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 […]
High-speed, real-time feedback-driven single particle tracking with concurrent smFRET
The goal of this project is to establish proof-of-concept for a new high speed, Real-Time Feedback-Driven Single Particle Tracking (RT-FD-SPT) fluorescence microscope with concurrent spectroscopic readout. The project is motivated in large part by open questions in the spatiotemporal dynamics of activated growth factors. The ability to follow individual growth factors moving in their natural […]
EAGER: The Biothreats Emergence, Analysis, and Communications Network (BEACON)
This project will develop an open-source Large Language Model that will be able to identify, verify, prioritize, summarize and predict outcomes of disease emergence events in humans, other animals, and plants. That model will link detected signals and model outputs to human verification and public health context with the goal of sharing event reports on […]
DMS/NIGMS 1: Multilevel stochastic orthogonal subspace transformations for robust machine learning with applications to biomedical data and Alzheimer’s disease subtyping
Late-onset Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) is the most common form of dementia, with an estimated 6.5 million Americans aged 65 and older living with AD today – this number will double by 2050. AD occurs in more than 35% of individuals over the age of 85 and is the fifth leading cause of death among Americans […]
DMS/NIGMS 1: Multilevel stochastic orthogonal subspace transformations for robust machine learning with applications to biomedical data and Alzheimer’s disease subtyping
Late-onset Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) is the most common form of dementia, with an estimated 6.5 million Americans aged 65 and older living with AD today – this number will double by 2050. AD occurs in more than 35% of individuals over the age of 85 and is the fifth leading cause of death among Americans […]
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 […]