{"id":13,"date":"2013-12-25T16:58:58","date_gmt":"2013-12-25T21:58:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/pi\/?page_id=13"},"modified":"2026-02-16T23:18:48","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T04:18:48","slug":"desired-static-front-page","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/pi\/","title":{"rendered":"Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/pi\/files\/2024\/02\/Prakash-Ishwar-216x300-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"216\" height=\"300\" class=\"size-full wp-image-779 alignleft\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I am a Professor\u00a0in the<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ece\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u00a0Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering<\/a>\u00a0(ECE) and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/departments\/se\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Division of Systems Engineering<\/a> and an Affiliate Professor with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Department of Computer Science in the College of Arts and Sciences<\/a> at Boston University (BU). I am a member of the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/iss.bu.edu\/\" target=\"NewWindow\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Machine Learning, Information and Data Sciences<\/a>\u00a0(MINDS) Group of the ECE department and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/systems\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Center for Information and Systems Engineering<\/a> (CISE).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Note to prospective students: <\/span><\/strong>I am looking for students interested in pursuing <strong><em>theoretical<\/em> <\/strong>research on the <strong><em>Mathematical Foundations of Artificial Intelligence<\/em><\/strong>. This requires an <em><strong>excellent background in mathematics, creativity to intuit, formulate, and prove theorems, develop new algorithms, and abilities to design and conduct computer-based experiments<\/strong><\/em> to motivate or\/and corroborate new theoretical results or\/and performance of algorithms within the context of real-world applications.<\/p>\n<p>I welcome inquiries for research opportunities (with attached CV). However, due to the large volume of email, I regret I am generally unable to reply to the vast majority of inquiries; please do not be offended.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; I am a Professor\u00a0in the\u00a0Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering\u00a0(ECE) and the Division of Systems Engineering and an Affiliate Professor with the Department of Computer Science in the College of Arts and Sciences at Boston University (BU). I am a member of the\u00a0Machine Learning, Information and Data Sciences\u00a0(MINDS) Group of the ECE department and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2606,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/pi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/pi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/pi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/pi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2606"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/pi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13"}],"version-history":[{"count":35,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/pi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":810,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/pi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13\/revisions\/810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/pi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}