Boston University Ramps Up Strategy on AI
Including Iriving Bigio’s recent advancements with DermaSensor!

Plane wave compounding with adaptive joint coherence factor weighting
Faculty: Jerome Mertz | Outlet: ScienceDirect
Joseph Angelo Jr.

Ultrafast simultaneous manipulation of multiple ferroic orders through nonlinear phonon excitation
Faculty: Wanzheng Hu | Outlet: Nature
SPIE and Boston University announce $1-million endowment for graduate and postgraduate scholarships
The SPIE-Boston University Scholarship in Photonics will support graduate students and postdoctoral researchers at the university’s Photonics Center

Enhanced multiscale human brain imaging by semi-supervised digital staining and serial sectioning optical coherence tomography
Faculty: Irving Bigio, David Boas, Lei Tian | Outlet: Nature
Kirit Karkare
Kirik Karkare is an experimental cosmologist. He builds telescopes to observe faint radiation in the millimeter-wave region, including the cosmic microwave background and distant galaxies, to learn about the Big Bang and fundamental physics in the early universe. Related photonics interest lays in utilizing OPF to fabricate sensitive superconducting photon detectors, as his cameras require […]

Long-Lived Population Inversion in Resonantly Driven Excitonic Antiferromagnet
Faculty: Wanzheng Hu | Outlet: APS
Inaugural Dean’s Research Infrastructure Awards Given to Multiple Photonics Faculty
Boston University College of Engineering Dean ad interim Elise Morgan has announced the inaugural recipients of the Dean’s Research Infrastructure Awards (DRIA). Six faculty members, along with collaborators they identified, will receive funds under a program that aims to support innovative, high-impact research by enabling the upgrade, repair, or acquisition of critical equipment.
Photonics Center Faculty Included in Brink’s Best Stories of 2024
COVID (still) and immigration draw the most views, but readers were also captivated by superagers sharing their secrets of living to 100 and a BU-developed device to help detect skin cancer.