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 […]
BU’s Core Organoid Research Spans CRC & MED Campuses to Restore Organ Function
Organoids are a growing trend in biomedical research fields internationally––but what are they? As the name suggests, it’s a simplified model of an organ made up of cells, studied both in vitro (outside a living organism) and in vivo (inside a living organism) to enhance the understanding and treatment of organ-related diseases and disorders. Their pathology, phenotype, and––in the future––repair, […]
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.
Bringing the Brain Into Focus
Professor Tianyu Wang has received a new grant from the Chan-Zuckerberg Initiative for a collaborative project on multi-photon microscopy, a technology used for deep-tissue imaging.
New Nature Medicine Article Covering Irving Bigio’s DermaSensor Device
Professor Bigio’s latest translational and clinical research project, an AI-assisted optical reader to help in the diagnosis of skin cancer, is discussed.