defending his thesis.<\/p>\n

September 2023<\/strong> | Congratulations to Stefan Gvozdenovic for successfully defending his thesis.<\/p>\n

September 2023<\/strong> | Prof. Starobinski receives $375K NSF SWIFT grant titled “Facilitating Novel Modalities for Spectrum Sharing between Earth-Observing Microwave Radiometers and Commercial Users.”<\/p>\n

May 2023<\/strong>\u00a0 | Congratulations to Novak Bo\u0161kov for successfully defending his thesis.<\/p>\n

May 2023 <\/strong> | Novak Bo\u0161kov, Sevval Simsek, Prof. Trachtenberg, and Prof. Starobinski win Best Paper award at IEEE ICBC 2023<\/a> for research on blockchain synchronization.<\/p>\n

January 2023<\/strong> | Prof. Starobinski receives funding from the Red Hat Collabatory<\/a> at the BU Hariri Institute of Computing<\/a> to pursue research on Improving Cybersecurity Operations Using Knowledge Graphs. Read more here<\/a><\/p>\n

November<\/strong> 2022 <\/strong>| Johannes Becker and Prof. Starobinski win 3rd place Best Paper award at the IEEE WFIoT 2022<\/a> for research on optimizing freshness in IoT scans.<\/p>\n

O<\/strong>ctober 2022 <\/strong>| Prof. Starobinski & Prof. Trachtenberg receive a $300K NSF grant titled “Building Resilience into Blockchains”.<\/p>\n

May 2022<\/strong> | Congratulations to Johannes Becker for successfully defending his thesis.<\/p>\n

January 2022<\/strong> | Congratulations to Anas Imtiaz for successfully defending his thesis.<\/p>\n

June 2020 |\u00a0<\/strong>Prof. Starobinski receives funding from BU Hariri Institute of Computing<\/a> & Honda Research Institute Europe<\/a> to pursue research on security for connected vehicles. Read more here<\/a> and here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

June 2020 |<\/strong> Prof. Starobinski receives the 2020 Spring Research Incubation Awards from BU Hariri Institute for Computing<\/a>. Read more here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

June 2020 |<\/strong>\u00a0Johannes Becker,\u00a0Novak Bo\u0161kov,\u00a0Prof. Starobinski, and\u00a0Prof. Trachtenberg are among those BU ECE members that are\u00a0helping fight the coronavirus with computing. Read more here [1<\/a>, 2<\/a>, 3<\/a>].<\/p>\n

May 2020 |<\/strong> Anas Imtiaz, Prof. Starobinski, and Prof. Trachtenberg win Best Paper award at IEEE ICBC 2020<\/a> for research on Bitcoin. Read more here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

July 2019 |<\/strong>\u00a0Johannes Becker and Prof. Starobinski find that a third-party algorithm can track the location of some Bluetooth devices. Read more here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

January 2019 |<\/strong>\u00a0Trishita Tiwari and\u00a0Prof.\u00a0Trachtenberg\u00a0discover a new vulnerability (page cache hacking) in Windows and Linux operating systems in their recent research paper<\/a>. Read more here<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

November 2017 |\u00a0<\/strong>Prof.\u00a0<\/span>Trachtenberg serves as the TPC co-Chair of the SSS 2017 Conference<\/a> (Computer Security and Information Privacy Track).<\/span><\/p>\n

September 2017 |\u00a0<\/strong>Prof. Starobinski receives funding from OnBoard Security to pursue research on Automotive Security. Read more here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

September 2017 |\u00a0<\/strong>Prof. Starobinski receives a\u00a0$500K NSF grant\u00a0titled \u201cStrategic Management of Advance Reservations in Cloud and Network Services\u201d.<\/p>\n

April\u00a02017 |\u00a0<\/strong>Prof. Starobinski joins the editorial board of the IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security<\/a> (T-IFS).<\/p>\n

October 2016 |<\/strong> Liangxiao Xin, Prof. Starobinski and Prof. Guevara Noubir (Northeastern) are awarded \u201cBest Paper\u201d for their paper \u201cCascading DoS Attacks on Wi-Fi Networks,\u201d at IEEE CNS 2016<\/a>.<\/p>\n

September\u00a02016 |\u00a0<\/span><\/strong>Prof. Trachtenberg is promoted to ECE Associate Chair for Master’s Studies.<\/p>\n

February\u00a02016\u00a0|\u00a0<\/strong>Prof. Trachtenberg & Prof. Starobinski receive a\u00a0$800K NSF grant\u00a0titled \u201cUnifying Data Synchronization\u201d<\/p>\n

October\u00a02015 |\u00a0<\/span><\/strong>Congratulations to Emir Kavurmacioglu and Wei Si for successfully defending their theses.<\/p>\n

September\u00a02015 |\u00a0<\/span><\/strong>Congratulations to Morteza Hashemi for successfully defending his thesis.<\/p>\n

August 2014<\/strong>\u00a0<\/span>| Prof. Starobinski receives a $450K NSF grant titled \u201cStrengthening Wi-Fi Network Wide\u201d.<\/p>\n

April 2014 |\u00a0<\/strong>Eran Simhon\u2019s poster, titled \u201cAdvance Reservation Games\u201d, wins the Hariri Award for Innovative Computing Models, Algorithms, and Systems at BU scholars day.<\/p>\n

April 2014 |\u00a0<\/strong>Morteza Hashemi poster \u201cDelete-and-Conquer: Novel Digital Fountain Codes for Intra-car Wireless Networking\u201d is one of the honorable mentions posters by CISE at BU scholar day.<\/p>\n

May 2013 |<\/strong> Morteza Hashemi and Wei Si both win the Center for Reliable Information Systems and Cybersecurity Award as well as the Provost\u2019s Award in Scholars Day, the annual Boston University graduate student research symposium. Read more here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

May 2013 |<\/strong> Prof. Trachtenberg receives the ECE Award for Excellence in Teaching. Read more here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

April 2013 |\u00a0<\/strong>Emir Kavurmacioglu wins the CISE First Prize at the BU Scholar day. Read more here<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

May 2025 | Dr. Jonathan Chamberlain receives Doctoral Achievement Award from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Boston University. April 2025 | Congratulations to Jonathan Chamberlain for successfully defending his thesis. May 2024 | Jonathan Chamberlain, Prof. Starobinski, and Prof. Joel Johnson (Ohio State) win Policy Track Best Paper Runner-Up at IEEE DySpan […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3142,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/nislab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/nislab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/nislab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/nislab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3142"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/nislab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/nislab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":832,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/nislab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6\/revisions\/832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/nislab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}