ENG Interdisciplinary Team Wins NSF Grant to Create Smart Biosensors

Professors Douglas Densmore (ECE) and Rabia Yazicigil (ECE, CISE faculty affiliate) were awarded a $1.5M grant by the National Science Foundation for project entitled “SemiSynBio-II: Hybrid Bio-Electronic Microfluidic Memory Arrays for Large Scale Testing and Remote Deployment.” Professor Ahmad (Mo) Khalil and Professor Wilson Wong of BME are also Co-PIs on the grant.  The award is for a three-year project aiming […]

$3 Million for Transformational Energy Technology

Boston University was awarded $3 million in funding from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) for an academic-industry research collaboration that will be led by Michael Caramanis, BU Professor (ME, SE) and faculty affiliate of the Center for Information & Systems Engineering and of the Institute of Sustainable Energy.  The funding will […]

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BU-Harvard Team Wins $1.2M NSF Grant to Improve Women’s Reproductive Health using AI and Machine Learning

A multidisciplinary team of researchers from Boston University and Harvard University is working to address women’s reproductive health challenges with the help of a $1.2M, four-year grant funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) through its Smart and Connected Health (SCH) program. The BU-led project will leverage machine learning and artificial intelligence to develop an […]

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Abraham Matta Wins NSF Grant for Application Software Project

CISE Faculty Affiliate Abraham Matta, Professor (CS, SE) and a Hariri Research Fellow received a grant from the Division of Computer and Network Systems, National Science Foundation for his proposal titled “CNS Core: Small: Collaborative Research: HEECMA: A Hybrid Elastic Edge-Cloud Application Management Architecture”. This project will examine how application software can be partitioned and deployed over different parts of […]

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CISE Faculty Affiliate Lei Tian Wins NSF CAREER Award

CISE Faculty Affiliate Professor Lei Tian (ECE, BME)  received a prestigious Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program Award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for his work on Optical Intensity Diffraction Tomography with Multiple Scattering.  Professor Tian’s research involves the development of novel optical imaging devices that overcome barriers to studying biological samples and phenomena. This project focuses on […]

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How to Make Self-Driving Vehicles Smarter, Bolder

With $7.5M DOD grant, BU researchers head international team developing bioinspired control systems for self-navigated vehicles Autonomous vehicles that can maneuver themselves around any city are already out on our public roads, says Yannis Paschalidis, but operating off-road remains a challenge. “These vehicles are designed for very structured environments, within roads and lanes,” says Paschalidis, a […]

BU-led Research Team Wins Competitive $7.5 million MURI Grant to Create Neuro-Autonomous Robots

By Maureen Stanton, CISE Dream Team of Engineers, Computer Scientists, and Neuroscientists from BU, MIT, and Australia to develop neuro-inspired capabilities for Land, Sea, and Air-based Autonomous Robots A Boston University-led research team was selected to receive a $7.5 million Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative (MURI) grant from the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD).  With this […]

CISE Faculty Affiliate Ishwar Receives $1M NSF Grant

CISE Faculty Affiliate Prakash Ishwar, jointly with an interdisciplinary team of BU researchers, recently won a $1 million grant from the National Science Foundation entitled “Multiplatform, Multilingual, and Multimodal Tools for Analyzing Public Communication in over 100 Languages”. Professor Ishwar, a College of Engineering professor of electrical and computer engineering and systems engineering, will develop analytical […]

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Researchers Win $900k NSF Grant to Predict Heart Disease, Diabetes Using Machine Learning

Researchers from the Boston University College of Engineering and Boston Medical Center (BMC) will use a three-year, $900,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to develop and pilot a health informatics system to predict patients at risk of heart disease or diabetes, and enable early intervention and personalized treatment. “Our research vision is to deliver personalized healthcare, […]

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