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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

5 ENG Faculty Featured at Research on Tap
The event showcased some of BU’s star researchers, celebrating how they cross and blur disciplinary boundaries in the pursuit of innovation. More

Analog Neural Networks: Nature Communications Publishes ECE Researchers’ Blueprint for Precision
First author Cansu Demirkiran (ECE PhD’24) and advisor Professor Ajay Joshi discuss "fault-tolerant analog neural networks.” More

New Textile for Smarter, Sturdier Fitness Tracking Tech
The novel metamaterial overcomes sweat, salt water, and security challenges More

Efficient, Secure, and Coming to a Cloud Near You
Professor Ajay Joshi and former advisee Rashmi Agrawal have received a 2024 Ignition Award for their company, CipherSonic. More

Ignition Awards for ENG Researchers
The awards accelerate the advancement of promising new technology, identifying a pathway to bring a new product to market. More

ECE’s Lightbulb Moment: Professor Dall’Anese Brings Sustainable Energy Focus
ECE's newest Associate Professor, Emiliano Dall’Anese, centers his research on the challenge of implementing renewable energy at scale. More

NSF Grant to Help BU PhD Students Attack Climate Change
The research traineeship grant will help PhD students collaborate on new ways to convert and store sustainable energy. More

Dunlop, Holmes, and Stringhini Earn ENG Honors
The awards recognize the mid-career faculty members' contributions to research and teaching. More

Making MRI More Globally Accessible
Zhang's work has led to a string of breakthrough devices that can sharpen and speed up MRI imaging of knees, ankles, spines, and more. More

Six BU Researchers Win Prestigious Early-Career Award to Advance Their Work
Four ENG Faculty of the Six BU Researchers to Win Prestigious Early-Career Award More

Coskun Lab Collaborates with Brown University Researchers on Breakthrough in Chip Thermal Simulation
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New AI Program Could Predict Likelihood of Alzheimer’s
Yannis Paschalidis and colleagues developed the machine learning model, which works by analyzing speech patterns. More

Summer Research Fellowships Announced
Thanks to generous alumni, undergrads are working as full-time lab researchers this summer. More

Zhang Wins the 2024 Robert Henry Thurston Lecture Award
Xin Zhang is a pioneer in metamaterials. More

ECE Students Are Societal Engineers
As part of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering's Senior Design Capstone these student teams created real-world solutions to real-world issues, working as a new kind of engineer: The Societal Engineer® More

Yang and Gopalan Now Full Professors
Two materials experts from ENG are among the 22 faculty on BU’s Charles River Campus who have been promoted to the rank of full professor. More

BU’s Innovator of the Year Has Pioneered Devices to Advance Astronomy, Microscopy, Eye Exams
The director of the University’s cross-disciplinary Photonics Center, Bifano is the 14th winner of the award, given to an “outstanding faculty member who has translated world-class research into an invention or innovation that benefits humankind.” A holder of 10 patents, he’s also chief technology officer of Boston Micromachines Corporation, a company he cofounded to develop and market deformable mirrors and other optics products. More

Innovation Leans In
Professor Nazer Receives 2024 Gitner Family Award for "flipped classroom" model for teaching foundational engineering course. More

Algae Fuel Cell Tops Imagineering Competition
With a cross-disciplinary team, a LEAP student develops his childhood dream into a promising power source More

Siddharth Ramachandran Joins Ranks of AAAS Fellows
The Distinguished Professor of Engineering is being honored for “pioneering contributions to the generation, control, and propagation of singular states of light, enabling applications spanning classical and quantum communications, imaging, and high-power lasers.” More

Vivek Goyal Named a 2024 Guggenheim Fellow
Goyal earned the prestigious honor in part on the strength of his prediction-making algorithms and his ground-breaking imaging technology. More

Ji-Xin Cheng Delivers 2024 DeLisi Lecture
The cutting-edge imaging techniques developed by Cheng have advanced the field and are in use in labs and clinics around the globe. More

Professor Cheng Receives Spectrochemical Analysis Award
Professor Ji-Xin Cheng has been named the recipient of this year’s American Chemical Society Division of Analytical Chemistry Spectrochemical Analysis Award. More

Professor Wenchao Li Earns NSF CAREER Award
Professor Li’s project aims to overcome fundamental challenges in Imitation Learning for AI systems. More

Rising Stars at “Chip Olympics”
BU researchers drew notice and garnered awards at the IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference. More

Bringing the Brain Into Focus
Professor Tianyu Wang receives grant from the Chan-Zuckerberg Initiative for reinventing a quantum-inspired light source to improve deep-tissue imaging. More

Ji-Xin Cheng to Deliver Annual DeLisi Lecture
Ji-Xin Cheng to Deliver Annual DeLisi Lecture Rabia Yazicigil earns Early Career Research Excellence Award In recognition of their contributions to engineering and society, the Moustakas Chair... More