An Inside Look
ENG researchers from across disciplines are joining forces to produce images and insights into how neurons and other cells work By Patrick L. Kennedy An electrical engineer, a biomedical engineer, and a physicist walk into a lab. Wait—make that an electrical engineer, two biomedical engineers, a materials science engineer, and a physicist. And, so far, […]
Making a Big Impact with Tiny Lasers
Utilizing a novel form of mathematics–fractional calculus—Professor Luca Dal Negro and his collaborator are embarking on a 36-month study of equally novel types of miniaturized laser structures, capable of operating efficiently over multiple frequency bands and releasing so-called “photons on demand.”
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.
The Universal Decoder That Works in One Microsecond
By Patrick L. Kennedy Assistant Professor Rabia Yazicigil (ECE) and colleagues from MIT and Maynooth have developed the first silicon chip that can decode any error-correcting code—even codes that don’t yet exist— potentially leading to faster and more efficient 5G networks and connected devices. “This could change the way we communicate and store information,” says […]
Malware Apps Linger on Market for Weeks, Stringhini Finds
By Patrick L. Kennedy Even after being flagged as malicious software, malware persists on the Google Play app store for an average of 77 days, Assistant Professor Gianluca Stringhini (ECE) and colleagues found in an unprecedented study of millions of mobile app downloads in 201 countries. And it isn’t just Google. Malware apps—ranging from criminal […]
Developing a Cloud-Based Platform to Standardize Data Storage from Wearable Brain Sensing Devices
To study how the brain works in the real world rather than the lab, researchers are creating wearable devices that obtain a complete picture of the brain’s activity in real time.
Stealth Driverless Cars without Visible Light?
Goyal will team with MIT to advance DARPA’s Invisible Headlights program, which uses thermal emissions as a primary data source for autonomous vehicle navigation By Emma Silva for Center for Information & Systems Engineering Vivek Goyal, Professor (ECE) and a CISE Faculty Affiliate, recently received a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) subaward for his […]
Three Awarded Career Development Professorships
Three assistant professors have earned professorships that recognize future leaders in their fields, Boston University Provost Jean Morrison has announced. Abdoulaye Ndao was named the next Reidy Family Career Development Professor, while Eshed Ohn-Bar and Ashok Cutkosky each garnered a Peter J. Levine Career Development Professorship. The Reidy and Levine professorships are two of the […]
Balancing electricity demands and costs of high-performance computing
Hariri asked Coskun and Daniel Wilson about HPC and sustainable computing programs.
Cars that learn how to drive themselves by watching other cars
Eshed Ohn-Bar developed an efficient, safe, and collaborative paradigm for watching and predicting other cars’ actions to train autonomous vehicles.