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.
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.”
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.
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.
Shining a Light: Popović Recognized For Innovations in Integrated Photonic Circuitry
Professor Miloš Popović’s work on building a bridge between electronics and photonics, which spans more than a decade, has been recognized with a 2021 IEEE Region 1 Technological Innovation Award.
Popović Advisee Brings Home Top Student Paper Award
ECE PhD candidate Hayk Gevorgyan has won a 2021 Emil Wolf Outstanding Student Paper Award from Optica.
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.”
Photoacoustic Stimulation with Single-Neuron Precision Developed by a BU Team
An article by a BU team entitled “Non-genetic Photoacoustic Stimulation of Single Neurons” will appear in Light: Science & Applications. This research is led by Professors Chen Yang (ECE, Chem, MSE) and Ji-Xin Cheng (ECE, BME, MSE) in collaboration with Professor John White (BME) and Professor Heng-Ye Man (Biology). The graduate students and researchers who made key contributions to the work include Linli Shi (Chemistry), Ying Jiang (ECE), Fernando Fernandez (BME), Guo Chen (ECE), and Lu Lan (ECE).
Spring 2021, ECE grad students’ successes
By Caroline Amato PhD students in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department have had another successful semester despite many obstacles. Here is an update on some of these remarkable achievements. Yujia Xue was awarded the 2021 SPIE Optics and Photonics Education Scholarship. Through this scholarship, he will receive $4,000 with an expectation to use the […]
ECE Junior Faculty Recognized by Boston University as Outstanding Researchers
By Caroline Amato Assistant Professor Lei Tian and Assistant Professor Eshed Ohn-Bar were recognized by Boston University as a recipient of the 2021 Early Career Excellence in Research Award from the College of Engineering and the Junior Faculty Fellow of the Hariri Institute for Computing for 2021, respectively. The Early Career Excellence in Research Award […]