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 […]
Michelle Sander Elected to IEEE Photonics Society’s Board of Governors
Assistant Professor Michelle Sander was elected to a three-year term serving on the Board of Governors for the IEEE Photonics Society. She will join the Board in 2020 together with three other new worldwide-elected members. The IEEE Photonics Society is a section of the IEEE that is focused on optical technologies that range from quantum […]
Speeding Up MRI Scans to Save Lives
BU researchers design an “intelligent” magnetic metamaterial that could make MRI more affordable and accessible By Art Jahnke | Via The Brink Boston University researchers have developed a new, “intelligent” metamaterial—which costs less than 10 bucks to build—that could revolutionize magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), making the entire MRI process faster, safer, and more accessible to […]
Ji-Xin Cheng Receives 2020 Pittsburg Spectroscopy Award
A smile spread across Professor Ji-Xin Cheng’s face, a recent recipient of the 2020 Pittsburg Spectroscopy Award, as he expressed his reason for pursuing a 30-year-long career in the field of spectroscopy. “‘I’ve always wanted to study areas in science that seem impossible, and to push the boundaries and discover something new,” Cheng said. The […]
BU-Harvard Team Wins $1.2M NSF Grant to Improve Women’s Reproductive Health using AI and Machine Learning
Researchers to advance distributed analytics to enhance fertility in families
Twisting Light
Professor Siddharth Ramachandran and his team have discovered a new method, and along with it, a new fiber, that can transmit 24 times the amount of data of any previous single optical fiber.
The College of Engineering Announces Three Distinguished Faculty Fellows
Associate Professor James C. Bird (ME, MSE) will be the inaugural holder of the Theo de Winter Distinguished Faculty Fellow, Associate Professor Ahmad ‘Mo’ Khalil (BME) will be the next holder of the Dorf-Ebner Distinguished Faculty Fellow and Associate Professor Bobak Nazer (ECE, SE) will be the next holder of the College of Engineering Distinguished Faculty Fellow.
Professor Xin Zhang Elected Fellow of the American Physical Society
She has been elected in recognition of her research and educational initiatives using microelectromechanical systems and metamaterials to address a wide range of important problems in areas ranging from energy to healthcare to homeland security.
Coskun Selected to Attend the National Academy of Engineering’s 2019 Symposium
Associate Professor Ayse Coskun was selected as one of 87 innovative early-career engineers to participate in the National Academy of Engineering’s Frontiers of Engineering symposium on September 25-27 in North Charleston, South Carolina.
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 […]