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Smart Spaces: Smart Lighting ERC conference— Tuesday, February 8, 2011 (cont.) Thomas Little (CISE affiliated faculty) is Principal Investigator and Associate Director of the NSF Smart Lighting ERC and oversees the Boston University effort of the grant as Site Coordinator and is also the Outdoor Communications and Transportation Testbed Leader. The Smart Lighting Center at Boston University (smartlighting.bu.edu) is part of the $18.5 million, multi-year Center with Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and the University of New Mexico. The Smart Lighting Center is developing the optical communication technology that would make an LED the equivalent of a WiFi access point.
8th Annual CISE Awards—for Annual Research Symposium—April 1, 2011 15 St. Mary’s Street In conjunction with the BU Science & Engineering Symposium on Wednesday, March 23, the Center for Information and Systems Engineering celebrated CISE graduate student research with the 8th annual CISE awards. This year the CISE First Prize Award ($500) was given on March 23 by President Brown along with the other main awards. CISE Honorable Mention winners were announced at the CISE Pizza Party and Award Ceremony on April 1.
Invited Speaker Dominic O’Brien – “Visible Light Communications: Achieving High Data Rates”
Congratulations to Smart Lighting Award winner • Margo Monroe – Advisor, Selim Unlu, “Multiplexed, Rapid Point of Care Device to Quantify Allergen –Specific IgE” The 2011 CISE judges were • John Baillieul, Professor, Mechanical Engineering, College of Engineering • Mark Crovella, Professor, Computer Science, College of Arts and Sciences • Ioannis Paschalidis, Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, College of Engineering
Entries were judged on scientific or engineering innovation, relevance, promise of future impact, societal implications, and the exhibitor’s presentation. All students whose advisors are CISE affiliated were considered for the CISE awards.
• Ari Trachtenberg, Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, College of Engineering
Congratulations to CISE First Prize winners
• Hua Wang, Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering, College of Engineering
• Joseph Wang – Advisor, David Castañón, “Kernelizing Low-Rank Representation and Learning”
• Piroz Vakili, Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering, College of Engineering
• Sonal Ambwani – Advisor, W. Clem Karl, “Joint Motion Correction and Super-resolution Based reconstruction in Coronary PET/CT Imaging” Congratulations to CISE Honorable mention winners • Ajay Kumar Bangla – Advisor, Advisor David Castañón, “Distributed Algorithms for Nonlinear Resource Allocation” • Zachary Sun – Advisor, W. Clem Karl, “Non-Rotational Tomography for Luggage Scanning using Krylov Methods” • Kirill Trapeznikov – Advisor, David Castañón,“Active Boosted Learning”
Annual Report 2010–2011
Honorable mention students for CISE Science Day awards (left to right): Kirill Trapeznikov, Ajay Kumar Bangla, Zachery Sun.