BU’s Innovator of the Year Uses History to Shape the Future

Electrical and computer engineer Selim Ünlü’s lab is filled with the future, a hotbed of technological innovation that brims with gadgets. Much of what’s happening sounds like it could’ve been pulled straight out of science fiction: high-resolution subsurface imaging techniques to study the spectroscopy of quantum dots, nanoscale microscopy to examine fluorescent molecules, imaging biosensors for DNA arrays.