ECE Multiplies Student Opportunities
Boston University Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) empowers students by offering support to those interested in extracurricular professional opportunities. Within the last year, the department acted as sponsor for multiple student clubs, conferences and a hackathon.
Jenny Sun’s Mission to Reveal Mysteries in the Human Body and Improve Healthcare
ECE PhD Student Jenny Sun Wins National Science Foundation Fellowship By Shereen Abubakr (QST ’18) ECE PhD Candidate Jenny Sun (EE ‘21) received a National Science Foundation Fellowship. The NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program recognizes outstanding graduate students in NSF- supported engineering and science disciplines. Fellows receive a three-year annual stipend of $34,000 and a […]
ECE PhD Student Receives Prestigious NASA Fellowship
Nithin Sivadas Earns NASA Earth and Space Science Fellowship By Shereen Abubakr (QST ’18) In 2017, PhD Student Nithin Sivadas (ECE ‘19) was awarded the NASA Earth and Space Science Fellowship in recognition of contributions to the field of Heliophysics. Sivadas feels extremely humbled to have been awarded the fellowship, “this means that NASA’s Heliophysics […]
ECE Student Recognized for Infrared Detector Array Research
PhD Student Wins II-VI Casselman-Spicer Award By Shereen Abubakr (QST ’18) The organizing committee of the U.S. Workshop on the Physics and Chemistry of II-VI Materials selects a student each year to receive the II-VI Casselman-Spicer Award. The award recognizes outstanding student paper presentations and the related research work. ECE PhD Student Taylor Hubbard (PhD […]
ECE PhD Interns on FPGA and Machine Learning
An internship at ALCF provides real world experience for Yang and Sanaullah By Shereen Abubakr (QST ’18) ECE PhD Students Chen Yang (ECE ’19) and Ahmed Sanaullah (ECE ’20) worked together while interning at the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility (ALCF). A highly regarded organization that offers a selective internship program, the ALCF provides supercomputing capabilities […]
Photonic Communication Comes to Computer Chips
Startup’s optoelectronic chips could reduce energy usage by up to 50 percent in data centers while increasing computing speeds. By Rob Matheson – MIT News Office, originally published on MIT News. ECE Professor Milos Popovic moved to BU in mid-2016 from a previous position as Assistant Professor at University of Colorado Boulder. While at CU Boulder, […]
Institute-incubated Research Leveraged for Major Google Research Award
The following article was published on the Hariri Institute’s website on Friday, March 16th, 2018. To see the complete list of 2017 award recipients, please visit Research at Google. What began as a small, Hariri Institute seed-funded research project to explore new methods for analyzing social media data has grown into a Google-sponsored, award-winning research endeavor. […]
Luca Dal Negro Promoted to Full ECE Professorship
Professor Luca Dal Negro, PhD (ECE, MSE, Physics) was promoted to the rank of Professor in Boston University’s College of Engineering.
Recognizing Undergraduate ECE Student for Machine Learning and Cloud Computing Research
Anthony Byrne Receives MIT Best Lighting Talk Award By Shereen Abubakr (QST ’18) ECE undergraduate Anthony Byrne (ENG ’19) received the Best Lightning Talk Award at the 2017 IEEE MIT Undergraduate Research Technology Conference. The aim of the conference is to bring undergraduates from around the world together to advance technology by presenting, discussing, and […]
Duke ECE Chair Visits BU as Part of the ECE Distinguished Speaker Series
Professor Krishnendu Chakrabarty delivers a Distinguished Lecture By Shereen Abubakr (QST ’18) Electronics such as mobile devices, biomedical chips, gaming and entertainment, and the Internet-of-Things are powered by processors, which are essentially made of integrated circuits. “Integrated circuits cause an explosion of electronics; they are the core of any device,” explains Professor Ayse Coskun. An […]