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Visionary, Recognized: Professor Goyal an AAAS Fellow
The Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering congratulates Professor Vivek Goyal on his appointment as a 2022 Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement... More
BU Researchers Receive over $1 Million Each in Funding from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative
Furthering dynamic imaging research. More
Mentoring: Preparing for Future Success
"It’s great to have someone to look up to,” says Noah Robitshek (ENG’ 25). “The impact is astronomical.” More
The Brain Trust’s Newest Additions
The Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering welcomes new faculty members Associate Professor Archana Venkataraman and Assistant Professor Kayhan Batmanhelich. More
Programmable Bacteria: Building the Biocomputing Future
Creating microscopic living devices. More
Extraordinary Control: Professor Paschalidis Elected IFAC Fellow
Recognition of his work on control of network systems, optimization and robust learning. More
Pushing the Boundaries of Photonic Sensing
Professor Luca Dal Negro has received a $450K grant from the Army Research Office to pursue improvements in quantum photonic sensing and detection technology driven by the development of novel nonlinear nanostructures. More
Opportunity Through Solidarity: ECE Women at (S)WE22
Earlier this fall, ECE sponsored six current students to attend the Society of Women Engineers’ WE22, the largest conference for women in engineering and technology in the world. More
Prestigious Metcalf Chair Awarded to David Boas
"I’ll take this as a new challenge going forward," says Boas. More
BU Astrophysicist Joins NASA Team to Study UFOs
Over the next nine months, Joshua Semeter will study footage of unidentified flying objects to help figure out their origin More
Does Twitter, under Elon Musk, Need Government Regulation?
“Platforms should self-police and enforce their own terms of service,” says ENG expert. “When this doesn’t happen, the platform stops being useful to legitimate users.” By... More
MADE with Machine Learning: Utilizing AI to Design the Next Generation of Semiconductor Devices
With the help of advanced, physics-informed machine learning (PIML) techniques, Professors Enrico Bellotti & Luca Dal Negro are setting out to transform the status quo of electronic device design, with the support of a $2.5M grant from the Army Research Office. More
Ramachandran an APS Fellow
Distinguished Professor of Engineering Siddharth Ramachandran (ECE, Physics, MSE) has been named a 2022 Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) for foundational contributions to... More
Strategies for Success in the Engineering Classroom
As we continue to improve the educational experience for our students, the College of Engineering is finding ways to increase student engagement by adopting new... More
PRISM highlights ENG’s Pioneering Data Science Curriculum
As the data revolution transforms industry and society, engineering schools are rethinking the basics. More
The Blurring Line Between Biology and Technology
Faculty across five BU research centers will work together to prevent future pandemics
Could a Computer Diagnose Alzheimer’s Disease and Dementia?
Researchers at Boston University have developed a new tool that could automate the process and, eventually, allow it to move online. Their machine learning–powered computational model can detect cognitive impairment from audio recordings of neuropsychological tests—no in-person appointment needed. More
Ioannis Paschalidis New Director of Hariri Institute for Computing and Computational Science & Engineering
The Rafik B. Hariri Institute for Computing and Computational Science & Engineering will have a new director as of July 1. Ioannis Paschalidis (ECE, BME, SE), a College of Engineering Distinguished Professor of Engineering and of computing and data sciences, will oversee the institute’s move into a new, eye-arresting building (the largest on the Charles River Campus), the Center for Computing & Data Sciences. More
Giving Your Neurons a Nudge: ECE Researchers Use Light, Sound and Microwaves to Influence Brain Function
Professors Ji-Xin Cheng and Chen Yang have two ongoing projects that could LITERALLY change your mind. The application of optoacoustic stimulation directly to specific neural circuits holds great promise for new therapeutic applications, while the inhibiting effects of microwaves on other neurological processes may offer a drug-free form of pain management. More
Professor Emeritus Moustakas Named MRS Fellow
Professor Theodore Moustakas has been named to the 2022 Materials Research Society (MRS) class of Fellows; the latest in a lengthy list of accolades that have been awarded to the Professor Emeritus over his long and accomplished career. More
Hariri Highlights: ECE Professor To Lead Computing Institute, and More
With such clear interests and goals in common, it’s no wonder that there is a strong relationship between BU’s Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the Rafik B. Hariri Institute for Computing and Computational Science & Engineering. More
The Quest for a Heart Attack Cure
A BU-led team is engineering small patches of cardiac muscle that could repair the heart, treat heart disease, and speed drug development By David Levin for... More
Monitoring and Miniaturization: Faculty Awarded $1M to Develop High-Resolution Sensors for Use with Nanoscale Devices
Professors Alexander Sergienko and Abdoulaye Ndao, working with a team of researchers at SUNY Buffalo, have been awarded a $1M Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative (MURI) grant by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) to develop novel sensors for microelectronics. More
PhD Student Daniel Shahar Wins Prestigious Fellowship
Second-year ECE PhD student Daniel Shahar has been awarded a prestigious and highly selective 2022 National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship (GRF). More
Miloš Popović is Supervisor of the Year
ECE Professor Miloš Popović has been named 2022’s Supervisor of the Year, an award given each year at the culmination of National Student Employment Week in recognition of those staff and faculty supervisors who serve as role models and positively impact their student employees’ skill development and overall BU experience. More
Novel Miniature Computational Imaging System to Advance Brain Imaging Technology
BU Assistant Professor and CISE faculty affiliate, Lei Tian (ECE, BME), was awarded a $2 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to advance... More
Unveiling the Hidden Signatures of Drug Resistance in Cancer Cells
Supported by a $1.75M grant from the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering, a multidisciplinary team of experts led by Professor Ji-Xin Cheng are developing a novel approach to establish high-speed, high-content and high-sensitivity mapping of cancer cell metabolism. More
A Laser Focus on Fighting Cancer
Professor Ji-Xin Cheng’s pioneering work on medical imaging technologies is poised to advance cancer diagnosis and treatment, with a pair of projects that use different types of vibrational spectroscopy to improve our understanding of cancer at the cellular and molecular level. More
Ramachandran and Paschalidis Named Distinguished Professors
Two ECE faculty members have been named to the second cohort of Term Distinguished Professors of Engineering by the College, in recognition of their superlative record in both their research, and their service to the college. More
Missed A Turn? There Might Be a Storm in Space
These days, most people would be lost without their GPS. More
Pregnancy Models Give Birth To New Health Insights
Having a baby is a life-changing decision that often requires a great deal of time and energy to ensure a positive outcome. But the cost... More
Building Safe and Trustworthy AI Systems
Artificial intelligence (AI) is everywhere, powering applications such as Spotify music suggestions, facial recognition from your smartphone or the ETA of your Uber. Neural networks... More
Joshua Rapp wins 2021 IEEE Signal Processing Society Best Ph.D. Dissertation Award
Boston University alumnus Joshua Rapp (Ph.D. ECE ’20) has won the 2021 IEEE Signal Processing Society Best Ph.D. Dissertation Award. Rapp, now a Research Scientist at Mitsubishi Electric Research... More
Faster, Greener, Cheaper, More Secure: Yazicigil’s GRAND Project Pushes Forward with New Funding
Professor Rabia Yazicigil and her MIT collaborators are on a roll. The multi-institutional team behind the GRAND universal decoder algorithm and its first realization in hardware have been awarded $5M in funding by the Defense Advanced Research Program Agency (DARPA) to continue developing revolutionary improvements to wireless communications. More
BU’s Innovator of the Year Uses History to Shape the Future
Photo by Cydney Scott To help students invent the technology of tomorrow, Selim Ünlü starts with a lesson about the breakthroughs of the past By Andrew Thurston Electrical... More
Professor Selim Ünlü: BU’s Innovator of the Year
Administered by the Office of Technology Development, the Innovator of the Year award recognizes “an outstanding faculty member who has translated world-class research into an invention or innovation that benefits humankind.” More
The Powers of Machine Learning in Amazon Alexa and Music Generation
Every day millions of people look something up online. It’s become a habit, a part of our lives that we take for granted– and we... More
Machine Learning Reveals New Factor for Predicting a Stroke Survivor’s Ability to Regain Language Skills
Despite centuries of study, the human brain remains one of science’s greatest mysteries. Most research focuses on how the brain responds to change, but researchers... More
College of Engineering Recognizes Stringhini for Research Excellence
The Early Career Research Award celebrates the newest and most groundbreaking research conducted by tenure-track faculty at the College of Engineering who are within 10 years of receiving their PhD. More
Lighting the Way Forward for Autonomous Vehicles
Researchers at Boston University, Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, and Lightmatter have teamed up to develop a new hybrid computer system that can answer the triple challenge of processing capacity, low latency and energy efficiency in self-driving cars. More
Arslan Riaz awarded COMSNETS 2022 Best Research Demo Award
Arslan Riaz, PhD candidate (ECE), won the “Best Research Demo” award at the 14th International Conference on COMmunication Systems & NETworkS (COMSNETS 2022) January 3-8, More
Greater Than the Sum
Students hone skills and hold their own in an international competition of computing By Patrick L. Kennedy Ben Li (’22) says he had “no clue” what high-performance... More
A GRAND Endeavor: Building the Future of Wireless Communication
We live in a wireless society. With the advent of 5G communications and the ever more ubiquitous Internet of Things (IoT), the invisible traffic across wireless networks will only increase exponentially … and with this increased traffic looms the inevitable threat of traffic jams. More
ECE Faculty Prominent Among Research Incubation Award Recipients
Eight ECE faculty members are among the recipients of the inaugural Red Hat Collaboratory Research Incubation Awards, with a combined total of approximately $1.5M in funding for their respective projects. More
Shining a Light: Popović Recognized For Innovations in Integrated Photonic Circuitry
Professor Miloš Popović’s work on building a bridge between electronics and photonics, which spans more than a decade, has been recognized with a 2021 IEEE Region 1 Technological Innovation Award. More
Popović Advisee Brings Home Top Student Paper Award
ECE PhD candidate Hayk Gevorgyan has won a 2021 Emil Wolf Outstanding Student Paper Award from Optica. More
Three-Fold Funding Towards Smarter, Secure Networks
Assistant Professor Alan Liu may be new to the department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, but he has hit the ground running, winning support from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for three related projects aimed at utilizing what he terms “the power of programmability in the network for secure, performant, and reliable systems.” More
Cross-disciplinary research teams win Kilachand funding
Five Studies Pushing the Limits of Science: This year’s Kilachand fund awards will support pioneering research across engineering and life sciences More
Going from Gauzy to Granular
Anna Devor and collaborators aim to extract neuronal circuit activity from fMRI, opening door for clinical applications By Patrick L. Kennedy Say you’re listening to a lecture... More