Hariri Happenings

The vitality of the partnership between the Hariri Institute and the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering is reflected in ECE’s strong showing in this year’s Fellows & Focused Research Program Awards.

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The Sky’s the Limit: Ramachandran Team’s Light Transmission Discovery Published by Science

Researchers’ new method for scaling up data capacity in optical fibers echoes astronomical phenomena – with significant implications for tomorrow’s internet.

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Yazicigil’s WISE-Circuits Lab Goes the Distance at “Chip Olympics”

In hardware and microelectronics circles, the International Solid-State Circuits Conference is the most competitive game in town, nicknamed the “Chip Olympics.” In those terms, it could be said that Professor Rabia Yazicigil and her students brought home a pile of medals.

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Hariri Highlights: ECE Professor To Lead Computing Institute, and More

With such clear interests and goals in common, it’s no wonder that there is a strong relationship between BU’s Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the Rafik B. Hariri Institute for Computing and Computational Science & Engineering.

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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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Arslan Riaz awarded COMSNETS 2022 Best Research Demo Award

Arslan Riaz, PhD candidate (ECE), won the “Best Research Demo” award at the 14th International Conference on COMmunication Systems & NETworkS (COMSNETS 2022) January 3-8, 2022. Riaz demonstrated the first fully-integrated universal Maximum Likelihood Decoder in 40 nm CMOS using the Guessing Random Additive Noise Decoding (GRAND) algorithm. This novel technology provides a universal system for […]

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