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Laying A Course for Crash Prevention
New Professor Yigong Hu Aims to Solve System Performance Woes More
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
CAREER Award for AI Intermediary
Professor Kayhan Batmanghelich has received a CAREER Award to create an AI system to translate between medical AI systems and clinicians. 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
CAREER Award Supports Accessible AI for All
Professor Eshed Ohn-Bar's CAREER Award-winning new project to build AI personalized to individual access needs. More
This Smarter Sound Shield Blocks More Noise—Without Blocking Air
The breakthrough was made possible through the use of phase-gradient metamaterials. More
First Electronic–Photonic Quantum Chip Created in Commercial Foundry
In a milestone for scalable quantum technologies, scientists have reported the world’s first electronic–photonic–quantum system on a chip. More
NIH Awards $3.1M Grant to Kayhan Batmanghelich for Pulmonary Biomarker Research
AI-driven approach integrates Multi-Modal Data and Biomechanics for Better Diagnosis and Tracking of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) More
Transforming Data Centers into Grid-Responsive Powerhouses
Emerald AI envisions a system of “Al Virtual Power Plants” that transform data centers from power-hungry liabilities into grid-stabilizing assets. More
Promotions for ENG Faculty
"They exemplify each day the depth and excellence of Boston University’s talented academic community.” More
Novel Solutions to Health Disparities
A skin tone colorimeter and a cornea transplant training tool took first prizes in the Design-A-Thon. 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
The Spring of Hope
The Class of 2025 celebrates Commencement. More
Thomas A. Edison Patent Award for Xin Zhang
Zhang is being recognized for her pioneering contributions to the field of metamaterials. More
Building The Future – Ask Us How!
How five BU ECE researchers teamed up with Boston’s Museum of Science to share their scientific expertise with the next generation. More
Engineering Better Communication
ECE alum’s $3M AI start-up helps to analyze and smooth out business interactions. More
Starting Up (in) Summertime
ECE students are leading two entrepreneurial Summer Accelerator projects this summer. More
Pedagogy and Practice
Professor Lei Tian is the recipient of a 2025 Boston University Provost’s Scholar-Teacher of the Year Award. More
Dean’s Catalyst Awards Announced for 2025
The awards aim to give an early boost to bold ideas in research. More
Béla Suki Presents 2025 DeLisi Lecture
“There is no aspect of the integration of science, engineering, and technology related to lung function that Béla would not be able to impact and use." More
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
“Lobstah Bots” Head to District Tourney, with Boost from BU ENG
The high school robotics team is mentored by BU student engineers. More
The Best of Both Worlds
Professor Ed Solovey brings hands-on industry know-how to teaching software engineering. 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
Honored from Within
College and University Shower Awards on ECE Faculty More
Yazicigil to Colead $6 Million Project to Advance Wireless Capabilities
The team is pioneering universal data decoding chips to develop the nation's wireless communications capabilities. More
Béla Suki to Deliver 2025 DeLisi Lecture
The Charles DeLisi Award and Lecture recognizes extraordinary researchers and inventors of transformative technologies. 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
Rapid Detection on a Chip
An optical biosensor developed by Professor Selim Ünlü and collaborators diagnoses monkeypox in record time. More
Eye-Opening Contributions
ECE Professors Michelle Sander and Lei Tian have been elected to Optica's 2025 class of Fellows. 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
Taking the “U” out of “UFO”?
Professor Joshua Semeter will appear on a new one-hour special from the classic PBS series NOVA. More
Presidential Honors
Michelle Sander is the recipient of a PECASE, the US government’s highest honor for early-career researchers. More
NASA to Blast BU Telescope to the Moon in Historic First
“LEXI will image, for the first time, the boundary of Earth’s magnetic field." More
A Commitment to Service In His Field
Professor W. Clem Karl has been elected to serve as IEEE’s 2025 Vice President of Publication Services and Products. More
Putting Play Within Reach
BU student engineers applied their skills to add accessibility features to 100 toys, which they're donating to children with disabilities. More
Dean Announces First Faculty to Earn New Awards for Lab Equipment
“The quality of the research that these inaugural infrastructure awards will support is incredible." More
Could Twisting Beams of Light Make the Internet Faster—and Greener?
“This is an extremely complex problem that requires a massive convergence in multiple planes and axes." More
Renewable Power Without the Power Washing
ENG alums' green tech startup might save 4 billion gallons of water a year. More
Envisioning Better Night Vision
Professor Luca Dal Negro is working on novel optical materials for improved night vision systems. More
Societal Engineers Answer the Call
Now, instead of walking eight miles for dirty water, kids in Tinet can access clean water in their villages and schools. More
Ramachandran Takes the Reins
ECE professor appointed Editor-in-Chief of top optics journal. More
Lightspeeding A.I.
ECE professor's trailblazing startup shines light on energy efficient AI infrastructure. More
Time Names Bigio’s DermaSensor an Invention of the Year
The skin cancer detection device uses elastic scattering spectroscopy, developed at BU. More
New AI/ML Awards, from Google to BU ECE
Three ECE faculty members were among the first recipients of Google’s inaugural Academic Research Awards (GARA) this fall, recognizing their groundbreaking work in AI and machine learning. More
Fall Conference Season Brings an Abundant Harvest for ECE Researchers
BU ECE researchers have had a strong start in the current conference season, earning three best paper awards in September/October 2024. More
Engineered Microwaves Might Fight Epilepsy, Pain, and Parkinson’s
The team's novel system stops seizures by temporarily suppressing neurons that are firing excessively. More
Xin Zhang Featured in American Scientist
The metamaterials pioneer spoke at length with the prestigious science magazine's editor-in-chief. More
How to Protect Your Information after the Potentially Largest Data Breach Ever
Data breaches may be even more common than reported, says Egele. More
Levine Professorship for Tianyu Wang
Wang is "pushing the physical limits of computation and the design of advanced sensing hardware." More