Professor Giles Elected AAAS Fellow
He has been elected for his leadership and major contributions to increasing the participation of underrepresented groups in computing disciplines, particularly via leadership in curricula and organizations that advance inclusion.
ECE Junior Austin Negron Wins HackHarvard Hackathon
ECE junior, Austin Negron (ECE ‘21), with the help of his peer, Rishab Nayak (CAS ‘21), and two Northeastern students, developed an app that can take down the language barrier for non-native English speakers when filling out forms. The app emerged from the challenge at the annual HackHarvard’s Hackathon, where this year’s theme was to […]
Security and Privacy Experts Uncover Hidden Threats You Need to Know About
BU Today, Molly O’Brien Gluck Approximately 70 percent of Americans use social media to connect with one another, engage with news content, and share information. Most users access social media platforms and consume content on their smartphone, just one of the many smart devices we use to monitor our health, fitness, and sleep; secure our homes; tell […]
BU ECE Professors Orran Krieger and Martin Herbordt Awarded $1.4M to Develop New Computing Testbed
Written By: Jennifer Stacy Boston University Professors Orran Krieger and Martin Herbordt are among a team of researchers that will develop a testbed for research and development of new cloud computing platforms thanks to a grant from the National Science Foundation. The collaborative project includes UMass Amherst and Northeastern University and could reach a total […]
Michelle Sander Elected to IEEE Photonics Society’s Board of Governors
Assistant Professor Michelle Sander was elected to a three-year term serving on the Board of Governors for the IEEE Photonics Society. She will join the Board in 2020 together with three other new worldwide-elected members. The IEEE Photonics Society is a section of the IEEE that is focused on optical technologies that range from quantum […]
Ji-Xin Cheng Receives 2020 Pittsburg Spectroscopy Award
A smile spread across Professor Ji-Xin Cheng’s face, a recent recipient of the 2020 Pittsburg Spectroscopy Award, as he expressed his reason for pursuing a 30-year-long career in the field of spectroscopy. “‘I’ve always wanted to study areas in science that seem impossible, and to push the boundaries and discover something new,” Cheng said. The […]
ECE’s Role in BRAIN Science
You may have heard the saying, “humans only use 10% of their brains,” and although this myth has been widely disproven, our understanding of the complex nature and functionalities of the human brain only goes so far. With nearly 100 billion neurons and 100 trillion connections, the human brain is still one of the greatest […]
Your Bluetooth Conversation May Not Be as Private as You Think
Professor David Starobinski (ECE, SE), along with his team, Ph.D. student Johannes Becker (ECE) and undergraduate student David Li (ECE) was recently featured in an article on The Register, an online IT newspaper. The Register highlighted the team’s discovery that Bluetooth LE’s previous claim to their products being resistant to tracking is inaccurate. The Bluetooth […]
Nature Features Luca Dal Negro’s New Class of Random Lasers
LASER (Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation) just turned 60 but is not ready to retire yet. To the contrary, it has become ubiquitous in our daily lives. While a laser pointer is one obvious example, the fact that lasers are used to capture 3D information in time-of-flight sensors (think iPhone X and Kinect […]
ECE Graduate Student Teams Up to Win 2019 IMS/RFIC Graduate Student Challenge Award
ECE Graduate Student Qijun Liu, a PhD student in the Wireless Integrated Systems and Extreme Circuits group, advised by Professor Rabia Tugce Yazicigil, recently won the 2019 IMS/RFIC Graduate Student Challenge Award. The challenge was to present a new idea that was related to machine learning & quantum computing, radar system and technology, and THz & […]