{"id":169066,"date":"2025-11-12T14:01:47","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T19:01:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/?p=169066"},"modified":"2026-01-29T10:32:28","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T15:32:28","slug":"batmanghelich-ohn-bar-earn-nsf-career-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/2025\/11\/12\/batmanghelich-ohn-bar-earn-nsf-career-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"Batmanghelich, Ohn-Bar Earn NSF CAREER Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><strong>Recognition for rising stars in ECE and related fields<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><strong>By <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/articles\/2025\/national-science-foundation-honors-6-bu-researchers-with-career-awards\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Andrew Thurston<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Artificial intelligence (AI) could make us all healthier: it can help <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/articles\/2025\/open-source-ai-infectious-diseases-monitoring-tool\/\" target=\"_blank\">spot infectious diseases<\/a>, treat <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/articles\/2023\/new-artificial-intelligence-program-could-help-treat-hypertension\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">high blood pressure<\/a>, <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/articles\/2024\/new-ai-program-could-predict-alzheimers-disease\/\" target=\"_blank\">detect Alzheimer\u2019s disease<\/a>. But a majority of <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pewresearch.org\/internet\/2025\/04\/03\/how-the-us-public-and-ai-experts-view-artificial-intelligence\/\" target=\"_blank\">Americans still don\u2019t trust AI<\/a>\u2014and are more concerned than excited about its potential. In part, says Boston University <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/profile\/kayhan-batmanghelich-ph-d\/\" target=\"_blank\">electrical and computer engineer Kayhan Batmanghelich<\/a>, that\u2019s because most AI programs are black boxes\u2014even the experts don\u2019t know what\u2019s inside. Batmanghelich just launched a new project to make healthcare AI tools that are more transparent and, he hopes, more effective, reliable, and trustworthy.<\/p>\n<p>Batmanghelich, fellow <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ECE<\/a> faculty member <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/profile\/ohn-bar-eshed\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Eshed Ohn-Bar<\/a>, and four other BU researchers have received a Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to propel their research. Although the awards are given to researchers from a broad range of fields, this year\u2019s BU winners all have a computer science\u2013related focus, from programming safer robots to making assistive AI more responsive to people with low vision.<\/p>\n<p>The awards recognize researchers with the \u201cpotential to serve as academic role models in research and education and to lead advances in the mission of their department or organization,\u201d according to the NSF. Honorees are selected based on the strength of their innovative research and community service. Each of the BU winners will use the award, which comes with funding, to drive their own work, as well as to support student researchers in their labs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese awards reflect the extraordinarily talented and creative faculty that Boston University is able to recruit: researchers with a deep commitment to education and mentoring that complement their high-impact research programs,\u201d says <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/research\/profile\/kenneth-lutchen\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Kenneth Lutchen<\/a>, BU\u2019s vice president and associate provost for research. \u201cFrom advancing AI for healthcare and accessibility to designing more equitable systems for public resource allocation, each of these projects reflects the impact-driven scholarship that defines our research community.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><em>Read the full story at BU\u2019s<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/articles\/2025\/national-science-foundation-honors-6-bu-researchers-with-career-awards\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Brink<\/a><\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><em>Photo by Cydney Scott<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The award will propel the research of rising stars in ECE.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2662,"featured_media":169071,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[236,257,1429,907,1162,1137],"tags":[752,948],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169066"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169066"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169066\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":169072,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169066\/revisions\/169072"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/169071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}