Douglas Densmore, PhD

Professor (ECE, BME, MSE)

Office 610 Commonwealth Ave. Boston, MA 02215, Room 403
Email dougd@bu.edu
Phone (617) 358-6238
Website CIDAR

In the News

Writing the Biotechnology Rulebook?
July 15, 2026
Densmore mentee receives federal research residency to standardize the building blocks of engineered biology [ More ]

Publications

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Honors and Awards

2021 AIMBE Fellow
2021 Societal Engineering Impact Award (BU)
2016 Hariri Institute Faculty Fellow (BU)
2015 IEEE Senior Member
2015 ACM Senior Member
2013 National Academy of Engineering (NAE) U.S. Frontiers of Engineering Symposium participant
2013 Ignition Award (BU)
2013 College of Engineering Early Career Excellence Award (BU)
2013 NSF CAREER Award
2012-14 Hariri Institute Junior Faculty Fellow (BU)
2012 Dean’s Catalyst Award (BU)
2012 ECE Award for Excellence in Teaching (BU)
2010 Richard and Minda Reidy Family Career Development Professor (BU)
2008, 2009, 2011 International Genetically Engineered Machine (iGEM) Competition Best Software Tool
2007-2009 UC Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellow

Classes Taught

EC311 Introduction to Logic Design
EC327 Introduction to Software Engineering
EC551 Advanced Digital Design with Verilog and FPGA
EC552 Computational Synthetic Biology for Engineers

Additional Affiliations

Department of Biomedical Engineering
Bioinformatics
Division of Materials Science & Engineering
Molecular Biology, Cell Biology & Biochemistry Program (MCBB)

Departments or Divisions: Biomedical Engineering, Electrical & Computer Engineering, Materials Science & Engineering

Affiliations: Primary & Affiliated Faculty, Synthetic Biology, Tissue Engineering & Mechanobiology

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