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Masters in Software Engineering for AI

ENG faculty awarded research funding from Hariri Institute

ENG faculty are well-represented in the latest round of the Hariri Institute's Focused Research Programs, which provide seed funding for convergent research efforts in multi-disciplinary teams to coalesce in sustainable ways. The mission is to evolve and advance discoveries and innovations in computing and AI, with the goal of accelerating research that leads to future funding and broad impact. More

Professor Christos Cassandras Wins 2026 IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Society Outstanding Research Award

Professor Christos Cassandras, Distinguished Professor of Engineering and Head of the Division of Systems Engineering at Boston University, has been awarded the 2026 IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Society (ITSS) Outstanding Research Award in recognition of his pioneering contributions to intelligent transportation systems, connected and automated vehicles, and smart city infrastructure. More

Beyond Visionary

Imagineering Competition winner creates dynamic tactile interface for the visually impaired. More

A Steel Ring and a Solemn Oath

After stirring and thought-provoking words from Irving Bigio about their coming responsibilities, nearly 350 graduating seniors recited the Obligation of the Order of the Engineer. More

Evidence-Based Hope

In a pair of ceremonies leading up to BU Commencement, the College of Engineering celebrated the Class of 2026. More

Darren Roblyer

Found in Translation: Darren Roblyer’s Path From Hands-On Research to Research In-Hand

In order to measure blood pressure noninvasively, it may be prudent to measure how blood flows through the body using light rather than using the standard cuff-based technique. To detect fibrosis in the skin, one may find more luck using advanced optical imaging than relying on the currently used “pinch” scale. And to elevate the field of biophotonics, one may not simply focus on advancing the technologies itself, but the people, outlets, and resources within the research ecosystem. This is the path Dr. Darren Roblyer (BME, ECE) has been carving throughout his career, chasing both common and unsought biomedical engineering opportunities to improve clinical procedures and enhance the field for new and incoming voices. More

Prizes for Pithy Pitches

In the Three Minute Thesis Competition, doctoral students learn to distill their dissertation research into a short, compelling presentation for a general audience. More

Preventative Measures for Online Scams

Professor Gianluca Stringhini and Pujan Paudel (PhD'25) received a Distinguished Paper Award at NDSS 2025 for an effective new system designed to identify fraudulent websites. More

Cheng Named NAI Fellow

With more than 30 patents to his name, precision medicine pioneer Ji-Xin Cheng has been named to this year's class of fellows of the National Academy of Inventors. More

Traffic engineering

From Selfish Driving to Social Optimality

In a recent Nature report, titled “Smart cities drive into the future,” Christos Cassandras was interviewed and shared his proposal for a networked environment in which every vehicle shares data with another vehicle or a coordinator regarding position, velocity, and destination to optimize routing across the entire city. More

Envisioning an Imperfect World

New ECE Professor Harry Chao’s Approach to Machine Learning Meets Reality Where It Is by A.J. Kleber Outside the tidy binaries of digital computation, the world is... More

Two Eng Faculty Honored by SPIE

Two College of Engineering faculty members were recently honored by SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics. Siddharth Ramachandran For his ingenuity, and years of dedicated... More

Meet the Case Scholars

The ENG recipients of BU's prestigious Case Scholarship are working on solutions in the lab, and making engineering education accessible. More

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