Steve Ramirez and Xi Ling Promoted to Associate Professor with Tenure
Arts & Sciences congratulates the 16 faculty members promoted to associate professor. The promotions will be effective July 1.
Xin Zhang Wins the 2024 Robert Henry Thurston Lecture Award
Distinguished Professor of Engineering Xin Zhang (ME, ECE, BME, MSE) at Boston University, has been selected to receive the 2024 Robert Henry Thurston Lecture Award from the American Society for Mechanical Engineers (ASME).
Five Photonics Center Faculty Granted Hariri Institute Focused Research Program Awards
The Hariri Institute of Computing recently announced their 2024 Fellows and 2025 Focused Research Program (FRP) award recipients. Among the FRP recipients included five Photonics Center faculty members: “Privacy Preserving Energy Analytics for Data Centers;” Ajay Joshi “From Self-Driving Labs to Community-Driven Labs;” Keith Brown, Catherine Klapperich “Multimodal Transformer Architectures for Neuropathology Study of Alzheimer’s […]
Dr. Thomas Bifano, BU’s Innovator of the Year, Has Pioneered Devices to Advance Astronomy, Microscopy, Eye Exams
Photonics Center Director Thomas Bifano recognized for helping others nurture their ideas and for “always trying to solve problems”
Photonics Pioneer Siddharth Ramachandran Among Three BU Faculty Recognized by World’s Largest Scientific Society
A pioneer of spiral-shaped light beams that might improve internet capacity, medical imaging, and more, Distinguished Professor of Engineering Siddharth Ramachandran (ECE, MSE) has been selected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). The world’s largest general scientific society, AAAS annually bestows this honor on scientists, engineers, and innovators in recognition of scientifically and socially […]
Sean Lubner Receives Young Investigator Program (YIP) Award
Professor Sean Lubner was awarded a prestigious YIP from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research.
Siddharth Ramachandran Elected AAAS Fellow Alongside Two Other BU Faculty
World’s largest scientific society gives lifetime honor to BU biologist, engineer, and physicist
Professor Cheng Receives Spectrochemical Analysis Award
Professor Ji-Xin Cheng has been named the recipient of this year’s American Chemical Society Division of Analytical Chemistry Spectrochemical Analysis Award, which will be presented at the Fall ACS meeting in Denver, Colorado. This honor is awarded to those whose work has advanced the fields of spectrochemical analysis and optical spectrometry through instrumentation, novel methodologies, […]
Ji-Xin Cheng, 2023 Innovator of the Year, Gives DeLisi Lecture to a Full House
Last night, the Photonics Center was packed for Ji-Xin Cheng’s DeLisi Lecture, hosted by the Boston University College of Engineering. Faculty, staff, and students of Boston University filled the room to celebrate Professor Cheng and Assistant Professor Rabia Tugce Yazicigil, winner of the Early Career Research Excellence Award.
Theodore Moustakas Named Optica’s 2024 Nick Holonyak Jr. Award Winner
Professor Emeritus Theodore Moustakas has been honored for pioneering contributions to nitride semiconductor materials and optical devices that helped build the foundation for blue and UV LEDs.