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 […]
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 BU ECE Professor Vivek Goyal, and researchers from the University of Science and Technology of China. These findings result from a demonstration of non-line-of-sight (NLOS) imaging and tracking from […]
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).
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.
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 $720K comes through the Center for Complex and Active Materials at the University of California, Irvine, an NSF Materials Research Science and Engineering Center, where Sharifzadeh is a […]
Professor Cheng Awarded $2.4 Million Grant by NIH
Professor Ji-Xin Cheng awarded huge grant to continue his groundbreaking biomedical research. By Caroline Amato Professor Ji-Xin Cheng (ECE, BME, MSE) was awarded a $2.4 million grant by the National Institutes of Health for sensing vulnerable plaque in vivo by an all-optical intravascular ultrasound and photoacoustic catheter. NIH awards grants for groundbreaking research on the […]
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 has begun to take over our digital lives. It can be found in automatic text suggestions in email, recommendations for the next show to binge-watch on Netflix, and even […]
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 Senator Bernie Sanders was seen in a winter coat and knit mittens looking not so happy. He was sitting with both his arms and legs crossed in a […]
Densmore elected AIMBE Fellow
Professor Douglas Densmore was elected to the 2021 American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering College of Fellows.
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 people who are blind or visually impaired? That’s the question that ECE Assistant Professor Eshed Ohn-Bar and his team seek to answer with their OpenGuide project. The project has […]