Unveiling the Hidden Signatures of Drug Resistance in Cancer Cells

Supported by a $1.75M grant from the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering, a multidisciplinary team of experts led by Professor Ji-Xin Cheng are developing a novel approach to establish high-speed, high-content and high-sensitivity mapping of cancer cell metabolism.

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A Laser Focus on Fighting Cancer

Professor Ji-Xin Cheng’s pioneering work on medical imaging technologies is poised to advance cancer diagnosis and treatment, with a pair of projects that use different types of vibrational spectroscopy to improve our understanding of cancer at the cellular and molecular level.

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Ramachandran and Paschalidis Named Distinguished Professors

Two ECE faculty members have been named to the second cohort of Term Distinguished Professors of Engineering by the College, in recognition of their superlative record in both their research, and their service to the college.

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Joshua Rapp wins 2021 IEEE Signal Processing Society Best Ph.D. Dissertation Award

Boston University alumnus Joshua Rapp (Ph.D. ECE ’20) has won the 2021 IEEE Signal Processing Society Best Ph.D. Dissertation Award. Rapp, now a Research Scientist at Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories (MERL), was a student of CISE faculty affiliate Vivek Goyal, Professor and Associate Chair of Doctoral Programs (ECE) at Boston University.  “I never imagined getting this award, and I want to credit […]

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Faster, Greener, Cheaper, More Secure: Yazicigil’s GRAND Project Pushes Forward with New Funding

Professor Rabia Yazicigil and her MIT collaborators are on a roll. The multi-institutional team behind the GRAND universal decoder algorithm and its first realization in hardware have been awarded $5M in funding by the Defense Advanced Research Program Agency (DARPA) to continue developing revolutionary improvements to wireless communications.

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Professor Selim Ünlü: BU’s Innovator of the Year

Administered by the Office of Technology Development, the Innovator of the Year award recognizes “an outstanding faculty member who has translated world-class research into an invention or innovation that benefits humankind.”

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Lighting the Way Forward for Autonomous Vehicles

Researchers at Boston University, Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, and Lightmatter have teamed up to develop a new hybrid computer system that can answer the triple challenge of processing capacity, low latency and energy efficiency in self-driving cars.

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A GRAND Endeavor: Building the Future of Wireless Communication

We live in a wireless society. With the advent of 5G communications and the ever more ubiquitous Internet of Things (IoT), the invisible traffic across wireless networks will only increase exponentially … and with this increased traffic looms the inevitable threat of traffic jams.

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