Five Photonics Center Faculty Granted Hariri Institute Focused Research Program Awards

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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 […]

Hadi Nia Published in PNAS Nexus April Issue

This April, Center faculty members Hadi Nia published “Alteration of mechanical stresses in the murine brain by age and hemorrhagic stroke” in the PNAS Nexus journal. Their research works towards a better understanding of residual mechanical stresses in the brain. Also known as solid stresses, mechanical stresses develop when brain tissues grow rapidly, such as […]

BU’s Core Organoid Research Spans CRC & MED Campuses to Restore Organ Function

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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, […]

Professor Cheng Receives Spectrochemical Analysis Award

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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, […]