Professor Kamal Sen, Associate BME professor and Director of the Natural Sounds and Neural Coding Laboratory, was recently granted an NSF Award of $2.96 million for the Integrative Strategies for Understanding Neural and Cognitive Systems (NCS) funding opportunity. Sen, serving as principal investigator, has advanced the study of complex scene analysis (CSA) in the hopes […]
Biomedical engineering professors Michael Economo and Tim O’Shea have been awarded both the BU College of Engineering’s Dean’s Catalyst Award and the Collaborative Award for Neurophotonics Devel-Opment (CAN-DO) in response to their united effort to produce longer-lasting neuroengineering devices. “A huge problem in neuroengineering is that devices implanted in the brain eventually become encapsulated by […]
The Neurophotonics Center solicits proposals for the support of innovative interdisciplinary research among NPC Faculty members and their teams. The purpose of this Seed Program is to foster research that leverages state-of-the-art optical imaging tools and serves as a testbed for novel technological developments in the field of neurophotonics.A goal of this Seed program is […]
Congratulations to NPC Faculty member Laura Lewis for winning a Pew Fellowship in support of her studies on how the brain regulates sleep. How Sleep Is Impacted by Brain Circuitry and Aging
BELLINGHAM, Washington, USA – 18 May 2021 – Yujia Xue has been awarded a 2021 Optics and Photonics Education Scholarship by SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics, for their potential contributions in optics, photonics or related field. Xue is a PhD candidate in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at Boston University (United […]