ECE Faculty Prominent Among Research Incubation Award Recipients
Eight ECE faculty members are among the recipients of the inaugural Red Hat Collaboratory Research Incubation Awards, with a combined total of approximately $1.5M in funding for their respective projects.
Three-Fold Funding Towards Smarter, Secure Networks
Assistant Professor Alan Liu may be new to the department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, but he has hit the ground running, winning support from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for three related projects aimed at utilizing what he terms “the power of programmability in the network for secure, performant, and reliable systems.”
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 […]
Professor Giles Elected AAAS Fellow
He has been elected for his leadership and major contributions to increasing the participation of underrepresented groups in computing disciplines, particularly via leadership in curricula and organizations that advance inclusion.
ECE Junior Austin Negron Wins HackHarvard Hackathon
ECE junior, Austin Negron (ECE ‘21), with the help of his peer, Rishab Nayak (CAS ‘21), and two Northeastern students, developed an app that can take down the language barrier for non-native English speakers when filling out forms. The app emerged from the challenge at the annual HackHarvard’s Hackathon, where this year’s theme was to […]
Security and Privacy Experts Uncover Hidden Threats You Need to Know About
BU Today, Molly O’Brien Gluck Approximately 70 percent of Americans use social media to connect with one another, engage with news content, and share information. Most users access social media platforms and consume content on their smartphone, just one of the many smart devices we use to monitor our health, fitness, and sleep; secure our homes; tell […]
BU ECE Professors Orran Krieger and Martin Herbordt Awarded $1.4M to Develop New Computing Testbed
Written By: Jennifer Stacy Boston University Professors Orran Krieger and Martin Herbordt are among a team of researchers that will develop a testbed for research and development of new cloud computing platforms thanks to a grant from the National Science Foundation. The collaborative project includes UMass Amherst and Northeastern University and could reach a total […]
Your Bluetooth Conversation May Not Be as Private as You Think
Professor David Starobinski (ECE, SE), along with his team, Ph.D. student Johannes Becker (ECE) and undergraduate student David Li (ECE) was recently featured in an article on The Register, an online IT newspaper. The Register highlighted the team’s discovery that Bluetooth LE’s previous claim to their products being resistant to tracking is inaccurate. The Bluetooth […]
Professor Manuel Egele Awarded $750,000 Grant from ONR for Malware Research
Malware is a constant threat in the 21st century. The most common way to deal with a malware infection is to clean the malicious software from a computer or to reinstall its operating system in an effort to restore its original functionality. However, sophisticated malware that steals sensitive information can, upon detection, be repurposed to […]
Professors Ajay Joshi and Manuel Egele Team Up to Win Google Research Award
Younger generations may not know the feeling but those born before the 2000s era know the torture of sitting at a slow computer. Staring at the screen, waiting for a file or a web browser to load. That was back when the world had a little more patience. Now, every computer has to be faster […]