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Professor David Bishop

David Bishop wins prestigious prize for his contributions to understanding superfluids

David Bishop was awarded the 2026 Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Physics Prize on November 5, 2025, for groundbreaking experiments that uncovered the role of vortices in the superfluid phase transition in helium films and observed anyonic braiding statistics of quasiparticles in the fractional quantum Hall effect, thus establishing the significance of topological excitations in two-dimensions. More

Illuminating Energy-Efficient AI

Supported by a $1.5M NSF grant, Professor Ajay Joshi is exploring the development of novel electro-photonic computing architectures that could perform as well or better than conventional electronic GPUs. More

Going Deeper

Professor Ji-Xin Cheng has been awarded a prestigious $2.8M 5-year NIH MIRA grant renewal to continue his pioneering microscopy research. More

Controlling for Uncertainty

With the support of a $380K grant from the NSF, Professor Emiliano Dall’Anese is working to design the novel optimization methods required for complex energy infrastructures under increasingly volatile user behavior. More

Finding Coherence

Professor Venkataraman has been awarded $3.2M to parse and predict post-stroke aphasia recovery. More

Skyward Bound

The successful launch of Icarus, a liquid-fueled rocket designed and built by BU students. More

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ENG Faculty and Students Power BU to the Moon

At 2 am on a Sunday in March 2025, a dozen scientists were gathered in a College of Engineering lab at Boston University in a tense, nail-biting silence. Almost 240,000 miles away, a shiny, golden spacecraft was slowly dropping toward the moon’s surface after traveling through space for 40 days. Mounted on top was a specially designed telescope, built at BU and known as LEXI, sent to capture views of Earth’s protective magnetic field that have never been seen before. More

Is AI Slowing Climate Progress? It’s Complicated

For over a decade, Ayse Coskun has studied the relationship between electric grids and data centers—the sprawling warehouses that house equipment necessary to maintain the internet and computing infrastructure. In years past, grid operators have been able to plan for and meet energy demands from data centers—but then artificial intelligence (AI) boomed. More

An Inviting Approach to Instruction

Professor Nawab's superlative teaching has been honored by enthusiastic student nominations, and a College of Engineering inaugural Teaching Excellence in the Core Curriculum Award. More

Pedagogy and Practice

Professor Lei Tian is the recipient of a 2025 Boston University Provost’s Scholar-Teacher of the Year Award. More

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ENG Achieves Highest US News Rankings Ever

New rankings of engineering schools released by US News & World Report place the Boston University College of Engineering 27th in the nation, the highest position in the College’s history. More

The Image of Accomplishment

Professor Janusz Konrad has been elected to the rank of 2025 Fellow of the European Association for Signal Processing (EURASIP) for his contributions to visual motion analysis and video processing. More

Using the Light We Can’t See

The more sophisticated data processing the Goyal team is developing might be used for mapping and navigation for autonomous vehicles, among other applications. More

Helping Her Rise

For the sixth year, the ECE department sent a group of students to WE24, the world's largest conference for women in engineering and technology. More