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Research
Areas
Faculty involvement in funded research continues to grow,
and extramural funding has reached approximately $8.8M in
fiscal year 2007-2008. The ECE Department has strong research
programs in such areas as signal and image processing; photonics;
solid state materials and devices; communication; computer
and sensor networks; and reliable and high performance computing.
Interdisciplinary research and educational programs are
major components of the activities at Boston University.
Many of the ECE faculty work with their students in conducting
interdisciplinary research in such fields as photonic materials,
nanoscale structures, biotechnology, space physics, and
cognitive science. Several of Boston University's research
centers offer homes for collaboration among faculty from
diverse fields. A number of faculty from other departments
hold affiliate appointments in ECE, and are engaged in collaborative
research with our faculty and graduate students.
Research activities in the ECE department are broadly classified
into three main areas:
Each area has distinct, faculty-centered groups. The boundaries
between these groups are not sharp, and interaction and
cross-fertilization are encouraged and common.
Graduate students have the opportunity to conduct research
in any of these groups under the guidance of ECE faculty,
through access to University wide centers and cross-disciplinary
collaborations. Research in ECE has a strong funding base
from governmental agencies, foundations, and corporate sponsors.
Computer Engineering
There are four areas of research in Computer Engineering: computer and communication networks; reliable computing; high performance computing; and software engineering.
Faculty:
Alanyali,
Brackett,
Brower,
Castañon,
Giles,
Herbordt,
Hubbard,
Karpovsky,
Knepper,
Kotiuga,
Levitin,
Little,
Nawab,
Qin,
Schwartz,
Skinner,
Starobinski,
Taubin,
Toffoli,
Trachtenberg
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Electro-Physics
Electromagnetic phenomena, solid-state materials and devices, and electric and optical properties of various physical systems form the research focus in the Electro-Physics area. The three sub-areas span problems from the deeply theoretical to the applied.
Faculty:
Altug,
Bellotti,
Bigio,
Campbell,
Fritz,
Giles,
Goldberg,
Horenstein,
Kincaid,
Knepper,
Kotiuga,
Lee,
Levitin,
Mendillo,
Morse,
Moustakas,
Oliver,
Ruane,
Saleh,
Semeter,
Sergienko,
Skocpol,
Swan,
Teich,
Ünlü
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Information Sciences and Systems
http://iss.bu.edu
The ISS Laboratory groups researchers from various departments at Boston
University with common interests in research, training and technology
transfer in the field of information systems and sciences. Although
members of the ISS Laboratory have a wide variety of research interests,
there are four primary concentration areas: Signal and Image Processing;
Multimedia Processing; Communications and Networks; and Information, and
Control and Decision Theory.
Research from these areas finds application in a wide variety of
critical national and international needs, including biomedical signal
and image processing for disease detection, remote sensing for
atmospheric science, buried land mine detection, mobile ad-hoc networks,
wireless communications, distributed and mobile computing, sensor
networks, and advanced visual communication and entertainment.
Faculty:
Alanyali,
Baillieul,
Bystrom,
Carruthers,
Castañon,
Ishwar,
Karl,
Kincaid,
Konrad,
Little,
Mendillo,
Nawab,
Oliver,
Saligrama,
Starobinski,
Teich,
Trachtenberg
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