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Secure Miniaturized Bio-Electronic Sensors for Real-Time In-Body Monitoring<\/a><\/h3>\n

\"\"A smart pill no bigger than a blueberry can withstand the stomach\u2019s acidic fluids, detect signs of gastrointestinal trouble, and send warning signals to an ordinary smart phone,\u00a0Assistant Professor Rabia Yazicigil<\/a>\u00a0(ECE) and colleagues reported in\u00a0<\/span>Nature<\/em><\/a>. The fruit of a multi-institution, cross-disciplinary effort, this novel technology might make a world of difference for the seven million people who suffer from the inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD) Crohn\u2019s disease and ulcerative colitis.
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Semiconductor technologies for image sensing<\/h3>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Grant<\/th>\nTotal<\/th>\nFunder<\/th>\nPI<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
Securing CMOS IC Chips using Backside Imaging<\/td>\n$81K<\/td>\nAFRL via Honeywell<\/td>\nAjay Josi<\/a> and M. Selim Unlu<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Non-Hermitian Topological Light Sensors<\/span><\/td>\n$400K<\/td>\nNational Science Foundation<\/td>\nRoberto Paiella<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Metasurface Photodetectors for Computational Imaging<\/span><\/td>\n$500K<\/td>\nNational Science Foundation<\/td>\nRoberto Paiella<\/a> and Lei Tian<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Bioelectronics<\/h3>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Grant<\/th>\nTotal<\/th>\nFunder<\/th>\nPI<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
CAREER: Secure Miniaturized Bio-Electronic Sensors for Real-Time In-Body Monitoring<\/td>\n$575K<\/td>\nNational Science Foundation (NSF)<\/td>\nRabia Yazicigil<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Secure Bio-Engineered Sensors for Healthcare and Environmental Monitoring<\/span><\/td>\n$300K<\/td>\nCatalyst Foundation<\/td>\nRabia Yazicigil<\/a> and Douglas Densmore<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Distributed Wastewater Surveillance Platform Leveraging Scalable Hybrid Microfluidic-CMOS Biosensors<\/td>\n$315K<\/td>\nSemiconductor Research Corporation (SRC)<\/td>\nRabia Yazicigil<\/a> and Douglas Densmore<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

AI Hardware<\/h3>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Grant<\/th>\nTotal<\/th>\nFunder<\/th>\nPI<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
SHF: Small: Architecting the COSMOS: A Combined System of Optical Phase Change Memory and Optical Links<\/span><\/td>\n$500K<\/td>\nNational Science Foundation (NSF)<\/td>\nAjay Joshi<\/a> and Ayse Coskun<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Electro-Photonic Computing (EPiC) for on-premise applications<\/span><\/td>\n$700K<\/td>\nIARPA<\/td>\nAjay Joshi<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Designing Custom RISC-V ISA Extensions for Machine Learning Workloads<\/span><\/td>\n$27K<\/td>\nGoogle<\/td>\nAjay Joshi<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Integrated System Security<\/h3>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Grant<\/th>\nTotal<\/th>\nFunder<\/th>\nPI<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
Collaborative Research: CSR: Medium: Architecting GPUs for Practical Homomorphic Encryption-based Computing<\/span><\/td>\n$600K<\/td>\nNational Science Foundation (NSF)<\/td>\nAjay Joshi<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
WABOSH: Washington and BU do Open Source Hardware<\/span><\/td>\n$745K<\/td>\nDARPA<\/td>\nAjay Joshi<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Communication Systems<\/h3>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Grant<\/th>\nTotal<\/th>\nFunder<\/th>\nPI<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
GRAND – Guessing Random Additive Noise<\/span><\/td>\n$2.5M<\/td>\nDARPA<\/td>\nRabia Yazicigil<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Wideband, Scalable 7GHz-24GHz Multibeam Dual-Use Arrays for NextG Networks<\/span><\/td>\n$1M<\/td>\nMicroelectronics Commons<\/td>\nRabia Yazicigil<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Featured grant Secure Miniaturized Bio-Electronic Sensors for Real-Time In-Body Monitoring A smart pill no bigger than a blueberry can withstand the stomach\u2019s acidic fluids, detect signs of gastrointestinal trouble, and send warning signals to an ordinary smart phone,\u00a0Assistant Professor Rabia Yazicigil\u00a0(ECE) and colleagues reported in\u00a0Nature. The fruit of a multi-institution, cross-disciplinary effort, this novel technology […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21681,"featured_media":0,"parent":153039,"menu_order":4,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/153529"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21681"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153529"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/153529\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":166710,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/153529\/revisions\/166710"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/153039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}