News in Brief
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.
Paschalidis Elected IFAC Fellow
Professor Ioannis Paschalidis, Distinguished Professor of Engineering, has been elected a Fellow of the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC), in recognition of his work on control of network systems, optimization, and robust learning. The organization selects its fellows based on their “outstanding and extraordinary contributions to the field.” Read more on ECE News page.
Kayhan Batmanghelich Joins IDS
Kayhan Batmanghelich joined ECE Department in January 2023 at the rank of Assistant Professor. Previously, he was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biomedical Informatics at the University of Pittsburgh. His research interests are in explainable AI for healthcare, medical vision, probabilistic graphical models, Bayesian data analysis, machine learning under data constraints, and multi-modal learning. Read more on ECE News page.
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. Read more on ECE News page.
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 News page.
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 research, technological development and business in the information and telecommunications field, internationally,” is awarded by the Okawa Foundation for Information and Telecommunications. Read more on ECE News page.
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
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.