Sparking Tomorrow’s Kidney Tech
With an NIH R25 grant, Professor Joyce Wong (BME, MSE) and colleagues are introducing engineering students to challenges in kidney medicine, and training them to tackle those challenges with technology. Wong’s co–principal investigators on the grant are MED nephrology professors Sushrut Waikar and Vipul Chitalia.
Pregnancy Models Give Birth To New Health Insights
Having a baby is a life-changing decision that often requires a great deal of time and energy to ensure a positive outcome. But the cost of assisted reproductive technologies like artificial insemination or in-vitro fertilization (IVF) and the emotional impacts of infertility can be a lot to bear. To try to improve the chances of […]
Building Safe and Trustworthy AI Systems
Artificial intelligence (AI) is everywhere, powering applications such as Spotify music suggestions, facial recognition from your smartphone or the ETA of your Uber. Neural networks are also being explored as controllers in a breadth of safety-critical systems, from piloting drones to detecting anomalies in nuclear power plants to maintaining first responder communication systems. At the […]
Joshua Rapp wins 2021 IEEE Signal Processing Society Best Ph.D. Dissertation Award
Boston University alumnus Joshua Rapp (Ph.D. ECE ’20) has won the 2021 IEEE Signal Processing Society Best Ph.D. Dissertation Award. Rapp, now a Research Scientist at Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories (MERL), was a student of CISE faculty affiliate Vivek Goyal, Professor and Associate Chair of Doctoral Programs (ECE) at Boston University. “I never imagined getting this award, and I want to credit […]
Call for Engineers with Hidden Talents
Singers, saxophonists, and stand-up comedians take note: Engineers Got Talent!, the BU College of Engineering’s annual talent show, returns to the stage, live and in person, this spring. “We encourage you to share your talent, whether you’re a musician, a comic, a juggler, a magician, a dancer, or a poet,” Associate Professor Dan Cole (ME), […]
Ryan Uses Computational Models to Design Better Batteries
By Gina Mantica Every time you plug in your cell phone, tiny lithium ions travel back to the battery’s surface and give it the charge, or energy, that it needs to power on. But if the battery’s surface isn’t perfectly flat, spiky growths of metal called dendrites can form and decrease the battery’s efficiency or […]
Green Garners Award to Develop Cell-Signal Sensor
Assistant Professor Alexander Green (BME) and a colleague at Yale University have earned a Scialog Collaborative Innovation Award to develop a new type of sensor capable of detecting heretofore hidden signals within a cell, with potential applications both diagnostic and therapeutic. In the dense chemical machinery of the cell, certain proteins elude detection—proteins, or signals, […]
Faster, Greener, Cheaper, More Secure: Yazicigil’s GRAND Project Pushes Forward with New Funding
Professor Rabia Yazicigil and her MIT collaborators are on a roll. The multi-institutional team behind the GRAND universal decoder algorithm and its first realization in hardware have been awarded $5M in funding by the Defense Advanced Research Program Agency (DARPA) to continue developing revolutionary improvements to wireless communications.
Trio Tapped to Join AIMBE College of Fellows
Prestigious honor for top biomedical engineers For the second year in a row, three ENG faculty members have been elected to the College of Fellows of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE). This time, the honorees are Professor James Galagan (BME, Microbiology), Associate Professor Xue Han (BME), and Professor Dimitrije Stamenovic (BME, […]
BU’s Innovator of the Year Uses History to Shape the Future
Photo by Cydney Scott To help students invent the technology of tomorrow, Selim Ünlü starts with a lesson about the breakthroughs of the past By Andrew Thurston Electrical and computer engineer Selim Ünlü’s lab is filled with the future, a hotbed of technological innovation that brims with gadgets. Much of what’s happening sounds like it […]