Research Spotlight

In the Electrical & Computer Engineering Department at Boston University, faculty, students, and industry experts come together to solve today’s most complex challenges. Working side by side, they collaborate with colleagues at universities and organizations around the world to invent the new technologies of tomorrow.

Professors and students describe some of their ongoing research projects in the links below:

2010-11

Project Title	Boston University Researchers
Research in Wireless Communications Using the Visible Spectrum (Smart Lighting ERC)	Ashish Agarwal (PhD ’10), Tarik Borogovac (PhD ’09), Jimmy Chau (MS ’11), Aaron Ganick (EE ’10, MS ’12), Pattaya Hongsmatip (EE ’12), Jamesy Jean Michel (EE ’12), Gregary Prince (PhD ’15), Michael Rahaim (PhD ’14), Zeyu Wu (PhD ’11), and Professor Thomas Little
Research in Wireless Vehicular Networking Technology	Ashish Agarwal (PhD ’10), Jimmy Chau (MS ’11), Aaron Ganick (EE’ 10), Zeyu Wu (PhD ’11), and Professor Thomas Little
Reliable Software Dissemination in Dense Wireless Networks	Sachin Agarwal (PhD ‘05) and Weiyao Xiao (PhD ’10); Professors David Starobinski and Ari Trachtenberg
Joint Cardiac and Respiratory Motion Correction and Super-Resolution in Coronary PET/CT	Sonal Ambwani (PhD ’11) and Professor W. Clem Karl
A Tool-Chain to Accelerate Synthetic Biological Engineering (TASBE)	Swapnil Bhatia (Post Doc), Traci Haddock (Post Doc), and Professor Douglas Densmore
Detecting Human Motor Abnormalities Under Highly Unpredictable Real-Life Conditions	Shey-Sheen Chang (PhD ‘09), Bryan Cole (PhD ‘12), Santosh Ganesan (MS ‘10), Seif Omar Al Farouk Abu Bakr, Sr. (MS ‘11), Pinar Ozdemir (MS ‘11); Professors S. Hamid Nawab (ECE), Carlo De Luca (BME), and Serge Roy (NMRC)
Decomposition of Highly Unpredictable Real-Life EMG Signals	Shey-Sheen Chang (PhD ‘09), Bryan Cole (PhD ‘12), Jason Lin (MS ’08), Brian Toba (MS ‘07), and Robert Wotiz (PhD ‘06); Professors S. Hamid Nawab (ECE) and Carlo De Luca (BME)
Research in Ecological Monitoring	Jimmy Chau (MS ’11), Aaron Ganick (EE ’10, MS ’12), Song Guo (PhD ’11), and Jamsey Jean Michel (EE ’12); Professors Prakash Ishwar, Janusz Konrad, Thomas Kunz (Biology), and Thomas Little
Energy and Performance-Aware Run-Time Management of Manycore Systems	Chao Chen (PhD ’14), Jie Meng (PhD ’14), and John-Nicholas Furst (CE ’13); Professors Ajay Joshi and Ayse Coskun
Ultraslow Anomalous Photon Diffusion in Aperiodic Complex Media	Professor Luca Dal Negro
Multi-Energy X-Ray Computed Tomography Reconstruction and Classification Algorithms for Explosives Detection	Limor Eger (PhD ’10); Professors Prakash Ishwar and W. Clem Karl
Plastic Neuromorphic Hardware for Autonomous Navigation in Mobile Robots	Schuyler Eldridge (PhD ’16), Mahmoud Zangeneh (PhD ’15), Dr. Florian Raudies, Dr. Massimiliano Versace, and Professor Ajay Joshi
Action Recognition on Covariance Manifolds	Kai Guo (PhD ’11); Professors Prakash Ishwar and Janusz Konrad
Green Software: Optimization for Performance, Energy, and Temperature	Can Hankendi (PhD ’15) and Ashfaquzzaman Khan (PhD ’13); Professors Ayse Coskun and Martin Herbordt
Combined Light and Carrier Localization in High-Refractive Index Silicon Nanocrystal Structures: A Novel Approach for Si-Based Lasers (NSF-CAREER)	Nate Lawrence (PhD ’13) and Professor Luca Dal Negro
Multiplexed Optofluidic Biosensing on Deterministic Aperiodic Nano-Structures	Seung Lee (BME ’13) and Professor Luca Dal Negro
Video Condensation by Ribbon Carving	Zhuangzhuang Li (CE ’14), Wei Liu (EE ’14), and Huan-Yu Wu (EE ’10); Professors Prakash Ishwar and Janusz Konrad
Nano-imprint of Photonic-Plasmonic Nanostructures on Novel Polymers	Dianmian Lin (MS ’11) and Professor Luca Dal Negro
Distributed Compressive Sensing	Delaram Motamedvaziri (PhD ’12); Professors Venkatesh Saligrama and David Castañón
Spot Pricing of Secondary Access to Wireless Spectrum	Huseyin Mutlu (PhD ’10); Professors Murat Alanyali and David Starobinski
Sensing-Aware Classification of High-Dimensional Data	Burkay Birant Orten (PhD ’11); Professors Prakash Ishwar, W. Clem Karl, and Venkatesh Saligrama
Video Anomaly Detection: From Surveillance to YouTube	Huseyin Ozkan (PhD ‘12); Professors Venkatesh Saligrama and Janusz Konrad
Fast SVM Using Random Fourier Features	Huseyin Ozkan (PhD ’12); Professors Venkatesh Saligrama and Janusz Konrad
Chemically Enhanced Photonic-Plasmonic Crystals for Explosive Vapor Detection (Photonic Sniffer) – US Army	Alyssa Pasquale (PhD ’12) and Professor Luca Dal Negro
Design of Reliable and Secure Hardware Resistant to Attacks	Prasanna Rao (MS ’10), Zhen Wang (PhD ’11), and Professor Mark Karpovsky
How Computer Interconnection Networks Work and When They Stop Working (Queues, Latency, and Saturation)	Yelena Rykalova (Visiting Scholar, PhD ’07) and Professors Lev B. Levitin and Richard Brower
Advanced MEMS High-Voltage Multiplexing System for Optical Imaging	Rob Sumner (MS ’12), Preston Miller (EE ’11), and Professor Mark Horenstein
Self-Cleaning Solar Panels for Desert Installation	Rob Sumner (MS ’12) and Jeremy Stark (PhD ’14); Professors Mark Horenstein and Malay Mazumder
Aperiodic Photonic-Plasmonic Structures with Broadband Field Enhancement for Optical Limiting Applications	Gary Walsh (PhD ’13) and Professor Luca Dal Negro
Anomaly Detection with Score Functions Based On Nearest Neighbor Graphs	Manqi Zhao (PhD ‘11) and Professor Venkatesh Saligrama

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