Society for Neuroscience features BME’s Oded Ghitza
A paper by BME’s Oded Ghitza and his colleagues has been selected for the eNeuro Featured Research page by the Society for Neuroscience. “Acoustically Driven Cortical Delta Oscillations Underpin Prosodic Chunking” represents new research on acoustic processing.
Cars that learn how to drive themselves by watching other cars
Eshed Ohn-Bar developed an efficient, safe, and collaborative paradigm for watching and predicting other cars’ actions to train autonomous vehicles.
These Soft Robotic Grippers Were Inspired by an Ancient Japanese Art Form
Douglas Holmes, BU PhD student Yi Yang and alum Katie Vella explain how they were inspired a traditional Japanese art of paper cutting (cousin of origami paper-folding art), to design soft robotic grippers. Their work was published in in Science Robotics.
From the Dalkon Shield to Britney Spears’ IUD: Why Diverse Teams Need to Be Involved in Contraceptive Design
When the people who are the main users of a technology are not consulted in the design phase of that technology, the results for the end users are subpar and sometimes outright harmful.
Photoacoustic Stimulation with Single-Neuron Precision Developed by a BU Team
An article by a BU team entitled “Non-genetic Photoacoustic Stimulation of Single Neurons” will appear in Light: Science & Applications. This research is led by Professors Chen Yang (ECE, Chem, MSE) and Ji-Xin Cheng (ECE, BME, MSE) in collaboration with Professor John White (BME) and Professor Heng-Ye Man (Biology). The graduate students and researchers who made key contributions to the work include Linli Shi (Chemistry), Ying Jiang (ECE), Fernando Fernandez (BME), Guo Chen (ECE), and Lu Lan (ECE).
Xin Zhang on WSJ’s The Future of Everything Podcast
As a researcher on top sound reduction, BU Professor Xin Zhang explains practical applications and real-life solutions of her work.
Three ENG Faculty Promoted
Three College of Engineering faculty have been promoted to the rank of associate professor with tenure “Each year, these promotions and awards of tenure mark an especially proud moment for the BU community, as we’ve had the pleasure of watching these talented colleagues develop from promising junior faculty into teachers and scholars of national impact […]
5 Projects That Push the Limits of Physics, Fabrication Techniques, Algorithm Design
Two engineering professors among the NSF CAREER award recipients: William Boley and Francesco Orabona. Each will receive funding to advance their areas of research for the next five years.
BU Launches Data Science as an Undergraduate Major
SE Prof launches Center for Computing & Data Sciences course of study this fall.
Spring 2021, ECE grad students’ successes
By Caroline Amato PhD students in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department have had another successful semester despite many obstacles. Here is an update on some of these remarkable achievements. Yujia Xue was awarded the 2021 SPIE Optics and Photonics Education Scholarship. Through this scholarship, he will receive $4,000 with an expectation to use the […]