Sahar Sharifzadeh Wins U.S. Department of Energy Early Career Award
Career Development Awards Go to Seven Junior Faculty
Professorships will support research ranging from education to technology and nanomaterials by Joel Brown, BU Today Since arriving at BU a year ago, Travis Bristol, a School of Education assistant professor of curriculum and teaching, has been immersed in teaching and in researching the roles of race and gender in education, particularly policies and practices aimed […]
Michelle Sander publishes groundbreaking research in Analyst
By Amy Pollard (GRS ’19) Boston University Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering faculty members continue to advance their respective fields of research. Recently, a discovery by Professor Michelle Sander (ECE, MSE), with a potential for profound impact on materials characterization, was featured on the front cover of the June edition of Analyst. Professor Sander […]
Solar Eclipse, Scientific Opportunity
Engineering team will measure effects on GPS; ultimate goal is citizen science By Catherine Caruso, BU Research During the solar eclipse on August 21, the moon will completely block the sun’s energy from reaching Earth within a 70-mile shadow that will sweep across the US, presenting scientists with a unique research opportunity. Photo courtesy of […]
Dal Negro Publishes Cross-Disciplinary Research in Scientific Reports
By Amy Pollard (GRS, ’19) Professor Luca Dal Negro’s cross-disciplinary research leads to a discovery that will improve technology with many applications, including solar cells and photodetectors for next generation of integrated cameras and distributed sensors. Professor Dal Negro’s findings are published in Scientific Reports. The article, titled “Fractional Transport of Photons in Deterministic Aperiodic Structures,” is […]
ECE Hires Faculty to Expand Interdisciplinary Research in Bioengineering & Chemistry
By Amy Pollard (GRS, ’19) Boston University Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering welcomes two new faculty to its ranks, Professor Ji-Xin Cheng and Professor Chen Yang. Cheng and Yang bring years of expertise in teaching and interdisciplinary research to the department. Cheng, who received the 1st honorary title of Moustakas Chair Professor of Photonics […]
How Machine Learning Is Helping Us Predict Heart Disease and Diabetes
Protection from Ransomware like WannaCry
By Eugene Kolodenker Eugene Kolodenker (EE BS ’12, CE MS ’17) works in application development with a focus on cyber security systems at MITRE. This article originally appeared on Eugene Kolodenker’s blog, Kolobyte. A system to defeat ransomware was recently developed by myself and three of my cybersecurity research colleagues: Boston University Electrical and Computer Engineering Professor Manuel Egele, […]
Prakash Ishwar Promoted to Full Professor
Prakash Ishwar, College of Engineering professor of electrical and computer engineeering and professor of systems engineering has been promoted to Full Professor. Professor Ishwar’s expertise is in network information theory, information-theoretic security, machine learning, and visual information processing. A past NSF CAREER Award recipient and winner of ENG’s Dean’s Catalyst Award, he has received numerous […]
Forging a New Path
New Outreach Initiative will Educate Community about Synthetic Biology By Sara Cody After a morning of composing DNA out of play dough and learning about genetically engineered mosquitos, the group of high school students put their heads together to solve an age-old question for Bostonians: how do we clean up the Charles River? Proposing solutions […]