A GRAND Endeavor: Building the Future of Wireless Communication
We live in a wireless society. With the advent of 5G communications and the ever more ubiquitous Internet of Things (IoT), the invisible traffic across wireless networks will only increase exponentially … and with this increased traffic looms the inevitable threat of traffic jams.
Blonder Named NAI Fellow
By Jessica Colarossi An inventor, a mentor, a food lover, Greg Blonder, a visiting scholar at BU’s College of Engineering, has a variety of interests. A scientist by training, Blonder has developed technologies with lasting impact—notably headphones with built-in speakers and two-factor authentication, a cybersecurity tool regularly used by many companies and internet users. As […]
ECE Faculty Prominent Among Research Incubation Award Recipients
Eight ECE faculty members are among the recipients of the inaugural Red Hat Collaboratory Research Incubation Awards, with a combined total of approximately $1.5M in funding for their respective projects.
BU Duo’s Wearable Wins BMES Design Award
By Patrick L. Kennedy Two recent ENG grads garnered a top award in the 2021 Biomedical Engineers Society (BMES) Design Competition with a bracelet that helps regulate breathing in premature infants with apnea. Out of 35 teams who submitted designs in four categories, Leen Arnaout (’21) and Meghan Griffin (’21) finished first in the mechanical/electrical […]
BU BME Graduates win 1st place in BMES-Medtronic Design Competition
Their device would treat one of the most common diagnoses in the neonatal intensive care unit.
BME’s Laura Lewis in SCIENCE
Using fMRI technology to monitor brain activity, Lewis’s research on sleep is featured in one of the world’s top academic journals.
A Zhang Patent Honored Again
For the second year in a row, Professor Xin Zhang (ME, ECE, BME, MSE) was honored at the Boston Patent Law Association’s (BPLA) annual Invented Here! event, celebrating New England innovators and their inventions.
Shining a Light: Popović Recognized For Innovations in Integrated Photonic Circuitry
Professor Miloš Popović’s work on building a bridge between electronics and photonics, which spans more than a decade, has been recognized with a 2021 IEEE Region 1 Technological Innovation Award.
Popović Advisee Brings Home Top Student Paper Award
ECE PhD candidate Hayk Gevorgyan has won a 2021 Emil Wolf Outstanding Student Paper Award from Optica.
Three-Fold Funding Towards Smarter, Secure Networks
Assistant Professor Alan Liu may be new to the department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, but he has hit the ground running, winning support from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for three related projects aimed at utilizing what he terms “the power of programmability in the network for secure, performant, and reliable systems.”