Research
Harvard Business Review Publishes our Opinion Article on Predictive Health Analytics
The Harvard Business Review has published our opinion article describing “How Machine Learning Is Helping Us Predict Heart Disease and Diabetes.”
ICRA 2016 Paper is Finalist for Best Paper Award
The paper “Cooperative Multi-Quadrotor Pursuit of an Evader in an Environment with No-Fly Zones”, by Alyssa Pierson, Armin Ataei, Ioannis Paschalidis, and Mac Schwager, which appeared in the Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), May 16-21, 2016, Stockholm, Sweden, was a finalist for the conference Best Paper Award. A video demonstrating the […]
Clinicians and Computer Scientists Come Together to Predict Health Outcomes
Some things in life, like sunrises and sunsets, are predictable. Others, like traffic or the weather, are much harder to predict. Health outcomes tend to fall somewhere in the middle, but Bill Adams, MD, a Boston Medical Center pediatrician, and Yannis Paschalidis, PhD, a Boston University data scientist, are attempting to make more health outcomes […]
Big Data Improving Health Care
Data scientist and physician team up to reduce preventable hospitalizations By Suzanne Jacobs, BU Research Big Data Meets Healthcare: Bill Adams, a physician and medical informatician, and Yannis Paschalidis, a data scientist and engineer, are working together to use data from electronic health records to reduce preventable hospitalizations and cut health care costs. Photo by […]
Boston is Becoming a “Smart City” with ENG Support
IBM & IEEE recognize ECE & SE research contributions that are expected to improve urban life in Boston. By Gabriella McNevin Screenshots of the “Street Bump” application. Ushered in with the 21st century, are challenges that require real technological innovations. The global population is growing and, like magnets, people are moving to cities. According to the […]
BU Bringham & Women’s Hospital Partnership Celebrates First Year
Joint Research Focused on Medical Imaging and Image-Guided Interventions By Mark Dwortzan Researchers from Boston University and Brigham & Women’s Hospital are collaborating to improve medical imaging and image-guided interventions. (Images courtesy of Brigham & Women’s Hospital) Boston University College of Engineering Assistant Professor Darren Roblyer (BME) and Brigham & Women’s Hospital radiologist Srinivisan Mukundan […]
Top Ranked ENG Algorithms Could Reveal New Cancer Drug Target
by Mark Dwortzan An interdisciplinary College of Engineering team has developed computational methods to predict the structures that form when two cellular proteins interact. Judged the world’s best at a major international competition, these methods have drawn more than $3 million in NIH funding. An interdisciplinary team of College of Engineering faculty members—Professor Sandor Vajda […]
Interdisciplinary Team Sheds Light on How Proteins Bind
Finding Could Open Up New Drug Discovery Opportunities By Mark Dwortzan Over the past six years, an interdisciplinary team of College of Engineering faculty members—Professor Sandor Vajda (BME, SE), Research Assistant Professor Dima Kozakov (BME), Professor Yannis Paschalidis (ECE, SE) and Associate Professor Pirooz Vakili (ME, SE)—have been developing a set of powerful optimization algorithms for predicting the structures of complexes that form […]
BU, research universities hit by international cyber attacks
Written by Drew Schwartz One of Boston University’s public web pages suffered a cyber attack from an unidentified, internationally-based source last week, said BU’s Information Security Team Executive Director Quinn Shamblin. Shamblin said the attack was directed at the search bar function on one of BU’s web pages. He said the attack caused the web page’s […]
Better Data Management, Lower Healthcare Costs
By Rachel Harrington Today, people with chronic conditions like diabetes are benefitting from real-time monitoring devices like miniaturized implants, home monitoring equipment, and smartphone applications. Unfortunately, even though tracking a person’s symptoms and vitals has improved, hospitals and their medical teams are not ready to benefit from possessing so much personalized health data. Boston University’s […]