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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 2024, 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

How does learning a new skill or process change the physical structure of the brain? Using techniques from data science and high-dimensional statistics, Professors Bobak Nazer (ECE), Venkatesh Saligrama (ECE, SE), and Xue Han (BME), aim to find out. Their project, titled “Discovering Changes in Networks: Fundamental Limits, Efficient Algorithms, and Large-Scale Neuroscience,” has won the support of a $1.2M National Science Foundation (NSF) Award. 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

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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

CISE-SE Students at GHC 2020

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