National Cybersecurity Awareness Month: Contributions from ECE

Throughout Cybersecurity Awareness Month, BU ECE Professors Ari Trachtenberg and David Starobinski, as well as Assistant Professor Manuel Egele, answered questions for BU Experts on cybersecurity issues related to the Internet of Things (IoT), national infrastructure, and continuing education in Boston University’s National Cyber Security Awareness Month Medium series. The Cybersecurity Tech Fair 2018 also […]

ENG’s Xin Zhang Is BU’s 2018 Innovator of the Year, First Woman Chosen

Cited for translational research on use of metamaterials in MRI, acoustic technologies Xin Zhang, a College of Engineering professor, is the ninth faculty member to receive the BU Innovator of the Year award. Photo by Cydney Scott 10.24.2018 By Joel Brown Originally Featured on BU Today Xin Zhang is well-known for her pioneering work with […]

Treating Tumors with Light and Sound

In lumpectomy surgeries, operations where a (usually cancerous) lump is removed from the breast, many small, early-stage tumors can’t be felt by hand during an exam, which makes them difficult to locate during surgery. For tumors like these, a doctor typically inserts a thin guide wire, less than a millimeter wide, into the breast before the […]

Using Big Data, Machine Learning to Reduce Chronic Disease Spending

“There is a lot of information about every one of us, in EHRs, in smart phones, in smart watches, and in other tracking devices,” Iaonnis Paschalidis, Director of the Center for Information and Systems Engineering and Systems Engineering Professor, told HealthITAnalytics.com. “We can now analyze what happens to patients in real time and characterize the status and health condition of each individual.”

Researchers Win $900k NSF Grant to Predict Heart Disease, Diabetes Using Machine Learning

By Maureen Stanton, CISE Researchers from the College of Engineering and Boston Medical Center (BMC) will use a three-year, $900,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to develop and pilot a health informatics system to predict patients at risk of heart disease or diabetes, and enable early intervention and personalized treatment. “Our research vision is […]