{"id":155066,"date":"2024-08-21T16:21:58","date_gmt":"2024-08-21T20:21:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/?p=155066"},"modified":"2024-08-21T16:21:58","modified_gmt":"2024-08-21T20:21:58","slug":"dunlop-holmes-and-stringhini-earn-eng-honors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/2024\/08\/21\/dunlop-holmes-and-stringhini-earn-eng-honors\/","title":{"rendered":"Dunlop, Holmes, and Stringhini Earn ENG Honors"},"content":{"rendered":"

Named the 2024 Distinguished Faculty Fellows<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Dean ad interim <\/em>Elise Morgan has announced that three mid-career faculty members have been named Distinguished Faculty Fellows.<\/p>\n

\"\"Associate Professor Mary Dunlop<\/a> (BME<\/a>) <\/strong>has been awarded the Dorf-Ebner Distinguished Faculty Fellowship. \u201cMary\u2019s contributions to graduate and undergraduate education at Boston University and to the field of synthetic biology, as a researcher, mentor, teacher, and leader are exemplary,\u201d Morgan wrote in an email to the ENG community.<\/p>\n

Spanning 58 peer-reviewed publications, Dunlop\u2019s research combines synthetic biology, optogenetics, deep learning, feedback, and quantitative modeling to understand and control bacterial systems. Her pathbreaking discoveries include genes involved in transient antibiotic resistance<\/a> and novel mechanisms that generate heterogeneity in gene expression. She has developed new optogenetic tools<\/a> for single-cell studies in bacteria and engineered microbes to produce biologically derived replacements for many chemical products.<\/p>\n

An AIMBE<\/a> Fellow, Dunlop has received a DoE Early Career Award<\/a>, NSF CAREER Award, and other national honors. At BU, where Dunlop is associate chair for BME graduate research programs, she has earned the ENG Teaching Excellence Award and the ENG Faculty Service Award.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s an honor to be selected as the Dorf-Ebner Distinguished Faculty Fellow,\u201d Dunlop says. \u201cI am excited to use this opportunity to advance my group\u2019s research in synthetic biology and feedback control. I also appreciate the award\u2019s emphasis on teaching, mentorship, and leadership, and I am excited to continue my efforts in these areas to support the next generation of engineers.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"ProfessorAssociate Professor Gianluca Stringhini<\/a> (ECE<\/a>) <\/strong>received the ENG Distinguished Faculty Fellowship in recognition of his work using data-driven approaches to better understand malicious activity online, aiming to develop better techniques to keep users safe.<\/a> \u201cGianluca\u2019s impact across research, teaching, and service at BU and to the profession is simply outstanding,\u201d Morgan wrote.<\/p>\n

Focusing on malware, online fraud, spam, and other digital harms, Stringhini has helped take down online criminal operations. Combining techniques from signal processing, image processing, machine learning, and computational social science, he has developed novel mitigation techniques and leading methods of measuring and modeling disinformation and other online problems that affect society.<\/p>\n

Appearing in more than 150 peer-reviewed publications, Stringhini\u2019s research has been featured in the BBC, the New York Times<\/em>, and other major news outlets. He has received several NSF grants, including an NSF CAREER Award. At BU, where he is also affiliated with the Computing & Data Sciences program, Stringhini has earned ENG\u2019s ECE Teaching Award.<\/p>\n

\u201cI’m very honored to receive this fellowship,\u201d says Stringhini. \u201cI know that the selection was quite competitive, and I\u2019m grateful to the College for it. I will use the funds to support my research on developing mitigations for socio-technical cybersecurity\u00a0problems.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"\"Associate Professor Douglas Holmes<\/a><\/strong> (ME<\/a>, MSE<\/a>) <\/strong>has earned the Theo de Winter Distinguished Faculty Fellowship<\/a>. \u201cDoug\u2019s contributions in research, teaching, advising, mentoring, and service have been extraordinary,\u201d wrote Morgan.<\/p>\n

Holmes\u2019 research seeks to understand and control how structures undergo large shape changes. His work largely focuses on slender structures and soft materials\u2014from airplane wings and transatlantic cables to blood vessels and human hair\u2014which commonly exhibit large deformations. He has made critical insights into how to morph two-dimensional shapes into three-dimensional shells, and developed soft material grippers and actuators inspired by kirigami<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The recipient of multiple DARPA grants and an NSF CAREER Award, Holmes has published more than 47 peer-reviewed publications, garnering around 2,500 citations. He has served as ENG\u2019s interim associate dean for outreach and diversity, among other service roles at BU.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt’s particularly special to be recognized with the de Winter award because it is meant to highlight contributions to both teaching and research, and I’ve always seen these as two sides of the same coin,\u201d says Holmes. \u201cEfforts to improve teaching have always improved my research communication, and bringing ideas from the lab to the classroom has always sparked interest and curiosity amongst my students.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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