Awards
Yannis Paschalidis Named the 2020 Charles DeLisi Distinguished Lecturer
Professor Yannis Paschalidis is the 2020 recipient of the Charles DeLisi Award and Distinguished Lecture. This award celebrates high-impact research in engineering. This showcasing event allows all members of the Boston University community to meet a distinguished scholar selected from the College of Engineering faculty discussing a topic of recognized excellence. Professor Paschalidis will present on “Data Science […]
BU-Harvard Team Wins $1.2M NSF Grant to Improve Women’s Reproductive Health using AI and Machine Learning
Photo by 10 FACE on Shutterstock Researchers to advance distributed analytics to enhance fertility in families A multidisciplinary team of researchers from Boston University and Harvard University is working to address women’s reproductive health challenges with the help of a $1.2M, four-year grant funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) through its Smart and Connected Health […]
Federated Learning from Electronic Health Records Paper Receives Best Paper Honors
Our paper on “Federated learning of predictive models from federated Electronic Health Records” (with Theodora S. Brisimi, Ruidi Chen, Theofanie Mela, Alex Olshevsky, and Wei Shi), International Journal of Medical Informatics, Vol. 112, April, 2018, pages 59- 67, has been selected as a Best Paper and is included in the 2019 Yearbook of the International Medical […]
Researchers Win $900k NSF Grant to Predict Heart Disease, Diabetes Using Machine Learning
By Maureen Stanton, CISE Researchers (from left) Paschalidis, Mishuris, and Cassandras win $900K NSF grant to predict heart disease and diabetes using machine learning. Researchers from the Boston University College of Engineering and Boston Medical Center (BMC) will use a three-year, $900,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to develop and pilot a health informatics system to […]
Wuyang Dai receives the College of Engineering 2015 Societal Impact Dissertation Award
Wuyang Dai, a 2015 graduate of NOC, received the College of Engineering 2015 Societal Impact Dissertation Award for his thesis “Detection and Prediction Problems with Applications in Personalized Health Care.” The thesis developed algorithmic methods to support personalized preventive medicine. One of the problems addressed is the prediction of hospitalizations due to heart disease based […]
Three ECE Profs Named as IEEE Fellows
Professors W. Clem Karl (ECE, BME, SE), Theodore Moustakas (ECE, MSE) and Yannis Paschalidis (ECE, SE) have been named as 2014 IEEE Fellows, the highest grade of membership in the world’s leading professional association for advancing technology for the benefit of society. The IEEE confers the grade of Fellow upon individuals with outstanding records of accomplishment in any of the organization’s fields of […]
Paschalidis Named 2011 Distinguished Faculty Fellew
By Mark Dwortzen Since joining the College of Engineering faculty in 1996, Professor Ioannis Paschalidis (ECE, SE) has developed sophisticated algorithms for everything from a homeland security early warning sensor network to a next-generation electronic healthcare management system. Based on his impressive body of work, Paschalidis was named the College’s 2011 Distinguished Faculty Fellow, an […]
Dean’s Catalyst Awards Energize Early-Stage Projects
By Mark Dwortzan College of Engineering research projects in nanofluidics, integrated circuit design, data-driven healthcare management and Terahertz radiation generation are set to take off, thanks to the Dean’s Catalyst Awards (DCA) grant program. This year four research teams will each receive up to $50,000 in DCA funding to develop novel techniques to investigate these […]