Biomedicine
CISE Faculty Recognized for Groundbreaking AI Research with AIRR Awards
Recognized for their cutting-edge research in artificial intelligence, 11 CISE faculty affiliates have been honored with AI Research Resource (AIRR) awards. This Hariri Institute program supports AI research at Boston University by giving researchers access to the New England Research Cloud (NERC), a regional computing infrastructure that provides cloud-based resources tailored to academic research. A […]
GCR: COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: MICRO-BIO-GENETICS FOR PROGRAMMABLE ORGANOID FORMATION
This project aims at defining a new area of dynamically-controlled, robot-assisted biological design. A convergent research team consisting of experts in microrobotics, machine learning, and synthetic biology will focus on developing a radically new approach towards analyzing and replicating intricate cellular patterning in mammalian tissues. Not only will this research result in new biological rules, […]
Powerful Updates to Novel Computational Imaging Device Featured in Optica
Prof. Lei Tian (ECE, BME) and his team, led by PhD students, Yujia Xue (PhD, ECE, 2022) and Qianwan Yang (PhD student, ECE) published their paper “Deep-learning-augmented Computational Miniature Mesoscope” that describes advances to their Computational Miniature Mesoscope (CM2) project. This paper, published in the prestigious journal Optica, presents the CM2 V2, a more powerful […]
Faculty across five BU research centers will work together to prevent future pandemics
A multidisciplinary team of researchers at Boston University will work towards predicting and preventing future pandemics as part of a new $1 million project funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF). Faculty members from the Rafik B. Hariri Institute for Computing and Computational Science & Engineering, the Center for Information & Systems Engineering (CISE), the […]
CISE awarded $8.8M to develop the next-generation robotics and autonomous systems workforce
The Boston University Center for Information and Systems Engineering (CISE) received an $8.8 million award to fund a new center called the BU Robotics and Autonomous Systems Teaching and Innovation Center (BU-RASTIC). The award, including $4.4M from the Innovation Institute at the Massachusetts Technology Collaborative (MassTech) and $4.4M matching funds from Boston University, will serve to […]
Miniature Computational Imaging System Advances Brain Imaging Technology
The ability to study and learn about the brain hinges on what technology is available. CISE faculty affiliate, Lei Tian (ECE, BME) is leading the development of a novel miniature computational imaging system to advance brain imaging technology. Tian (ECE, BME), was awarded a $2 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to advance […]
Computational Miniature Mesoscope for Cortex-wide, Cellular resolution Ca2+ Imaging in Freely Behaving Mice
Scale is a fundamental obstacle in linking neural activity to behavior. While perception and cognition arise from interactions between diverse brain areas separated by long distances, neural codes and computations are implemented at the scale of individual neurons. An integrative understanding of brain dynamics thus requires cellular-resolution measurements across sensory, motor, and executive areas spanning […]
Rabia Yazicigil Offers Insights on Energy-Constrained Systems
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Local neuronal drive and neuromodulatory control of activity in the pial neurovascular circuit
We seek to understand the nature of the pial neurovascular circuit, whose dynamics is characterized by ultralow frequency oscillations near 0.1Hz that parcellate into separate coherent regions across cortex. We will use this knowledge to form a mathematical relation between the hemodynamic patterns observed in optical and functional magnetic resonance imaging experiments and the underlying […]
How Computational Imaging is Helping to Advance In-Vivo Studies of Brain Function
New BU-developed wearable device integrates miniature optics and computational algorithms to enable cortex-wide, cellular resolution imaging of the brain in freely moving animals The ability to study and learn about the brain hinges on what technology is available. Current wearable brain imaging technologies are limited by a small field of view. An interdisciplinary team at […]