Ji-Xin Cheng Named 2022 BU Innovator of the Year
The Moustakas Chair Professor in Photonics and Optoelectronics, Cheng has more than 30 patents and multiple companies to his name.
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The iLet Bionic Pancreas, which automates insulin delivery to manage the chronic disease, was invented in Ed Damiano’s biomedical engineering lab—and inspired by his son.
The Moustakas Chair Professor in Photonics and Optoelectronics, Cheng has more than 30 patents and multiple companies to his name.
Professor Xin Zhang has won the 2023 All-Star Award at STAT Madness, a bracket-style contest for innovative projects in science…
In a signature ENG event, Boas shared his story of a career developing novel technologies for monitoring neuronal activity,
"I’ll take this as a new challenge going forward," says Boas.
Covers costs of supplies in maker spaces.
An automated wet lab built by biomedical and electrical & computer engineers is opening up its facilities to researchers from…
In the fight to treat ovarian cancer, innovative chemical imaging techniques developed by Professor Ji-Xin Cheng (ECE, BME, MSE) are…
If you want to harness the power of having faculty from multiple disciplines address a societal challenge, you have to…