A History of Innovation at Boston University
In the 150 years since a BU professor invented the telephone, plenty of other BU-bred inventions have made profound and lasting impacts across society.
Innovation Spotlight: Theodore Moustakas and Modern Display Technology
BU Today recently highlighted the university’s long-standing legacy of innovation in the article “A History of Invention and Innovation”. The piece celebrates transformative discoveries by BU researchers, including the work of College of Engineering professor emeritus Theodore Moustakas. Moustakas pioneered methods for producing high-quality gallium nitride films, a breakthrough that enabled the development of blue […]
Alfred Hero Delivers 2026 DeLisi Lecture
“Signal processing should play a role equal in the canon to other methods promulgated in AI that typically don’t have performance guarantees.”
Preventative Measures for Online Scams
Professor Gianluca Stringhini and Pujan Paudel (PhD’25) received a Distinguished Paper Award at NDSS 2025 for an effective new system designed to identify fraudulent websites.
WHO and Zaman Join Forces to Help Populations at Risk from Antimicrobial Resistance
Refugees and asylum seekers face a heightened risk of deadly infection. The World Health Organization is working with Muhammad Zaman and the BU Center on Forced Displacement to address the problem.
Catching Up with ECE Faculty
Awards, a TED talk, and an opportunity to vote for a professor’s impactful invention!
Emma Lejeune wins Academic Innovation Award for Piloting AI in the Classroom
Assistant Professor Emma Lejeune, ME, was awarded a Shipley Academic Innovation Fund Award, from Boston University’s Institute for Excellence in Teaching & Learning.
DePasquale, Economo Win Prestigious Sloan Research Fellowships
“In different and innovative ways, Mike and Brian are both working at the intersection of neuroscience and computational science.”
From Selfish Driving to Social Optimality
In a recent Nature report, titled “Smart cities drive into the future,” Christos Cassandras was interviewed and shared his proposal for a networked environment in which every vehicle shares data with another vehicle or a coordinator regarding position, velocity, and destination to optimize routing across the entire city.
Envisioning an Imperfect World
New ECE Professor Harry Chao’s Approach to Machine Learning Meets Reality Where It Is by A.J. Kleber Outside the tidy binaries of digital computation, the world is a messy place. Few things in life are clearly observable and predictable, whether you’re looking at individual human behavior, traffic, organisms, or the weather. This is a truth […]