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.
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.
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 health. Working in collaboration with Professor Tim Lu, of MIT’s EECS & Biological Engineering departments, Professor Yazicigil is developing a new miniaturized bio-electronic device which would make it possible […]
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.
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.
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!
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.
Professor Gianluca Stringhini Receives NSF CAREER Award
Professor Gianluca Stringhini (ECE) received a National Science Foundation CAREER Award.
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.