REU Projects & Mentors
2026 Mentors
This page will continue to be updated as mentors are confirmed and projects are received.
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Thomas Bifano
Center Director, Professor (BME, ECE, ME, MSE)
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Irving Bigio
Undergraduate Chair (BME); Professor (BME, ECE, Physics, Medicine)
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William Boley
Assistant Professor (ME, MSE)
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Christopher Chen
Professor (BME, MSE)
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Ji-Xin Cheng
Professor, BME, ECE, MSE
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Brianne Connizzo
Assistant Professor (BME, ME)
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Anna Devor
Professor, (BME)
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Liang Hao
Assistant Professor (BME)
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Daniel Lookadoo
Chief Scientific Officer, StataDX
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Jerome Mertz
Professor (BME, ECE, Physics)
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Roberto Paiella
Professor (ECE, MSE)
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Darren Roblyer
Associate Professor, (BME, ECE); Graduate Chair (BME)
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Michelle Sander
Associate Professor, BME, ECE, MSE
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Minjung Son
Assistant Professor (Chemistry)
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Lei Tian
Associate Professor (ECE, BME)
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Archana Venkataraman
Associate Professor (ECE, BME)
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Jörg Werner
Assistant Professor (ME, MSE)
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Chen Yang
Associate Chair of Master Programs & Professor (ECE, Chem, MSE)
2025 Projects
Each REU participant will join a research project led by a BU faculty member, or in some cases, a startup company lab based in the BU Photonics building.
NSF REU Site in Integrated Nanomanufacturing
NSF Engineering Research Center in Cellular Metamaterials
Materials Science Research Experiences for Undergraduates
Photonics Undergraduate Research Summer Experience
