News in Brief
Nawab Receives Teaching Excellence Award
Professor Hamid Nawab has been honored with an inaugural Teaching Excellence in the Core Curriculum Award from the College of Engineering; the sixth teaching award he’s received in almost forty years at BU. This award has been largely a result of glowing comments from students in Computational Linear Algebra students that he recently taught. Read more on ECE News page.
Konrad Elected EURASIP Fellow
Professor Janusz Konrad has been elected to the rank of 2025 Fellow of the European Association for Signal Processing (EURASIP) for his “contributions to visual motion analysis and video processing.” Read more on ECE News page.
Tian Receives Provost’s Scholar-Teacher of the Year Award
Associate Professor Lei Tian received a 2025 Boston University Provost’s Scholar-Teacher of the Year Award, which honors scholars who excel both at the practice of teaching and at pedagogy, the art and science behind the practice, carries a $5K honorarium. Awardees are invited to serve as feature faculty presenters at a Trustee Scholars dinner. Read more on ECE News page.
Tian Named Optica Fellow
Professor Lei Tian was elected Fellow by Optica for “contributions to computational microscopy, including differential phase contrast microscopy, Fourier ptychography, optical diffraction tomography, and imaging in scattering.” Read more on ECE News page.
Karl Assumes Leadership Role with IEEE
Our colleague and ECE Chair, Professor W. Clem Karl, has been elected to serve as IEEE’s 2025 Vice President of Publication Services and Products. This role includes a position on the IEEE Board of Directors, as well as Chairship of the Publication Services and Products Board (PSPB). Read more on ECE News page.
Emiliano Dall’Anese Joins IDS
Emiliano Dall’Anese recently joined the ECE Department at the rank of Associate Professor. Previously he was on faculty at the University of Colorado Boulder. His research interest are in optimization and control of cyberphysical systems, modern power and energy systems, and electrified transportation. He earned his Ph.D. at the University of Padova, Italy, in 2011. Read more on ECE News page.
Nazer Receives Gitner Family Award for Innovation in Teaching with Technology
Professor Bobak Nazer received the Boston University 2024 Gerald and Deanne Gitner Family Award for Innovation in Teaching with Technology, which is given in recognition of the innovative use of technology by an instructor or team towards “positive learning outcomes for undergraduate students” and which is also “adopted by faculty colleagues within or outside BU.” Read more on ECE News page.
Goyal Named Guggenheim Fellow
Professor Vivek Goyal received a Guggenheim Fellowship, a prestigious grant from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Read more on ECE News page.
Li Earns NSF CAREER Award
Assistant Professor Wenchao Li (ECE, SE) was awarded a prestigious NSF CAREER Award for a new project entitled “Specification-Guided Imitation Learning” which has the potential to transform the development of AI systems. Read more on ECE News page.
Goyal Elected AAAS Fellow
Professor Vivek Goyal has been elected as a 2022 Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS); a prestigious honor, and richly deserved. Read more on ECE News page.