Archana Venkataraman joined the ECE Department in January 2023. Previously, she was an Assistant Professor at Johns Hopkins University in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering.  Her research interests lie at the intersection of medical imaging, artificial intelligence, and clinical neuroscience. She earned her PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2012. […]

Tian Awarded $2M by NIH

  Assistant Professor Lei Tian was awarded a $2 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to advance the development of the Computational Miniature Mesoscope (CM2). The CM2 is a “wearable” miniaturized neural imaging device that Tian has been developing in collaboration with Professors David A. Boas (BME, ECE) and Ian G. Davison (Biology). Read more on ECE […]

Gray Receives the Okawa Prize

  Research Professor Robert Gray received the 2020 Okawa Prize in recognition of his “seminal research in information coding theory and data compression, and enormous contributions to the promotion of diversity in engineering education.” The Okawa Prize, “intended to pay tribute to and make public recognition of persons who have made outstanding contributions to the […]

Eshed Ohn-Bar Joins IDS

  Eshed Ohn-Bar joined the ECE Department in September  2021. Prior to joining BU he was a Humboldt Fellow at the Max Planck Institute. His researchinterests are in computer vision, machine learning, autonomous systems, and assistive technologies. He received the PhD degree in Electrical Engineering from UC San Diego in 2017.

Ashok Cutkosky Joins IDS

  Ashok Cutkosky joined ECE Department in September 2020 at the rank of Assistant Professor. Previously, he was a Research Scientist at Google.He received PhD in Computer Sicience from Stanford. His research interests are in optimization for machine learning.

Gray Named Wyner Distinguished Service Award Recipient

  Research Professor Robert Gray received the 2020 Aaron D. Wyner Distinguished Service Award from the IEEE Information Theory Society in recognition of his outstanding leadership in, and exceptional service to, the Information Theory community. Read more on ECE News page.

Goyal Receives IEEE Signal Processing Society Best Paper Award

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  Our colleague , Prof. Vivek Goyal, won a 2017 IEEE Signal Processing Society Best Paper Award. His article, titled “Message-Passing De-Quantization with Applications to Compressed Sensing,” was published in IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing in December 2012. Learn more about this award on ECE News page.

Konrad, Ishwar and Little win a $1M ARPA-E grant

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     Profs. Konrad, Ishwar and Little from ECE and Prof. Gevelber from ME have jointly won a $1M grant from the Advanced Research Projects Agency – Energy (ARPA-E) entitled “Scalable, Dual-Mode Occupancy Sensing for Commercial Venues”. The team will develop an occupancy sensing system to estimate the number of people in commercial spaces and […]

Symposium on the Control of Network Systems (SCONES) at BU

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The 2nd Symposium on the COntrol of NEtwork Systems (SCONES) will be held on Monday, October 16 and Tuesday, October 17, 2017, on the campus of Boston University in Boston,  Massachusetts, USA. SCONES 2017 will feature invited talks from research leaders and a contributed poster session. (Submission deadline: September 20, 2017). Themes of emphasis this year include: […]