[May 2010]

The Department of Computer Science is pleased to announce that we have been awarded a U.S. Department of Education grant from the Graduate Assistantships in Areas of National Need (GAANN) program. This grant will support three fellowships in Computer Science.

The GAANN fellowships will be awarded to outstanding PhD students who are US citizens or permanent residents, have demonstrated financial need (graduate assistants are considered independent of their parents for the purpose of calculating financial need), and are interested in pursuing a career in research and teaching.

Preference will be given to incoming students - please apply to the graduate program.

These fellowships pay up to $30,000 (based on need as determined by the Free Application for Financial Student Aid (FAFSA) program) plus tuition and fees.

GAANN Fellows will be supported by the GAANN grant for up to three years and by research assistantships in subsequent years.

GAANN Fellows will be supervised by CS Faculty and be involved in exciting disciplinary and multi-disciplinary research projects.

The CS Faculty at BU includes world-renown leaders in many central areas of computer science, including analysis of algorithms, complexity theory, cryptography, computer vision, databases and data mining, fault-tolerant computing,  networking, operating systems, performance evaluation, programming languages, real-time systems, security, theory of computation, and distributed systems.

A sample of research projects include:

Networking:

• Development of a Redesigned Internet Architecture
• Simplified Computer Network Analysis
• eXpressive Internet Architecture (XIA)

Computer Vision and Modeling:

• Intelligent Tracking Systems that Reason about Group Behavior
• AIRFOILS (Animal Inspired Flight with Outer and Inner Loop Strategies)
• Computational Behavioral Science: Modeling, Analysis, and Visualization of Social and Communicative Behavior

Security and Privacy:

• Tools to Protect the Privacy of Social Media Users
• Securing the Open Softphone
• Towards Trustworthy Interactions in the Cloud

Software Systems:

• ATS: A Paradigm for Combining Programming with Theorem-Proving
• iBench: Internet Programming WorkBench

Distributed Systems and High-Performance Computing:

• A Fault-Oblivious Extreme-Scale Execution Environment
• Cloud Commons: Enabling an Efficient and Trustworthy Cloud Computing Marketplace

Databases:

• Towards Trustworthy Database Systems
• Subsequence Matching for Content-based Access in Multimedia Databases

For more information, please contact Prof. Abraham Matta (matta @ cs.bu.edu or 617-358-1062).