BU Appoints Ken Lutchen to Top Research Job
Boston University has appointed pioneering biomedical engineer and experienced higher education leader Kenneth Lutchen as its new vice president and associate provost for research. He will lead BU’s $500 million research enterprise, which spurs new knowledge and impactful advances. In the past year alone, BU researchers have launched a global AI-powered infectious diseases monitoring tool, engineered devices that could improve cancer treatment, and landed a telescope on the moon.
Laying A Course for Crash Prevention
New Professor Yigong Hu Aims to Solve System Performance Woes
BU Mechanical Engineering Welcomes New Faculty
The Mechanical Engineering Department at Boston University is thrilled to announce the addition of a new Assistant Professor to our esteemed faculty. We are committed to fostering a dynamic intellectual community by welcoming faculty who are innovators and experts in their field. Shabnam Raayai’s research interests are in the general areas of flow control and […]
ENG Faculty and Students Power BU to the Moon
At 2 am on a Sunday in March 2025, a dozen scientists were gathered in a College of Engineering lab at Boston University in a tense, nail-biting silence. Almost 240,000 miles away, a shiny, golden spacecraft was slowly dropping toward the moon’s surface after traveling through space for 40 days. Mounted on top was a specially designed telescope, built at BU and known as LEXI, sent to capture views of Earth’s protective magnetic field that have never been seen before.
CAREER Award for AI Intermediary
Professor Kayhan Batmanghelich has received a CAREER Award to create an AI system to translate between medical AI systems and clinicians.
Is AI Slowing Climate Progress? It’s Complicated
For over a decade, Ayse Coskun has studied the relationship between electric grids and data centers—the sprawling warehouses that house equipment necessary to maintain the internet and computing infrastructure. In years past, grid operators have been able to plan for and meet energy demands from data centers—but then artificial intelligence (AI) boomed.
CAREER Award Supports Accessible AI for All
Professor Eshed Ohn-Bar’s CAREER Award-winning new project to build AI personalized to individual access needs.
This Smarter Sound Shield Blocks More Noise—Without Blocking Air
The breakthrough was made possible through the use of phase-gradient metamaterials.
Brown to Bring Expertise to AI Materials Institute
Brown is one of the pioneers in the movement toward targeted design of new materials.
Curing Heart Attacks, Replacing Diseased Organs—Christopher Chen Is Engineering a Healthier Future
Christopher Chen was a teenager when he first started thinking seriously about what makes the human body such an amazing machine. An avid runner and soccer player, Chen injured his knee, sidelining him from sports for a while. His knee eventually got better on its own, but during this time of convalescence, Chen mused about replacement surgery—even the best materials, developed with the most cutting-edge technology, would eventually break down. If he had needed a knee replacement, he’d need another surgery at some point, and maybe even another after that.