Catching Up with ECE Faculty
Awards, a TED talk, and an opportunity to vote for a professor’s impactful invention!
Emma Lejeune wins Academic Innovation Award for Piloting AI in the Classroom
Assistant Professor Emma Lejeune, ME, was awarded a Shipley Academic Innovation Fund Award, from Boston University’s Institute for Excellence in Teaching & Learning.
DePasquale, Economo Win Prestigious Sloan Research Fellowships
“In different and innovative ways, Mike and Brian are both working at the intersection of neuroscience and computational science.”
From Selfish Driving to Social Optimality
In a recent Nature report, titled “Smart cities drive into the future,” Christos Cassandras was interviewed and shared his proposal for a networked environment in which every vehicle shares data with another vehicle or a coordinator regarding position, velocity, and destination to optimize routing across the entire city.
Envisioning an Imperfect World
Outside the tidy binaries of digital computation, the world is a messy place. Few things in life are clearly observable and predictable, whether you’re looking at individual human behavior, traffic, organisms, or the weather. This is a truth that brand-new BU ECE Assistant Professor Wei-Lun (Harry) Chao not only recognizes, but has centered in his research: real-world applications of AI/ML, especially those with significant safety implications, have to take that inherent messiness and imperfection into account.
Next-Level Networking
New Professor David Lake and the quantum architecture of the future.
Two Eng Faculty Honored by SPIE
Two College of Engineering faculty members were recently honored by SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics. Siddharth Ramachandran For his ingenuity, and years of dedicated effort and exploration, Distinguished Professor Siddharth Ramachandran (ECE) has been selected as the recipient of the 2026 SPIE G.G. Stokes Award in Optical Polarization. Named for Sir Gabriel […]
High-Capacity Contributions
Professor Siddharth Ramachandran receives SPIE G.G. Stokes Award.
Biomaterials Lab Beefs Up with Mass. Life Sciences Grant
The state funds will help BU BME students gain the up-to-date lab experience they need to land internships and jobs.
Another Year of Gold for BU iGEM
A year-end toast to the gold-winning undergrads of BU’s iGEM team.