David Boas

David Boas is a Professor of Engineering (BME, ECE) and Director of the Neurophotonics Center. He received his BS in Physics at Rensselear Polytechnic Institute and PhD in Physics at the University of Pennsylvania. During his academic career, he has supervised more than 50 students and post-doctoral fellows, and he has published over 300 papers […]

Marianna Felici

Dr. Marianna Felici is a Senior Research Scientist at the Center for Space Physics at Boston University. While during her graduate studies, Felici mainly focused on studying charged particles trapped inside the magnetosphere of Saturn, since 2017 she has expanded her research focus on the ionosphere of Mars. Felici is part of the Mars Atmosphere and […]

Lucy Hutyra

Lucy Hutyra, PhD, is a Chair of and a Distinguished Professor in the Department of Earth & Environment at the College of Arts and Sciences at Boston University and Director of the BU Biogeosciences Program. Hutyra is a MacArthur Fellow, known for her research on the urban carbon cycle and the impacts of urbanization on vegetation, […]

Prakash Ishwar, PhD

Prakash Ishwar, PhD, is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Systems Engineering in the College of Engineering and an Affiliate Professor of Computer Science in the College of Arts and Sciences at Boston University. He is a member of the Information and Data Sciences (IDS) Group of the ECE department, the Artificial Intelligence and Emerging Media (AIEM) group […]

Swathi Kiran, PhD

Swathi Kiran is the Founding Director of the Center for Brain Recovery (CBR), Director of the Aphasia Research Laboratory, and James and Cecilia Tse Ying Professor of the Neurorehabilitation Department of Speech Language and Hearing Sciences, and Faculty of Computing and Data Sciences. She is also the Co-founder and Scientific Director of Constant Therapy Heath, […]

Eshed Ohn-Bar

Eshed Ohn-Bar, PhD, is an Assistant Professor of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Department of Computer Science (affiliate), and a Hariri Institute Junior Faculty Fellow  (2023) at Boston University. He leads the Human-to-Everything (H2X) Lab where the research spans multiple areas of real-world system design, from machine learning and perception to decision-making and […]

Alex Olshevsky

Alex Olshevsky is a Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, the Division of Systems Engineering and Department of Computer Science (affiliate) at Boston University. He received the B.S. degree in applied mathematics and the B.S. degree in electrical engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA, both in 2004, and […]

Gregory Wellenius

Gregory Wellenius, ScD, is a Professor of Environmental Health and Director of the Center for Climate and Health at the School of Public Health at Boston University. He is an environmental epidemiologist committed to reducing the adverse health impacts of continued climate change through research, training, and engagement. Dr. Wellenius also teaches an introductory graduate-level […]

Paul Withers

Dr. Paul Withers is a Professor, Astronomy Department Chair, and Associate Director of the Center for Space Physics at Boston University.  Professor Withers’ research focus is planetary science. His research interests focus on the ionospheres of planets. The properties of an ionosphere are determined by chemistry, energetics, dynamics, coupling to the lower atmosphere below, and coupling to […]