Early Career Research Excellence Award
The Early Career Research Award celebrates the significant, recent, and high-impact research accomplishments of ENG’s best faculty early in their careers.
2025
Eshed Ohn-Bar, Assistant Professor ECE
Ohn-Bar focuses on developing AI frameworks for systems that improve quality of life, from self-driving cars to wearable technologies for people with disabilities. » Read More
2024
Rabia Yazicigil, Associate Professor ECE, BME
Since joining the BU faculty in 2018, Yazicigil has overseen high impact research activity. She is the director of Wireless Integrated Systems and Extreme Circuits Laboratory (WISE-Circuits Laboratory) which has three research areas: Cyber-Secure Biological Systems; All-in-One Data Decoders; and Secure Wireless Communications. » Read More
2023
Hadi Nia, Assistant Professor BME, MSE
Nia has built a high-impact research program that combines principles of engineering and physical sciences with molecular biology to answer key questions in cancer and pulmonary pathophysiology. » Read More
2022
Roberto Tron, Associate Professor ME, SE
Tron’s research interests combine elements of systems and control theory, robotics, and computer vision, with an emphasis on multiple robotic agents and human-robot interactions. He has made significant contributions in addressing questions of safety and performance of teams in complex environments and managing the computation load incurred when agents perform cooperative tasks.» Read More
Gianluca Stringhini, Associate Professor ECE
Stringhini’s work spans such areas as designing computational tools to measure, model, and mitigate malicious activities online; protecting computers from ransomware; protecting users from online mobs launching coordinated harassment campaigns; and countering disinformation campaigns carried out by state-sponsored actors.» Read More
2020
Lei Tian, Associate Professor ECE, BME
Tian directs the Computational Imaging Systems Lab, where he is developing next-generation imaging systems that synergistically combine optics and computations to achieve novel capabilities, with particular applications in biomedical microscopy and neuroscience. » Read More
Keith Brown, Associate Professor ME, MSE
Brown studies polymers and smart fluids to determine how useful properties emerge from hierarchical structure. A considerable focus is developing approaches that increase the throughput of materials research using scanning probe lithography, autonomous experimentation, additive manufacturing, and combinatorial chemistry. » Read More
Manuel Egele, Associate Professor ECE
Egele’s research spans all areas of systems and software security — in particular mobile and embedded systems security, web security, malicious code analysis, embedded systems firmware, and new computer architectural features. » Read More
2019
Sahar Sharifzadeh, Associate Professor ECE, MSE
Sharifzadeh’s research focuses on understanding the fundamental properties of materials down to the atomic scale. Her group uses computational methods to develop a physical intuition of the electronic and optical properties of non-traditional semiconductors. » Read More