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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

Professor Venkatesh Saligrama Named 2021 IEEE Distinguished Lecturer

ECE Professor Venkatesh Saligrama is climbing the ranks of a premier professional organization, and has been selected as a 2021-22 IEEE SPS Distinguished Lecturer. More

Fall 2020 ECE grad students’ successes

PhD students in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department have had a successful year in the wake of many challenges. Here is an update on some of their most notable accomplishments. More

Nature Communications publishes Ramachandran article

Professor Siddharth Ramachandran and ECE student Aaron Greenberg co-authored an article in Nature Communications More

BU’s Secret Weapon Against COVID-19

Professor Densmore is the lead PI of DAMP Lab, which designs and creates the means to process molecular and biomedical materials quickly, accurately, and in large numbers, using robots. More

The eight women who were sponsored to attend this event had the opportunity to network, increase visibility in their respective disciplines, engage in discourse with prominent professionals in diverse science, research and technology disciplines. More

Moustakas Elected OSA Fellow

Professor Theodore Moustakas was elected a Fellow Member of the Optical Society. More

Yazicigil speaks on the IEEE World Forum on IoT Panel

Professor Rabia Yazicigil spoke on the Women in Engineering Panel at the IEEE Virtual World Forum on Internet of Things (WF-IoT) on Sept. 23. More

COVID-19 Risk Assessment to Address Inequity

This article was written by Eliza Shaw (CISE), videos produced by SE. Informing Policy, Resource Allocation and Workplace Adjustment Policies https://youtu.be/rC0HC-YhFbA Video Part 1: Researching the risk of COVID-19 relates... More

Boas Team Wins $5.9M Grant for Neuroimaging Project

Funds from the NIH BRAIN Initiative will support the development of a portable, wearable brain-imaging system. More

Densmore and Yazicigil Win NSF Grant

Professors Douglas Densmore and Rabia Yazicigil were awarded a $1.5M grant by the National Science Foundation for a three-year project. More

Luca Dal Negro Earns NSF Award

Professor Luca Dal Negro received a National Science Foundation Award for a project that will be developing miniaturized optical devices to simultaneously image a target and spectrally analyze the properties of the incoming radiation using sub-micron silicon chips. More

Manuel Egele Earns NSF CAREER Award

Professor Manuel Egele received a National Science Foundation Career Award for a project that will be investigating the Internet of Things (IoT). More

Better, Simpler Detection

New lidar-on-a-chip could make building autonomous cars much easier More

Meet BU’s Newest NSF CAREER Award Winners

National Science Foundation funding will advance researchers working on cybersecurity, number theory, superconductors, and more More

Professor Robert Gray Named 2020 Aaron D. Wyner Distinguished Service Award Recipient

The IEEE Information Theory Society has honored BU ECE Research Professor Robert M. Gray with the 2020 Aaron D. Wyner Distinguished Service Award. The Wyner Award is given in recognition of an individual’s outstanding leadership in, and exceptional service to, the Information Theory community over a substantial period of time. More

Sahar Sharifzadeh Joins Early Career Advisory Board

ECE and MSE Professor Sahar Sharifzadeh is one of ten fast-rising researchers appointed to the Early Career Advisory Board of ACS Materials Letters. More

Snapshot: ECE PhD Student Accomplishments, Spring/Summer 2020

2020 has been a year of unusual challenges, both for our community and the world at large, but that isn’t stopping our hardworking ECE PhD students! More

Five ECE Faculty are 2020 Spring Research Incubation Awardees

The Hariri Institute for Computing announced their 2020 Spring Research Incubation Awards to faculty who have the potential to define new areas of research; five ECE faculty members are authors or co-authors of these incubation projects. More

ECE Lab Group Receives Best Paper Award for Work on Bitcoin Performance

The Laboratory of Networking and Information Systems (NISLAB) has recently been honored for their ongoing research into the performance of the Bitcoin network. More

Bigio Wins Joseph W. Goodman Book Writing Award

Professor Irving Bigio (ECE, BME, Physics, Medicine) was awarded the Joseph W. Goodman Book Writing Award. More

Team led by Ramachandran Wins a MURI Award

Professor Siddharth Ramachandran (ECE) was awarded a Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative (MURI) grant. More

Ünlü Elected AIMBE Fellow

Boston University now has 35 AIMBE fellows, fifth most in the nation, and Professor Joyce Wong serves as chair of the College of Fellows. More

Professor Gianluca Stringhini Receives NSF CAREER Award

Professor Gianluca Stringhini (ECE) received a National Science Foundation CAREER Award. More

Ünlü Elected to AIMBE College of Fellows

Professor Selim Ünlü was elected to the AIMBE College of Fellows for his work on the optical interference in biological imaging and sensing. More

Azer Bestavros, associate provost for computing and data sciences, at the site of BU’s new Center for Computing & Data Sciences on the corner of Commonwealth Avenue and Granby Street. Construction begins this spring and the building is expected to open in 2022. Photo by Jackie Ricciardi.

Game Changer: Azer Bestavros’ Journey from Egypt to Cambridge to BU’s Computing Mastermind

“Technology is not creative; people are creative,” says the new associate provost for computing and data sciences. By Art Jahnke, originally featured on The Brink. In December... More

Yannis Paschalidis Receives the 2020 Charles DeLisi Award

Professor Ioannis Paschalidis has been named the 2020 Charles DeLisi Distinguished Lecturer, in celebration of his significant and varied contributions to engineering research. More

Egele Wins the 2020 Early Career Research Award

ECE Professor Manuel Egele was awarded the 2020 Early Career Research Award by the College of Engineering. More

Yazicigil on Track to Monitor the GI Tract

Assistant Professor Rabia Yazicigil was a keynote speaker at the Nature Symposium in Spain, which was covered in the Spanish media through a press conference and national television. More

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Advancing Smart Cities with the Internet of Cars

Inadequate systems to manage the traffic at road intersections are at the root of most car accidents and traffic jams. Autonomous vehicles are being developed to address these traffic management issues. Cassandras' team is revamping their proposed solution by extending earlier research on optimally controlling autonomous cars crossing an urban intersection. More