SE Alumnus, Haining Yu, Member of Disney Team Awarded 2017 INFORMS Prize
Congratulations to Haining Yu (SE PhD, 2005 – Advisor: Christos Cassandras) who was a member of the Disney Team awarded the 2017 INFORMS Prize! INFORMS, the leading international association for operations research and analytics professionals, announced that both the U.S. Air Force and The Walt Disney Company have received the 2017 INFORMS Prize for their […]
It Takes Teamwork
New Interdisciplinary Research Center will Focus on Making Diagnostics Smart and Portable By Sara Cody The road to commercializing medical technology is usually long, requiring the work of basic scientists, clinical researchers, engineers and eventually industry partners, with one group passing along knowledge to the next until a marketable version of the technology is finally […]
BU Paves Way for MED Prof’s $10M Plus Partnership with Industry
Major pharma company supports Avi Spira’s COPD, lung cancer research By Sara Rimer, BU Today As a pulmonary physician scientist, Avi Spira is driven to get his breakthroughs in molecular biomarkers for the early diagnosis of lung cancer and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) into clinical care. “I’m a doctor, I want to help people,” […]
The Light Stuff
Alumna’s Startup Aims to Improve Health Through Lighting By Sara Cody The invention of the light bulb paved the way for humans to conquer the darkness; effectively severing the dependence on the sun to provide productive working hours for humans. Recent advances in materials research are now providing new ways to render light that are […]
NSF, CISE Look to the Future of Smart Healthcare at Campus Workshop
By Sara Cody As the National Science Foundation looks to the future of science in smart and connected health, the agency partnered with the Center for Information and Systems Engineering to convene a gathering of principal investigators and other research leaders on the BU campus this month. The interdisciplinary researchers discussed their progress and identified […]
Prakash Ishwar Promoted to Full Professor
Prakash Ishwar, College of Engineering professor of electrical and computer engineering 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 […]
CISE Hosts Robotics & AI Research Event
The Center for Information and Systems Engineering (CISE) partnered with Greg Woolf, CEO of Coalesce.Info and moderator of The Cognitive Computing Group of Boston, to host a community evening focused on Robotics & AI research at Boston University, on February 28, 2017. The event began with a demonstration of a student-built robot by the Boston […]
Finding Lung Cancer in the Nose: MED researchers’ genetic test may open door to easy diagnosis
By Barbara Moran share it! + BU TODAY Lung cancer is the deadliest form of cancer in the United States—and in the world. According to the National Cancer Institute, it accounts for more than a quarter of cancer deaths in this country, killing about 158,000 people in 2016. Because lung cancer is so lethal, many […]
New Sensors for Smart Lighting
Responsive sensors aim to improve human health and lighting efficiency Thomas Little, professor of electrical and computer engineering and associate director of the Center for Lighting Enabled Systems & Applications (LESA), in his laboratory at the BU Photonics Center. By Caitlin Bird. Photos by Jackie Ricciardi. Imagine sitting in a secluded corner of a college […]
ENG to Develop Smart Car Technology With New $3.36 Million Grant
Read the full story by Breanne Kovatch in The Daily Free Press – The Independent Student Newspaper at Boston University. Boston University’s College of Engineering announced Tuesday it received a $3.36 million grant to develop new smart car technology, according to a press release from the university. The Oak Ridge National Laboratory of the U.S. […]