Professor Stringhini Presents Keynote at Computational Methods in Online Misbehavior Workshop
Online hate shared through social media platforms has developed into more of an epidemic than we may realize. Bullying, racist tweets, negative posts, memes and more allow people to easily band together and promote hatred. Like-minded people gather in polarized online communities, identify suitable targets, and proceed to carry out their attacks. In his efforts […]
Four ENG Professors Receive CAREER Awards
Assistant Professors Brian Walsh, Michelle Sander, Sahar Sharifzadeh and Lei Tian have all received Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) awards from the National Science Foundation.
Ramachandran named 2019 Vannevar Bush Faculty Fellow by DoD
Ramachandran received the Department of Defense’s most prestigious award for a single investigator and will explore an optical phenomena: the existence of light beams that, instead of streaming in a straight line, swirl downward like a spiral staircase.
Professor Alexander Sergienko (ECE) Receives Durable Equipment (DURIP) Award for Quantum Communication Research
Modern communication relies on complex and nuanced technologies but the future is quantum communications. In his endeavors to bring communication to the future, Professor Alexander Sergienko (ECE) received a Durable Equipment (DURIP) Award from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR). This award is a recognition of his efforts to develop devices for efficient […]
A Step Forward for High-Power Fiber Optics
Professor Siddharth Ramachandran (ECE, MSE) and his lab have observed a new effect within fiber optics that opens up a stable and effective way to develop and use a fiber-optic cable to create a laser that can produce high-power light at desired colors.
Ramachandran Elected SPIE Fellow
Professor Siddharth Ramachandran has been elected a Fellow of the SPIE for his work in structured and singular light beams, and their applications to quantum and atom optics, sensors, telecom and biophotonics; optical fibers and guided wave nonlinear optics; and photonic crystals.
Professor Janusz Konrad Named IEEE Distinguished Lecturer for 2019-2020
Signal processing is the hidden engine of a myriad of applications we interact with every day. From cellular technology to automotive vehicles or from emergency brain imaging to emergency braking. The Signal Processing Society, the first society of the Institute of the Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) founded in 1948, is the world’s premier professional […]
BU-led Research Team Wins Competitive $7.5 million MURI Grant to Create Neuro-Autonomous Robots
Dream Team of Engineers, Computer Scientists, and Neuroscientists from BU, MIT, and Australia to develop neuro-inspired capabilities for Land, Sea, and Air-based Autonomous Robots
Three ECE Professors Receive CAREER Awards
Within these past few months, not one, not two, but three professors from the ECE Department have won CAREER Awards, which are among the most prestigious awards from the National Science Foundation. Such awards help support faculty in the early stages of their careers. The three winning faculty are Michelle Sander (ECE, MSE), Lei Tian […]
Professors Ajay Joshi and Manuel Egele Team Up to Win Google Research Award
Younger generations may not know the feeling but those born before the 2000s era know the torture of sitting at a slow computer. Staring at the screen, waiting for a file or a web browser to load. That was back when the world had a little more patience. Now, every computer has to be faster […]