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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

The Wave of the Future is Itty-Bitty Bubbles

Microfluidic analysis is a key component of synthetic biology, with applications from healthcare to national defense. With this kind of speed and scalability comes limitless potential for advances and breakthroughs in biotechnology. More

Jump-Starting Biotechnology Careers for Boston High School Students

New STEM outreach program, led by BU and funded by the Department of Defense, will introduce underserved students to the emerging field of synthetic biology By... More

Popović Group Making Waves at FiO+LS 2021!

Everywhere you look at the Frontiers in Optics and Laser Science virtual conference, you’ll see BU ECE Professor Miloš Popović and his students! More

Densmore Team Launches CAD Program for Genome Editing

Sequel to Human Genome Project might spur cancer cures, climate solutions Associate Professor Doug Densmore (ECE, BME) and colleagues have developed a computer-aided design (CAD) program... More

An Inside Look

ENG researchers from across disciplines are joining forces to produce images and insights into how neurons and other cells work By Patrick L. Kennedy An electrical engineer, More

Making a Big Impact with Tiny Lasers

Utilizing a novel form of mathematics--fractional calculus—Professor Luca Dal Negro and his collaborator are embarking on a 36-month study of equally novel types of miniaturized laser structures, capable of operating efficiently over multiple frequency bands and releasing so-called “photons on demand.” More

A Lifetime Of Commitment To Engineering – And Diversity

In recognition of his “seminal research in information coding theory and data compression, and enormous contributions to the promotion of diversity in engineering education,” The Okawa Foundation for Information and Telecommunications has awarded BU ECE Research Professor Robert M. Gray the 2020 Okawa Prize. More

Tiny Satellite Will Take Widest Ever Images of Earth’s and the Sun’s Magnetic Fields Colliding

Images captured by the probe, developed by BU engineers, could reveal new insights into radiation that impacts satellites, astronauts By Kat J. McAlpine A first-of-its-kind satellite, designed... More

The Universal Decoder That Works in One Microsecond

By Patrick L. Kennedy Assistant Professor Rabia Yazicigil (ECE) and colleagues from MIT and Maynooth have developed the first silicon chip that can decode any error-correcting... More

Malware Apps Linger on Market for Weeks, Stringhini Finds

By Patrick L. Kennedy Even after being flagged as malicious software, malware persists on the Google Play app store for an average of 77 days, Assistant... More

Developing a Cloud-Based Platform to Standardize Data Storage from Wearable Brain Sensing Devices

To study how the brain works in the real world rather than the lab, researchers are creating wearable devices that obtain a complete picture of the brain’s activity in real time. More

Stealth Driverless Cars without Visible Light?

Goyal will team with MIT to advance DARPA’s Invisible Headlights program, which uses thermal emissions as a primary data source for autonomous vehicle navigation By Emma... More

Three Awarded Career Development Professorships

Three assistant professors have earned professorships that recognize future leaders in their fields, Boston University Provost Jean Morrison has announced. Abdoulaye Ndao was named the... More

Balancing electricity demands and costs of high-performance computing

Hariri asked Coskun and Daniel Wilson about HPC and sustainable computing programs. More

Cars that learn how to drive themselves by watching other cars

Eshed Ohn-Bar developed an efficient, safe, and collaborative paradigm for watching and predicting other cars’ actions to train autonomous vehicles. More

Photoacoustic Stimulation with Single-Neuron Precision Developed by a BU Team

By Caroline Amato An article by a BU team entitled “Non-genetic Photoacoustic Stimulation of Single Neurons” will appear in Light: Science & Applications. This research is... More

Xin Zhang on WSJ’s The Future of Everything Podcast

As a researcher on top sound reduction, BU Professor Xin Zhang explains practical applications and real-life solutions of her work. More

Three ENG Faculty Promoted

Three College of Engineering faculty have been promoted to the rank of associate professor with tenure “Each year, these promotions and awards of tenure mark an... More

5 Projects That Push the Limits of Physics, Fabrication Techniques, Algorithm Design

Two engineering professors among the NSF CAREER award recipients: William Boley and Francesco Orabona. Each will receive funding to advance their areas of research for the next five years. More

Spring 2021, ECE grad students’ successes

By Caroline Amato PhD students in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department have had another successful semester despite many obstacles. Here is an update on some... More

The Sensor You Swallow

By Patrick L. Kennedy Thanks to the work of Assistant Professor Rabia Yazicigil (ECE) and her colleagues at MIT, Crohn’s and other bowel disease sufferers might... More

Professor Ji-Xin Cheng and Coworkers Published in Nature Communications

By Caroline Amato BU researchers reported an ultrafast fingerprint-stimulated Raman spectroscopic imaging platform, with broad applications to cancer metabolism, brain mapping, and biofuel production, in Nature... More

ECE Junior Faculty Recognized by Boston University as Outstanding Researchers

By Caroline Amato Assistant Professor Lei Tian and Assistant Professor Eshed Ohn-Bar were recognized by Boston University as a recipient of the 2021 Early Career Excellence... More

Start-Up Stars

Two ENG alumni are on Forbes’ list of top young entrepreneurs By Patrick L. Kennedy If you’re a frequent flyer, you’ve been there. At the airport, eyes... More

College Launches Machine Learning Concentration

By Patrick L. Kennedy Not long ago, speech processing software was pretty much limited to a phone robot asking a caller to speak the number “1,”... More

Paschalidis Shares Health Data Findings in DeLisi Lecture

Professor Yannis Paschalidis (ECE, BME, SE) discussed data-driven reasoning—which he calls “the backbone of engineering systems”—and predictive health analytics as he delivered the Charles DeLisi... More

To The Moon, to Learn About Disruption from the Sun

By Patrick L. Kennedy In 2023, a device developed at ENG will ride a rocket into space and land on the moon, where it will snap... More

How to Create Safe, Energy-Efficient Buildings in a Post-Covid World

BU Innovators Address New Requirements of Commercial Real Estate by Maya Bhat & Maureen Stanton, CISE Staff Smart building technology has been a growing trend in the... More

Congratulations to the CISE Best Student Paper Award Winners

The Center for Information of Systems and Engineering is delighted to announce the winners of the 2021 CISE Best Student Paper Award. The CISE Best... More

One Small Step For A Mouse: Using Information Science to Understand the Brain

by Allison Kleber How does learning a new skill or process change the physical structure of the brain? Using techniques from data science and high-dimensional statistics, More

Gut Health Project Nets Professor Yazicigil Multi-Disciplinary Grant

by Allison Kleber ECE Professor Rabia Yazicigil is leveraging her skill with hardware design and IoT security in a new direction, for the benefit of human... More

Professor Goyal’s Record-Breaking Long Distance NLOS Imaging Featured in PNAS

by Caroline Amato The March 9, 2021 issue of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA (PNAS) published findings from a collaboration between... More

Three ENG Faculty Named AIMBE Fellows

Three ENG faculty members have been elected to the College of Fellows of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE): Associate Professor Doug Densmore (ECE, BME), Associate Professor Mo Khalil (BME), and Professor Katherine Zhang (ME, BME, MSE). More