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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

Khalil, Denmore and Zhang elected to AIMBE College of Fellows
The AIMBE College of Fellows is among the highest professional distinctions accorded to a medical and biological engineer, and includes the field’s outstanding leaders, engineers, entrepreneurs, and innovators. More

Assistant Professor Sahar Sharifzadeh awarded $720K to advance field of supramolecular materials
By Alex LaSalvia Assistant Professor Sahar Sharifzadeh (ECE, MSE) was awarded funding from the National Science Foundation to develop computational models of bio-inspired materials. The award of... More

‘Happy and Proud,’ Declares Dissertation Award Recipient
Alumnus Update: 2020 SE Dissertation Award Winner Ruidi Chen By Emily Sorkin As an applied scientist at Microsoft, alumnus Ruidi Chen (SE PhD ’19) has already established herself as... More

Professor Cheng Awarded $2.4 Million Grant by NIH

Francesco Orabona wins CAREER award for work on machine learning
Assistant Professor Francesco Orabona (ECE, SE, CS) won the National Science Foundation CAREER award for his work on new, more automated, machine learning algorithms. Machine learning... More
Why the Bernie Sanders Memes Became So Popular: Backed by Research
BU’s Gianluca Stringhini explains why this meme became so popular through his research. By Caroline Amato At the inauguration of President Joe Biden on January 20th, Vermont... More
Densmore elected AIMBE Fellow
Professor Douglas Densmore was elected to the 2021 American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering College of Fellows. More

Spring 2021 CISE-ENG Seed Awards Winners
By Margo Stanton Four Spring 2021 Seed Grants were awarded by the Boston University Center for Information & Systems Engineering (CISE) and the College of Engineering’s (ENG)... More

Accessible autonomous vehicle system wins semifinalist position in DOT competition
By Alex LaSalvia As the promise of self-driving cars inches closer to reality for the general public, how do we ensure this technology is accessible to... More

New Frontiers in Self-driving Cars
Goyal Research Team Breaks Conventions, Develops Novel 3D Imaging Methods Designed for the Real World LIDAR, used in most self-driving cars, models the world around them... More

Banning Trump from Social Media Makes Sense. But Beware the Downside
By Jessica Colarossi, for The Brink After a shocking day in American history when a violent mob, incited by President Trump, stormed and breached the Capitol... More

Imaging technique solves long standing mystery in fighting fungal infections
By Alex LaSalvia Fungal infections are estimated to be currently affecting nearly a billion people around the world, with severity ranging from asymptomatic to life threatening. More

Joshua Rapp wins the 2020 IEEE SPS Young Author Best Paper Award
By Maureen Stanton Boston University alumnus Joshua Rapp (Ph.D. ECE ’20) has won the 2020 IEEE Signal Processing Society Young Author Best Paper Award. This prestigious... More

Optical Pioneer Jerome Mertz Is BU’s 2020 Innovator of the Year
The BME professor is a prolific inventor whose innovations have made leaps and bounds in microscopy. More

New imaging technique uses corners to see around corners
In a new paper published in Nature Communications, ECE Professor Vivek Goyal and his team developed a technique that can map out large-scale scenes around corners with a laser-camera system. More

Coskun receives IBM faculty award
Professor Ayse Coskun earned an IBM Faculty Award to advance her research. More