Game Changer: Azer Bestavros’ Journey from Egypt to Cambridge to BU’s Computing Mastermind
“Technology is not creative; people are creative,” says the new associate provost for computing and data sciences. By Art Jahnke, originally featured on The Brink. In December 1977, when Azer Bestavros was a 16-year-old junior in a Lasallian French school in Alexandria, Egypt, he asked for career advice from a much-admired uncle who was living […]
Yannis Paschalidis Receives the 2020 Charles DeLisi Award
Professor Ioannis Paschalidis has been named the 2020 Charles DeLisi Distinguished Lecturer, in celebration of his significant and varied contributions to engineering research.
Egele Wins the 2020 Early Career Research Award
ECE Professor Manuel Egele was awarded the 2020 Early Career Research Award by the College of Engineering.
Yazicigil on Track to Monitor the GI Tract
Assistant Professor Rabia Yazicigil was a keynote speaker at the Nature Symposium in Spain, which was covered in the Spanish media through a press conference and national television.
Zaman Honored with Guggenheim Fellowship
Muhammad Zaman, ENG, and Sigrid Nunez, CAS, among this year’s 173 recipients
Advancing Smart Cities with the Internet of Cars
Inadequate systems to manage the traffic at road intersections are at the root of most car accidents and traffic jams. Autonomous vehicles are being developed to address these traffic management issues. Cassandras’ team is revamping their proposed solution by extending earlier research on optimally controlling autonomous cars crossing an urban intersection.
BME Prof. Klapperich on Point of Care Testing for COVID
BME Professor Catherine Klapperich, director of the Laboratory for Diagnostics and Global Healthcare Technologies, discusses point of care testing.
ENG Faculty Pivot to Fight COVID-19
Engineers are using their skills to solve critical challenges during the pandemic
Damiano Featured in PBS Documentary
The special, Blood Sugar Rising, discusses the U.S. diabetes epidemic.
ECE is Helping Fight Coronavirus With Computing
By Colbi Edmonds Boston University ECE Professor Orran Krieger and PI for the Mass Open Cloud (MOC) is part of a team collaborating with the Massachusetts Green High Performance Computing Center (MGHPCC) to create a website that will help the fight against COVID-19. Intel and Red Hat, MOC partners, are also partnering on the effort. […]