Ayse Coskun

Professor Ayse Coskun is the Chief Scientist at Emerald AI, a startup focused on enabling power flexibility in data centers. She is also a full professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at Boston University, where she leads the Center for Information and Systems Engineering and serves as Associate Dean for Research at the College of Engineering.

Prof. Coskun is widely recognized as a leading academic authority on orchestrating data center power demand in response to power grid needs. Her research group has published groundbreaking work in this area, helping shape the emerging field of flexible, grid-aware computing. Her broader research applies AI and machine learning to optimize cloud and high-performance computing systems. She has received numerous honors for her contributions, including the Ernest Kuh Award for energy-efficient system-level design and an IBM Faculty Award for applying AI-based methods in DevSecOps. Earlier in her career, Prof. Coskun worked in industry at Sun Microsystems (now Oracle). She currently serves as Deputy Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design and holds a PhD in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of California, San Diego.